Taliban Leader Mullah Omar 'Sent Letter To Barack Obama' -- The Telegraph
Mullah Omar, the shadowy Taliban leader, has purportedly sent a letter to The White House indicating an interest in peace talks.
The unsigned note claims to carry a message directly from the one-eyed militant to Barack Obama, urging the US president to release senior Taliban fighters from Guantánamo Bay as a first step towards peace talks in Afghanistan.
If the letter is confirmed to have come from the fugitive mullah it would be the strongest indication yet that the upper echelons of the Taliban movement are prepared to come to the negotiating table after ten years of insurgency.
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My Comment: An unsigned letter from an "inter-mediator" .... not through the usual Pakistani channels or media sympathizers. I know that the White House is taking this very seriously, but without corroboration I have my doubts that it is genuine.
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