Captured Taliban commander may lead to bin Laden

A Taliban commander, who had been the link-man with al-Qaida and might have knowledge of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and ousted Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, has been captured in Afghanistan.

General Mohammed Akram, Kandahar’s police chief, said Taliban commander Mullah Janan, who was arrested in the southern city, “is very close to Osama and Mullah Omar. He can speak very good Arabic.