article_snippet.sent: That appears to be the primary message of a biography, just published by the Taliban, of the reclusive militant who is credited with founding the group in the early 1990s.
article_snippet.sent: the Taliban's "Cultural Commission" released the 11-page document in several different translations on the movement's website, ostensibly to commemorate the 19th anniversary of an April 4, 1996, meeting in Afghanistan's Kandahar province when an assembly of Afghans swore allegiance to Mohammed Omar.
article_snippet.sent: Why U.S. must stay in Afghanistan past 2016 .
article_snippet.sent: the biography also appears to be an attempt to remind the world of the Afghan's jihadi leadership credentials, at a time when ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has declared ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "caliph" of the world's Muslims.
article_snippet.sent: the Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment," said Graeme Smith, a Kabul-based analyst for the International Crisis Group.
article_snippet.sent: Another caliph has announced Another caliph to the world, and the Taliban has been silent.
article_snippet.sent: And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia.
article_snippet.sent: Washington has offered a $10 million reward for Omar capture.
article_snippet.sent: the Taliban have released written statements purportedly made by the leader-in-hiding.
article_snippet.sent: The publication also seeks to fill in some of the gaps about the militant's early years, including the detail that his "preferred weapon of choice" was the RPG-7, a rocket-propelled grenade.
article_snippet.sent: Afghan historians have documented the rapid rise of the Taliban in the chaotic years after the communist government in Kabul collapsed in 1992.
article_snippet.sent: The movement of warriors who identified The movement of warriors who identified themselves as religious scholars emerged to bring order to a country being ripped apart by rival mujahedeen warlords who battled one another for power as religious scholars emerged to bring order to a country being ripped apart by rival mujahedeen warlords who battled one another for power.
article_snippet.sent: Two years later, the Taliban captured Kabul and began imposing the Taliban austere interpretation of Islamic law on the rest of the country.
article_snippet.sent: Exclusive: ISIS 'recruits Afghans' in chilling video .
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Masoud Popalzai contributed to this report from Kabul, Afghanistan.