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To: longnshort who wrote (34758)	7/10/2004 12:19:06 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 81568

Taleban founder talks to authorities July 9, 2004 Friday brunei-online.com KABUL (AFP) - Afghan intelligence agents have spoken with fugitive Taleban founder Mullah Mohammed Omar after commandeering a satellite phone being used by his top aide, an Afghan official claimed. Mullah Omar, along with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has escaped a US-led dragnet which now numbers some 20,000 coalition soldiers since the ousting of his Islamic extremist regime in late 2001. A man believed to be Omar's aide, Mullah Sakhi Dad Mujahid, was captured Tuesday while carrying a satellite telephone containing the phone numbers of top members of the ousted extremist regime, Kandahar intelligence chief Abdullah Laghmanai told AFP. "We contacted Mullah Omar by Mullah Mujahid's phone," he said. "But when he (Omar) realised it was not his man, he cut off the phone." Mullah Mujahid, as he is locally known, was arrested during a raid in Dara-i-Noor, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) north of southern Kandahar city. The area is in the rugged border area between southcentral Uruzgan and Kandahar provinces and known to US military officials as the "Taleban heartland." Mujahid served as Mullah Omar's secretary under the Taleban's 1996-2001 rule, according to Laghmanai. "Currently he was serving as Mullah Omar's military assistant," he said. Kandahar military spokesman General Abdul Wasay confirmed the arrest of the senior Taleban official. "The arrest of Mullah Mujahid will pacify Taleban's activities in the area," where he was captured, he told AFP, without elaborating on further details. Laghmanai said that subsequent efforts to contact Omar on the phone again had been unsuccessful as the one-eyed Taleban boss refuses to answer phone calls "from strange