Posted on 10/06/2015 9:06:46 AM PDT by Trumpinator
He has also benefited from a powerful alliance with the Pakistani military spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, the original sponsor of the Afghan Taliban insurgency.
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Mullah Mansour, a stout man believed to be just under 50, does not, unlike his famously reclusive predecessor, live in hiding. His circumstances are not those of a jihadist leader living a fugitive existence, fearing drone strikes and avoiding cellphones in case they are tracked — in fact, one person who knows him says the Taliban leader owns a cellphone company.
Some of the time, he lives in a southern neighborhood of Quetta, Pakistan, known as Satellite Town, in an enclave where he and some other Taliban leaders from the same Pashtun tribe, the Ishaqzai, have built homes, according to interviews with a range of people who know him, including high-ranking Taliban leaders. As with many of the people interviewed about Mullah Mansour, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid offending or prompting revenge.
But Quetta is not his only option. Although he is on the United Nations no-fly list, Mullah Mansour has repeatedly taken flights in and out of Pakistan, according to a senior Afghan intelligence official. Often, his destination has been Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, where he has a house and several investments under different names, the official said.
That freedom alone would support widespread claims that he enjoys special status from the Pakistani authorities. Also telling is the large detachment of plainclothes security officers in his part of Satellite Town that notably grew around the time he was announced as the Taliban’s leader, neighborhood residents say.
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This Pakistani connection has always been a problem with the fight against the Taliban. It would be like fighting Hitler with the British helping Hitler at the same time we were.
The Taliban have always been a Pakistani front outfit. That’s why we should have nuked Pakistan after 9/11.
If we know where this thug resides in Quetta, then there should be a sinkhole where his house used to be.
flying out of the closet!
The Taliban was an ISI creation from the start.
Islam is the problem, not any specific group.
Islam has been at war with everyone else since 622 A.D.
The Taliban was an ISI creation from the start.
Islam is the problem, not any specific group.
Islam has been at war with everyone else since 622 A.D.
Keep your friends close..
and your enemies closer...
The they openly come out with the Paks...
I say...
“leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli”
Capice???
Everyone is laying their cards on the table, open your eyes to what is before you
And Choose...
“If the boundaries between the Taliban and opium and heroin traffickers in Afghanistan are now blurred, that is in no small part because of Mullah Mansour. He was among the first major Taliban officials to be linked to the drug trade, according to a 2008 United Nations report, and later became the Taliban’s main tax collector for the narcotics trade — creating immense profits for the Taliban as opium and heroin exports soared.”
Just posted on another thread about Afghanistan and Russia. What a web, but heroin seems to be the money source.
heroin:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91
Russia:Surprise! The Soviets Nearly Won Afghan War
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3345288/posts
It’s not like he is Hitler in his underground bunker - we know where this guy lives. Why are we getting Americans hurt and killed and his house is still standing? Is Pakistan so important to America we have to tolerate their evilness? I much rather be allied with India.
Iraq Gulf War II was a mistake (not as big a mistake as Gulf War I) -- we should have gone into Pakistan, eliminated Bin Laden and taken Paki's nukes away
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