CNN CNN Newsroom Live July 31, 2015 06:22:00
>> it means that he has effectively been in charge. but there's also been a complicit, if you will among a tiny call of leadership within the taliban to essentially ignore the facts that omar was no longer answering questions, was no longer giving directions and it try to sort of create the impression not just for the outside world but for the rest of the taliban that they still add leader who was so well respected he was a very if you will a figure who could bring together desperate elements within a taliban across the whole of afghanistan and pakistan as well. so there was in essence a compl...