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...thirtysomething Mehsud cut his teeth fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, and later sharpened his political aspirations while serving the Afghan Taliban's Mullah Omar, to whom he refers as his "Ameerul Momineen," or Commander of the Faithful. But some local analysts see Mehsud as potentially an even more formidable jihadist than his mentor...
...Voice of America. He has met a few foreign diplomats and a small number of journalists. Common members of the Taliban can see him easily. In the past, he sat on his office carpet and received visitors. However, since being elevated to the status of Amirul Momineen, or Commander of the Faithful, he sits on a raised platform. He has learned to drive his luxury Land Cruiser and is adept at handling satellite phones and walkie-talkies. Inflexible and a believer in miracles, Omar is fond of telling followers how some of his dreams of Taliban military victories have come...
...Taliban remains one of the world's most inscrutable regimes, fanatically loyal to one of the world's most mysterious leaders. The devout Omar, self-declared "Amir-ul-Momineen," or Commander of the Faithful, has lived in seclusion in a Kandahar compound ever since a 1999 bomb killed 40 people near his old mud-brick home in his former village. He permits no photographs and rarely appears in public. He is said to be 5 ft. 10 in. tall, heavily bearded and imposing despite his stitched-shut eye. He is thought to confer personally with perhaps eight...
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