CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM: Afghan troops prepare for attack on Mullah Omar's `mountain hideout'.(News) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: December 18, 2001| Author: Palmer, James | COPYRIGHT 2001 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

AFGHAN TROOPS are preparing to attack a mountain hideout where the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is said to have fled with 500 men.

Ten days after the fall of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, Mullah Omar has been traced to a mountain redoubt northwest of the city, according to Kandahar's intelligence chief, Haji Gullalai, who said the ethnic Pashtun forces hunting him would hang him. "He sold out the country, he sold out our people, he sold out Islam," he said....

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