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	Mohammed Omar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mullah Mohammed Omar (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.
		Omar is known for a pure devotion to Islam.
		Omar's dedication to Islam led him to order the destruction of two large statues of Buddha which stood at the cliffs of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, which were archaeological and historical treasures, but which he characterized as idols.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mullah_Omar (682 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan Mullah Mohammad Omar
		Mullah Mohammad Omar was born in 1959 as the son of a peasant farmer, he grew up in mud huts around the village of Singesar, near Kandahar.
		Mullah omar and the Taliban repeatedly say that their mission is to create a Muslim state that would perfectly practice a strict interpretation of the Quran, one taught in the fundamentalist madrassahs of Pakistan, where Omar went to school.
		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.afghanland.com /history/omar.html (715 words)

	Mullah Mohammad Omar
		The Taleban spiritual leader Mohammed Omar and Bin Laden go back a long way, and Mullah Omar has never shown any sign that he is prepared to abandon his fellow resistance fighter from the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan of 1979 to 1989.
		It is 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.
		Under Mullah Omar's rule, a strict interpretation of Islamic law has been imposed on the 90% of Afghanistan which is ruled by the Taleban.
	www.afghanan.net /biographies/mullahomar.htm (524 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)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Captive Calls Taliban's Mullah Omar-Official (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mullah is a term used in the region for Muslim clerics and is a title used by many senior members of the Taliban.
		Omar is among the militants most wanted by Afghan and U.S. forces, and is believed to be actively involved in coordinating an insurgency against foreign and local troops in Afghanistan that has claimed hundreds of lives this year.
		Omar refused to hand over bin Laden after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States that were blamed on al Qaeda, prompting U.S. air strikes and Afghan ground forces to launch a war that toppled the regime months later.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/07/09/afghan_captive_calls_talibans_mullah_omar_official?mode=PF (501 words)

	Mullah Omar mentally unstable, says doctor- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		omar’s mental instability is the real reason he is so reclusive, rarely travelling out of kandahar and virtually unknown even to the afghan people, said the doctor who works at a hospital in omar’s hometown of kandahar and spoke to the sunday telegraph’s christina lamb on condition of anonymity.
		lamb says that omar’s ‘visions’, which he passes off as periods of silent communion with god when he receives "instructions for creating a pure islamic state", are responsible for his edicts, including the ban on flying kites, football and high-heeled shoes for women or indeed any footwear that "clicks" under the burqa.
		lamb adds that omar’s doctors believe the taliban’s supreme spiritual leader brain seizures and mood swings may be on account of shrapnel lodged in his brain when he lost his eye in 1989 during a russian rocket attack on his village mosque.
	www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?art_id=608560454 (382 words)

	Mohammed Omar -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Omar is described as very tall (some say (Click link for more info and facts about 1.98m) 1.98m (6'6")) and considered to be a fierce commander by many.
		Reportedly, Omar started the Taliban after a dream in which the Prophet (Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)) Muhammad came to him, asking him to lead the faithful.
		Omar is known for a pure devotion to (The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran) Islam.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mohammed_omar.htm (483 words)

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		Far from being a messianic, arrogant preacher, Mullah Omar remains a revered figure among the Pashtuns, not just for his piety but for the courage he showed as he grew up among the dirt and poverty of Kandahar province, working as both a schoolteacher and anti-Soviet partisan.
		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)

	Mullah Omar Said 'Captured' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mullah Muhammad Omar was last night apparently being held captive as the Taleban lost control of their spiritual stronghold of Kandahar in a major breakthrough for the American-led coalition.
		Mullah Omar's apparent captivity will boost Western morale at a time when many thought that the goals of the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan were not being met.
		Mullah Omar's apparent capture ended a day of confusion, during which it appeared that he might have escaped the grip of the new Afghan administration, and the Americans.
	www.rense.com /general17/omar.htm (1022 words)

	Mullah Omar, Taliban ruler
		Omar's house (reportedly hit by bombs yesterday) was was one of 16 large residences built with Arab money along a stretch of Herat St. in Kandahar.
		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.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/1010/p1s4-wosc.html (1649 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Kin of Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Captured
		Omar had four wives and it was not immediately known how many brothers-in-law he had.
		The man contacted Omar by telephone in the presence of security forces, who said it was the first indication in months that Omar was still alive.
		Omar was supreme leader of the Taliban when the movement allowed the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden to establish training camps in Afghanistan.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/07/21/top8.htm (448 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Profile: Mullah Mohammed Omar
		This is thought to be the only image of Mullah Omar (L) Mullah Mohammed Omar was a reclusive figure even before his militant Taleban government fell from power and he was forced to flee into hiding.
		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.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1550419.stm (506 words)

	Afghan intelligence officials talk to Mullah Omar -DAWN - Top Stories; 09 July, 2004
		Mullah Omar, along with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has escaped a US-led dragnet which now numbers some 20,000 soldiers since the ousting of his government in 2001.
		A man believed to be Mullah Omar's aide, Mullah Sakhi Dad Mujahid, was captured on Tuesday while carrying a satellite telephone containing the phone numbers of top members of the ousted government, Kandahar intelligence chief Abdullah Laghmanai said.
		Mullah Mujahid, as he is known locally, was arrested on Tuesday during a raid in Dara-i-Noor, some 70kms north of Kandahar.
	www.dawn.com /2004/07/09/top14.htm (640 words)

	Is Mullah Omar the Antichrist?
		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: We are hopeful that you will see the same kind of change that you saw (losing and regaining territory).
		Omar: I told you that it is related to the larger task....
	ww-iii.netfirms.com /mullahomar.htm (1762 words)

	Arab View: The Mystery of Mullah Omar
		Mullah Omar was one of those knights belonging to a distant history.
		Omar is perhaps the only one in the world who has not watched the events of Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath.
		With this kind of thinking, or in fact ignorance, it is no wonder Omar quickly lost the kingdom he had built in the most unbalanced war in the history of armed conflicts — a fight between obsolete and rusty tanks and war planes that flew undetected by radar.
	www.arabview.com /articles.asp?article=449 (620 words)

	Jihad Unspun - Mullah Omar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Omar is considered to be one of the most mysterious figures in Afghan politics today, particularly because he has rarely been photographed or spoken directly to journalists.
		To his followers, Omar is Amir-ul-Momineen, which means Commander of the Faithful and is considered a respected scholar and leader of the Taliban movement.
		Although Omar’s whereabouts are currently unknown, the Taliban continue to be an open wound to forces inside Afghanistan and potential threat to the new Afghan government.
	www.jihadunspun.com /thePlayers/mullahoverview.htm (702 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Mullah Omar 'holed up with 500 men in cave hide-out'
		THE Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is thought to holed up with hundreds of heavily armed men at a mountain hide-out in southern Afghanistan, the interim intelligence chief in Kandahar disclosed last night.
		In the first detailed report of Mullah Omar's possible whereabouts, Haji Gullalai, a senior anti-Taliban commander, said witnesses' accounts placed the fugitive leader and up to 500 fighters in an area of hills and caves near Baghran village, 100 miles north west of Kandahar.
		It was in the city and its surrounding districts that Mullah Omar emerged as a Robin Hood figure in the early 1990s, protecting the poor and the abused from the region's rapacious warlords.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/18/walq118.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/18/ixhome.html (729 words)

	CNN.com - Mullah Omar: The Taliban's reclusive leader - November 3, 2001
		Nonetheless what Mullah Omar says passes as law in the Taliban's Afghanistan and to challenge him is unknown.
		Before the final assault on Kabul in 1996 Mullah Omar, entered Kandahar's grand mosque and took out a rarely seen holy cloth once carried by the Prophet Mohammed.
		Mullah Omar dismissed the global outcry saying the statues' destruction was merely "breaking stones".
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/02/gen.omar.profile (502 words)

	Afghanistan - Mullah Mohammad Omar
		One-eyed Mullah Omar is Commander of the Faithful, top dog and head cheese of the Taliban and of Afghanistan.
		Omar is not so much the political leader of the Taliban as he is the poster boy and religious diviner.
		Omar was born the son of a poor farmer in 1962 in Uruzgan or the Mewand district in SW Afghanistan.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/afghanis/player6.htm (274 words)

	Afgha.com - Afghan Captive Calls Taliban's Mullah Omar-Official
		A captured member of the Afghan Taliban has contacted the movement's leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, a senior official said on Friday, the first indication in months that the one-eyed fugitive is still alive.
		Afghanistan's southern security chief, Abdullah Laghmani, said Mullah Mujahid, whom he described as Omar's former bodyguard, was captured about 50 miles north of Kandahar city this week.
		Mujahid used to be close to Omar, but not since the Taliban were ousted in a U.S.-led war in late 2001, he said.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=44770 (300 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 (318 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mullah Omar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On July 6, 2004, intelligence agents captured Taliban members Mullah Sakhi Dad Mujahid and Nisar Hamed in a raid on a compound in Shah Wali Kot.
		Mujahid was carrying a cell phone containing phone numbers of top level Taliban leaders, including Mohammed Omar.
		Kandahar intelligence chief Abdullah Laghmanai said his people contacted Omar via Mujahid's phone, but when he realized it was not Mujahid, he hung up.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mullah-Omar (665 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Taliban's Mullah Omar Vows Attacks After Winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hakimi also telephoned another Reuters reporter claiming the Taliban was responsible for the killing of a British man in Kabul Monday night, but security sources in the Afghan capital doubted the veracity of the claim, saying it appeared opportunist and the Taliban had often made false claims in the past.
		Hakimi said Omar had told his deputy, Mullah Obaidullah to initiate an attack that would send a clear signal to the Americans that the Taliban command could order a strike whenever it chose.
		Karzai has said his government is in contact with Taliban members and the amnesty offer will not extend to Mullah Omar or up to 150 of his most hardened followers.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/08/talibans_mullah_omar_vows_attacks_after_winter (414 words)

	General Resources on Terrorism: Mullah Omar
		The DAWN Group of Newspapers of India presents "Mullah Omar Brands United Nations a Tool of the West," an article that originally appeared in the April 11, 2001 issue of "DAWN." The article describes the International Deoband conference near Peshawar, Pakistan.
		Mullah Omar is the spiritual leader of the Taliban, which control most of Afghanistan.
		The purpose of the speech by the Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was to rally the Afghan people and Muslims at large in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
	www.loc.gov /rr/international/hispanic/terrorism/mullahomar.html (351 words)

	CBC News:U.S. continues search for Mullah Omar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Omar is reviled in the West, in this village, he is remembered by many as a strong leader who brought peace to Afghanistan.
		As for whether Omar made the right move by harbouring Osama bin Laden, a move which brought American bombs and the end of the Taliban regime, the local men say Omar had no choice.
		The government of Kandahar province believes Mullah Omar is hiding in the mountains in the Uruzgan region in central Afghanistan.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/print/2002/02/18/omar020218 (488 words)

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