Fugitive Taliban Leader Resurfaces

In what appears to be the first exchange with a journalist since going into hiding five years ago, the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, said that he had not seen al Qaeda’s chief, Osama bin Laden, in five years and that he would never negotiate with the U.S.-backed government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan. He also threatened to continue the war until foreign troops withdraw from Afghanistan.

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