CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM: Mullah Omar, the ascetic with golden chandeliers

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 13, 2001| Author: Justin Huggler in Kandahar | Copyright information

MULLAH MOHAMMED Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban, lived in a strange sort of luxury. Gold-plated chandeliers hung above his bed. He even had his own private mosque, complete with mirrored minarets. It is not the sort of house where you would have expected to find a dictator so austere that he banned music.

Triumphant anti-Taliban fighters were giving guided tours yesterday at Mullah Omar's vast compound on the edge of Kandahar, the city where the Taliban first seized power, and...

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