"Hello, is this Mullah Omar (snort). I have a collect call from Special Ops (snort...)"
Posted on 07/08/2004 6:27:28 PM PDT by blam
Taliban leader on the line
By Hamida Ghafour in Kabul
(Filed: 09/07/2004)
Mullah Omar, the one-eyed Taliban leader who has eluded capture for three years, has been contacted by Afghan intelligence agents on a satellite phone carried by a captured aide.
The brief conversation ended abruptly when Omar appeared to become suspicious and disconnected the call. He has ignored follow-up attempts to contact him.
Omar, who recently told an interviewer that al-Qa'eda and Taliban figures maintained communication by "traditional" means, is believed to change his whereabouts frequently.
Abdullah Laghmanai, the intelligence chief in the southern province of Kandahar, said contact was made after agents seized two senior Taliban commanders on Tuesday. Omar's number and those of other leading members of his former regime were contained in the phone taken from one of the aides, Mullah Mujahed.
When Mujahed was ordered to speak to his boss, he said: "Salam-aleikum [Peace be upon you], where are you?"
"He realised it was not his man [and] cut off the phone," said Mr Laghmanai.
With any luck, they'll be able to get some useable intel from those phones to put the kabosh on Omar & his pals.
Omar ring-a-ling ping
I wonder if he would pick up for the Kerry/Edwards Campaign?
He should register with the Do Not Call List. Maybe he is happy with his long distance carrier.
What a wasted opportunity. They should have triangulated the call.....
No one said they didn't, did they? Anyways, I think many time it's just a published ruse to provoke a little movement.
They would have bagged him by now...
Not necessarily...They may be waiting for him to connect with Usama...
Excellent.
Wise man say bird in hand better than two in bush...
LOL!
They should publish the number so we all can give him a call.
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