Taliban Chief Mullah Omar Said Dead in Afghan Peace Setback
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Mullah Omar, the reclusive cleric who founded Afghanistan’s Taliban guerrilla movement and sheltered al-Qaeda leaders as they plotted the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., is dead, an Afghan government official said.
Omar died two or three years ago in Pakistan, the official said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public. He succumbed to tuberculosis and was buried in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s Express Tribune reported Wednesday, citing an unidentified Taliban member. The Afghan government and Taliban declined to confirm or reject the reports.