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It's a book that is likely to leak a lot of ink. A biography about the Taliban founder, Mullah Omar, has just been published in the Netherlands. Its author, the Dutch journalist Bette Dam makes a series of revelations about this man who was one of the most wanted in the world by the United States, and who would have lived for years next to an American base in the south of Afghanistan. Revelations rather embarrassing for the American intelligence services.
After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, Mullah Omar would have lived until his death in 2013 in southern Afghanistan and not in Pakistan, as Washington claims.
The number one enemy of the United States, whose head had been priced $ 10 million, would have lived as a hermit for years a few hundred meters from an American base in the province of Zabul, before change the cache this time 5 km away from another military base where were based more than 1,000 US and British Special Forces soldiers.
This and other revelations are the result of a five-year investigation by Dutch journalist Bette Dam, a reporter in Afghanistan since 2006, who was able to question Mullah Omar's personal bodyguard.
Jabbar Omari told him in great detail how the US military had failed to capture the Taliban leader twice.
Former CIA director David Petraeus was skeptical about the book's content. As for the former head of Afghan intelligence, Amrullah Saleh, he continued to claim that Mullah Omar was a refugee and died in Pakistan .