The Taliban have released photos of a modest mud house in southeastern Afghanistan where they say longtime chief Mullah Mohammad Omar lived for years until his death.
"He used to sit in the sun and there was a small garden where he would spend some time," a spokesman for the militant group said.
The house where the Taliban says Mullah Mohammad Omar resided in Afghanistan's Zabul Province until his 2013 death.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Mushtaq Yusufzai and F. Brinley Bruton PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Taliban have released photos of a modest mud house in southeastern Afghanistan where they sayIts claim is at odds with longstanding U.S. and Afghan intelligence theories that the one-eyed militant leader hid in neighboring Pakistan after the group was toppled in 2001.
A $10 million bounty had been offered for Omar, who sheltered al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks.The Taliban have always maintained Omar lived in Afghanistan until he died in 2013.
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