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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison

Taliban excavates founding leader’s car, buried to escape US troops

A white Toyota once belonging to Taliban leader Mullah Omar being dug up.
Images posted to Twitter by a Taliban-linked activist showed Mullah Muhammad Omar’s car being dug up near a village in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province. Photograph: twitter

The Taliban have dug up a white Toyota used by their founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, to escape into hiding in southern Afghanistan after the US invasion.

Senior officials have called for the vehicle to be put on display at the national museum in Kabul. It already houses the cars and coaches of former kings and prime ministers, including one with bulletproof glass fragmented by an assassination attempt.

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