On his head hung a size of 10 million dollars. Sayed Zafar Hashemi, deputy spokesman for Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, called a press conference in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Mohammed Omar has always been a very shy person for this afternoon.
To date, of the leader with one eye, there are only a few photos. Never a video interview or an audio message: no media propaganda campaign. The man would have lived in hiding from the 2001, the year in which US involvement in the war against the Taliban began. Precisely since then speculations have spread about his death.
Last April, the Taliban "Culture Commission" also published a biography of the "commander of believers", leader of the movement that arose in the early '90. The work consists of eleven pages, translated into different languages and available on the website of the movement. The biography was released to commemorate the 19 anniversary of the loyalty oath of a group of loyalists to the mullah, which took place in the province of Kandahar, in Afghanistan.
What will become the mullah Mohammed Omar was born in 1960, in a village called Chah-i-Himmat, in the province of Kandahar, in Afghanistan. His father was a cultured and respected man, a member of the clan of the Tomzi Hotak tribe. It was called Moulavi Ghulam Nabi. He died five years after the birth of Omar, due to natural causes. Immediately after the family moved to the province of Uruzgan. His training took place at a religious school (madrasa), run by his uncle.
The rise of the Communist Party in Afghanistan and the subsequent Soviet invasion that took place in 1979, prompted the young man to abandon his studies and take up the cause of the mujahideen. We read in his biography “From that moment begins the rise of Omar to lead the rebels against the invading Russians and their communist puppets. Gravely wounded four times, he also sacrificed his right eye to the cause of Afghanistan, which he removed with his left hand ”. In fact, the removal of the right eye took place under different circumstances. It was the Red Cross surgeons who performed the operation and followed the man's rehabilitation.
"During a battle, Omar and Mullah Biradar Akhund destroyed four Soviet tanks with only four RPGs." In the Taliban biography there is no mention in any way of the essential intervention of the United States, with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, in financing, training and equipping the mujaheddin.
With the defeat of the Russian army in the 1989 and the fall of the communist government of Kabul occurred in the 1992, the country fell into chaos and upset by internal wars. It was then that Omar and his patriots decided to fight "corruption and anarchy in defense of the people".
The first armed action of Omar dates back to the 1994 when - according to local sources, never confirmed by the West - with thirty men he managed to attack a barracks, freeing the hostages and slaughtering the local commanders. The rise of the Taliban (coming from the Koranic schools of Pakistan), is unstoppable also because it is seen as a wind of innovation and freedom. In 1996, Omar conquers Kabul and Amīr al-Muʾminīn, Commander of the Believers, is consecrated.
In October of the 1997, Omar baptized Afghanistan as "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan". From that moment on, in all the territories occupied by the Taliban, Shari'ah is imposed, the austere interpretation of Islamic law. The religious decree "Commanding the good and punishing the evil", reported the amputation of the arts for some crimes, the stoning for adultery and heavy limitations that applied to the whole sphere of the individual.
In the biography "the unjust and shameful attack by the United States coalesces with the rival tribes" against the country is given, but the alliance between the Taliban and Bin Laden is not mentioned. "The charismatic personality of Omar is unique. He never loses his composure as his heart is full of courage. He is a merciful man and has a particular sense of humor. He never considered himself superior to anyone. "And again" Mullah Omar does not own a house and does not have a bank account at home or anywhere in the world under a false name. He carefully observes the infidels. "
The work ends with the "numbers" of the Taliban. Under the leadership of mullah Mohammed Omar, the country is governed by the Taliban council and nine executive committees. The power of the Taliban extends over all thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
Now he expects to know the name of the heir of Mohammed Omar.
Franco Iacch
