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Summary Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar is believed to have told US the location of Osama Bin Laden.
In return they ¬promised to pullout US troops from Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan once Bin Laden had been killed or captured, Western media claimed. Details of the extraordinary “deal” emerged after a confidential US briefing was found at the hideout. Reports in Pakistan claim Baradar , co-founder of the Taliban, which has a loose alliance with Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda – is named in the papers.He and other “moles” within Bin Laden’s organisation are said to be feeding crucial information to US ¬intelligence experts.Until now it has been believed that Bin Laden was caught out when the US intercepted a phone call made by his courier Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. But new reports in Pakistan suggest it was actually Baradar who told the US where he was hiding.Baradar was arrested in a joint US-Pakistani operation last year as he visited Karachi.The terror chief, a close ally of Mullah Omar, was interrogated in prison before being released last October.
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