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...Omar prefers to rule from the shadows of Kandahar, while his feared Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice enforces Taliban law through religious police with kohl-rimmed eyes, wearing black turbans, who crack whips at recalcitrant mosquegoers and banish women to the window-blocked confines of their homes. Life is severely constricted by an endless list of rules creating a variant of Islam never seen before, say Muslim scholars. In a country in which there is no television and only Islamic radio, Omar shows little knowledge of or concern for the outside world. When officials...
...graveyard of every previous foreign invader. Afghanistan is a place where warfare is a way of life and fighters use battle toughness and treacherous terrain to compensate for lack of equipment. "Ours is a jihad against those who brought suffering on the Afghan people and violated Islamic teaching," Omar has said. "The Taliban will fight until there is no blood in Afghanistan left to be shed." That would not be just Afghan blood, but American...
...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...
...Salam mosque in Jersey City, N.J., was home to Omar Abdel-Rahman when he masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Two weeks ago in Texas, feds arrested two men witnesses say worshiped at the mosque. Ayub Ali-Khan--believed to be a trained pilot whose real name is Gul Mohammed Shah--and Mohammed Azmath were on a flight from Newark to San Antonio when the attacks began. After landing in St. Louis, they hopped a train, only to be arrested in Fort Worth with box cutters and $5,000 in their...
...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. Or he could refuse and make Afghanistan...