Kabul, Afghanistan ? Taliban supreme commander Mullah Mohammed Omar has met with other Taliban leaders to reorganize their resurgent campaign against U.S. forces and the Afghan government, a purported spokesman for the group said Sunday.

The spokesman, who said his name was Sayed Hamid Agha, telephoned Associated Press reporters in Afghanistan and Pakistan and read out a statement.

“Over the last few days we established a shura (council) under the leadership of Mullah Omar,” Agha said. “The shura appointed four committees — military, political, cultural and economic to regulate all relevant matters.”

One of the two AP reporters recognized the man’s voice and knew him to be a Taliban militant. He also received a written copy of the same statement from a second man with suspected Taliban ties in the western Pakistani city of Peshawar.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Roy Glover, said the Taliban statement “obviously would be of some interest to us” but declined to comment further.

Amrullah Saleh, a senior Afghan intelligence chief, said similar statements have been circulated regularly, but that it was new for them to detail meetings and activities of Taliban leaders.

“I think it’s part of their psychological operations to send a message to the people that they have some operations,” he told the Associated Press in Kabul.

Reading a statement in the name of former Taliban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal, Agha also claimed a string of military victories.

He said he was calling from outside Afghanistan but gave no indication of Omar’s whereabouts and refused to answer questions.

There has been a resurgence in Taliban activity recently. The militants have been flexing their muscles in the Afghanistan’s south and east, launching increasingly violent attacks against coalition forces, government officials and aid workers.