Wrong Number

Afghani intelligence surprises Mullah Omar:

Kabul - Afghan intelligence agents have spoken with fugitive Taliban founder Mullah Mohammed Omar after commandeering a satellite phone being used by his top aide, an Afghan official claimed on Thursday.

Mullah Omar, along with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has escaped a US-led dragnet which now numbers some 20 000 coalition soldiers since the ousting of his Islamic fundamentalist regime in late 2001.

A man believed to be Omar's aide, Mullah Sakhi Dad Mujahid, was captured on Tuesday while carrying a satellite telephone containing the phone numbers of top members of the ousted fundamentalist regime, Kandahar intelligence chief Abdullah Laghmanai said.

"We contacted Mullah Omar by Mullah Mujahid's phone," he said.

"But when he (Omar) realised it was not his man, he cut off the phone."

That would be a funny scene:

Mullah Omar: "Hello? Osama"?

Caller: "No you one-eyed freak, it's Hamid Karzai".

Omar: "Uh, you have the wrong number". Click.