‘US not after Taliban leaders under Bush’

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism the Bush administration has waged 7 years of war, but has made no effort to seize Taliban leaders.

“We have not seen any pressure on the Pakistanis to crack down on Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and his deputies and close their arms and recruiting networks,” a US defense official told McClatchy on condition of anonymity.

“There has never been convergence on a campaign plan against Mullah Omar,”McClatchy quoted a US military official as saying on Sunday.

The Bush administration, he said, miscalculated by hoping that Omar and his deputies would embrace an Afghan government-run reconciliation effort or “wither away” as their insurgency was destroyed.

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On the other hand, some Pakistani army officials sympathize with the Taliban and favor the establishment of a pro-Pakistan Islamic regime in Kabul.

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Wounded Taliban fighters are treated in Pakistani military hospitals in Baluchistan, and guerrillas who run out of ammunition have been monitored dashing across the frontier of sweeping desert and rolling hills to restock at caches on the Pakistani side, the US and NATO officials said.

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