Mullah Omar Says Afghan Taliban Near Victory Over U.S. Forces
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Mullah Omar, the supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban guerrillas, said in a statement that his movement is close to victory against U.S.-led forces, according to a monitoring group and an Afghan news agency.
In a message marking the end of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, Omar urged Afghans who fought the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, many now allied to the American-backed government of President Hamid Karzai, to join the Taliban’s campaign, the Afghan Islamic Press news agency said.