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AFGHANISTAN: MULLAH OMAR REAPPEARS?(Taliban leader Mullah Omar reportedly appeared briefly in Kandahar on 3 May)(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, May, 2002

Taliban leader Mullah Omar appeared in Kandahar on 3 May, said a prayer for the dead at the graves of some Arabs, and left for parts unknown on a motorbike, Rawalpindi's widely respected daily "Nawa-i-Waqt" reported on 6 May. Mullah Omar allegedly asked locals to continue their jihad. Meanwhile, an anonymous "senior security source" said in the 29 April issue of Kuwait's "Al-Qabas" independent daily that Al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu-Ghayth "is alive and well" after escaping to Iran with some companions.

Abu-Ghayth now is disguised and is moving around the Iran-Afghanistan border. The security source added that Iranian border surveillance is weak to nonexistent. President Mohammad Khatami, however, said that "None of the Al-Qaeda members have come to Iran,"...

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