Mullah Omar

Yeah.

uh illegal enemy combatants if you want to call them that but then the the writ the declaration of war is to kill these guys um more to the point they could have negotiated and they could have negotiated in the lead-up to this the taliban were sick and tired mullah omar um there's a great book about this called an enemy we created about there are all these rumors that weren't true that bin laden had married mullah omar's daughter and vice versa and all this stuff that wasn't true and Mullah Omar, when bin Laden went there, he was meant to be the guest of a guy named Rabbani, but he was killed.

And so the Taliban ended up just stuck with this guy.

And they had ordered him to stop messing with the Americans, stop putting out statements, and stop committing acts of terrorism.

And he had supposedly promised them that he wouldn't, but he just kept breaking the promises anyway.

And after the Africa embassy attacks of 1998, he was And Mullah Omar's government was in negotiations with the United States to give him up.

And there's no less authority on this, Kyle, than Milton Bearden, who ran the CIA operation in the 1980s, was the absolute most authoritative source from CIA who could possibly tell the story to the Washington Post.

They were trying to give him up, he said, but we just wouldn't listen to the way that they would speak.

As, as a guest we-

But Pakistan was also used as a way to kind of bring, uh, [lip smacks] use intelligence of Pakistan to send a message to Mullah Mohammed Omar, who was the head of the Taliban at the time, to turn over bin Laden, and they had a two-day conference apparently, uh, uh-

Discussing it

... to, to discussing what would it would take for them, um, and so-

Hamza's last known public statement, which was released by al-Qaeda's media arm in March of 2018, threatened the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and called on the people of the Arabian Peninsula to revolt.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar disappeared after 9-11 and was thought to be in hiding in Pakistan.

Despite a $10 million bounty on his head offered by the U.S. government, he was never found or captured.

It wasn't until several years later that journalist Bet Dam was able to piece together his life as a fugitive.

And, you know, of course 9/11 wasn't their first exercise at that.

And I, I know for a fact US State Department officials had met with Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, in, uh, in Kandahar well before 9/11, uh, after the USS Maine had been attacked off the coast of Africa, and said, "The next time you will pay if anything else happens." Because that was also after the first attack on the World Trade Center, uh, a number of years before, which had, had, you know, people died, but not very many.

It was an, an underground explosion in the parking garage.

So the response in Afghanistan was predictable, but its motivation...