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Taliban leader Mullah Omar has not been seen publicly for at least five years and as long as 14 years, leading even his senior leadership to assume he’s dead, according to U.S. military sources in Afghanistan in a new report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
“There is one Taliban leader that swears up and down he is the only one that Mullah Omar communicates with, but most of the senior and mid-level leadership think the guy is full of it and that Omar has been dead since at least 2010,” said one source.
The doubt about their leader has led to increasing infighting among Taliban militia groups, with more and more commanders swearing allegiance to ISIS, which is known as ISK among U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.
If Omar were alive, it is thought he would let his followers know, as his organization disintegrates in the face of the ISIS challenge.
It was Mullah Omar who welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan and served as his host – the relationship most responsible for the U.S. intervention in the country after 9/11.
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