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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_22-8-2004_pg1_4
The Daily Times, Lahore, pakistan
Sunday, August 22, 2004
Jehangir Karamat next ambassador to the US
ISLAMABAD: Former chief of army staff Jehangir Karamat is to be
Pakistan's next ambassador to the United States, Foreign Minister
Khurshid Kasuri said on Saturday. .....
...... The former army chief will replace Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, who has
taken up a UN post in Iraq. Mr Karamat was army chief from 1996 to
1998 and was succeeded by General Pervez Musharraf.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,1140386,00.html
The Guardian, UK
Wednesday February 4, 2004
Musharraf knew I was selling secrets, says nuclear scientist
By James Astill
The disgraced founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme has informed
investigators that he supplied rogue states with nuclear technology
with the full knowledge of the country's ruling military elite .....
...... the nuclear scientist last week told government investigators:
"What ever I did, it was in the knowledge of the bosses." .....
...... Mr Khan reportedly told his friend that two former military
chiefs - General Mirza Aslam Beg and General Jehangir Karamat - and
Gen Musharraf had been "aware of everything" he was doing. "I am also
convinced that he couldn't act unilaterally," Mr Khan's friend said.
An army spokesman, Major-General Shaukat Sultan, dismissed the
allegation that Gen Musharraf had been aware of the nuclear sales.
"It is absolutely wrong," he said. The president "was not involved in
any such matter. No such thing has happened since he seized power in
1999." .....
...... The two retired army chiefs, Mr Karamat and Mr Beg, have
assisted investigators during the two-month inquiry into
long-simmering allegations of nuclear proliferation. But officials say
they are not under investigation. .....
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_11-11-2004_pg7_1
The Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan
Thursday, 11 November, 2004
Moves afoot to undermine Pakistan's new envoy to US
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: On the eve of the new Pakistani ambassador Jehangir
Karamat's arrival here, attempts could be underway to limit his
effectiveness by linking him with the AQ Khan affair.
According to New Republic, "Now it turns out that Pakistan's new envoy
to Washington may have sanctioned his proliferation ... Last February,
following exposure of his black-market network, Khan told Pakistani
investigators that he traded in nuclear technology with the full
knowledge of top military officials, including Karamat, Karamat's
predecessor as army chief, and Musharraf, who succeeded Karamat in
that post. Khan made the allegations in an eleven-page signed
statement in which he confessed to selling atomic secrets beginning in
1988. A senior Pakistani military official told reporters in early
February that Khan had named Karamat and retired general Mirza Aslam
Beg, who headed Pakistan's army from 1988 to 1991, as authorising the
sales. According to the official, Khan's statement accused Karamat and
Beg of "indirectly instructing" him to make the transfers. The
official said Khan told investigators he had acted on instructions
Karamat and Beg passed through two middlemen - one
a military adviser to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the
other a friend of Bhutto's. The New Republic, a reputable publication,
points out that Dr Khan remains to be "brought to justice," contrary
to President Bush's claim. No sanctions have been placed on Pakistan;
on the contrary, praise has been heaped on the Musharraf government
for its "serious efforts" to "end the activities of a dangerous
network."
The report claims that in debriefings by investigators, Dr Khan
reportedly asserted that Gen Karamat was included in the details of an
arrangement in which Pakistan received help with its ballistic missile
program in exchange for providing North Korea with uranium enrichment
technology. "During his tenure as army chief of staff, Karamat held
overall responsibility for Pakistan's Ghauri mid-range missile
programme. In December 1997, he reportedly made a secret trip to North
Korea. Four months later, in April 1998, he officiated at the first
successful test of the Ghauri, widely believed to be a rechristened
North Korean Nodong missile. What Khan is implying is that there was
a quid pro quo and that Karamat was aware of what was going on," says
Gaurav Kampani, a senior (Indian) research associate at the Centre for
Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. (Khan) is
suggesting that (Karamat) presided over the nuclear-for-missile
transfer or actually signed off on it.' Karamat
insisted to The New Republic he did not travel to North Korea and was
not aware of or involved in an exchange of missiles for nuclear
technology," New Republic reports.
The magazine says those who know Karamat describe him as a
level-headed, sober individual. Stephen Cohen, director of the South
Asia Project at the Brookings Institution where Karamat was a visiting
fellow in 2000, says Karamat is one of the most "sensible" and
"reflective" officers the Pakistani military has produced. "I have
great respect for him," Cohen said.
"He's a very thoughtful guy
I think he's a very decent person."
However, adds the report, "Cohen and other close observers of
Pakistani affairs agree there may be substance to AQ Khan's
assertions. There is no way Khan could have done what he did without
at least the acquiescence of the Pakistani military establishment'
says Ashley Tellis, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace who studies South Asia."
The report adds, "Karamat is a case in point. Washington's response to
his nomination as ambassador has been muted. The general is expected
to present his credentials to President Bush and take up his new post
shortly. Asked to comment on AQ Khan's allegations concerning Karamat,
the State Department declined."
The article argues that if Dr Khan is telling the truth, then the Bush
administration needs to take a "good hard look" at those he
implicated. Until there is a full investigation of the Khan affair,
argues the journal, it will be impossible to know which of the
scientist's nuclear deals were approved by Pakistani officials, or
even whether the nuclear network has been shut down.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/politics/24weapons.html?hp&ex=1101272400&en=c3e5ba1671618b59&ei=5094&partner=homepage
NY Times
November 24, 2004
C.I.A. Says Pakistanis Gave Iran Nuclear Aid
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 - A new report from the Central Intelligence
Agency says the arms trafficking network led by the Pakistani
scientist A. Q. Khan provided Iran's nuclear program with "significant
assistance," including the designs for "advanced and efficient"
weapons components.
The unclassified version of the report, posted Tuesday on the agency's
Web site, www.cia.gov, does not say explicitly whether Mr. Khan's
network sold Iran complete plans for building a warhead, as the
network is known to have done for Libya and perhaps North Korea. But
it suggests that American intelligence agencies now believe that the
bomb-making designs provided by the network to Iran in the 1990's were
more significant than the United States government has previously
disclosed.
In a recent closed-door speech to a private group, George J. Tenet,
the former director of central intelligence, described Mr. Khan, the
father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, as being "at least as
dangerous as Osama bin Laden" because of his role in providing nuclear
technology to other countries. A tape recording of the speech was
obtained by The New York Times.
Until now, in discussing Iran's nuclear program, American officials
have referred publicly only to the Khan network's role in supplying
designs for older Pakistani centrifuges used to enrich uranium. But
American officials have also suspected that the Khan network provided
Iran with a warhead design as well.
The C.I.A. report is the first to assert that the designs provided to
Iran also included those for weapons "components."
The report to Congress is an annual update, required by law, on
countries' acquisition of illicit weapons technology. The posting of
the unclassified version on the agency's Web site comes two days
before a meeting in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
the United Nations' nuclear monitoring group, is scheduled to review
the status of Iran's weapons program.
"The Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions" is
the first to be issued by the agency since November. Its focus is the
six-month period from July to December 2003, but it also discusses
broader trends.
It does not mention what Secretary of State Colin L. Powell described
last week as new intelligence about Iran's nuclear program, linking
the country's missile program to its effort to find a way to deliver
atomic weapons.
The report says the agency remains convinced that the Iran is pursuing
a clandestine weapons program, despite claims to the contrary by the
Tehran government. It says Iran's stated willingness to allow
inspections by the I.A.E.A. is likely to prevent Tehran from using its
declared nuclear sites to produce weapons, but warns that it might use
covert facilities for those purposes.
The warhead design provided to Libya by the Khan network was for an
aging, crude Chinese model. Such a design would nevertheless provide
Iran with important assistance in what American officials say is its
quest to develop nuclear weapons, a goal they say Tehran could reach
in the next several years.
The C.I.A. began to infiltrate Mr. Khan's network in the late 1990's,
according to the account Mr. Tenet is now spelling out in his
speeches. That operation led to the unraveling of the network's ties
to Libya and the unmasking last year of Libya's illicit weapons
program.
Mr. Khan remains in Pakistan, where he was pardoned last year by
President Pervez Musharraf. Libya turned over the design to the United
States early this year, and it is now being examined at the Department
of Energy, the custodian of the American nuclear arsenal.
But American intelligence agencies are still pursuing questions about
the extent of the role the Khan network played in providing assistance
to North Korea, Iran and perhaps other customers. A recent report by
the I.A.E.A. noted "several common elements" between Iran's nuclear
program and Libya's, which is being dismantled.
Mr. Khan directed Pakistan's uranium enrichment program for 25 years.
His role as an illicit supplier of nuclear technology had been widely
rumored, but was made public only late last year, when the United
States and Britain reached an agreement with Libya that made public
the extent of the Libyan weapons program.
In recent paid speeches, Mr. Tenet has given new details about the
C.I.A.'s role in unraveling the Khan network, according to people who
attended the sessions. The speeches to private groups have been
delivered on ground rules that they remain off the record, but a tape
recording of a speech given in Georgia in September was provided to
The Times by someone who was there.
In that speech, Mr. Tenet said that the C.I.A.'s role had stretched
back to 1997, and that he had kept it secret in the government from
everyone but President Bill Clinton and President Bush. Describing a
"hidden network that stretched across three continents," he said:
"Working with British colleagues, we pieced together his subsidiaries,
his clients, his front companies, his finances and manufacturing
plants. We were inside his residence, inside his facilities, inside
his rooms. We were everywhere these people were."
Mr. Tenet called the agency's role "one of the greatest success
stories nobody ever talks about."
A classified version of the C.I.A. report been provided to
Congressional intelligence committees, administration officials said.
The unclassified version refers only obliquely to several delicate
subjects, including what American officials believe has been North
Korea's recent success in building as many as a half-dozen additional
nuclear weapons from plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods.
The document restates longstanding concerns that outside experts,
including a Pakistani nuclear engineer, may have provided assistance
to Al Qaeda as part of its quest to acquire nuclear weapons. "One of
our highest concerns is Al Qaeda's stated readiness to attempt
unconventional attacks against us," says the report.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,1140386,00.html
The Guardian, UK
Wednesday February 4, 2004
Musharraf knew I was selling secrets, says nuclear scientist
By James Astill
The disgraced founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme has informed
investigators that he supplied rogue states with nuclear technology
with the full knowledge of the country's ruling military elite .....
..... the nuclear scientist last week told government investigators:
"What ever I did, it was in the knowledge of the bosses." .....
..... Mr Khan reportedly told his friend that two former military
chiefs - General Mirza Aslam Beg and General Jehangir Karamat - and
Gen Musharraf had been "aware of everything" he was doing. "I am also
convinced that he couldn't act unilaterally," Mr Khan's friend said.
An army spokesman, Major-General Shaukat Sultan, dismissed the
allegation that Gen Musharraf had been aware of the nuclear sales.
"It is absolutely wrong," he said. The president "was not involved in
any such matter. No such thing has happened since he seized power in
1999." .....
..... The two retired army chiefs, Mr Karamat and Mr Beg, have
assisted investigators during the two-month inquiry into
long-simmering allegations of nuclear proliferation. But officials
say
they are not under investigation. .....
================================================================================
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041129-785360,00.html
From the Nov. 29, 2004 issue of TIME magazine
Hiding In Plain Sight
Why Pakistan still isn't aggressively pursuing the ex Taliban
leaders living inside the country
By TIM MCGIRK/KABUL
...... Mujahed was captured four months ago in the mountains of
Afghanistan's Uruzgan province after an epic chase involving eight
helicopters and dozens of troops. Afterward, Afghan intelligence found
stored in his satellite telephone the numbers of several top Taliban
military commanders, all hiding in Pakistan. His warden says Mujahed
was caught with 60 remote-controlled bombs that he allegedly confessed
to picking up in Pakistan after attending a Taliban war council in the
southern city of Quetta.
In the Afghan theater of the war on terrorism, Pakistan despite its
close alliance with George W. Bush's Administration is playing
something of a double game. On the one hand, Islamabad has
aggressively pursued al-Qaeda operatives since 9/11. It has arrested
more than 600 suspects and handed most of them over to the U.S. Also,
Pakistan has sent thousands of troops into the tribal areas to drive
out al-Qaeda fighters hiding in the mountains along its Afghan border.
But President Pervez Musharraf's government has done little to capture
the many Taliban commanders who have fled into hiding in the country,
according to Afghan officials and Taliban fighters and sympathizers in
the frontier Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar. Those exiles
include Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed mullah who formerly led the
Taliban. Pakistan's reluctance, according to a senior Kabul official,
stems from its "nostalgia" for when Afghanistan was firmly within its
orbit of influence. Letting the Taliban remain free gives Pakistan a
card to play if or when the U.S. decides to vacate Afghanistan. "If
money and support were to stop from the Pakistani side, the Taliban
would be finished," says Mullah "Rocketi," a former Taliban commander
who earned his nickname for his accuracy in shooting Soviet tanks and
who spent time at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Islamabad's reluctance to crack down has allowed Afghan
fundamentalists to use Pakistan as a refuge from which to recruit
fresh militants and launch cross-border ambushes against U.S. and
Afghan troops. Some ex Taliban fighters even allege that several
colonels in Pakistan's security agency, Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI), are funding former Taliban proteges through madrasahs, or
religious schools, and mosques in border villages. "The ISI knows
where the Taliban live," Mujahed says. "They could arrest us all in a
day. But they don't bother us."
His claims could be dismissed as an attempt to win favor with his
Afghan jailers. Afghans often blame Pakistan for nearly every ill a
legacy of Islamabad's pre-9/11 support for the Taliban regime. But the
prisoner's allegations are consistent with reports by Afghan and
Western intelligence officials who contend that more than a dozen
times in the past two years, they have alerted Pakistani authorities
to the locations of specific Taliban hideouts, only to find that the
extremists had slipped away before the raids started. (In response,
Pakistani officials say the tip-offs were too sketchy.) "Right now,"
says a senior Afghan official, "we have solid evidence that Mullah
Omar is hiding near Quetta." Two weeks ago, the elusive Taliban
commander of the faithful issued his first message since July,
renewing his call to fight Americans.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/24/politics/24weapons.html?hp&ex=1101272400&en=c3e5ba1671618b59&ei=5094&partner=homepage
NY Times
November 24, 2004
C.I.A. Says Pakistanis Gave Iran Nuclear Aid
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 - A new report from the Central Intelligence
Agency says the arms trafficking network led by the Pakistani
scientist A. Q. Khan provided Iran's nuclear program with "significant
assistance," including the designs for "advanced and efficient"
weapons components.
The unclassified version of the report, posted Tuesday on the agency's
Web site, www.cia.gov, does not say explicitly whether Mr. Khan's
network sold Iran complete plans for building a warhead, as the
network is known to have done for Libya and perhaps North Korea. But
it suggests that American intelligence agencies now believe that the
bomb-making designs provided by the network to Iran in the 1990's were
more significant than the United States government has previously
disclosed.
In a recent closed-door speech to a private group, George J. Tenet,
the former director of central intelligence, described Mr. Khan, the
father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, as being "at least as
dangerous as Osama bin Laden" because of his role in providing nuclear
technology to other countries. A tape recording of the speech was
obtained by The New York Times.
Until now, in discussing Iran's nuclear program, American officials
have referred publicly only to the Khan network's role in supplying
designs for older Pakistani centrifuges used to enrich uranium. But
American officials have also suspected that the Khan network provided
Iran with a warhead design as well.
The C.I.A. report is the first to assert that the designs provided to
Iran also included those for weapons "components."
The report to Congress is an annual update, required by law, on
countries' acquisition of illicit weapons technology. The posting of
the unclassified version on the agency's Web site comes two days
before a meeting in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
the United Nations' nuclear monitoring group, is scheduled to review
the status of Iran's weapons program.
"The Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions" is
the first to be issued by the agency since November. Its focus is the
six-month period from July to December 2003, but it also discusses
broader trends.
It does not mention what Secretary of State Colin L. Powell described
last week as new intelligence about Iran's nuclear program, linking
the country's missile program to its effort to find a way to deliver
atomic weapons.
The report says the agency remains convinced that the Iran is pursuing
a clandestine weapons program, despite claims to the contrary by the
Tehran government. It says Iran's stated willingness to allow
inspections by the I.A.E.A. is likely to prevent Tehran from using its
declared nuclear sites to produce weapons, but warns that it might use
covert facilities for those purposes.
The warhead design provided to Libya by the Khan network was for an
aging, crude Chinese model. Such a design would nevertheless provide
Iran with important assistance in what American officials say is its
quest to develop nuclear weapons, a goal they say Tehran could reach
in the next several years.
The C.I.A. began to infiltrate Mr. Khan's network in the late 1990's,
according to the account Mr. Tenet is now spelling out in his
speeches. That operation led to the unraveling of the network's ties
to Libya and the unmasking last year of Libya's illicit weapons
program.
Mr. Khan remains in Pakistan, where he was pardoned last year by
President Pervez Musharraf. Libya turned over the design to the United
States early this year, and it is now being examined at the Department
of Energy, the custodian of the American nuclear arsenal.
But American intelligence agencies are still pursuing questions about
the extent of the role the Khan network played in providing assistance
to North Korea, Iran and perhaps other customers. A recent report by
the I.A.E.A. noted "several common elements" between Iran's nuclear
program and Libya's, which is being dismantled.
Mr. Khan directed Pakistan's uranium enrichment program for 25 years.
His role as an illicit supplier of nuclear technology had been widely
rumored, but was made public only late last year, when the United
States and Britain reached an agreement with Libya that made public
the extent of the Libyan weapons program.
In recent paid speeches, Mr. Tenet has given new details about the
C.I.A.'s role in unraveling the Khan network, according to people who
attended the sessions. The speeches to private groups have been
delivered on ground rules that they remain off the record, but a tape
recording of a speech given in Georgia in September was provided to
The Times by someone who was there.
In that speech, Mr. Tenet said that the C.I.A.'s role had stretched
back to 1997, and that he had kept it secret in the government from
everyone but President Bill Clinton and President Bush. Describing a
"hidden network that stretched across three continents," he said:
"Working with British colleagues, we pieced together his subsidiaries,
his clients, his front companies, his finances and manufacturing
plants. We were inside his residence, inside his facilities, inside
his rooms. We were everywhere these people were."
Mr. Tenet called the agency's role "one of the greatest success
stories nobody ever talks about."
A classified version of the C.I.A. report been provided to
Congressional intelligence committees, administration officials said.
The unclassified version refers only obliquely to several delicate
subjects, including what American officials believe has been North
Korea's recent success in building as many as a half-dozen additional
nuclear weapons from plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods.
The document restates longstanding concerns that outside experts,
including a Pakistani nuclear engineer, may have provided assistance
to Al Qaeda as part of its quest to acquire nuclear weapons. "One of
our highest concerns is Al Qaeda's stated readiness to attempt
unconventional attacks against us," says the report.
================================================================================
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,1140386,00.html
The Guardian, UK
Wednesday February 4, 2004
Musharraf knew I was selling secrets, says nuclear scientist
By James Astill
The disgraced founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme has informed
investigators that he supplied rogue states with nuclear technology
with the full knowledge of the country's ruling military elite .....
..... the nuclear scientist last week told government investigators:
"What ever I did, it was in the knowledge of the bosses." .....
..... Mr Khan reportedly told his friend that two former military
chiefs - General Mirza Aslam Beg and General Jehangir Karamat - and
Gen Musharraf had been "aware of everything" he was doing. "I am also
convinced that he couldn't act unilaterally," Mr Khan's friend said.
An army spokesman, Major-General Shaukat Sultan, dismissed the
allegation that Gen Musharraf had been aware of the nuclear sales.
"It is absolutely wrong," he said. The president "was not involved in
any such matter. No such thing has happened since he seized power in
1999." .....
..... The two retired army chiefs, Mr Karamat and Mr Beg, have
assisted investigators during the two-month inquiry into
long-simmering allegations of nuclear proliferation. But officials
say
they are not under investigation. .....
================================================================================
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041129-785360,00.html
From the Nov. 29, 2004 issue of TIME magazine
Hiding In Plain Sight
Why Pakistan still isn't aggressively pursuing the ex Taliban
leaders living inside the country
By TIM MCGIRK/KABUL
...... Mujahed was captured four months ago in the mountains of
Afghanistan's Uruzgan province after an epic chase involving eight
helicopters and dozens of troops. Afterward, Afghan intelligence found
stored in his satellite telephone the numbers of several top Taliban
military commanders, all hiding in Pakistan. His warden says Mujahed
was caught with 60 remote-controlled bombs that he allegedly confessed
to picking up in Pakistan after attending a Taliban war council in the
southern city of Quetta.
In the Afghan theater of the war on terrorism, Pakistan despite its
close alliance with George W. Bush's Administration is playing
something of a double game. On the one hand, Islamabad has
aggressively pursued al-Qaeda operatives since 9/11. It has arrested
more than 600 suspects and handed most of them over to the U.S. Also,
Pakistan has sent thousands of troops into the tribal areas to drive
out al-Qaeda fighters hiding in the mountains along its Afghan border.
But President Pervez Musharraf's government has done little to capture
the many Taliban commanders who have fled into hiding in the country,
according to Afghan officials and Taliban fighters and sympathizers in
the frontier Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar. Those exiles
include Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed mullah who formerly led the
Taliban. Pakistan's reluctance, according to a senior Kabul official,
stems from its "nostalgia" for when Afghanistan was firmly within its
orbit of influence. Letting the Taliban remain free gives Pakistan a
card to play if or when the U.S. decides to vacate Afghanistan. "If
money and support were to stop from the Pakistani side, the Taliban
would be finished," says Mullah "Rocketi," a former Taliban commander
who earned his nickname for his accuracy in shooting Soviet tanks and
who spent time at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Islamabad's reluctance to crack down has allowed Afghan
fundamentalists to use Pakistan as a refuge from which to recruit
fresh militants and launch cross-border ambushes against U.S. and
Afghan troops. Some ex Taliban fighters even allege that several
colonels in Pakistan's security agency, Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI), are funding former Taliban proteges through madrasahs, or
religious schools, and mosques in border villages. "The ISI knows
where the Taliban live," Mujahed says. "They could arrest us all in a
day. But they don't bother us."
His claims could be dismissed as an attempt to win favor with his
Afghan jailers. Afghans often blame Pakistan for nearly every ill a
legacy of Islamabad's pre-9/11 support for the Taliban regime. But the
prisoner's allegations are consistent with reports by Afghan and
Western intelligence officials who contend that more than a dozen
times in the past two years, they have alerted Pakistani authorities
to the locations of specific Taliban hideouts, only to find that the
extremists had slipped away before the raids started. (In response,
Pakistani officials say the tip-offs were too sketchy.) "Right now,"
says a senior Afghan official, "we have solid evidence that Mullah
Omar is hiding near Quetta." Two weeks ago, the elusive Taliban
commander of the faithful issued his first message since July,
renewing his call to fight Americans.
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