Mullah Omar, whose death Afghan authorities announced on Wednesday, was the charismatic spiritual leader of the Taliban, and symbolically a man of great significance. This was so even though he was rarely seen and, according to Afghans, has actually been dead since 2013. (The White House said that the Afghan announcement was “credible.”) In the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Mullah Omar refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, his honored “guest” at the time, to the United States government, triggering the invasion of his country.
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