"Can you hear me now?"
[BLAM!]
"Good!"
Just damn.
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Posted on 07/08/2004 10:53:19 PM PDT by ganeshpuri89
KABUL, July 8: Afghan intelligence agents have talked to Taliban founder Mullah Mohammed Omar after commandeering a satellite phone being used by his top aide, an official claimed on Thursday.Mullah Omar, along with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has escaped a US-led dragnet which now numbers some 20,000 soldiers since the ousting of his government in 2001.
A man believed to be Mullah Omar's aide, Mullah Sakhi Dad Mujahid, was captured on Tuesday while carrying a satellite telephone containing the phone numbers of top members of the ousted government, Kandahar intelligence chief Abdullah Laghmanai said.
"We contacted Mullah Omar by Mullah Mujahid's phone," he said, adding that at first Mullah Mujahid was forced to talk to his boss on the phone. "But when he (Omar) realized the situation ... he cut off the phone."
"Salam-aleikum, where are you?" Mullah Omar asked Mullah Mujahid, according to Mr Laghmanai, who did not say when the call was made. Mullah Mujahid, as he is known locally, was arrested on Tuesday during a raid in Dara-i-Noor, some 70kms north of Kandahar.
The area is in the rugged border region between Uruzgan and Kandahar and known to US military officials as the 'Taliban heartland'. Mullah Mujahid served as Mullah Omar's secretary under the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule.
"Currently he was serving as Mullah Omar's military assistant," he said. Kandahar military spokesman General Abdul Wasay confirmed the arrest. "The arrest of Mullah Mujahid will pacify Taliban's activities in the area," where he was captured, he said.
Mr Laghmanai said subsequent efforts to contact Mullah Omar had been unsuccessful as the one-eyed Taliban boss refuses to answer phone calls 'from strange numbers'.
"Maybe Omar has found out that his friend is under our control," he said. "He doesn't answer his telephone." Mullah Mujahid was transferred in handcuffs to Kabul on Wednesday for investigation, which authorities hope could lead to the arrest of other militants.
Mr Laghmanai alleged that intelligence reports as well as information received from Mujahid suggested Mullah Omar was hiding in Pakistan's tribal areas near Kandahar and close to Quetta. "The information Mujahid provided, and also our intelligence, suggests that Omar is in Pakistan's tribal areas," he said.
-AFP
Interesting.
The US will never find him because THERE'S NEVER A DECENT CONNECTION!
Hey dead, looks like Afghan Intelligence has been "keeping an eye out" for ol' Mullah Omar!
Probably afraid his phone was made in Israel.
'Can you hear me now?...GOOD!'
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I hope they get this bastard. I've had this tagline for too long!
Ping
"Can you hear me now?"
[BLAM!]
"Good!"
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ROTFLMAO
Simply amazing.......this is how it will when we catch Bin Laden ..... a lucky break.
Here's hoping they zeroed in on this little turd.
Oooooooooooooo I hope they get this guy soon!!
Mullah Omar's "military assistant" should be able to give up a LOT of good information. Torture him. :-)
That tagline makes me laugh every time!
ditto!
/sarcasm
fyi..
No body "reaches out and touch someone" like the Masad.
The satellite phone system is owned and operated by the CIA, ever since Iridium went belly-up.
Nothing like a little “full contact” phone tag.
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