Taliban: Mullah Omar alive

The Taliban has said Mullah Omar is alive, accusing the Americans of hacking their phones after a text message sent to media from a spokesman's phone said the leader was dead.

Omar is the one-eyed spiritual leader of the insurgency who presided over the 1996-2001 Taliban regime in Kabul, which was toppled in a US-led invasion for its support of al-Qaida.