Taliban: Mullah Omar Alive and In Afghanistan

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Taliban: Mullah Omar alive and in Afghanistan

By HEIDI VOGT, Associated Press – 21 mins ago

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban are denying a report in the Afghan press that Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in neighboring Pakistan, saying the leader of the insurgent group is alive and in Afghanistan.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a phone call Monday that the report is "absolutely wrong."

He said, "It's only propaganda and we completely deny these rumors. He is inside Afghanistan and he is busy directing military operations with his commanders."

Afghan news channel Tolo quoted an anonymous Afghan intelligence official as saying that Omar had been killed in Pakistan. Officials with the Afghan intelligence service contacted by the AP said they had no such reports. They spoke anonymously because they were not official spokesmen.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110523/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

[EFerrari]

1. It's sort of cool that the intelligence service denial

has the same unofficial status as the original report.

lol

:)

[EFerrari]

2. This person seems to be a journalist in Afghanistan:

Natalie Righton
@Natalie_Kabul Natalie Righton
Ok all these people can't confirm death #omar: 1Afghan intelligence (NDS), 2spokesman Karzai, 3HamidGul, ex-Pak intel, 4ISAF, 5Taliban
1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
http://twitter.com/#!/Natalie_Kabul

[dipsydoodle]

3. I notice that the other post which said he's pushing up the daisies

has now been locked.

:hi:

[TacticalPeek]

4. If he is still alive, I hope they generated lots of radio traffic being sure.

Not that I trust what the Taliban say any more than what the ISI says.

[EFerrari]

5. Other rumors in AFP version:

snip

The comments came after one Afghan intelligence source said Omar had been killed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, while another claimed he had been missing for 11 days.

The first source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said that Omar had been killed on Friday, citing information received from sources within the Haqqani insurgent group, whose leaders are based in Pakistan.

"Based on ISI instruction through (former ISI chief) General Hamid Gul, Mullah Mohammad Omar was told to move from Quetta city of Pakistan to northern Waziristan," the source said.

"As Mullah Omar was being transported from Quetta to North Waziristan by the ISI, he was secretly killed by the ISI."

snip

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110523/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrestpakistantaliban

[TacticalPeek]

6. Meantime, a security official contacted by Xinhua confirmed the incident,

Meantime, a security official contacted by Xinhua confirmed the incident, saying "it is correct that Mullah has been killed."

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/221058

Also correct that Osama Bin Laden still swims with the fishies.

[dipsydoodle]

7. The reward out on him was $10,000,000.

No mention of that. :shrug:

[Hissyspit]

8. Beginning to wonder if we'll ever really "know."

Meanwhile...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL dead.

[EFerrari]

11. If he was dead, the Afghan Taliban would be talking about it.

IOW, when he dies, we will know.

[cosmicone]

9. Mullah Omar was himself an ISI operative.....

He was completely unknown and no history of him can be tracked before he suddenly became the leader of Taliban (another creation of the ISI)

He never allowed pictures taken (for fear that people close to him in Pakistan would recognize him as a Pakistani military officer)

He disappeared as mysteriously as he appeared ... no writings, no tapes, no communications of any sort unlike Osama who released tapes and videos periodically.

One can conclude that he went back to his original army post in 2001.

If he is killed now, Pakistan is obviously saving face and showing aid-provoking behavior. It is also cute that the Pakistanis took him to the tribal areas to murder him (if true) rather than kill him in his backyard swimming pool in Islamabad.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Hitler's brain is still alive...

Be afraid, be very afraid...so the gubmint can extend their "Patriot Act."

[sarcasmo]

12. Is he the new #2 or the new #1?