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2011-05-23 Afghanistan

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Posted by tu3031 2011-05-23 03:11|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 He's visiting with Fidel?

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-23 07:13|| 2011-05-23 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Elvis.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-23 07:56|| 2011-05-23 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt he's dead, he's a slippery bastard.

Posted by Griting Smith6978 2011-05-23 10:55|| 2011-05-23 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 According to Miracle Max, he's only "mostly dead"...

Posted by mojo 2011-05-23 11:19|| 2011-05-23 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Update
An official from Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said today that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had "disappeared" several days ago from hideout in Quetta, after Tolo News reported yesterday that an anonymous NDS source said Omar had been killed while in transit between Quetta and North Waziristan (AFP, Reuters, Tolo). The Taliban denied the claim, telling reporters that Omar was "alive and well" and in Afghanistan (Reuters, NYT).

According to a report from the German magazine Der Spiegel, Germany is mediating direct talks between the United States and the Taliban on German soil (AFP, Der Spiegel - German). The report indicates that three meetings have been held so far, the first in Qatar and the subsequent two in Germany. And Afghanistan and Pakistan are reportedly in talks to set up a "high-level joint commission" to deal with direct negotiations with the Taliban (ET).

Posted by tipper 2011-05-23 11:40|| 2011-05-23 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 "Mullah, we need your SEAL of approval on this latest fatwa... Aw, shit, he's hyperventilating again."

Posted by Matt 2011-05-23 12:53|| 2011-05-23 12:53|| Front Page Top

#7 We wuz watchin' him and watchin' him, and suddenly - he wuz gone! Jus' like magic!

We jus' never knew where he wuz. He's gone, tho.

- ISI

Posted by Bobby 2011-05-23 13:14|| 2011-05-23 13:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Blinky's gone dark to avoid the Binny treatment.

It amazes me that these guys who preach martyrdom and jihad seem so allergic to being killed themselves...whatzamatteryou don't wanna be a martyr?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-05-23 18:13|| 2011-05-23 18:13|| Front Page Top

#9 How is going dark going to protect him from the bin Laden treatment? You can't get much darker than the bin Ladens; not unless you want to move to Brooklyn, change your name to Willy bin Loman & start selling hosiery.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-05-23 19:47|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-05-23 19:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Just like the Haqqanis, new digs courtesy of the ISI. Check Rawalpindi.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-23 20:04|| 2011-05-23 20:04|| Front Page Top

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