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  Mohammed Omar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammed Omar (Arabic: ملا محمد عمر; born 1959) is the reclusive leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and was Afghanistan's de facto head of state from 1996 to 2001.
Mullah Omar renamed the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in October 1997.
In June 2006, a statement was released supposedly from Mullah Omar regarding the death of al-Zarqawi in Iraq.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mullah_Mohammed_Omar   (914 words)

  
 Terror Tuesday: Impact on South Asia -- Mullah Mohammed Omar-Profile
Mullah Omar, ‘Commander of the Faithful’, heads the Taliban regime, which controls approximately 90 per cent of the territory in Afghanistan.
The paramount purpose of Mullah Omar was to forge a unity among the various warring factions and establish a true Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.
Mullah Omar dismissed the global outcry by indicating that the statues' destruction was merely ‘breaking stones’.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/usa/Mullah_Moh.htm   (568 words)

  
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The surrender of Kandahar by Mullah Mohammed Omar may, as far as the West is concerned, mark the end of militant Islam in Afghanistan.
Mohammed Omar was born in 1959 in the tiny village of Noudi, near Kandahar, the son of a poor farmer of the Pashtun Houtak tribe who died after the family moved to Tarinket, in the province of Arouzagan, leaving Omar, still a boy, to care for his relatives.
Mullah Omar called them, "a criminal and treacherous group who sold themselves and their country to foreign colonialists''.
www.zmag.org /omarfisk.htm   (768 words)

  
 BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Profile: Mullah Mohammed Omar
Mullah Omar and Bin Laden go back to their time as resistance fighters against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan of 1979 to 1989.
Mullah Omar vigorously defended his friend against allegations that he masterminded the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, accusing the US of trying to cover up their own intelligence failures.
It was thought that Mullah Omar has taken Bin Laden's eldest daughter as a wife, and that Bin Laden may even have taken one of Mullah Omar's daughters as a fourth wife.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1550419.stm   (506 words)

  
 Is Mullah Omar the Antichrist?
To challenge him is akin to a sin, and when a smile ghosts across Omar's face, his lieutenants take it as a rare chance to laugh in the austere court of the Commander of the Faithful.
Omar concedes he is no great Islamic theologian--his studies were interrupted by the jihad, or holy war, against the Soviets in which he was wounded four times--but he and his followers are convinced that Allah is on their side.
Omar: I told you that it is related to the larger task....
www.angelfire.com /psy/nostradamus/mullahomar.htm   (1762 words)

  
 Rediff Web Search
Mohammed Omar (Arabic: ; born 1959) is the reclusive leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and...
Mullah Mohammed Omar is a reclusive figure whose friendship with the world's most wanted man brought his country almost complete isolation.
Mullah Akhtar Usmani taught in the same religious school as Mullah Omar, and is currently leading Taleban forces in five southern Afghan provinces.
search.rediff.com /dirsrch/default.asp?MT=mullah+mohammed+omar   (386 words)

  
 Mullah Omar -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Mullah Mohammed Omar (born 1959) is the reclusive leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and was Afghanistan's de facto Head of State from 1996 to 2001.
Omar is described as very tall (some say 1.98m (6'6")) and considered to be a fierce commander by many.
Omar is known for a pure devotion to Islam.
www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=10285   (938 words)

  
 Mullah Omar, Taliban ruler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Omar told him that he started the Taliban after a dream in which Allah came to him in the shape of a man, asking him to lead the faithful.
Omar, known for a pure devotion to Islam, was a mullah with a village madrassah near Kandahar.
Omar is the first Muslim since the Fourth Caliph, a nephew of Prophet Mohammad, to publicly accept the Amirul title, a ranking in Islam nearly second to the Prophet.
www.csmonitor.com /2001/1010/p1s4-wosc.html   (1712 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
Mullah Omar has disappeared and he is apparently in hiding.
Mullah Omar be brought to justice, whether it's under Afghan law or international law, because he has committed, in the eyes of many Afghans, some pretty serious violations of human rights.
So Mullah Omar and his clique: The radicals, the extremists in Afghanistan, and the foreigners who back them are all sort of a group of people who no longer are acceptable in Afghanistan.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0112/07/i_qaa.01.html   (3858 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Taliban's Mullah Omar remains defiant
Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar made a similar statement, reeking of a greater sense of desperation than before.
Omar said his movement preferred death to taking part in what would be an evil government in Kabul, which is now in the hands of the Northern Alliance.
Omar warned of a "big" plan to destroy the United States in an interview with BBC radio.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/846060.htm   (638 words)

  
 Mullah Mohammed Omar
The supreme leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, refuses to be photographed or filmed and rarely travels far from his base in the southern town of Kandahar.
Nonetheless what Mullah Omar says passes as law in the Taliban's Afghanistan and to challenge him is unknown.
Mullah Omar dismissed the global outcry saying the statues' destruction was merely "breaking stones".
www.charactercomputing.com /attack/omar2.htm   (488 words)

  
 Afghanistan Online: Biography (Mullar Muhammad Omar)
Mullar Muhammad Omar is the leader of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
Followers of the Taliban claim that Mullah Omar was born in the central province of Uruzgan in 1962.
Mullah Omar has 4 wives, and lives in Kandahar, even though the official capital of Afghanistan is Kabul.
www.afghan-web.com /bios/today/momar.html   (319 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: September 11
Mullah Mohammed Omar is the reclusive spiritual leader of the Taliban.
Omar had made declarations that he and his Taliban forces would fight to the death rather than submit to the U.S.-led coalition.
Omar is a tall man in his early 40s.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/sep11/mohammedomar.html   (689 words)

  
 'Musharraf met Mullah Omar'
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf met Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar in April 2000 to convince him to expel Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a report released by a commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
Prince Turki held several meetings with Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders in the summer of 1998.
Mullah Omar reneged on his promise to expel bin Laden.
www.rediff.com /news/2004/mar/28mush.htm   (559 words)

  
 PM - Taliban's change of heart
JILL COLGAN: Well Hamid Karzai has been quite specific that he has clinched the deal, that Mullah Omar has ordered his men to lay down their weapons, and that the process of surrender is underway.
He has said that he has guaranteed his safety and Mullah Omar is preparing to surrender himself to a local Mujahideen commander.
Now the United States has wanted to bring Mullah Omar to justice and presumably that means to a trial, and if found guilty, to exact punishment of some sort.
www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s435332.htm   (926 words)

  
 Jihad Watch: Mullah Omar spotted; Pakistan turns "a blind eye"
"'We have received information that Mullah Omar was seen praying in a mosque ten days ago,' Karzai said in an interview to The Times, London.
"Mullah Omar, who has a $ 25 million bounty on his head, comes after Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein on the US most wanted list.
However, "brushing aside Afghan President's claim that Mullah Omar was witnessed in Quetta ten days ago, [Pakistan's] Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad Saturday categorically denied the claim, urging Kabul to refrain from slapping blame on the neighboring country in a bid to conceal its lapses."
www.jihadwatch.org /archives/000279.php   (500 words)

  
 Topsy-turvy Turbans Ruled Out By Mullah Omar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
IN a typically eccentric rallying cry to his Taliban forces, Mullah Mohammed Omar has issued an edict to his officials and soldiers demanding that they wear their turbans straight.
Mullah Omar, who founded the Taliban, or students, in 1993, has always held complete command over the militia by a mixture of erratic, quasi-mystical announcements, unwillingness to compromise and his credibility as a man of stringent faith.
I think that some of the Mullah's homies in the Taleban were just trying do do some styling by wearing their turbans with the "gansta lean".
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/576322/posts   (1679 words)

  
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 AM Archive - Taliban supreme leader: "fight to the death"
Their supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is urging his troops to fight to the death.
It's reported a man was hung in a square in the city, accused of using a satellite phone to help US warplanes find their targets.
Meanwhile, the Northern Alliance insists the biggest targets of all, Mullah Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden, are not far from Kandahar.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s429293.htm   (553 words)

  
 Mullah Omar Reported Arrested   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The deposed Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar may have been arrested, an Afgan minister claimed in the early hours today.
Omar has been captured, arrested, and killed almost as many times at bin Laden...hope it's true.
Omar in pieces is what I want, yeah that is what I want.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/601350/posts   (1450 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bill Hemmer: The search for Omar - January 3, 2002
Specifically, some of the Green Berets are telling me this: They are concerned that there are not enough Special Forces on the ground in northern Helmand province to potentially look for the Taliban founder, Mullah Mohammed Omar.
Now, they do confirm that there are groups of about a dozen working in that area, possibly looking for the Taliban founder.
Some indicate that in the Tora Bora region, Osama bin Laden may have escaped the noose because there were not enough Special Forces on the ground.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/01/03/ret.hemmer.otsc   (696 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Islamic cleric could be Pakistan's next leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — He won big in last month's elections on an anti-American ticket, has called Osama bin Laden a holy warrior and counts Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar among his friends — and he could be Pakistan's next prime minister.
"There are only two strong institutions in Pakistan, the military and the mullahs (clerics)," said Talat Massoud, a retired Pakistani general and political analyst.
In the Afghan capital, a former Taliban official, Mullah Mohammed Khaksar, said the good showing of the religious parties in the border provinces is a boon for his former colleagues.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-11-07-pakistan-politics_x.htm   (857 words)

  
 In the Bullpen » Mullah Mohammed Omar vows “unimaginable” violence this summer
Peshawar, 16 March (AKI) - The fugitive leader of the hardline Taliban movement, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has vowed a fierce offensive against the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan warning of “unimaginable attacks” to come in the summer months.
The statement by the Taliban leader was read by Taliban spokesman, Mohammad Hanif over the telephone from an undisclosed location and was qouted in the Pakistani based Afghan Islamic Press news agency.
In the statement, Mullah Omar, for whose capture Washington has issued a 10 million-dollar-reward, said that young Afghans are volunteering for suicide missions against the US-led forces.”Afghans [are] thronging centres of mujahadeen in groups to enlist their name for suicide attacks and other operations of Taliban resistance,” the statement said.
www.inthebullpen.com /?p=4407   (375 words)

  
 Mullah Mohammed Omar
Mullah Mohammed Omar actively participated in the following events:
With the US having diverted much of their best troops and equipment to Iraq, the Taliban and al-Qaeda begin regrouping inside Afghanistan.
In August 2002, it is reported that former Taliban head Mullah Omar has secretly returned to Afghanistan and is living in remote hideouts near Kandahar.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=mullah_mohammed_omar   (253 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Taliban Chief/Mullah Mohammed Omar: Condemns US-Backed Afghan Govt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A statement attributed to fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar has urged Afghans to wage a holy war against Americans and the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
The statement was sent to several newspaper offices in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar, and a copy was obtained by The Associated Press Monday.
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www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID61/14965.html   (260 words)

  
 Mullah Omar May Go Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
If Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is captured as a result of a U.S. victory in the Afghan war, there's a chance he will be set free, America's top diplomat in the region admitted Sunday.
I'm sure that Omar is one of those who will be investigated thoroughly and I expect that he will be brought to justice."
Ambassador Keith also declined to speculate on whether Omar was a likely candidate for trial by a U.S. military tribunal as part of a plan announced by President Bush two weeks ago.
www.rense.com /general17/FREE.HTM   (240 words)

  
 Guardian | Mullah Omar 'arrested'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The deposed Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar may have been arrested, an Afghan minister claimed in the early hours of today.
The Afghan minister for reconstruction, Amin Farhang, told German ARD TV news: "I have heard that he was arrested but more I do not know."
Talks with those believed to be harbouring the cleric were galvanised by threats of US bombing.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4329027-108920,00.html   (77 words)

  
 BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Interview with Mullah Omar - transcript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The BBC's Pashto service has interviewed Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The BBC asked the questions through a Taleban intermediary over satellite phone.
He passed them on to the Taleban leader through a hand-held radio and then attached the phone's receiver to the radio for Mullah Omar's answers.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1657368.stm   (585 words)

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