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Xinhua reported that Omar HAD been killed. So, which is it? — PID

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban denied a report in the Afghan press that the insurgent group’s leader had been killed in neighboring Pakistan, saying Monday that Mullah Mohammad Omar is alive and in Afghanistan.

via Taliban: Mullah Omar alive and in Afghanistan – Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Navy Times.

Is the Obama admin setting up the case for waging all out war in Pakistan? — PID

(THE SUN) — OSAMA Bin Laden lived unchallenged in a SECOND safe house in Pakistan, it emerged yesterday.

The terror chief spent 2½ years in the quiet hill village before moving in 2005 to the compound where he was killed.

via Osama Bin Laden lived unchallenged in a second safe house in Pakistan | The Sun |News.

We wonder if the Obama drama had anything to do with Raymond Allen Davis. — PID

(MAIL ONLINE) — /SNIP/ The CIA and Pakistan’s spy agency, known by the acronym ISI, have worked uneasily together in the past on counter-terrorism, but the unilateral U.S. raid – done without Pakistan’s advance knowledge – has exposed the deep mistrust that scars a complicated if vital partnership for both nations.

One Pakistan source today condemned U.S. claims that the compound was al-Qaeda’s ‘active control and command centre’ as ‘bull****’.

via Osama bin Laden dead: Pakistan ‘unmasks’ CIA chief who masterminded hit | Mail Online.

(ABC NEWS) — Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor held in Pakistan after a deadly shooting incident in January, was freed today, Pakistani officials and Davis’ lawyer said.

Davis was released from detention after around $700,000 was paid to the families of the two men allegedly shot and killed by Davis, Davis’ lawyer, Zahid Hussain, told ABC News.

via CIA Contractor Raymond Davis to Be Freed in Pakistan – ABC News.

Well, isn’t that just great? Now, Obama has a reason to bomb NW Pakistan. Sheesh. — PID

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said.

“Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave,” said the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the intelligence matters involved.

via NATO official: Bin Laden, deputy hiding in northwest Pakistan – CNN.com.