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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2393838,00.html
Britain Says Pakistan Is Hiding Taliban Chief
[Sunday Times-UK] Christina Lamb - Lt.-Gen. David Richards, the British general commanding NATO troops in Afghanistan, will fly to Islamabad Monday to try to persuade President Musharraf to rein in his military intelligence service, which Richards believes is training Taliban fighters to attack British troops. He will request that key Taliban leaders living in Pakistan be arrested. The evidence compiled by American, NATO, and Afghan intelligence includes satellite pictures and videos of training camps for Taliban soldiers and suicide bombers inside Pakistan. Captured Taliban fighters and failed suicide bombers have confirmed that they were trained by the Pakistani intelligence service. The information includes an address in Quetta where Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, is said to live. After 30 British servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan, "I feel real vitriol seeing our boys dying because of Pakistan," said one British officer. A senior U.S. commander added: "We just can't ignore it any more. Musharraf's got to prove which side he is on."