Word: mullah
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...leave the Kabul government some ways to save face, insisting carefully, for example, that bin Laden be turned in to "appropriate authorities," which gives the Taliban a chance to surrender bin Laden to an Islamic state instead of to the U.S. Nearly every "last chance" offered to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, though, has been met with a denunciation of the U.S. Said a shaken Pakistani diplomat after negotiations broke down on Friday: "Omar is not afraid of war with...
Osama has four wives and more than 10 children. He married his first wife, a Syrian girl, when he was 17. More recently he has used marriage as a strategic tool. He married one of his daughters to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Bin Laden's eldest son, Mohammed, wed the daughter of bin Laden lieutenant Mohammed Atef. The 19-year-old bin Laden is reportedly learning his father's business by guarding Osama's tent at night with...
...militia that dubbed itself the Taliban, Pashtu for Islamic students, emerged in 1994 from the rural southern hinterlands of Afghanistan, under the guidance of the reclusive onetime village preacher Mullah Mohammed Omar. Fed by recruits from conservative religious schools across the border in Pakistan attended by destitute refugees from the 1979-89 war against the Soviet invasion, the Taliban won military and political support from Pakistan. It rose to power by promising peace and order for a country ravaged by corruption and civil war and the prospect of re-establishing traditional majority-Pashtun dominance...
...seen sat a man few non-Muslims have ever met mulling over the future of a wanted man, his own nation and much of the world beyond. Not often in history is anyone given such a moment to affect the world's course, but the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is that man. As American warplanes converged on the region surrounding Afghanistan, he had a stark choice to make. He could call by radio to the Taliban fighters in Osama bin Laden's personal security guard and order them to hand over their "guest" to justice...
...have the commitment to fight." Attiya and Aslam come from a long line of religious scholars, going back at least seven generations. Their forefathers all memorized the Koran, and the house where they were born in Larik, on the left bank of the river Indus, was on Mullah Street, so called because of their family's traditional profession. But their father, a poet, rebelled. He threw off his religious mantle and started a school for girls. As a child, Attiya was surrounded by the rhythms and cadences of his poetry, and she followed in his footsteps, writing in her native...