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Person Biography:(required) <p><strong>Mullah Mohammed Omar was a reclusive figure even before his Taliban government fell from power in late 2001 and he was forced into hiding.</strong></p> <p>It was Mullah Omar's backing for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden that brought the US-led campaign to oust the Taliban.</p> <p>He and most of the other senior Taliban leaders, along with Bin Laden and some of his senior al-Qaeda associates, survived the American onslaught.</p> <p>Mullah Omar and most of his comrades have since evaded capture despite one of the largest manhunts in the world and are believed to be guiding the resurgent Taliban.</p> <p>US President Barack Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said he believes Mullah Omar is in hiding somewhere along the rugged border between the two countries.</p> <p>Others believe him to be in Quetta or Karachi, in Pakistan, something officials in Islamabad deny.</p> <p>They say he is in Afghanistan.</p> <p>The arrest of the Taliban's second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, near Karachi in January lends credence to the idea that other top Afghan Taliban leaders are in hiding in Pakistan.</p> <p>Since 2001 the Taliban have regrouped in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, but are now under pressure in both countries, from the Pakistani army and Nato respectively.</p> <p>Despite ever higher numbers of foreign troops, the Taliban have steadily extended their influence, rendering vast tracts of Afghanistan insecure, and violence in the country has returned to levels not seen since 2001.</p> <p>In a message e-mailed to journalists in 2009 and attributed to Mullah Omar, he urged Taliban members to continue to fight against foreign military forces in Afghanistan.</p> <p><strong>Family ties</strong></p> <p>Mullah Omar and Bin Laden go back to their time as resistance fighters against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan of 1979 to 1989.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Bin Laden is believed to have at least partially financed the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.</p> <p>The ties may go further. It was thought that Mullah Omar had 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.</p> <p>The Taliban always denied this.</p> <p>Mullah Omar was only a small-time commander in the forces resisting the Soviet occupation. He never did any practical field commanding during the Taliban's 1994-96 blitzkreig that culminated in their capture of Kabul.</p> <p>But the localised uprising that he led against former Mujahideen warlords in the Kandahar area in 1994 earned him wide respect and is regarded by some as a catalyst for the Taliban movement that followed.</p> <p>He emerged from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan as their undisputed leader or "commander of the faithful", a title with great resonance in Islamic history</p> <p><strong>Kandahar house</strong></p> <p>No Western journalist has ever met Mullah Omar, who left virtually all contact with the outside world to his foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakkil.</p> <p>To many ordinary Afghans he is just a name, but those who have seen him say he would be about 50 - and tall, with a black beard and a black turban.</p> <p>His right eye was damaged by shrapnel when he was fighting Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers in the 1980s.</p> <p>When the Taliban were in power he rarely left the southern city of Kandahar, where he lived in a large house that was reportedly built for him by Bin Laden.</p> <p>The two were reported to have spoken daily by satellite telephone, and some reports suggested they also met for fishing trips.</p> <p><strong>Bamiyan</strong></p> <p>Under Mullah Omar's rule, a strict interpretation of Islamic law was imposed on Afghanistan under Taliban control.</p> <p>Women were strongly discouraged from leaving their homes, denied schooling and jobs and forced to fully cover themselves.</p> <p>Women found guilty of adultery were stoned to death, homosexuals crushed under brick walls, thieves' hands amputated and murderers publicly executed by victims' families.</p> <p>Edicts from Mullah Omar included the death sentence for anyone converting to another religion, as well as the infamous orders to destroy the country's ancient Buddha statues at Bamiyan.</p> <p>The Taliban's fall from power was a far cry from the optimism that greeted their arrival in Kabul in the mid-1990s, when many ordinary Afghans welcomed them as heralding an end to the chaos caused by years of civil war.</p> <p>source:BBC </p> <p><!-- E BO --></p>

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