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2011-01-19 India-Pakistan

Report: Pakistani spy agency rushed Mullah Omar to hospital

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Posted by tipper 2011-01-19 00:47|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 I do not know if this report is correct but let me makes an observation that Mullah Omar is 51. At 51, a man does occasionally need to go to hospital.

Posted by Bernardz 2011-01-19 07:41|| 2011-01-19 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Is the Taliban sure 'they' did not insert a tracking device in the one-eyed leader?

Posted by airandee 2011-01-19 07:46|| 2011-01-19 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Report says he had a heart attack. I'd be stressed too if predator drones were constantly overhead looking for me.

Posted by Frozen Al 2011-01-19 11:28|| 2011-01-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny they seem to be able to find him when they want to.

If it's true, of course . . . .

Posted by gorb 2011-01-19 12:36|| 2011-01-19 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 How many of the Quetta Shura are in ISI safehouses?

Posted by Paul D 2011-01-19 15:30|| 2011-01-19 15:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Pakistan supported Taliban-al-Qaeda under its "Pakistan in Depth" foreign policy. And they certainly support their allies in Pakistan, who lost government status. And why not? After the Clinton gang lobbed 98 cruise missiles at a Taliban/al-Qaeda genocide camp, bin Laden wasn't able to RSVP his invitation to attend Jamaat-i-Islami's annual convention of Peshawar, in 1998. But JI leaders - Qazi Hussein Ahmad and Khurshid Ahmad - still got paid State Dept fees, for DC consultation in 2001. And to this day, State pays JI's US front, consultation fees on "Islamic Affairs." Southern Afghanistan should have been glazed when the al-Qaeda connection to 9-11 was establishe. I wonder why that didn't happen? Hint: "islam is peace." You spend lives wisely, when you cheapen enemy lives. I value the life of a jihadis as lower than that of a dying cockroach. At least you could feed a cockroach to your pet tarantula.

Posted by Albert Slinesing7956 2011-01-19 17:09|| 2011-01-19 17:09|| Front Page Top

#7 "How many of the Quetta Shura are in ISI safehouses?"

~~Most~~ All of them, I'd guess, Paul.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-19 18:01|| 2011-01-19 18:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Nice, informed rant, Albert Slinesing7956. A thought has come to me recently, though: do our donations get us (or enable us to obtain, not exactly the same thing) contact lists from these organizations? Only it feels to me unlikely that we have gotten as many spies in the many camps that we've been hitting with our UAVs this past year or so... I admit I don't have the background to know what we can do in the way of spies, so perhaps my question is totally off. An occurring thought, not a reasoned or knowledgeable one.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-19 19:03|| 2011-01-19 19:03|| Front Page Top

#9 MULLAH OMAR alleged "Heart Attack"...

versus

* FREEREPUBLIC > {POTUS Bammer?] "STOMACH PARASITES"... OR PARKINSON'S DISEASE?

All in the Family = Blood.

And here little ole' Madonna Fan me at Penn State was receiving ANTHRAX ENVELOPES, ETC. IN PRE-9-11 "TEST RUN".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-19 20:06|| 2011-01-19 20:06|| Front Page Top

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