Title: The Taliban file
Description: Mullah Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, initiated a phone call to Washington - his only known direct contact with U.S. officials - two days after President Clinton sent cruise missiles to destroy Osama bin Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan in 1998, according to newly-obtained documents posted on the Web by the National Security Archive.
Subjects: Sources, Foreign relations, Taliban
Places: Afghanistan, United States
People: Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011)