Taliban leader Mullah Omar, partner of Osama bin Laden, has released a new tape in Helmand, afghanistan.
"Mullah Omar has recorded a new message," celebrated Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir wrote Polish-based journalist and friend David Dastych yesterday. "My sources in Helmand have got the copy of the tape, but they will take some time to send it to me in Peshawar."
Mir told Dastych the tape was approximately two minutes long and that "something important will be announced".
"My sources are saying that this is the first time that Mullah Omar is establishing his contacts with pro-Iran militia groups in the north, who had resisted against the Taliban in the past," Mir wrote Dastych.
Reclusive by nature, Mullah Omar is rarely heard from and very few have met him. Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden go all the way back to the days when they were resistance fighters during the Soviet occupation of afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. When the Taliban controlled afghanistan, Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden were reported to have spoken daily by satellite telephone. Mullah Omar was living in a large house in Kandahar, which was reportedly custom built for him by bin Laden. It was under Mullah Omar's reign that the infamous orders to destroy the county's ancient Buddha statues at Bamiyan were given.
Muslim brothers down to the core, Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, who holed up in Tora Bora caves, remained unscathed during the most intense of american raids, and Mullah Omar has made their survival a boast.
Mullah Omar has consistently refused to give bin Laden up, and his original refusal to give up the al Qaeda leader was key cause for the US-led strike on afghanistan.
Meanwhile, only a few days before flagging his colleague about the new tape, Mir told media in India that the Taliban is training suicide bombers in afghan camps.
"The threat from extremists seems to have increased as new reports suggest that terrorists are running training camps for suicide bombers in southern afghanistan," (ZeeNews.com, June 17, 2006).
"according to reports, a Taliban leader, Mullah Dadullah, is running three suicide bombing camps in the southern provinces of afghanistan. The main function of these camps is to facilitate suicide bombing in various parts of the world.
"Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir said, "(a) few days back Mullah Dadullah sent a 12-member squad of suicide bombers to Europe to kill the editor of a newspaper who allowed (the) publishing of Prophet Mohammed's derogatory cartoons.
"Mr. Mir also added that the Pakistani-afghanistan border was no more safe and terrorists have made several attempts to create panic and infiltrate there," ZeeNews.com reported.
"However refuting the claim that such training camps in afghanistan would create fresh security challenges in India, defence expert, Uday Bhaskar said that this was not a new development and terrorists have been trained in the region in the past.
"`I have said earlier that security agencies need to be on high alert. Not only military but even para-military forces, police and even people need to be more alert to deal with terrorism,'" he said,
"Mullah Dadullah is considered a close aide of Mullah Omar and the coalition forces are on the lookout for him."
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