Mullah Omar Reported – Not Confirmed – Dead

Asia Pacific News is reporting that according to an Afghan intelligence  source,  Mullah Mohammed Omar, (the one-eyed sheik) has been killed in Pakistan by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).

KABUL – Afghanistan’s intelligence services said on Monday that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had “disappeared from his hideout” in Pakistan, but could not confirm that he had been killed despite an earlier claim.

Omar, the one-eyed, reclusive leader of militant Islamists with a US$10 million bounty on his head is known for his strict adherence to Sharia law and hard line on women’s rights. He is said to have vanished up to five days ago.

“We can confirm that he has disappeared from his hideout in Quetta, (the capital of the southwestern Pakistani province) Baluchistan,” said Mashal, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS).

“He has disappeared from his location during the last four to five days,” he added, speaking in English. “So far we cannot confirm the killing of Mullah Omar officially.”

Mashal’s comments came hours after one Afghan intelligence source called a handful of reporters to tell them, on condition of anonymity, that Omar had been killed in Pakistan by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

A separate source later told AFP that he had been missing for 11 days.

The Taliban have denied that he is dead or missing.

Brad Thor at Big Peace, notes:

Just over a year ago, we broke the exclusive story that Mullah Omar had been taken into custody by the Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).  We also predicted that Mullah Omar would never be seen alive again.

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