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The man in front of me is Zabiullah Mujahid -- one of two spokesmen for the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.

Just then the Mullah heard the sound of his donkey's feet. He looked around. There was his donkey. On her back rode a boy.

Pakistan denies the allegation, and Mr. Bashir said the country does not know if Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders are in Pakistan.

We ask about the man in the corner, a mullah, and are stunned by the reply: "He is a son of a bitch, and I do not like him. "

No doubt Taliban and its leader Mullah Omar will be morphed by the US media machine into a bin Laden stand-ins.

The Mullah ran about looking until he was too tired . He sat down to rest at his gate . A few friends came to join him.

Such comments are, on the face of it, nothing new for Mr Karzai, who previously invited the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, to talks in Kabul.

There has been a willingness; I gather that Karzai's brother met with either Mullah [Mohammed] Omar or his close aides in Saudi Arabia.

The U. N envoy did not name any insurgent leaders, such as fugitive chief of the Taliban insurgents, Mullah Omar.

"The Only Solution Is Jihad Against the Invaders, " says one. "Mullah Omar Is a Dagger Raised to Strike Each Occupier, " says another.

The mosque was polluted in the same way, and the Mullah and his assistants were cleaning it out.

The next most wanted figure is the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, with a $10m reward in the US for his capture.

The failure (so far) of the Norwegian authorities to expel Mullah Krekar, a fractious Islamic cleric, has caused agitation.

To get married , a couple goes to a mullah who marries them for a stipulated period of time -- from a few hours to a few years.

Some leading Taliban even suspect that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader and symbol of their jihad, may also be in ISI custody.

So I read him unchallenging things, like the misadventures of the bumbling Mullah Nasruddin and his donkey.

"Oh, my cat is a very important animal, " said the Mullah.

As we prepare to leave, the mullah approaches us, welcoming us, thanking us for visiting Iran and saying he is glad we came.

Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature feature a Sufi sage, known as Juha or Mullah Nasreddin, notable for buffoonery, wit and wisdom.

Once a week, download Mullah Omar and his posse of theocrats spittin' mad chatter from their hideout in the mountains near Tora Bora.

He couldn't talk to the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, he said, because he couldn't be found and neither could the Taliban Council.

He says the former Taliban officials who have been at the talks so far don't represent Mullah Omar.

But Mullah Omar's Taliban has adopted the rhetoric of a national liberation struggle, to oust foreign forces and restore Islamic rule.

My sources had told me Mullah Omar had let it be known the Taliban recognized they will not win the war by military means alone.

British forces described Mullah Mansur as a prominent local leader of the Taliban insurgency in Helmand province.

Mullah Omar is thought by some to be hiding in Kandahar or Helmand. Others suspect he is in Pakistan's tribal areas.

A Taliban commander, Mullah Juma Khan, delivered a eulogy at the funeral of a slain insurgent.

One time, I was reading him a Mullah Nasruddin story and he stopped me.

So the Mullah thought out a plan. He wanted to keep his word and also to keep his donkey.

Civilian casualties rose even after Mullah Omar, the Taliban's spiritual leader, ordered insurgents to avoid killing bystanders.

Even before Osama bin Laden's death, Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir was working like a man possessed.

It was revealed that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's deputy leader, had been captured in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub.

An obvious next target would be Mullah Omar, the ageing Afghan Taliban leader, whom the ISI is also accused of protecting.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials in Kabul said they had no information to suggest that Mullah Omar was dead.

Another hands him a Ziploc bag containing a chunk of Afghan gold. A mullah utters prayers.

The leader of Taliban Mullah Mohammed Omar once called US President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to a duel with the AK-47.

In Baluchistan province, it arrested the Taliban's former operations chief in Afghanistan, Mullah Mansoor Dadullah.

But Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid insisted in an email to reporters that Mullah Omar was 'alive and well. '

"I was joking! " said the Mullah.

It is even harder now to believe Pakistan's denials that the group's leader, Mullah Omar, lives in its territory.

Some analysts suggest that he had fallen foul of the Taliban leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Omar.

Bin Laden and Mullah Omar are at opposite ends of the ultra-conservative corner of Islam they occupy.

Police say they arrested Mullah Abdul Kabir in Nowshera, a town about 90 kilometers northwest of the capital Islamabad.

In Azizabad, the US had also claimed that the airstrikes had killed a military target, a Taliban commander named Mullah Sadiq.

Early Mullah Omar warned that the violence in Afghanistan would escalate.

While Mullah Omar may be long gone, his hardened followers are hell-bent on staying.

"We killed him and captured his computer, " the mullah told me. "He had served in Iraq. "

NATO says it got its man, Mullah Abdul-Ghafour, in a later bombing attack, but the Taliban still hold the town.

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan, many Afghan media claimed on Monday.

The investigator concluded that a Taliban commander known as Mullah Sadiq was among those killed.

He modelled himself on the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, to whom he pledged loyalty.

Meanwhile, a security official confirmed the killing, saying, "It is correct that Mullah Omar has been killed" .

The most established group is the Taliban, led by Mullah Omar and others who held top positions in the Afghan government in the 1990s.

One day the Mullah, an important man in the village, found his donkey was gone when he wanted to go visit a friend.

Say Iran and murdered Neda Agha-Sultan surges where a bearded mullah once stood.

"We are not fighting to bring Mullah Omar back or for any individual, " said a mid-ranking commander from Dand, in Kandahar province.

The same goes for Mullah Omar and other senior members of Afghanistan's former Taliban government.

Wherever he is, Mullah Omar must be smiling.

Mullah Nasruddin had saved up to buy a new shirt.

The supreme Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, made the city his headquarters when the Taliban came to power in 1996.

"I'm a Taliban commander, " he announced. "My name is Mullah Atiqullah. "

Mullah Omar, the spiritual leader of Taliban, was Afghanistan's real head of state from 1996 to late 2001.

Nor is it clear which Taliban have been talking, or whether they are backed by Mullah Omar, the group's one-eyed foremost leader.

Where did you find her? " asked the Mullah. " We couldn't find her anywhere.

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