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Mullah Omar Is Dead

Alive or dead? It’s not as black and white as you might think
ROBERT FISK

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In fact, Omar died three times before. Bin Laden himself died at least twice before the Americans assassinated him.—

HOW many times do you have to kill a man before he dies? Not for the first time Mullah Mohammad Omar, Emir of the Faithful, friend and protector of Osama bin Laden, creator of the Taliban, destroyer of graven images, has died.

In fact, he has died three times before, most spectacularly at the hands of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) in 2011. Untrue on that occasion, of course. Bin Laden himself died at least twice before the Americans assassinated him in 2011.

Even George W wrote him off in 2002. Then he was dying of cancer. Then he was dying of kidney failure. The Top People’s Paper even killed off Ayatollah Khomeini – of cancer – long before the old boy expired.

If all the stories were true, these folk would have outdone the most important Resurrection of all, several times over. It is an intelligence officer’s dream and a journalist’s nightmare.

Long ago, when the first stories were going the rounds that Bin Laden had died in Afghanistan, a Pakistani rogue who knew him rather too well told me he thought he knew why these chaps kept dying.

The CIA and MI6 and the Russian FSB and the Pakistani ISI, he said, declare their enemies dead to provoke them into popping up their heads and revealing their location.

“Then, ‘Zap’, it’s all for real,” he said.

Searching around for “sources”, the poor journos have to write cruelly obfuscatory obituaries just in case the old panjandrum has actually kicked the bucket.

So in this familiar and rather gruesome tradition, here goes: Mullah Omar, possibly the son-in-law of Bin Laden but very definitely one-eyed, declared himself the Emir of the Faithful in 1996 and led his Taliban purists to victory against the mujahedin fighters who had driven the Russians out of what quickly became the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

He was head of state for five years until he gave political asylum to Bin Laden after 9/11 and ended up on the run with a $10m bounty on his head.

He approved of the elimination of murderers, adulterers and statues of Buddha, and was held in awe by young men who thought nothing of hanging television sets from trees to show their contempt for graven images – and, quite possibly, journalists.

His latest death, according to the usual sources, could have occurred two or three years ago – before Isis began making inroads into his turf – so if he turns out to be still alive, he must surely be Emir of the Undead. Maybe the Americans should amend their $10m reward to the slightly more inspiring “Dead AND Alive”
 
Mullah Omar is alive and kicking,India is trying her best with her Afghan and International friends to get vengeance for the fact she was not part of any talks which means US has too accepted that India is still not capable of exerting her influencing beyond Bangladesh.
And above all that Afghan Army is same whose company of men fought Taliban for 4 days and they didn't send them help later they sundered.
 
Such conviction.

Anything to back it up ?
Sure.do you think an Organization fighting day and night a Superpower and her allies can sustain her fight without a Powerful and respected central figure.if so then please leave a Defense forum and do something else.
 
Sure.do you think an Organization fighting day and night a Superpower and her allies can sustain her fight without a Powerful and respected central figure.if so then please leave a Defense forum and do something else.


Any other sources of info that Omar lives besides this ?
 
Now the real question is : If he indeed died two years ago, who produced his consent for talks facilitated by Pakistan last week..?
you hit the nail

Mullah Omar is alive and kicking
Good to hear that, he is very noble and innocent man

fact she was not part of any talks which means US has too accepted that India is still not capable of exerting her influencing beyond Bangladesh.
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we are more than happy away from so called PEACE TALKS with TERRORISTS
Its not our speciality
 
Mullah Omar is alive and kicking,India is trying her best with her Afghan and International friends to get vengeance for the fact she was not part of any talks which means US has too accepted that India is still not capable of exerting her influencing beyond Bangladesh.
 
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Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as the new Afghan Taliban supreme leader


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Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

Afghan Taliban officially confirmed on Thursday Mullah Omar’s death, hours after the group elected Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as the new Afghan Taliban supreme leader.

Mullah Omar’s family and the Taliban leadership council in a statement confirmed that Mullah Omar passed away in a peaceful manner.

A statement released by the Afghan Taliban said, “Mullah Omar never visited Pakistan or any other country except Afghanistan.”

“Mullah Omar led his movement from Afghanistan,” it added.

Further, the statement said, “Mullah Omar died owing to an illness some time ago and he died within two weeks of contracting the disease.” However, the statement did not disclose the location of his death. Earlier, Afghan intelligence had said the Afghan supremo had died in a hospital in Karachi.

Further, the statement did not mention the appointment of a new leader.

Earlier today, the powerful Taliban leadership council elected o Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as the new Afghan Taliban supreme leader, a senior Taliban leader told The Express Tribune.

“The council also elected Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is known as Khalifa, the chief of Haqqani as deputy of the Taliban’s leader,” the Taliban leader told on the condition of anonymity.


The Taliban have not yet officially announced the new leader. However, the Taliban leader said the formal announcement is likely to be made shortly.

The incumbent Taliban supreme leader Akhtar Mansoor had served as the Aviation minister during Taliban regime.

Mullah Mansoor was the likely successor along with Mullah Baradar Akhund of the deceased Taliban supreme leader. Earlier, it was speculated in the Taliban circle that Mansoor’s position had been widely damaged for spreading news of Mullah Omar’s death.

Read: Govt remains tightlipped, as lawmakers demand answers on Mullah Omar’s ‘death’

The appointment comes a day after reports confirmed the Afghan Taliban supreme leader had died over two years ago owing to an illness in a Karachi hospital.

The Taliban remained tight-lipped regarding news of his death; however, the announcement comes after senior Taliban leaders arrived in Islamabad for second round of Pakistan-brokered peace talks between the group and the government in Kabul.

It was widely speculated that Mullah Baradar Akhund would succeed Mullah Omar as the supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban. Mullah Omar had appointed Mullah Baradar and Mullah Ubaidullah Akhund as deputy leaders while he was alive.

Mullah Ubaidullah died in a jail in Pakistan, according to the Taliban which left Mullah Baradar next in line.

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