Mohammed Omar
Mohammed Omar ( ملا محمد عمر, known as Mullah Omar, * around 1959 in Nodeh ) is an Islamic fundamentalist from Afghanistan. He is the leader of the Taliban and was 1996-2001 de facto head of state of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Life
Omar was born as the son of poor Ghilzai - Pashtun peasants in a village in the vicinity of Kandahar. After the death of his father Omar the end of 1979 went to the small village Sanghissar to hire themselves out there as a village mullah.
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
After the withdrawal of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, Omar fought from 1989 to 1992 in the Hizb -e -Islami commander Nek Mohammed under against the government Mohammed Najibullah. He was wounded four times and lost his right eye by shrapnel.
Become the leader of the Taliban
In summer 1994, Omar is said to have founded with 33 like-minded movement, the taking of Kabul reached the military rule over Afghanistan in September 1996. As the triggering moment, the abduction and rape of two girls is called by a Mujahideen commander in various sources, the men banded together for the release under the leadership of Mullah Omar. After rescuing the girl, the commander was hung on a tank tube. With these fundamentalist militias recruited from the madrassas and from the refugee camps along the border with Pakistan and Taliban called, he began the government to fight the enemy and mujahedeen warlords. Although the archaic goals and brutal methods of the Taliban were not entirely popular, they received support mainly from the poorest social strata of the Pashtun population.
A meeting of 1,600 Afghan clerics awarded him in 1996 the title ( أمير المؤمنين, Amir al - Mu'minin, " Commander of the Faithful "). Thus Omar was head of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. International protests he sparked with his command in March 2001 destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan.
In October 1998, took his first meeting with a diplomat of the United Nations, Lakhdar Brahimi, instead. He was not photographed until the age of 39 years. Omar lived and worked withdrawn in his government villa in Kandahar, even after the Taliban, the Afghan capital, Kabul had conquered. He met rarely with non-Muslims, and there are very few photos of him.
Omar has three wives. The first and third are from Urozgan and his second wife Guljana from Singesar, whom he married underage 1995. He also has five children.
Fall of the Taliban
The after September 11, 2001, required by the U.S. extradition of Osama bin Laden rejected Omar in a telephone interview as " un-Islamic " from. Since the fall of the Taliban, Omar is on the run. On his capture, the U.S. government put out a bounty of 10 million dollars. He is said to have been found at this time in Kandahar under the protection of a local tribal leader.
On 25 July 2005, Omar reported allegedly by means of a tape message and called on them to step up attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan. He also claimed not to take part in an activity as possible the Afghan civilian population affected. However, the authenticity of the tape could not be confirmed.
On October 22, 2006 Omar urged stationed in Afghanistan, NATO troops on, to leave the country, and announced attacks against the troops. His whereabouts was at this time as unknown. In January 2007, claiming the former spokesman for the Taliban, Muhammad Hanif, that Mullah Omar was operating from Pakistan and keep hidden there with the help of Pakistani intelligence.
Saudi King Abdullah is to force the Afghan reconciliation process, Mullah Omar have offered political asylum.
For 2009, Mullah Omar announced " an explosion of violence in Afghanistan " to. His whereabouts was then suspected in the Pakistani city of Quetta. In the fall of 2009, he allegedly escaped with the assistance of Pakistan's ISI to Karachi.
In mid-November 2010, Omar turned in a multilingual message to multiple media. In it, he urged Muslims worldwide to make donations. In addition, he turned down an offer to the Afghan government over 35,000 points for his fighters in the talks between the Taliban and the Karzai government.
Omar could allegedly stop in May 2011 in Quetta, Pakistan according to media reports.
He is the leader of the Quetta Shura.