Search for Omar becomes mired in guessing game

From: Daily Breeze | Date: January 6, 2002| Author: Kathy Gannon | Copyright information

Search for Omar becomes mired in guessing game

WANTED: Afghan officials said there had been negotiations with tribes around Baghran to hand over the elusive Taliban leader.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The whereabouts of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed spiritual leader of the Taliban and America's most wanted man after Osama bin Laden, is confounding his U.S. and Afghan pursuers.

Is he hidden in the hills of south-central Afghanistan under the protection of loyal tribesmen ...