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| playername= Kimitoshi Nougawa
|honorific-prefix = <small>[[Mullah]]</small><br>
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|name = Mohammed Omar<br>ملا محمد عمر
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|caption = One of few existing images of Mohammed Omar.
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|order = [[Amir al-Mu'minin|Head of the Supreme Council of Afghanistan]]
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1984|02|06}}
|primeminister = [[Mohammad Rabbani]]<br>[[Abdul Kabir]] <small>(Acting)</small>
| cityofbirth = [[Wakayama]], [[Wakayama Prefecture]]
|term_start = 27 September 1996
| countryofbirth = [[Japan]]
|term_end = 13 November 2001
| currentclub = n/a
|predecessor = [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] <small>(President of Afghanistan)</small>
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| position = [[Striker]]
|birth_date = 1959
| youthyears = 1996<br />1997<br />1998<br />1999-2001<br />2002
|birth_place = [[Nodeh]], [[Afghanistan]]
| youthclubs = Yura FC<br />Craz Osaka<br />Yura FC<br />Shonan Gakuen<br />Shizuoka Sangyo University
|party = [[Islamic and National Revolution Movement of Afghanistan]]<br>[[Taliban]]
| years = 2003<br />2004<br />2005<br />2005
|religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
| clubs = [[Londrina Esporte Clube]]<br />[[Górnik Zabrze]]<br />[[FCM Târgovişte]]<br />[[Canon Yaoundé]]
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[[Mullah]] '''Mohammed Omar''' ([[Pashto]]: ملا محمد عمر) (born c. 1959, Nodeh, near [[Kandahar]]<ref name="Rashid>Rashid (2001) p.23</ref>) often simply called '''Mullah Omar''', is the reclusive leader of the [[Taliban]] of [[Afghanistan]] and was Afghanistan's [[de facto]] [[head of state]] from 1996 to 2001, under the title [[Amir al-Mu'minin|Commander of the Faithful]]. Since the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Post-9/11 war in Afghanistan]] began in 2001 he has been in hiding and wanted by [[U.S.]] authorities for harboring [[Osama bin Laden]] and his [[al-Qaeda]] organization. He is believed to be hiding in [[Pakistan]].<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/09/pakistan.mullahomar/index.html CNN.com - Source: Mullah Omar in Pakistan - Sep 9, 2006<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


{{nihongo|'''Kimitoshi Nougawa'''|?|Nougawa Kimitoshi|extra=born [[February 6]], [[1984]]}} is a professional [[Japan|Japanese]] [[football (soccer)|footballer]]. His birthday has also been reported as [[June 27]], [[1978]].<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://soccer.azplayers.com/players/K/Kimitioshi-Nogawa Kimitoshi Nogawa info at soccer.azplayers.com]</ref> He represented [[Japan national football team|Japan]] at the U-17 level.<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://www.wldcup.com/news/2004Jan/20040109_21774_world_soccer.html Polish club signs up Japanese striker Nogawa]</ref>
Despite his former political rank, and his current high status on terrorism wanted lists,<ref name="rjfEnglish">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=MullahOmar |title=Wanted Poster on Omar |work=[[Rewards for Justice Program]] |publisher=US Department of State}}</ref> not much is publicly known about this man. Few photos, none of them official, exist of him. The authenticity of the existing images is debated.<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/23/wmulla23.xml Who is the real Mullah Omar?, Daily Telegraph, 22 december 2001]</ref> Apart from the fact that he is missing one eye, accounts of his physical appearance are contradictory: some people who have met him describe him as a tall man<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1010/p1s4-wosc.html The reclusive ruler who runs the Taliban | csmonitor.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and others as small and frail.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> He has been described as shy and untalkative with foreigners, and sometimes as downright ignorant.<ref>''Afghanistan: Taliban Preps for Bloody Assault'', [[Newsweek]], [[5 march 2007]]</ref><ref name="autogenerated1" />


After completing the 2002 season at Shizuoka Sangyo University, he moved to Brazil where he played for [[Londrina Esporte Clube|Londrina EC]] during the 2003 season.<ref>{{languageicon|pl|Polish}} [http://www.90minut.pl/kariera.php?id=5367 Kimitoshi Nogawa info at 90minut.pl]</ref>
During his tenure as "emir" of Afghanistan, Omar seldom left Kandahar and almost never met with non-Muslims. Most of the contact between the [[regime]] and the rest of the world was via the foreign minister [[Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil]].


At the start of 2004 he joined [[Górnik Zabrze]] in Poland's top division <ref>{{languageicon|pl|Polish}} [http://www.90minut.pl/kariera.php?id=5367 Kimitoshi Nogawa info at 90minut.pl]</ref> and was reported to be the first [[Japan|Japanese]] player to play in Poland.<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://www.wldcup.com/news/2004Jan/20040109_21774_world_soccer.html Polish club signs up Japanese striker Nogawa]</ref> During the 2005/06 season he played for [[FCM Târgovişte|FC Municipal Târgovişte]] in Romania.<ref>{{languageicon|pl|Polish}} [http://www.90minut.pl/kariera.php?id=5367 Kimitoshi Nogawa info at 90minut.pl]</ref> He is also reported to have tried his luck in Italy.<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=97151.html Cameroon opens up to the Orient]</ref>
==Childhood==
Omar is an ethnic [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]], a member of the Hotak tribe, of the Ghilzai branch of the [[Pashtun]].<ref name="Rashid>Rashid (2001)</ref> He is thought to have been born sometime around 1959 to a family of "poor, landless peasants," growing up in mud huts around the village of [[Sangisar]] Maiwand district in Kandahar province, (or, by some reports, [[Nodeh]]), near [[Kandahar]]. His father is said to have died before he was born and the responsibility of fending for his family fell to him as he grew older.<ref name="autogenerated2">Rashid, ''Taliban'' (2000), p.23</ref>


On [[April 12]], [[2005]] it was reported that Nougawa had apparently signed with [[Canon Yaoundé]] in [[Cameroon]] on a a one-year contract and that he would be the first [[Japan|Japanese]] player to play in [[Africa]].<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4436535.stm Canon sign Japanese player]</ref> Nogawa, it was reported, moved to the Cameroon because of the "country's football reputation" and because he admired [[Patrick Mboma]], who played in Japan.<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4436535.stm Canon sign Japanese player]</ref> Komodo Sport, a sports management company based in [[Indonesia]] and owned by [[Maboang Kessack]], who played for Cameroon at the [[1990 World Cup]], was reported as being behind this deal.
==Soviet invasion and radicalization==
Omar fought as a guerilla with the ''[[Islamic and National Revolution Movement of Afghanistan|Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami]]'' faction of the anti-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Mujahideen]] under the command of Nek Mohammad, and fought against the [[Mohammad Najibullah|Najibullah]] regime between 1989 and 1992.<ref name="autogenerated2" /> It was reported that he was thin, but tall and strongly built, and "a crack marksman who had destroyed many Soviet tanks during the Afghan War."<ref>Ismail Khan, `Mohaddedi Opposes Elevation of Taliban's Omar,` ''Islamabad the News'', April 6, 1996, quoted in Wright, ''Looming Tower'', (2006), p.226</ref>


However, as it turned out, no contract had been signed and after five days in [[Yaoundé]] the player left,<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4487285.stm Japanese player flees Canon]</ref> despite earlier promising to win the national championship with the club.<ref>{{languageicon|en|English}} [http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=97151.html Cameroon opens up to the Orient]</ref>
Omar was wounded four times, and lost an eye either in 1986<ref name="alq">Williams, Paul L., "Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror", 2002</ref> or in the 1989 Battle of Jalalabad, which also marred his cheek and forehead.<ref>Arnaud de Borchgrave, `Osama bin Laden - Null and Void,` UPI, June 14, 2001, quoted in Wright, ''Looming Tower'', (2006), p.226 </ref> Taliban lore has it that, upon being wounded by a piece of shrapnel, Omar removed his own eye and sewed the eyelid shut. However, reports from a [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]] facility near the Pakistan border indicate that Omar was treated there for the injury, where his eye was surgically removed.

After he was disabled, Omar may have studied and taught in a [[madrasah]], or Islamic seminary, in the Pakistani border city of [[Quetta]]. He was reportedly a [[mullah]] at a village madrasah near the Afghan city of Kandahar.

Unlike most of the Afghan mujahideen, Omar speaks passable Arabic. <Ref>interview with Farraj Ismail, by Lawrence Wright in ''Looming Tower'', (2006), p.226 </ref> He was "devoted to the lectures of Sheikh Abdullah Azzam. Piety, modesty, and courage were the main features of his personality," according to Lawrence Wright.<ref>Wright, ''Looming Tower'', (2006), p.226 </ref>

===Forming the Taliban===
Following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 and the collapse of the [[Communism|Communist]] regime in Kabul in 1992, the country fell into chaos as various mujahideen factions fought for control. Omar came to head a group of warriors known as the Taliban, or Students. His recruits came from the [[Qur'an]]ic schools within Afghanistan and in the [[Afghan refugees|Afghan refugee]] camps across the border in Pakistan. They fought against the rampant [[Political corruption|corruption]] that had emerged in the [[civil war]] period and were initially welcomed by Afghans weary of [[warlord]] rule.

Reportedly, in early 1994, Omar led 30 men armed with 16 rifles to free two girls who had been kidnapped and raped by local commanders.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Reuters|date=[[2001-09-20]]|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_story_skin/57491|accessdate=2006-07-02|title=The mysterious Mullah behind the Taliban}}</ref> His movement gained momentum through the year, and he quickly gathered recruits from Islamic schools. By November 1994, Omar's movement managed to capture the province of [[Kandahar Province|Kandahar]] and then captured [[Herat Province|Herat]] in September 1995.<ref>Goodson (2001) p. 107</ref>

==Leader of the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]==

[[Image:mohammedomar.jpg|thumb|Photo thought to represent Mohammed Omar.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/09/will-real-mullah-omar-please-stand-up.html The authenticity of this picture is disputed].</ref>]]
In April 1996, supporters of Mullah Omar bestowed on him the title ''[[Amir al-Mu'minin]]'' (أمير المؤمنين, "Commander of the Faithful"),<ref>[http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=860 Messages by Al-Qaeda Operatives in Afghanistan to the Peoples of the West] "... alongside the Emir of the Believers..." September 2005</ref> after he took a cloak alleged to be that of [[Muhammad]] out of a series of chests it was locked in, held in a shrine in Kandahar. Legend decreed that whoever could retrieve the cloak from the chests would be the great Leader of the Muslims, or "''Amir al-Mu'minin''".<ref name="Boston Globe">{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/12/19/MN37470.DTL|title=Kandahar residents feel betrayed|first=Patrick|last=Healy|publisher=Boston Globe|date=2001-12-19}}</ref> In September that year, [[Kabul]] fell to Mullah Omar and his followers.

Under Omar's rule lawlessness and crime diminished, but fighting and the suffering of civilians from destruction of war continued. What his regime was most famous for was its enforcement of a particularly strict version of Islamic Law (the [[Sharia]] or Path). The only professions open to women in government-run organisations were in the field of medicine, and the women working as doctors or nurses could only treat other women. Women were also not permitted to attend co-educational schools; in practice, this prevented the vast majority of young women and girls in Afghanistan from receiving even a [[primary education]]. In major cities, a stringent interpretation of the Islamic dress code, specifically the [[Hijab]] or Veil, was enforced: women could not leave the house without a [[burqa]]. Men were forced to grow beards and avoid non-Islamic haircuts or dress. Cinemas were closed and music banned. Theft was punished by the amputation of a hand, rape and murder by public execution. Married adulterers were stoned to death. In Kabul, punishments were carried out in front of crowds in the city's former [[soccer stadium]]. Hundreds of cultural artifacts that were deemed [[polytheistic]] were also destroyed including major museum and countless private art collections. Mullah Mohammed Omar defended his order saying it was an honor for Islam, despite international outcries, which intensified with the destruction in 2001 of the [[Buddhas of Bamyan]].

Omar renamed Afghanistan the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]] in October 1997, but did not move to Kabul, which has been the capital of Afghanistan for several centuries. Omar only visited Kabul twice during the reign of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001, preferring to rule from his base in Kandahar.

On November 15, 2001, following the 9/11 attack on America and the American retaliatory attack on the Taliban, Omar talked in a BBC interview of the need for a "screening" of the Taliban for loyalty, which "is a big task;" and of "the destruction of America ... extinction of America" a plan for which "is going ahead and, God willing, it is being implemented." Asked about the possibility of representatives of "moderate Taliban" joining the new government, Omar proclaimed,
<BLOCKQUOTE>All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ["ifraat", or doing something to excess] and conservatism ["tafreet", or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.<ref>{{Cite news|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1657368.stm |title=On whether moderate Taliban will join the new Afghani government|publisher=BBC News |date=2001-11-15}}</ref></BLOCKQUOTE>

==In hiding==
[[Image:Omarwanted.jpg|thumb|This photo, which was believed to represent Mohammed Omar and used on wanted posters, has since been established to be a picture of former Taliban [[protocol (diplomacy)|protocol officer]] [[Mulvi Hafizullah]].<ref>''Trouble : mistaken for the Mullah'', [[Newsweek]], 14 october 2002.</ref>.]]
After the United States invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001, Omar went into hiding and is still at large. He is thought to be in the Pashtun regions of Afghanistan and [[Pakistan]]. The United States government is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to his capture.<ref name="rjfEnglish"/>
Omar is believed to have played a significant role in the ending of the [[Waziristan War]] between Waziri Pashtuns and the government of Pakistan in September, 2006. He continues to have the allegiance of prominent pro-Taliban military leaders in the region, including [[Jalaluddin Haqqani]]. Former foe [[Gulbuddin Hekmatyar]]'s faction has also reportedly allied with Omar and the Taliban.

In April 2004 Omar, with [[Mohammad Shehzad]] had a telephone interview.<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/apr/12inter.htm 'We are hunting Americans like pigs'<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

A captured Taliban spokesman, [[Muhammad Hanif]], told Afghan authorities in January 2007, that Omar was being protected by the [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] in [[Quetta]], Pakistan.<ref name="BBC">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6272359.stm Mullah Omar 'hiding in Pakistan'], BBC, 18 January 2007.</ref> This matches an allegation made by the President of Afghanistan, [[Hamid Karzai]], in 2006, though it is denied by officials in Pakistan.

Numerous statements reportedly from Omar have been released. In June 2006 a statement regarding the death of [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]] in [[Iraq]] was released hailing al-Zarqawi as a [[martyr]] and claimed that the [[resistance movement]]s in Afghanistan and Iraq "will not be weakened".<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=2006-06-09|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5062964.stm|accessdate=2006-07-02|title=Taliban play down Zarqawi death}}</ref> Then in December 2006 Omar issued statement expressing confidence that foreign forces will be driven out of Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite news |publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] |date=[[2006-12-31]] |url= http://english.aljazeera.net/News/Templates/Postings/DetailedPage.aspx?FRAMELESS=false&NRNODEGUID=%7b7C70CC1E-B445-4C62-8177-ACDD3A3EBB73%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fNR%2fexeres%2f7C70CC1E-B445-4C62-8177-ACDD3A3EBB73%2ehtm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest |accessdate=2007-01-01|title=Mullah Omar issues Eid message}}</ref>

In January 2007, it was reported that Omar made his 'first exchange with a journalist since going into hiding' in 2001, via [[Muhammad Hanif]], in which he promised 'more Afghan War'.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/05/world/asia/05taliban.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Taliban Leader Promises More Afghan War - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In April 2007, Omar issued another statement through an intermediary encouraging more suicide attacks.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[Reuters]]|date=[[2007-04-21]]|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070421/wl_nm/afghan_violence_dc|accessdate=2007-04-23|title=Taliban's elusive leader urges more suicide raids}}</ref>

In [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]]'s frequent appearances in [[as-Sahab]] videos, he regularly refers to Mullah Omar as "Commander of the Faithful".

==Notes ==
{{reflist|2}}


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=CWv3tdo3dkUC&pg=PA25&ots=R0HAOffbsX&dq=Rashid,+Ahmad+(2001).+Taliban:+The+Story+of+the+Afghan+Warlords&sig=MF74VHPMGkSNuMlnZfMKY56Esqc#PPA1,M1 {{cite book|last=Rashid|first=Ahmad|title=Taliban: The Story of the Afghan Warlords|year=2001|publisher=Pan Books|id=ISBN 0-330-49221-7}} ]
*{{cite book |first=Larry P. |last=Goodson |title=Afghanistan's Endless War: State failure, Regional politics and the rise of the Taliban |publisher=University of Washington Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-295-98111-3}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|last=Coll|first=Steve|title=Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001|year=2004|publisher=Penguin Press|id=ISBN 1-594-20007-6}}

==See also==
*[[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)]]
*[[Afghan Civil War (1996-2001)]]
*[[Soviet war in Afghanistan]]
*[[Taliban insurgency]]
*[[Islamic Emirate of Waziristan]]

==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
{{Wikinews|Mullah Omar says his jihad to continue}}
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1657368.stm BBC interview with Mullah Omar]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1550419.stm BBC biography of Mullah Omar]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/war_on_terror/investigation_on_terror/people_3.stm BBC biographical information from Omar]
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,558076,00.html Mullah Omar - in his own words], ''[[The Guardian]]''
*[http://www.jihadunspun.com/theplayers/mullahoverview.htm Jihad Unspun article about Muhammad Omar]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7236177.stm US says Mullah Omar 'in Pakistan']

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Kimitoshi Nōgawa
Personal information
Full name Kimitoshi Nougawa
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 n/a
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 June 2008

Kimitoshi Nougawa (?, Nougawa Kimitoshi, born February 6, 1984) is a professional Japanese footballer. His birthday has also been reported as June 27, 1978.[1] He represented Japan at the U-17 level.[2]

After completing the 2002 season at Shizuoka Sangyo University, he moved to Brazil where he played for Londrina EC during the 2003 season.[3]

At the start of 2004 he joined Górnik Zabrze in Poland's top division [4] and was reported to be the first Japanese player to play in Poland.[5] During the 2005/06 season he played for FC Municipal Târgovişte in Romania.[6] He is also reported to have tried his luck in Italy.[7]

On April 12, 2005 it was reported that Nougawa had apparently signed with Canon Yaoundé in Cameroon on a a one-year contract and that he would be the first Japanese player to play in Africa.[8] Nogawa, it was reported, moved to the Cameroon because of the "country's football reputation" and because he admired Patrick Mboma, who played in Japan.[9] Komodo Sport, a sports management company based in Indonesia and owned by Maboang Kessack, who played for Cameroon at the 1990 World Cup, was reported as being behind this deal.

However, as it turned out, no contract had been signed and after five days in Yaoundé the player left,[10] despite earlier promising to win the national championship with the club.[11]

References

  1. ^ Template:Languageicon Kimitoshi Nogawa info at soccer.azplayers.com
  2. ^ Template:Languageicon Polish club signs up Japanese striker Nogawa
  3. ^ Template:Languageicon Kimitoshi Nogawa info at 90minut.pl
  4. ^ Template:Languageicon Kimitoshi Nogawa info at 90minut.pl
  5. ^ Template:Languageicon Polish club signs up Japanese striker Nogawa
  6. ^ Template:Languageicon Kimitoshi Nogawa info at 90minut.pl
  7. ^ Template:Languageicon Cameroon opens up to the Orient
  8. ^ Template:Languageicon Canon sign Japanese player
  9. ^ Template:Languageicon Canon sign Japanese player
  10. ^ Template:Languageicon Japanese player flees Canon
  11. ^ Template:Languageicon Cameroon opens up to the Orient
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