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Mohammed Omar
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  • A Taliban militant with a RGP rocket lancher in Kandahar, the stronghold of their spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar
    A Taliban militant with a RGP rocket lancher in Kandahar, the ...
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  • A Taliban militant with a RGP rocket lancher in Kandahar, the stronghold of their spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar
    A Taliban militant with a RGP rocket lancher in Kandahar, the ...
    Source: AFP
  • A man reads an Algerian newspaper, with a portrait of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar on the front page
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Mohammed Omar's Biography

Mohammed Omar (Pashto: ملا محمد عمر) (born c. 1959, Nodeh, near Kandahar) often simply called Mullah Omar, is the leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and was Afghanistan's de facto head of state, and was recognized by three states, from 1996 to 2001, under the official title of Head of the Supreme Council. He held the title Commander of the Faithful from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He is wanted by U.S. authorities for defending Afghanistan from a NATO invasion. He is believed to be directing the Taliban in their war against occupational forces and Hamid Karzai's Government in Afghanistan from Pakistan.

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  • Pakistan to US: Don't surge in Afghanistan, talk to Taliban
    News Source: Christian Science Monitor | about 23 hours ago
    McChrystal's strategy of pulling back from Afghanistan borders, and disagrees with the strategy of a surge to defeat the Taliban. The Pakistani government has some advice the Obama administration may not want to hear as it contemplates sending
  • Changing minds
    News Source: BBC | 11 days ago
    The news from Afghanistan looks unremittingly bleak for the West these days. Casualties among foreign and Afghan troops are again rising, with the rancour over the fraud-marred presidential elections still in the air.
  • Taliban ridicule 'puppet' Karzai, snub olive branch
    News Source: Hindustan times | 20 days ago
    The Taliban on Tuesday rejected an olive branch extended by Hamid Karzai, ridiculing the Afghan president as a "puppet" of the West after he was handed another five years in power. In his first public appearance since being declared president for a
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  • Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan. By Robert Naiman « ...
    Blog Source: kanan48.wordpress.com | 9 days ago
    ... haven would significantly increase the terrorist danger to the United States” and 2) Mullah Mohammed Omar's “Quetta Shura” Taliban have been signalling for months that they are done with Al Qaeda and there has been no U.S. response. ...
  • Snuffysmith's Blog: Why die for Karzai? Does U.S. ...
    Blog Source: snuffysmithsblog.blogspot.com | 9 days ago
    A back-channel, U.S.-blessed Saudi diplomatic initiative in December reported a negotiating proposal from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar demanding, among other things, a new power-sharing arrangement in Kabul, including Karzai; ...
  • some people just cannot grasp that CIA imports drugs « ...
    Blog Source: niqnaq.wordpress.com | 9 days ago
    He is also paid for allowing the CIA and US Special Operations troops to rent a large compound outside the city, the former home of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's founder. The same compound is also the base of the Kandahar Strike ...
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