KABUL: Two Taliban delegate alleged their mobile phones, emails and a website had been peeved and post issued on Wednesday incorrectly coverage the death of the movement’s top leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The one-eyed, isolated leader is one of the most hunted men in the world, and is supposed to be living in Pakistan, probably in the city of Quetta. Pakistan and the Taliban lobby group both rebuff this and say he is in Afghanistan.
“This is the work of American intelligence, and we will seize reprisal on the telephone network providers,” said spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, our correspondent
The messages passed off from phone numbers used in the past by both Mujahid and a second spokesman Mohammad Qari Yousuf and said “spiritual Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid has died” and “May Allah bless his soul”.
Yousuf said the peeving was an attempt at psychological warfare by Nato-led forces. “The enemies have complicated technology so they can easily manipulate our website and our phone numbers. The enemies are scattering scandal because they are facing a decisive defeat and their morale is weakened,” he told to our correspondent.
The death of Mullah Omar was reported in May, by media including Afghanistan’s private TV station Tolo. That report was declined by security officials in Pakistan and diplomats, U.S. forces captain and government officials in Afghanistan.
With a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, he evaded with the rest of the Afghan Taliban leadership to Quetta after their government was collapsed by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001. They formed the “Quetta shura”, or leadership council. The Taliban were overthrown for dragging to hand over al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.