Pakistan's "truce" with Taliban was signed by Mullah Omar

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Man...talk about total capitulation in the "War on Terrorism"


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/24/wafg24.xml

The fugitive Taliban commander Mullah Omar has emerged as the key player behind the movement's controversial peace deal with Pakistan.

The Taliban's one-eyed spiritual leader, who has a $10 million price on his head for refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks, signed a letter explicitly endorsing the truce announced this month. The deal between the Pakistani authorities and pro-Taliban militants in the tribal provinces bordering Afghanistan was designed to end five years of bloodshed in the area.


Mullah Omar brokered the controversial peace deal
In return for an end to the US-backed government campaign in Waziristan, the tribal leaders - who have harboured Taliban and al-Qaeda units for more than five years - agreed to halt attacks on Pakistani troops, more than 500 of whom have been killed. The deal has been widely criticised as over-generous, with no way to enforce the Taliban's promise not to enter Afghanistan to attack coalition troops.

The disclosure that Mullah Omar personally backed the deal will come as a fresh embarrassment to Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, who met President Bush in Washington on Friday to discuss security in the region....

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1. NOTICE: in Telegraph, not USAtoday, Post, NewsMax or Faux. ergo . . . .

it ain't gnus!