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Taliban leader Omar lived next to US Afghan base: biography

  • Dutch journalist Bette Dam spent more than five years researching the book and interviewed Jabbar Omari, Mullah Omar's bodyguard
  • Taliban kept his death in 2013 a secret for two years
By AFP ·

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