Last night on AC360 they had a story of how the CIA (and everyone else in international law enforcement, I guess) is still searching for Mullah Omar, but they’ve been using the wrong picture. I don’t want to be the poor sap whose picture has been circulated for years instead. So not only have they not caught Omar, I guess they haven’t caught Omar-substitute either.
And we wonder why they don’t respect us.
Even Karzai admitted years ago he has no idea what Mullah Omar looks like, but on we go, posting this Most Wanted photo of the wrong guy.
Am I hypersensitive of does this stink of racism? All them mullahs look alike to us.
Also, several times I’ve seen (again on CNN) stories about looking for one of the endless Al Qaeda No. 2’s in Iraq and they post the picture of the scary, scary dude from the Finsbury Park mosque in London. Hey guys, he’s already in jail….in London! I know there’s a whole mess of Al Qaeda No. 2’s but he’s one of the few guys in the world who isn’t a No. 2.
I repeat, they all look alike to us. Sigh.
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On a similar note, our government issued a 'control' order against a guy here recently (he had travelled to Pakistan and met OBL a couple of years ago). Included in the order was a list of people he wasn't allowed to contact - including, can you belive, OBL himself (maybe he's hiding over here???) and 13 people now either dead or in prison. It would be laughable if it wasn't so serious.
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