Mullah Omar

U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty For Pakistani Militant Chief

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 06.02.2012

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ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani militant accused of directing deadly attacks in neighboring India on Tuesday dismissed a U.S. decision to put a bounty o...

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Taliban Chief Asks Militants To Protect Afghan Civilians

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 01.04.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban's reclusive leader said in a Muslim holiday message on Friday that his fighters must protect Afghan civilians, ...

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Security Jitters in Afghanistan

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 11.14.2011

Afghan and NATO forces ended a 24-hour attack by militants on the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters in what has been a secure district in Kabul, raising new concerns about Afghanistan's security.

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Tech-Savvy Taliban Fights War In Cyberspace

Posted 09.19.2011

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By Michelle Nichols KABUL (Reuters) - The war in Afghanistan entered cyberspace on Wednesday when the tech-savvy Taliban said their phones, ema...

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Taliban Spokesmen Deny That Leader Is Dead

AP | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Zabiullah Mujahid, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Amir-Ul-Momineen, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban spokesmen are denying reports that the insurgent group's leader Mullah Omar is dead. Zabiullah Mujahid told The As...

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A Shock of Peroxide-Blonde Hair

Shahid Mahmood | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Nazi Germany, Afghanistan, Islamic Radicalism, Netherlands, Geert Wilders, Mullah Omar, Racism, Adolf Hitler, Europe, Islamists, Politics News

Geert Wilders judges others based on ethnicity. He is well known for his anti-immigration politics and routinely refers to himself as a "Dutch freedom...

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Desperately Seeking Mullah Omar

Michael Hughes | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Kabul, Haqqani, Nato, Cia, Pakistan, Isi, Romney, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Afghanistan, Obama, World, Quetta Shura, Osama Bin Laden, Zardari, World News

U.S. and Afghan intelligence have illustrated their desperation by spreading fabrications about Omar's death, hoping to provoke him to react with haste and angrily issue denials via statements or audio recordings that could give up his position.

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Taliban Denies Leader Has Been Killed

AP | HEIDI VOGT and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 07.23.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan intelligence agency said Monday that the reclusive leader of the Taliban has disappeared from a suspected hideou...

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Pakistan Army: Earn Your Keep

Wajid Ali Syed | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Egypt, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Somalia, Pakistan, General Joseph Ralston, Haqqani Network, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan Government, Quetta Shura, Benazir Bhutto, Saudi Arabia, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Philippines, Urdu, General Kayani, Urdu Press, Terrorism, Isi, US Aid to Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Kerry Lugar Bill, Yemen, Balochistan, Osama Bin Laden, North Waziristan, Pakistani Sovereignty, Islamabad, Ayman Al Zawahari, Pervez Musharraf, Taliban, Afghanistan, A.Q. Khan, Algeria, General Jahangir Karamat, Al Qaeda, World News

The world's most wanted terrorist was a block away from the army garrison. This incident is not the first time the Pakistan Army has made claims that strained credulity.

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U.S. Enables Pakistan's Oppression of Balochistan

Michael Hughes | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Islam, Baluchistan, World, Gaddafi, Terrorism, Pakistan, Balochistan, Mullah Omar, Baluchi, Quetta Shura, Punjab, World News, Nato, Human Rights, Britian, Baloch, Genocide, Afghanistan, Un, World News

The Pakistani state has misused billions in U.S. military aid and has used U.S. military hardware to oppress the Baloch people on a daily basis.

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Lindsey Graham: 'Pour It On' In Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 07.03.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham declared on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's kill strike on al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was a bold succ...

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Gauging U.S.-Taliban Talks: An Interview With Steve Coll

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Nato, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, United States, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Reconciliation, Al Qaeda, World News

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has emphasized the need for reconciliation with Taliban leaders who broke ties with al-Qaeda. But what potential problems could we see going forward?

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Road to peace in Afghanistan doesn't run through Islamabad or Langley

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most Afghans cringe when hearing the words "regional settlement" because to them it's nothing more than a euphemism for the meddling of foreign powers...

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Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like...

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lung Cancer, Obama Bush Tax Cuts, Weapons of Mass Destruction, McDonald's, Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, Bush Tax Cuts, Iraq, Bernie Madoff, Osama Bin Laden, Comedy News

Renewing the Bush tax cuts is like driving your car off the cliff, paying a tow truck twice the price of the car to haul it back up, then driving it back over because your brother-in-law's cousin's friend told you this time it will fly.

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Taliban Exposed by Embedded Journalist in Riveting CNN Documentary

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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CNN provided me with an advance copy of their "Taliban" documentary and arranged a discussion with filmmaker, Paul Refsdal, who risked his life embedding himself in a Taliban fighting unit -- a move supposedly blessed by Taliban leadership.

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Taliban Leader: We Are Winning The War

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban's shadowy leader told Afghans on Wednesday that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that th...

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Afghanistan: Six-Month Peace Possible if Combat Operations Stop

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coin, Pentagon, Pakistan ISI, Counterterrorism, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Bin Laden, Taliban Peace Talks, Taliban, Alqaeda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Recently, the Karzai-Taliban Peace talks has gained significant press coverage. Yet few stories tell anyone how the peace process occurs, and what i...

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Talking to the Enemy: How to Turn the Taliban Against Al Qaeda

Scott Atran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Al Qaeda Taliban, Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News

The U.S. should turn the current shadow play about talks with the Taliban into serious negotiations. Older Taliban leaders might well drop support for Bin Laden if we were no longer there to unite them in defense of their homeland.

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U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With an Unholy Alliance

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Petraeus, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama, Mujahideen, World News

The Afghans are currently powerless because the fate of their nation, apparently, will be determined by certain events in the U.S. that are outside of their control, chief among them being the election cycle.

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The Real Story of Afghanistan Remains Untold

Josh Shahryar | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the American public continues to get weary of the Afghan War, and every day brings a new depressing development, our hearts -- the hearts of us Afghans -- are broken ever so slightly.

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WikiLeaks Story Exposes Bad Intel From the Field and on Bin Laden

Philip Smucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Wikileaks, Mullah Omar, Osama Bin Laden, Islam, War on Terror, Documentary, Iraq, Muslim, World News

If there is any takeaway from the WikiLeaks embarrassment, it is that we need more boots and gumshoes on the ground and fewer blue suits on computers in air-conditioned offices in the States.

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Gen. Petraeus Goes to War, Mrs. Petraeus Loses to Car Salesman in Congress

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Support Our Troops, Holly Petraeus, Auto Dealer Exemption, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Reform, General David Petraeus, Mullah Omar, Credo, Chris Dodd, Exploitation of Our Troops, Campaign for America's Future, Politics News

The argument that "car dealers had nothing to do with the economic crisis" doesn't wash. Reform is designed to prevent the next crisis as much as it is to avoid a repeat of the last one.

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UN Bodyguard Reportedly 'Executed' By Afghan Police

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mullah Omar, Taliban, Afghanistan, Afpak, Un, At War, World News

UN bodyguard reportedly executed by Afghan police. An amateur video indicates that Louis Maxwell, a security officer from the United States, who until...

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Afghanistan: Has Hamid Karzai Already Joined the Taliban?

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

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Kamikaze Karzai

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Isi, General McKrystal, NATO Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Helmund Province, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Waziristan, Kabul, Taliban, World News

Hamid Karzai is alienating the very international community on which he is so dependent. To push the historical analogies to the extreme, Karzai seems to be fiddling while Kabul is burning.

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