Pakistan denies Taliban chief in country

[maddezmom]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan insisted again Saturday that Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who is on the U.S. most wanted list, is not living in Pakistan.

Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, but some Afghan and U.S. officials think Omar and other top terror leaders like Osama bin Laden are hiding either in Pakistan or near the Pakistan-Afghan border.

"There has been no evidence about the presence of Mullah Omar in Pakistan," the government said in a statement released in response to a CNN report that Omar is living in the country.

The statement called the CNN report "baseless," saying it was a "concocted story and nothing but mere figment of reporters' imagination."

CNN said that Omar, whose militia has been fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan, though not in the same area where bin Laden is thought to be.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060909/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_taliban

CNN Story here:CNN: Source: Mullah Omar in Pakistan

From CNN's Peter Bergen, Anderson Cooper
and Charlie Moore in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The one-eyed Taliban leader Mullah
Omar, who heads the religious militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces
in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan, though not in the same area
where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is thought to be, according
to a U.S. intelligence source.

The elusive Taliban leader is believed to be in Quetta or its environs,
a city of one million that is the capital of Baluchistan province
in southwestern Pakistan.

The intelligence source said of Mullah Omar's location: "At one point
we had it down to a particular section of Quetta."

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf did not address specifically the
question on his visit to Kabul Thursday, but said "Please do understand
the Pakistan government (is not) behind anything that is happening in
Afghanistan."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/09/pakistan.mullahomar/index.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2089675

[annabanana]

1. Uh Oh. . .CNN got caught reporting actual NEWS!

I'm sure that a couple of phone calls will be made, and the whole, umm.. uncomfortable, story will be allowed to cool.

[acmavm]

2. He's not in the same area as his boss? I thought that they'd have been

roomies.