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(AGI) - Rome, Feb 4 – Omar Bin Laden, the 26-year-old son of the leader of al Qaeda, arrived in Rome yesterday. Tonight he will participate in the television programme 'Niente di personale' presented by Antonello Piroso, at 21:00h on La7. He arrived by airplane from Switzerland under close surveillance measures and followed everywhere by his two bodyguards. Omar Bin Laden stays in a hotel in the centre of Rome with his wife. Yesterday he had dinner in a hotel close to the Vatican, after that he said he wanted to return to Italy to visit Vatican City. This morning...

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Omar bin Laden has a message for his father, Osama: "Find another way." The son of the most-wanted man in the world spoke Sunday to CNN in a quiet, middle-class suburb about an hour outside Cairo, Egypt. Omar bin Laden, who works as a contractor, said he is talking publicly because he wants an end to the violence his father has inspired -- violence that has killed innocent civilians in a spate of attacks around the world, including those of September 11, 2001. "I try and say to my father: 'Try to find another way to...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father—except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket. The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is better way to defend Islam than militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West. Omar—one of bin Laden's 19 children—raised a tabloid storm last year when he married a 52-year-old British woman, Jane Felix-Browne, who took the name...

LONDON: Osama bin Laden's 26-year-old son has sought a British visa so that he and his granny bride can live in the country and have a surrogate child. British Embassy officials in Cairo have interviewed Omar bin Laden who plans to settle down with his 52-year-old wife Jane Felix-Browne at her home in Cheshire, have a child through a surrogate mother and work as "peace activists", the 'Daily Mail' reported on Sunday. The son of the world's most wanted man and five-time divorcee Jane, now Zaina Al Sabah bin Laden, have given the British Embassy in Cairo -- where they...

BAGHDAD--Catching any flight from Baghdad International Airport is an extraordinary experience in and of itself, but when the destination of your flight is Amman, Jordan, it reaches a whole different level. I made this particular trip several times in the last three years, but my last journey was by far the worst. I was used to the mild discrimination the Jordanians have been practicing against Iraqis at the airport in Amman in recent years. Passengers on a flight coming from any airport in Iraq do not exit from an ordinary gate like other passengers. Instead we are taken by bus...

Taliban Leader Omar Says Jihad Continues Monday May 14, 2007 5:31 PM By NOOR KHAN Associated Press Writer KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban leader Mullah Omar vowed to carry on the fight against U.S.-led forces despite the death of the group's top field commander, a spokesman said Monday, insisting militants would press ``his same type of jihad.'' Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, told The Associated Press that Omar and other militant leaders passed condolences to the family of Mullah Dadullah - the first Taliban confirmation of his death. Ahmadi read a statement attributed to...

Iraqi MP: God Bless America posted at 11:35 am on February 13, 2007 by Bryan Send to a Friend | printer-friendly He sounds a lot like the Shia sheik that Michelle and I interviewed in January–full-throated praise for the US for taking out Saddam and for pushing one-eyed Mullah Omar off his perch in Afghanistan. In this guy’s case, he also gets to knock back at a snivelling reporter. It’s a must-see. Click to watch

Mullah Omar 'hiding in Pakistan' Muhammad Hanif was seen sitting in a dimly-lit room Taleban leader Mullah Omar is living in Pakistan under the protection of its ISI intelligence agency, a captured Taleban spokesman has said. The spokesman, Muhammad Hanif, made the apparent confession to Afghan agents who videotaped the questioning. Mr Hanif is seen sitting in a dimly-lit room telling agents that Mullah Omar is in the city of Quetta. Correspondents confirm the voice is his. Mullah Omar has not been seen since 2001. Pakistan rejected the claims. 'Baseless' Afghanistan's intelligence agency distributed copies of the video CD to...

KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Associated Press that Mullah Omar, the supreme Taliban leader who headed the repressive Islamist regime ousted by U.S.-led forces five years ago, is hiding in the southeastern Pakistani city of Quetta. Despite U.S. efforts to ease acrimony between two key anti-terror allies, the Afghan leader in an interview late Monday also blamed neighboring Pakistan for a surge in Taliban violence in Afghanistan, and demanded that President Pervez Musharraf crack down on militant sanctuaries.

Has the GWOT hot war spread to Pakistan? You wouldn't know it if you've listened to the domestic media. While the MSM obsesses with returning the Democrats to power by controlling the news cycle, several news stories have largely gone un-noticed, like so many unconnected dots in this long war against the islamic fascists. For example, Musharref and Bush at a White House State Dinner, which was drowned out by the noise from The Chavez and Amadinajad UN Show. The cease-fire with the Taliban in northern Pakistan, leaks about secret prisons, domestic legislation to clarify the ROE regarding detention and...

It's common wisdom to say that the war between Hezbollah and Israel is a regional struggle that also includes Iran and Syria, who have supported and supplied Hezbollah. What seems to be less understood is that this is the first war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel, via Iran's proxy Hezbollah, and that its overarching purpose is to advance Iran's ambitions to export the Islamic revolution throughout the Middle East. Thus, while religion has always played an important role in prior Arab-Israeli wars, this time it has moved to center stage. It is the theological aspect of this...

The mullahs have had a lot of bad news in recent days — news with a particularly sinister aura, in fact. So sinister that they must be asking themselves what they have done to incur the Divine wrath. I kid you not. First is the loss of one of their terrorist stars, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the deus ex machina of the terror war against us in Iraq. Not only does that deprive the mullahs of a prime instrument for generating civil war — his constant incitement to the Sunnis to rise up against the Shiites was the cutting edge of...

Not many outside Pakistan's troubled tribal zone of Waziristan along the country's north-western border with Afghanistan will be familiar with the name of Haji Omar. But in Waziristan, it is a name that is commanding increasing respect and awe with every passing day. Haji Omar is the amir (chief) of the Pakistani Taleban that have risen over the last year to take control of large parts of Waziristan. His writ runs virtually unchallenged in South Waziristan and he seems confident that his commanders will soon establish Taleban control in North Waziristan as well. 'Al-Qaeda ally' Meeting him in Wana, South...

Counterterrorist agents pounced on five men, one in Utah and four in California, Wednesday as part of an investigation into the U.S. connections of a suspected senior al-Qaida operative imprisoned in Iraq. The Omar family has extensive ties in Jordan, where Shawqi Omar moved his family in 1995 and where he now stands accused of helping terrorist mastermind Abu Masab al-Zarqawi plot a chemical attack. Federal investigators believe Shawqi Omar acted as al-Zarqawi's "personal emissary" in several Iraqi cities. But back in Utah, Omar's brother Gus says there is no connection. "If you're a Sunni and from Jordan and in...

Attacks against invading forces to be intensified in winter, says Mulla Omer PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban Supreme leader Mulla Muhammad Omer Mujahid has said that Taliban fighters would intensify their attacks with the onset of winter season against western forces and its puppet regime in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: mollah Omar orders the execution from abroad SPIN BOLDAK - Mollah Mohammad Omar, who orders the talibans in Afghanistan, ordered the execution of four foreign hostages, three Albanians and a German, announced a spokesman of the integrist movement. They had been removed in the south of the country. "These people came to Afghanistan on order from America, they must consequently be condemned to death", ordered mollah Omar according to an official statement read Sunday evening by a spokesman of the taliban joint by telephone. On Sunday, this same spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, had declared that four Albanians and...

Kabul — President Hamid Karzai has handed intelligence to Pakistan that indicates Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme leader of the Taliban regime ousted by U.S.-led forces, and key associates are hiding in Pakistan, a senior Afghan official said Friday. The intelligence was shared during a visit by Mr. Karzai to Islamabad last week, and comes after a wave of suicide attacks that have fueled Afghan suspicions that militants are operating out of Pakistan. Afghanistan also provided information about the locations of alleged terrorist training camps along the border and in Pakistani cities, said the official, who is familiar with the...

An American with ties to the Triangle is about to face an Iraqi court for allegedly conspiring with terror suspect Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. According to a high-ranking U.S. Military Officer, when Shawqi Omar was captured in his home in Baghdad, he was in possession of numerous weapons -- materials for making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) -- and harboring Jordanian freedom fighters.

A federal court will soon sentence attorney Lynne Stewart to prison for "providing material support" to terrorists, among related charges.[1] The charges center upon her assistance to Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman who, from a federal prison cell in Minnesota, has continued his quest both to install an Islamist government in Egypt and to kill Americans and Jews around the world. Stewart's case is symbolic of a corollary battle in the war against terror and highlights the need not only to counter terrorism but also the ideology of Islamism. Her infatuation with her client's cause evolved into an example of...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! - OPPOSE GOOGLE'S PLAN Automatically send emails opposing Google's planSign a petition Introduction According to Lee Kaplan, writing for FrontPageMagazine.com: The Internet giant Google will give news agency status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), according to an anonymous source at Google. If true, the ISM—an affiliate of the anarchist/communist wing of the PLO—would be on par with professional news services such as CNN, Fox, and Associated Press. … The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) are related and interconnected organizations that have one goal: the...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed up to 50 Taliban fighters in central Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Tuesday after the latest burst of violence in the run-up to crucial September elections. A major Taliban ammunition depot was destroyed and 25 guerrillas captured in the fighting late on Monday in Deh Rawud district of Uruzgan province, Governor Jan Mohammad Khan said. "We have suffered some losses too, but I do not know how many," he told Reuters. "Between 40 and 50 Taliban men died in the fighting and bombing." U.S. and government forces have been responding...

Kandahar, 25 July (AKI) - An audio message released on Monday, said to be from the fugitive Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has called on his supporters to unite in the fight against Afghan and foreign troops. The audio casette, whose authenticity has still to be verified, was distributed to several international news agencies by an unknown person in Kandahar. "Unite, put aside your differences, continue the jihad (holy war) against the invaders and you will be victorious" said the voice, purportedly that of the Talliban leader. If it proves authentic, the message would be the first of its kind...

OTTAWA -- Canada's elite JTF2 soldiers are heading to Afghanistan as part of a 2,000-troop deployment that will target the "detestable murderers and scumbags" behind the rise in international terrorism, General Rick Hillier said yesterday. In a blunt briefing that signalled a new aggressiveness at the top of the Canadian Forces, the Chief of the Defence Staff said the impending operations are risky but necessary in light of last week's bombings in the British public-transit system. "The London attack actually tells us once more: We can't let up," Gen. Hillier told reporters. He said terrorists are ready to target Canada...

Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested five senior Taliban leaders, including a deputy to fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, a security official said tonight. The arrests were made after security agents made raids on several homes in north-west Pakistan, the official said. He identified two of the captured men as Maulvi Abdul Qadeer, a deputy to Omar, and Abdul Kabir, a former governor in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. The official would not disclose the names of the remaining three leaders, but said “they are also important Taliban leaders who are in our custody and being interrogated in Pakistan.”

Italy probes possible CIA role in abduction By John Crewdson (Chicago) Tribune senior correspondent An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy. Italian newspapers have reported that the prosecutor, Armando Spataro, is investigating the possible role of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the disappearance of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar, a popular figure in Milan's Islamic community who vanished Feb. 17, 2003....

Italy orders arrest of CIA agents over Imams abduction 6/24/2005 10:45:00 PM GMT Italian authorities ordered the arrest of 13 CIA agents accused of kidnapping a Muslim leader Italian authorities ordered the arrest of 13 agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) accused of kidnapping a Muslim leader in northern Italy, an Italian newspaper reported on Friday. The arrest warrants were issued by Italian Judge Chiara Nobili at the request of the anti-terrorist division of the state prosecutor's office, the Corriere della Sera said. The 13 agents are suspected of kidnapping Osama Mustafa Hassan, also known as Abu Omar,...

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Constitution fever! Public conferences and sessions in Baghdad and other provinces seem to be endless nowadays; municipalities, NGOs and forums are all very excited about Iraq's top topic which is writing the Iraqi constitution and they obviously don't want to miss the chance to take part in the historic event. Such activities play a good role in educating the population and activating the concept of public involvement in the state's decisive steps through organizing sending the people's suggestions and thoughts to the authorities and making sure they're being considered. During the past week, we were able...

Osama bin Laden and fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar are thought not to be in Afghanistan, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Thursday, a day after a purported commander of the rebel group said the pair are alive and well. "Mullah Omar is not in Afghanistan. I do not believe that Osama is in Afghanistan," Khalilzad told reporters at a press conference in the Afghan capital, Kabul. He did not say where the two were believed to be hiding. Officials have repeatedly said that the al-Qaida leader is thought to be some place in the rugged mountains between Afghanistan...

A top Taleban commander has said in a television interview that Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan's former Taleban leader Mullah Omar are alive and well. "I am in contact with Mullah Omar and take directions from him," Mullah Akhtar Usmani told Pakistan's privately-run Geo television. There is no way of independently verifying Mullah Usmani's claims. The BBC's Rahimullah Yusufzai says that Mullah Usmani was a senior commander in the Taleban before its fall in 2001. QUICK GUIDE What is al-Qaeda? Our correspondent says he is since considered to be the operational head of the Taleban resistance. The United States has...

Mollah Omar and Hekmatyar not excluded from a possible amnesty KABUL - the former leader of the talibans, mollah Mohammad Omar, and the former Prime Minister and chief of war Gulbuddin Hekmatyar are not excluded from the process of national reconciliation, indicated to Monday to AFP the chief of the Afghan commission of reconciliation, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi. "the amnesty includes these two people, who can nothing only make as individuals when everyone around them goes", Mr. Mojaddedi answered concerning mollah Omar and of Hekmatyar, sought by the Americans for "terrorism". The proposal for an amnesty also includes the Afghan prisoners...

He's the Beckham of Bloggers. Amidst the vast realms and recesses of the Millions Strong Blogosphere crisscrossing the Great Planet, very few Bloggers are Identified - Widely Known by One Name. Omar from Iraq The Model is the exception. Omar! Omar! Omar! Omar Fadhil is an Iraqi Blogging Superstar, Dentist, Ardent Supporter of Freedom and Democracy in Iraq, and co-developer of a tool that allows millions of voices that were previously excluded from the Internet to finally be heard. And in: The In T View: Iraq The Model's Omar - Blogging's Modest Superstar, we explore Omar's thoughts on Iraq, Islam,...

KARACHI: Pakistan is likely to hand over the custody of Abu Omar, one of al-Qaeda militants nabbed from Gulshan-e-Maymar on Thursday, to the United States in a day or two, while his wife and three sons are likely to be flown to Morocco - their homeland - on Saturday. Highly placed sources disclosed this on Friday. "We have completed our investigations and are now satisfied that Abu Omar was not involved in any subversive activity in Pakistan," said a senior intelligence official, who wished not to be named. He said: "The investigations revealed that Abu Omar was trying to...

Where have all the martyrs gone? In yet another shining example of how out of touch the Left is, Democrats and their MSM keepers are continuing the mantra about "George W. Bush's policies creating more terrorists." But according to one of the leading terrorists on the planet, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the reason the U.S. hasn't been attacked in recent years is because there is a lack of "willing martyrs". Put simply, there are not enough TERRORISTS to carry out attacks on the U.S. Doesn't get much more plain english than that. Then there's fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who...

Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) is alive and the future of the United States in Afghanistan (news - web sites) 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...

The following statement by the Taliban's leader, Mohammad Omar, was aired on Al-Jazeera television on October 26. It is informative that Omar hypocritically neglects to cite Communist China as a "factor of terrorism." On the one hand, for decades the Communist Chinese regime has been involved in the wholesale oppression, forced labor (laogai enslavement), forced relocation, and killing of ethnic Muslims in the Xinjiang Province. On the other hand, as noted in the article (linked below) by Senator Jesse Helms, Communist China has been a benefactor of the Taliban. Al-Jazeera TV airs statement by Taleban leader Al-Jazeera satellite TV carried ...

Most Afghans support the bombardment of Afghanistan by allies because they hope that it will end the Taliban regime. So says exiled Afghan Zimari Hekami, for whom the Taliban - as the Soviets earlier - present a foreign power. Hekami hopes that after the fall of the Taliban, Afghans will not be left alone once again by the United States. Hekami, who is a leading member of the Swiss-Afghan Institute, made these statements in an interview with Der Bund, a daily paper published in Bern, Switzerland. Hekami said, "I’m thankful that the USA is helping us fight or throw the ...

MIDI - HOTEL CALIFORNIA She would proudly help clients who were lower than scum She thought she was so brilliant...prosecutors so dumb It caught up with her finally...and she got her just desserts And we can tell as we all watch her cry...that this loss really does hurt She had helped Omar Rahman...the man she chose to defend But little did we then realize she was becoming the evil sheik's friend She denied in the courtroom but the tale was true They would use this useful idiot...for killing me and you Welcome, Lynne, to the hotel with the gray...

A New York jury Thursday convicted a veteran defense lawyer of aiding terrorists by smuggling messages from an imprisoned Islamic radical to his followers. Lynne Stewart, 65, a leftist civil rights lawyer who has represented revolutionaries and other unpopular defendants for more than 30 years, was found guilty on all five counts against her in federal court.

Lawyers have vaunted Omar Khadr, the 18-year-old Canadian citizen being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into news headlines as a victim. Edmonton attorney Dennis Edney held a Toronto media conference, yesterday for the only Canadian citizen at Guantanamo with his mother, grandmother and an American law professor in tow. According to U.S. law professor Muneer Ahmad, who had visited Khadr in November and co-authored a subsequent affidavit, the physical and mental abuse of Omar Khadr is "horrific", "immoral" and "illegal" "We have evidence that one of Canada’s children has been tortured by the United States, Ahmad said....

LONDON In nightly sermons broadcast on the Internet, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, a 47-year-old cleric born in Syria, has urged young Muslim men all over the world to travel to Iraq to fight on the front line of "the global jihad," investigators say. He struck the same defiant tone earlier this month at a rally attended by 500 people at a central London meeting hall, where behind him a giant screen showed images of the World Trade Towers falling. "Allah akhbar!" some audience members shouted at the images, "God is greatest."

Last Days of Taliban? Monday December 20, 2004 (1450 PST) KABUL, December 21 (Online): The one-eyed Mullah Mohammed Omar cruises the Afghan countryside on a motorbike trying to rally his troops. But his guerrillas may be tiring of the fight. Mullah Mohammad Rafiq, a 28-year-old Taliban fighter with kohl-lined eyes and shoulder-length hair spilling from his black turban, couldn't believe his good luck. Last summer his 20-man guerrilla unit was summoned to the district of Argandab in Kandahar province to rendezvous with Mullah Shahzada Akhund. A senior Taliban commander, Shahzada had just been released from nearly three years' imprisonment by...

Great line from Iraq the Model's Omar, currently in Washington with his brother Mohammed: Yesterday I came to your country. Today, I met the President. Jeff Jarvis, a tireless and incredibly generous promoter of Middle Eastern bloggers, has more on the Bush/blogger summit: Mohammed said the President understood what blogs are and their importance and they found the staff in the White House views reading blogs as part of their jobs now. The brothers said they were in the White House not just as Iraqi citizens but as representatives of the blogosphere. There's yet more here; please read. Meanwhile, Omar...

KARACHI: Pakistani authorities have told a newspaper to stop publishing photos and sermons of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and elusive Taliban chief Mulla Omar, an official said on Wednesday. Urdu-language daily Ummat has been printing the wanted pair’s images and speeches since late 2001, when a US-led military campaign ousted Afghanistan’s hardline Islamic Taliban militia from power. “We have issued a notice, asking them to explain from where they were getting these statements by Osama Bin Laden and Mulla Omar every day,” Sindh government spokesman Salahuddin Haider said. Haider said the two had been declared international terrorists so...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities have arrested an Egyptian man they describe as a "known Islamist extremist" trained in Pakistan, and aim to expel him within weeks, officials said on Wednesday. The Bavarian Interior Ministry said the man, named only as Omar Y., was 21 years old and had lived in Germany since he was a child. He was arrested on Tuesday night and would be held in custody throughout the deportation proceedings to prevent him from disappearing. "The responsible authorities believe Y. took part in paramilitary training at a camp of the extremist Islamist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan, and...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - (KRT) - A mid-30s Iraqi electrician whose religious fervor drew suspicion from Saddam Hussein's agents long before U.S. forces invaded Iraq became the most-feared man in Fallujah during the city's six months under insurgent control. While U.S. official pronouncements about rebel leaders have focused on Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, rebel fighters and others who escaped the U.S. assault on Fallujah say the real power there was wielded by Omar Hussein Hadid, technically al-Zarqawi's underling but in fact the Iraqi face that allowed al-Zarqawi to remain there. "Inside Fallujah, Omar was the leader. Even Abu Musab...

Globalterroralert.com (10/12/04): Al-Qaida supporters in London, led by the notorious Shaykh Omar Bakri Mohammed (Al-Muhajiroun) and Yasser al-Sirri (the Islamic Observation Centre), held a protest rally outside the Saudi embassy in London on October 8. Only a day after the terrorist attacks on Israeli tourists in Taba, Egypt, the militants shouted: "Taba, Taba, O' Jews! The Army of Mohammed is Coming!"http://www.globalterroralert.com/london-saudi.wmv

WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after former President Clinton sent cruise missiles against al-Qaida targets in Afghanistan, the leader of that country's ruling Taliban militia telephoned the State Department and offered to talk, according to a State Department message disclosed Friday. Little came of the contact, although Mullah Mohammed Omar counseled the department that the United States would never be accepted as a friend of the Muslims unless Congress forced Clinton to resign. Clinton announced Aug. 21, 1998, that he had sent cruise missiles "to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with and funded by Osama bin Laden,...

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26-08-2004 08:44 G.M.T. DUBAI, Aug 26 (AFP) Afghanistan's Taliban fighters threatened on Thursday to kill US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and vowed "a flood of jihad" against the Americans, in a statement posted on their website. "We tell Rumsfeld: you may have escaped unharmed from our swords, but you will not escape again," said "the information office of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan" in the statement accompanied by footage of Taliban "victories" in Afghanistan. The statement also promised "a flood of jihad (holy war) ... against the Americans and their allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

CHAMAN, Pakistan, Aug 9 (Reuters) - A rift has emerged in the ranks of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban militia, with members of the breakaway faction saying they no longer recognise fugitive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. Sabir Momin, who was the Taliban's deputy operations commander in southern Afghanistan, said on Monday the dissident group is named Taliban Jamiat Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Muslim Army of the Taliban). Momin told Reuters the faction had the support of about one third of Taliban fighters, and did not recognise the one-eyed Mullah Omar, one of the world's most wanted men for helping shelter Osama bin Laden and...