Are the U.S. and Pakistan one step closer to hunting down Osama bin Laden? The recent capture of Taliban military commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, as he was leaving a seminary in the Pakistani seaport of Karachi, may give investigators several leads in tracking down the fugitive al-Qaeda chief.
U.S. special representative Richard Holbrooke, in Islamabad on Thursday for talks with Pakistani generals and President Asif Ali Zardari, lauded the arrest of the Taliban commander as a “tremendous achievement for Pakistani intelligence and American collaboration.” As the Taliban’s second in command — after spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, also in hiding — and its top war strategist, Baradar has firsthand knowledge of the links between the Taliban and al-Qaeda’s operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And Washington says he is willing to share his secrets with Pakistani and CIA interrogators. Unidentified U.S. officials quoted by the New York Times, which broke the news of Barada’s arrest, say he is providing a “wealth of information.”
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Even if Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar provides a wealth of information, I seriously doubt he will actually reveal where Osama bin Laden is hiding. I also believe that our own government knows exactly where he (Osama) is located but “politics” continuosly get in the way and prevent the capture of this criminal. Look at it this way, NASA can send a probe to Mars and actually locate and photograph one of the two small Rovers on the surface….yet we can’t seem to locate Osama bin Laden right here on our own planet? Give me a break!
I bet the Pakistanis won’t read him his Miranda Rights 🙂