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| Afghanistan |
| Mullah Omar's brother-in-law nabbed... |
| 2002-08-07 |
| The 8-month-old hunt for Mullah Mohammad Omar hit close to home with Tuesday's reported capture of a brother-in-law of the fugitive Taliban leader. Other men with him fled into the Afghan mountains, the local governor said, but it was not known whether Omar was believed among them. The man, named Noorullah, brother of one of Omar's three wives, was arrested on Sunday in the central province of Uruzgan, provincial Gov. Jan Mohammad Khan told The Associated Press by satellite telephone. He said Noorullah had been "trying to carry out sabotage." The governor did not elaborate. "Our people and the Americans went into the mountains to search for his friends who fled," the governor said. He refused to say where the arrest took place or where the hunt was continuing. "I don't want to talk about that because our men are up there in the mountains right now," Jan Mohammad said. Now Mullah Omar's in real trouble. He's never gonna get his lawn mower back... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |