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Nobody's seen Mullah Omar lately, but the Taliban and their supporters have a new icon. Saifur Rahman Mansoor, the youthful commander of the Shahi Kot fortress, has emerged as something of a celebrity among anti-American elements in Afghanistan since his men downed a U.S. helicopter and killed seven American soldiers Monday...
...appearance of leaflets called "shabnamas" (night-letters) in Afghan cities such as Kandahar and Jalalabad and in various parts of Khost and Paktia provinces. The authors proclaim "jihad" against foreign troops and urge Afghans to evict the "occupation forces." Some express support for Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and also threaten serious consequences for Afghans cooperating with...
...least a clear direction.” The “continued success” of our military campaign, he argued, “is still somewhat in doubt.” More importantly, Daschle contended, we will have failed in the struggle against terror unless we capture Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden and “other key leaders of the al Qaeda network.We’re not safe until we have broken the back of al Qaeda, and we haven’t done that...
TIME: Have there been any narrow misses of Osama or Taliban chief Mullah Omar...
...north, they are convinced Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar are living with three other high-ranking al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in a small single room house in Eastern Pakistan. For them, enemy number one is Mullah Dadullah, the feared former second in command of northern Afghanistan who refused to surrender alongside his superior, Mullah Fazil, at Kunduz in November. He has been hiding out ever since, surrounded by ten bodyguards, moving from house to house and sending the Alliance and CIA on occasional high speed chases across the desert around Mazar. "He only drinks bottled Pepsi from...