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May 23, 2011

Mullah Omar, Dead?
— Ace

We've heard this before and reports tend to be skeptical.

A Taliban spokesman Monday vehemently denied claims that the movement's spiritual leader had died or been killed, even as Afghanistan's main intelligence service asserted that the reclusive cleric had disappeared from his alleged Pakistani hide-out.
The spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said by telephone that the one-eyed, self-declared "leader of the faithful," who has long been thought to be hiding in Pakistan, was alive and well, directing the Taliban's military campaign in Afghanistan. Western diplomats in Kabul, together with tribal and intelligence sources in Pakistan, expressed skepticism over the death rumors, which have surfaced many times before.
But the wildfire-like spread of Monday's reports, aided by social media such as Twitter, reflected the degree of speculation surrounding Omar's fate, which has risen dramatically in the three weeks since Navy SEALs killed Bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan. They also spotlighted an increasingly combative and complicated relationship between Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan over the sheltering of militants.

A report on Afghanistan's most popular TV station made the claim first.

Thanks to Gnu Breed.

Posted by: Ace at 05:38 PM | Comments (25)
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1 First.

Posted by: Barbarian at May 23, 2011 05:40 PM (EL+OC)

2 and second

Posted by: Barbarian at May 23, 2011 05:40 PM (EL+OC)

3 Didn't Bush kill this guy like 11 times?

Posted by: Barbarian at May 23, 2011 05:40 PM (EL+OC)

4 He might be dead.If they are getting scared we might come get him too.They are/were definately protecting him.

Posted by: steevy at May 23, 2011 05:41 PM (m3WP2)

5 I thought the story contained the little nugget - that the ISI had shot him?

Posted by: Jean at May 23, 2011 05:41 PM (WkuV6)

6 If Obama hasn't taken credit for it, probably not true.

Posted by: USA at May 23, 2011 05:41 PM (YZISw)

7 So we finally laid a beating on the one-eyed cleric?

[insert Beavis and Butt-Head laughs]

Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2011 05:42 PM (BP6Z1)

8 Mullah Omar... We're Keeping an Eye Out For You!

Posted by: CoolCzech at May 23, 2011 05:42 PM (kUaEF)

9 Oh, and 2-1 Bruins

Posted by: logprof at May 23, 2011 05:42 PM (BP6Z1)

10 Knowing about these pigs makes me surprised they all haven't died from some evil goat-fucking disease.

Posted by: tcn at May 23, 2011 05:42 PM (QuGK2)

11 Mullah Omar, Dead?

Doesn't return my calls. The bastard is dead to me.

Posted by: zombie Bin Laden at May 23, 2011 05:42 PM (SwkdU)

12 Speaking of Old One Eye, my wife me made a little muslim head dress for my cyclops...

Posted by: CoolCzech at May 23, 2011 05:44 PM (kUaEF)

13 eX-Mullah Omar?

Posted by: Adriane at May 23, 2011 05:45 PM (L9W0l)

14 Oh, and 2-1 Bruins

Shit, they will be all over the subway tonight.

Posted by: fluffy at May 23, 2011 05:45 PM (SwkdU)

15 He's just a "me too" type of guy. When Osama became chum I knew old Omar'd try to jump on the bandwagon.

Posted by: sifty at May 23, 2011 05:46 PM (2dbd9)

16 Pakistan: Omar is dead

Translation: Please don't kill send anyone to waste him before we can find him another comfortable safe house outside the capitol.

Posted by: sifty at May 23, 2011 05:48 PM (2dbd9)

17 India should fabricate some high quality intel that they are hiding him and Dr. Z in the same bunker as their nukes.

Posted by: Jean at May 23, 2011 05:51 PM (WkuV6)

18 I didn't even know he was sick!

Posted by: Zombie Henny Youngman at May 23, 2011 05:51 PM (JEvSn)

19 7 whole posts before a beating the one-eyed mullah joke.

Posted by: real joe at May 23, 2011 05:53 PM (w7Lv+)

20 I hope at least we poked his good eye out.

Posted by: real joe at May 23, 2011 05:53 PM (w7Lv+)

21 I didn't shoot him, unless it's the thought that counts.

I hope Hitler is teaching him that fun game -- hide the pineapple.

(thanks for the h/t)

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 23, 2011 05:55 PM (ENKCw)

22 Why do we care about another old, ignorant, religion of peace, still crapping in the streets, murdering, goat mollesting bag of crap?

Posted by: Ago Solvo at May 23, 2011 06:08 PM (k8JkR)

23 Is this the mullah with the big scar in the middle of his head like cyclops? I get them all mixed up sometimes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at May 23, 2011 06:56 PM (FnRYN)

24 Omar isn't dead, he's in Germany negotiating with the Obama administration over the terms of the US withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. (Google it!).

Posted by: SkandiaRecluse at May 23, 2011 07:15 PM (VYdn1)

25 You know those tortillas that say, "Allah?" I had a bowel movement that looks exactly like the prophet Mohammed. I am thinking of selling it on eBay. What do you think I should start the bidding at?

Posted by: David Gillies at May 23, 2011 08:45 PM (FdBA0)

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