Alleged photo of “Mullah Omar”.
Ayaz Gul
VOA News
March 11, 2019
ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan are rejecting a new American investigative report that claims the founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, spent his final years in Afghanistan, not in neighboring Pakistan.
Washington and Afghan officials have long asserted that Omar took refuge in Pakistan after a U.S.-led military coalition dislodged the Taliban from power in Kabul for harboring al-Qaida leaders accused of orchestrating the Sept. 2001 terrorist attacks.
“The story that emerges is that the U.S., and almost everyone else, had it wrong,” says the report published by New York-based Zomia Center.
“After 2001, Mullah Omar never stepped foot in Pakistan, instead opting to hide in his native land — and for eight years, lived just a few miles from a major U.S. Forward Operating Base that housed thousands of soldiers,” the report said.
The Zomia Center, an initiative of Arizona State University’s Center on the Future of War and the Washington-based nonpartisan New America think tank, said its research is based on interviews with current and former Afghan government officials. The report said the authors also spoke with members of the Afghan intelligence agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS).
U.S. officials had no comment on the report.
“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,” an Afghan presidential spokesman tweeted Monday.
“We have sufficient evidence which shows he [Omar] lived and died in Pakistan,” Haroon Chakhansuri stressed.
The Afghan presidential office was the first to announce in July 2015, citing “credible information,” that the reclusive Taliban chief had died two years before after a prolonged illness in a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.
Days later, the Taliban also confirmed the news of the death of its founding leader, but insisted Omar died inside Afghanistan.
The American research group’s report noted that Omar refused to go to Pakistan because of his “deep-seated mistrust of that country, and his involvement in the insurgency was minimal.”
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the findings of the report were “factually correct,” saying it also rightly identified the bodyguard who partnered and served Omar for 13 years in his place of hiding in the southern Zabul province.
“Mullah Omar throughout these years stayed in Zabul nearby an American military base and he also died there. He was conducting all his activities from that place and American forces once also raided it,” Mujahid told VOA.
The Zomia Center report comes at a time when the United States is engaged in extensive peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar to seek a negotiated settlement to the Afghan war.
Omar’s close associate and co-founder of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is supervising a team of insurgent leaders holding talks with American officials led by U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad. The dialogue has been continuing for the past two weeks in the Qatari capital of Doha, but both sides are tight lipped about the discussions.
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The
crazy
Anglo/USA
“Albino people”
were playing bizarre military and political games on people of Afghanistan, in an order, to subjugate entire Afghanistan- that is what we see as a result of it all.
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Albinos must get kicked out of the
whole region- they are mentally
disturbed and deranged.
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YOU CAN NOT FIX THAT !
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*If
“Mullah Omar”
truly existed; then we ask, just one
of
his
honorable
companions,
to
come forward, (for once),
and
prove and enlighten us all !
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Please;
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enough
is
enough !
BY THE WAY :
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*ALL THE
“GREAT MUSLIM PEOPLE”
OF
AFGHANISTAN
ARE
TALIBANS-YOU
(SAVAGES)
WILL NEVER
BE ABLE
TO
BEAT
THAT, PERIOD.
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Why
you *cowards
insult and humiliate
Islamic religious
figures; such as, “TALIBAN”.; but yet,
never “habitually”
demonize
Rabbis and Pastors; if they even
advocate,
(albeit mostly tacitly), bloody massacres and savage political policies
against
regular Muslims in the Middle East and many other isolated corners in the world !
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AND
YOU LOWCLASS
“PARASITES”
ARE DARING
IT
RIGHT
IN
THEIR GOD-GIVEN HOME
COUNTRIES.
“Talib”
means, “religious seeker”- it is the aspirations
of
millions of youths, in Islamic countries,
to learn and seek knowledge
in
religious schools like Madrassas.
.
It is not just that; but also it is totally infused in cultural norms and daily rituals all
across Afghanistan
and
all the rest
of
Islamic countries.
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You people; look
so
stupid, coward and low class
to
insult such sanctity of a religious that gives hopes and inspirations
to
almost two billions and more
on
our planet.
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*Damn
YOU- STOP
YOUR
SAVAGERIES.
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Regardless; your days
are
*numbered !
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Your
*B.S.ing
Albino talk
won’t
fly
anymore !
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