Whatever Happened to Mullah Omar?

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That’s what I wondered when I saw a Reuters story that “Afghan and NATO troops have surrounded more than 200 Taliban insurgents and their feared military commander”…Mullah Dadullah.

Sure, they may be closing in on Dadullah, a one-legged leader of the Taliban. But what of Omar, the one-eyed supreme leader of the Taliban, now, like Bin Laden, on the lam for more than four years?

Btw: there’s evidently more than one Mullah Omar.

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