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...turn up the heat on Islamabad. He is said to have told his interrogators that the recent surge of suicide attacks in Afghanistan were carried out by men trained at a fundamentalist madrassah in Pakistan's Bajur agency, not far from the Afghan border in Waziristan. And also that Mullah Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, was being sheltered by the ISI in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Dr. Hanif was instrumental in arranging a written interview with a Pakistani newspaper on Jan. 4 in which the reclusive leader warned, "Foreign troops should at once leave Afghanistan...
...Secretary-General's report says that the foot soldiers of the insurgency are Afghans. I've been saying that for the last three months, even though President Karzai and everyone else says they're from Pakistan. Today Karzai said [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar is in Quetta. This is a ridiculous assertion. Mullah Omar has never come to Quetta. Not since 1995 has he come to Pakistan. He is based in Kandahar and is still there...
...aggression pact with local pro-Taliban militants in the tribal province of Waziristan - long considered a likely hiding place of Osama bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda leaders - NATO leaders were as furious as Karzai. Reports that the deal had been brokered in part by exiled Taliban leader Mullah Omar only deepened the sense that Pakistan had, in effect, made a separate peace with the Taliban. Key NATO countries whose troops are fighting a hot war with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan - Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands - actually considered issuing an ultimatum to Musharraf to either close down...
...powerful man in Iran avoids the gilded trappings of office. While many of the officials who serve under him build Caspian Sea villas and travel in caravans of shiny new SUVs, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme religious leader, conducts himself with the modesty of a small-town mullah. He receives visitors in spare, undecorated offices in downtown Tehran and often runs meetings seated on the floor and wearing a plain black robe. Billboards with his portrait are ubiquitous in the capital, depicting Khamenei more as a rumpled civil servant than a revolutionary, with thick glasses and rough, checkered...
...years I've been in favor of diplomatic recognition of so-called rogue states like Iran, North Korea and Cuba. I've visited Iran, have friends there and I understand that a significant portion, perhaps the vast majority, of Iranians admire the United States and hate the current mullah-run Islamic Republic...