Mohammed Omar
Summary
Mullah Mohammed Omar (Pashto: ملا محمد عمر; born c. 1959), often simply called Mullah Omar, is the spiritual leader of the Taliban movement that operates in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was Afghanistan's de facto head of state from 1996 to late 2001, under the official title "Head of the Supreme Council". He held the title Commander of the Faithful of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which was officially recognized by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.Mullah Omar is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States since October 2001, for sheltering Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda militants in the years prior to the September 11 attacks.
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Taliban website hacked as Afghan cyber war heats up
KABUL (Reuters) - Hackers have for the third time in less than a year crippled the main website of the Afghan Taliban, with a Taliban spokesman on Friday blaming Western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyber war with the insurgents.
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Journalism and a world in transition: Wadah Khanfar's James Cameron memorial lecture | Wadah Khanfar
Friday the 11th of February was almost past when I drove my car shortly before midnight from the al-Jazeera offices to my home along the Corniche Road in Doha. I was exhausted. The past 16 days had been some of the most exciting and tense days in my life and in the lives of millions of the region's inhabitants.
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Tech-savvy Taliban fights war in cyberspace
KABUL (Reuters) - The war in Afghanistan entered cyberspace on Wednesday when the tech-savvy Taliban said their phones, email and website had been hacked to spread a false report that the movement's spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, was dead.
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Robert Naiman: Restore Sanity? Jon Stewart Gave Senator Coburn a Bum Rap on Haiti Aid
Like many Americans, I have a great deal of sympathy with the thrust of Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30. It's bad enough that the debasement of public discourse is unpleasant, and encourages some Americans to want to withdraw from politics completely; but the debasement of public discourse is also a major obstacle to enacting policies that America needs.
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