Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar lived near a US base in Afghanistan until his death and 'never stepped foot in Pakistan,' a new biography says
As the American invasion of Afghanistan continues into its 18th year, more failures of the so-called "War on Terror" start to reveal themselves. One of the biggest bombshells might be that the Taliban's 'Supreme leader' Mullah Mohammad Omar might have lived smack in front of his American enemies for years, completely unnoticed.
While other Taliban members took over the operational leadership, Omar lived in a hidden room and recited verses of the Holy Quran with the help of an old Nokia mobile phone. Omari stated that although locals suspected that a high-ranking Taliban leader was hiding in Ustaz' house, nobody including his family members knew that it was Mullah Omar himself. American troops once raided the home but they could not find the hidden room where Omar used to live.'.
But while Dam has shared her work in detail with the public, Saleh hasn't offered anything that would support his allegations.“We strongly reject this delusional claim, and we see it as an effort to create and build an identity for the Taliban and their foreign backers. We have sufficient evidence which shows he [Omar] lived and died in Pakistan. Period!”, Haroon Chakansuri, the President's spokesman, said.
The tale of Mullah Mohammad Omar is emblematic of the total failure of the Afghan war. On October 7, 2001, a Predator drone wasover the southern city of Kandahar – known as the Taliban's stronghold. It was the very first operation of an armed drone in human history, and its target was nobody else than Omar himself. As we know today, the operation, like all the others following, failed. The Hellfire missiles did not kill Omar but instead took the lives of other nameless and faceless Afghans.
Mullah Omar died in 2013. Two years later, his death was officially declared. As also the recent research underlines, the Taliban leader fell ill, but he did not want to leave his country for medical care. Six years after Omar's death, the Taliban are stronger than ever. They control large parts of Afghanistan and negotiate with the Americans on an equal footing.
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