DAR AL ISLAM - CAVES IN ASIA: MULLAH OMAR CRAWLS OUT OF HIS CAVE

NEWSWEEK: Taliban Leader Mullah Omar has Emerged From the Shadows; Field Officers Planning Military Push Against U.S.-Led Forces
Western Forces Bracing for Taliban Offensive

NEW YORK, Feb 25, 2007 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Taliban's Supreme Leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has emerged from the shadows, his field officers say, and with his inspiration they're planning a military push against U.S.-led forces like never before, Newsweek reports in its March 5 issue (on newsstands Monday, February 26). "We respect him even more than we did five years ago," says one Taliban field commander, Ghul Agha Akhund, speaking to Newsweek by mobile phone from his redoubt in Afghanistan's Helmand province. "He refuses to give up, no matter what the odds."

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1) NEWSWEEK: Taliban Leader Mullah Omar has Emerged From the Shadows; Field Officers Planning Military Push Against U.S.-Led Forces