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Mullah Omar: US in Afghanistan Doomed
Friday, May 17, 2002
By By Sarah El Deeb
Associated Press Writer

"I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle .... We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same," Omar was quoted as saying.

CAIRO, Egypt -- AP
Osama bin Laden is alive and the future of the United States in Afghanistan is "fire, hell and total defeat," fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was quoted as saying by a pan-Arab newspaper Friday.

"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan ... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny," Omar was quoted as saying by the London-based Asharq al-Awsat.

"As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors -- the Soviets and, before them, the British," Omar reportedly said.

"The sheik (bin Laden) is, thank God, still alive and this hurts (President) Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama," Omar reportedly asserted.
(More: The Miami Herald News Source)
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"We continue to see scraps of information" that claim "they are alive or they're dead or they're sick or they're hiding or they're running," Rumsfled said. "But none of it seems to prove out."

When investigating a world that lives in a state of pure fantasy, there will be very little "real" data.

Dan