Has any non-Pakistani or non-Arab journalist meet Mullah Omar ?
So you have to meet someone to write about him/ her?
https://www.dw.com/en/bette-dam-i-want-people-to-question-the-war-on-terror/a-47915122
Taliban founder lived near US military base in Afghanistan: report
Mullah Omar lived near a strategic US base in Afghanistan's Zabul province, according to a Dutch journalist's controversial book.
The Taliban leader's bodyguard said "they felt relatively safe" despite the US presence.
Taliban founder Mullah Omar lived next to a US base in the Afghan province of Zabul for years, Dutch journalist
Bette Dam claims in her new Dutch-language book "Searching for the Enemy."
"The US, and almost everyone else, had it wrong," Dam, who spent eight years researching the Taliban leader, wrote in
an English-language excerpt.
"After 2001, Mullah Omar never stepped foot in Pakistan, instead opting to hide in this native land — and for eight years, lived just a few miles from a major US Forward Operating Base that housed thousands of soldiers."
Dam said the finding was corroborated by Taliban and Afghan officials, including Mullah Omar's personal bodyguard.
She described it as a "staggering US intelligence failure."
"Though Mullah Omar did not venture outside for fear of being caught, according to (bodyguard) Jabbar Omari, in the four years they hid in that home they felt relatively safe," added Dam.
'Delusional claim'
The revelation counters the narrative put forward by Afghan and US officials, that
Mullah Omar lived in exile in Pakistan, where he eventually died.
"We strongly reject this delusional claim and we see it is as an effort to create and build an identity for the Taliban and their foreign backers,"
said Afghan presidency spokesman Haroon Chakhansuri. "We have sufficient evidence which shows he lived and died in Pakistan."
Haroon Chakhansuri
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We strongly reject this delusional claim and we see it as an effort to create and build an identify for the Taliban and their foreign backers. We have sufficient evidence which shows he lived and died in Pakistan. Period!
The Wall Street Journal
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Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar spent his final years near a U.S. base in Afghanistan, according to a new report that contradicts the CIA https://on.wsj.com/2ENmuyP
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David Petraeus, a former CIA director and US military commander in Afghanistan, cast doubt on the claim, telling the
Wall Street Journal newspaper: "I would be very surprised if Mullah Omar would have taken the risk that we could come calling some evening." According to Dam, US troops nearly discovered him twice.
https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-founder-lived-near-us-military-base-in-afghanistan-report/a-47849336