Published: March 10, 2019
Exclusive: account exposes failures of US intelligence, which put $10m bounty on Mullah Omar
The Taliban’s elusive one-eyed leader, Mullah Omar, lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan for years, and American troops once even searched the house where he was hiding but failed to find a secret room built for the late insurgent leader, a new biography claims.
The account exposes an embarrassing failure of US intelligence, which had put a $10m (£7.5m) bounty on Omar’s head after the 9/11 attacks in the US. Officials repeatedly suggested that, like the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, he was hiding in Pakistan and died there.
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