Got a biggie - Taliban #2

This has been rattling around the blogosphere starting with a report from Andrew Breitbart last Monday the 10th. I didn't post because a number of these reports have been posted before and turn out to be false alarms and wishful thinking. It has now been confirmed -- from Brad Thor at Breitbart's Big Government:

BREAKING: Oliver North Confirms Mullah Omar Capture
Late this afternoon Lt. Colonel Oliver North confirmed that Taliban leader and Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Mohammed Omar has been captured. The exclusive news of Omar�s capture was broken by Big Government Monday evening.

According to Colonel North, Omar was picked up in Karachi on March 27th by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) who placed him under house arrest in what they call �community care.�

Per North�s sources, �[Omar] has since been transferred to a secret ISI lock-up under the Pakistani euphemism: �institutional care.�

North goes on to state, �According to several reports, all of this information was confirmed to U.S. officials by a senior Pakistani military officer �several weeks ago.�� A fact also broken in Monday�s Big Government exclusive.

Last weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton created a �diplomatic firestorm� when she indicted Pakistani cooperation with the U.S. in the hunt for Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives. Said Clinton, �I believe somewhere in this government are people who know where Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda is (sic), where Mullah Omar and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is (sic)��

North hopes the Secretary was �dissembling,� because intelligence sources here in the U.S. and Afghanistan have informed him that Pakistani officials �know exactly where Mullah Omar is: in the hands of the ISI.� Driving the point home, North added, �This should not be news to the U.S. Secretary of State.�

So what�s at stake and why did the Pakistanis grab Omar? As I reported earlier today, and as Colonel North confirms, everything is revolving around the so-called peace jirga between the Karzai government and the Taliban. �The ISI intends to be in the driver�s seat when the �Peace Talks� get underway in Afghanistan later this month,� says North. �And the ISI officers calling the shots know Mullah Omar is the best bargaining chip they have.�

Captured by the Pakistanis so you know he will not be mirandized and Holder is not trying to get the venue moved to New York City. Should be some fascinating Intel coming out of this and Hillary's tirade shows just how 'in the loop' she is being kept... And lest you not forget, this is the cultureless asshole who directly ordered the 1,700 year old Buddhist statues at Bamyan be destroyed. Still mad about that.