Mullah Omar’s letter intercepted: Nato

Nato said that it had intercepted a letter from fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar.


Afp July 19, 2010

KABUL: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) said on Sunday that it had intercepted a letter from fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in which he called for any Afghan supporting their country’s government to be captured or killed.

Omar had issued the directive in June, Nato spokesman Brigadier Josef Blotz said, adding that the Taliban chief was believed to be in hiding in Pakistan.“The message was from Mullah Omar, who is hiding in Pakistan, to his subordinate commanders in Afghanistan,” Blotz said.

He said the order to Taliban fighters was to fight coalition forces to the death and to capture and kill any Afghan civilian supporting or working for coalition forces or the Afghan government.

It also encouraged the recruitment of any Afghan with access to Nato or US bases in the country, Blotz told reporters.

The one-eyed Omar is a founder of the Taliban and is often referred to as its “supreme commander” or spiritual leader. Many analysts and diplomats have long believed he is in Pakistan, although Islamabad has denied his presence. The letter, if genuine, appears to be a departure from an earlier directive that urged the Taliban not to harm captives.

“Whenever any official, soldier, contractor or worker of the slave government is captured, these prisoners cannot be attacked or harmed,” said the August 2009 code of conduct, attributed to Omar.

By contrast, the latest letter says women should also be killed if found to be helping or providing information to the coalition forces.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 19th, 2010.

COMMENTS (3)

MG | 13 years ago | Reply Mullah Omar has one eye? I didnt know that!
imran | 13 years ago | Reply may be they hv discover the hole from which Alice took Umar to wonderland.... and not surprisingly the hole is in FATA some-where, which is close to neverland where they caught Peter Pan carrying message from The one-eyed captain Hook aka Omar....lol.....
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