Taliban settles on Weinergate defense in Mullah Omar case

Taliban denies texting Mullah Omar’s death, blames hacking

A spokesman for the Afghan militia says its phones and website were tampered with. Later emails angrily denounce the death report.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan—
In this Murdochian age, it somehow seems inevitable: The Taliban movement says it was phone-hacked.

The group said Wednesday that text messages announcing the death of supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar were fake, and asserted that the telephones of its main spokesmen, together with the Taliban website, had been tampered with.