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Afghan Taliban: ‘Family’ of Mullah Omar confirm his death
Associated Press ^ | Jul 30, 2015 10:09 AM EDT | Lynne O’Donnell and Kathy Gannon

Posted on 07/30/2015 8:09:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The Afghan Taliban have released a statement purportedly from the family of Mullah Omar saying he has died of an unspecified illness.

The statement, emailed to The Associated Press on Thursday, didn’t say when he died.

It followed an announcement from the Kabul government the day before. Senior Taliban figures have also told the AP that Mullah Omar died.

The statement says it’s being issued in the name of Mullah Omar’s brother, Mullah Abdul Manan, and his son, Mohammad Yaqub.

It apologizes for “any mistakes Mullah Omar (made) during his rule of Afghanistan.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; gwot; mullahomar; rop; taliban

1 posted on 07/30/2015 8:09:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
It apologizes for “any mistakes Mullah Omar (made) during his rule of Afghanistan.” …

What's the saying, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King."

2 posted on 07/30/2015 8:11:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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It apologizes for “any mistakes Mullah Omar (made) during his rule of Afghanistan.” …

Sarcastic LOL...


3 posted on 07/30/2015 8:11:20 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Sounds like the Clintonian “Mistakes were made.”


4 posted on 07/30/2015 8:11:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

So sad. All he wanted was to be left alone with his collection of human heads.


5 posted on 07/30/2015 8:13:09 AM PDT by albie
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To: dead

Ping. I guess you don’t need to keep your eye out for him any more.

:^)


6 posted on 07/30/2015 8:13:13 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Cis-American)
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To: Disambiguator; dead

Dang it. I was gonna tell Dead he can put his eye back in now.


7 posted on 07/30/2015 8:16:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Olog-hai; tx_eggman; Red Badger

This just in: Family of SpinnerWebb confirm the loss of all his firearms in a tragic canoeing incident


8 posted on 07/30/2015 8:17:59 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: Olog-hai
Johnny Carson photo: Johnny Carson as Carnac Carnac.jpg "May the fleas from a thousand camels infest his armpits."
9 posted on 07/30/2015 8:20:50 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Olog-hai

So the people who have been speaking for Omar the last two years?


10 posted on 07/30/2015 8:23:08 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Democrats have destroyed more cities than Godzilla)
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To: tumblindice

” ... and then wend their way to the harems and bathhouses of all muslims named `Mohammed’ and `Hussein.”


11 posted on 07/30/2015 8:23:11 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Olog-hai; dead

Someone needed to ping Dead...


12 posted on 07/30/2015 8:27:30 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Lx; dead

The headline yesterday said “Mullah Omar is dead.”

So dead had us fooled all of these years, the whole time he WAS Mullah Omar.


13 posted on 07/30/2015 8:28:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SpinnerWebb

Habeus corpus to the ‘family’ of Omar, condolences to yours............


14 posted on 07/30/2015 8:37:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Olog-hai
Probably a severe case of droneitis. There is a lot of that going around.
15 posted on 07/30/2015 8:45:47 AM PDT by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: dfwgator

Does that mean he is dead, then who is posting under his name?
C’mon Omar, tell us some stories of OBL and what really happened at Torra Bora.


16 posted on 07/30/2015 9:35:16 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Know et al; Olog-hai; SunkenCiv; no-to-illegals; All

Here is a link contemplating what comes next now that the Taliban no longer have Mullah Omar.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/07/30/qanda-a-look-at-the-new-leader-of-afghanistans-taliban/21216167/


17 posted on 07/30/2015 9:42:10 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

> But Mullah Mansoor faces a challenge: can he keep the Taliban united and rein in hard-liners who want to continue the 14-year insurgency, now that U.S. and NATO forces have stepped back?

Gosh, what happened to the AP’s “Reagan started the Taliban” meme? Someone’s gonna get fired for sure.

ISIS has been recruiting in Afghanistan; Afghan refugees to Iran have been press-ganged into service and shipped off to Syria to fight al-Qaeda, ISIS, and various other jihadists and non-jihadist opponents of the Assad dictatorship, because Iranians don’t want to serve there. The ‘Palestinian’ thugs the mullahcracy uses to keep on the lid in Iran are not only needed at home, many also don’t want to support Assad.


18 posted on 07/31/2015 3:15:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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