Mohammad Omar

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Mohammad Omar

emir of Afghanistan

Also known as: Mullah Omar

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Mohammad Omar

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Category: History & Society

Also called:: Mullah Omar

Born:: c. 1950–62?, near Kandahār, Afghanistan

Died:: April, 2013, Pakistan

Role In:: Afghan War; Afghanistan War

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Mohammad Omar (born c. 1950–62?, near Kandahār, Afghanistan—died April, 2013, Pakistan) Afghan militant and leader of the Taliban (Pashto: Ṭālebān [“Students”]) who was the emir of Afghanistan (1996–2001). Mullah Omar’s refusal to extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden prompted the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 that overthrew the Taliban government there. Biographical details about Mullah Omar are sparse and conflicting. He was an ethnic Pashtun of the Ghilzay branch who, reportedly, was born near Kandahār, Afghanistan. He is thought to have had minimal schooling, aside from his religious education at a madrasah (school of Islamic sciences), which was interrupted ...(100 of 602 words)

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