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
New book by Dutch journalist Bette Dam claims"US, and almost everyone else, had it wrong" and that"the Pentagon and the CIA knew little about Mullah Mohammad Omar [Taliban founder]."
The finding indicates massive breakdown of US intelligence, Omar's mistrust of Pakistan – which sided with the US in War on Terror – and his limited role in leading the insurgency that continues till date. The book details "Shah Wali Kot Agreement", between the Taliban and then Afghan leader Hamid Karzai after US invasion in 2001, and immediate hand over of Taliban leadership by Mullah Omar to trusted member Mullah Obaidullah.Karzai's declaration of a general amnesty to Taliban pitted him against the US, which considered Afghan Taliban a serious threat and managed to block Karzai's attempts to reconcile with the Taliban.
It says the American forces came close to the hideout twice in the four years Mullah Omar stayed there. As helicopters and jets hovered over the village, Mullah Omar sometime took refuge in the irrigation tunnels, the book says. "In fact, though they claimed otherwise, the Pentagon and the CIA knew little about Mullah Omar," the biography says.On April 23, 2013, Mullah Omar passed away and was buried by Omari and his two assistants "in a nondescript grave, without a coffin.""Who protected him. The Americans searched every house. How did they not find him?" he told her wondering how could Mullah Omar live for four years in a house near the governor's compound and an NDS branch.
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