article_snippet.sent: According to The biography, Omar was born in 1960 in a village called Chah-i-Himmat in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
article_snippet.sent: Omar studied at a religious school, or madrassa, run by Omar uncle.
article_snippet.sent: The rise of the Communist Party in Afghanistan, and the subsequent 1979 Soviet invasion, interrupted the young man's studies and propelled Omar into the arms of the armed Afghan opposition known as the mujahedeen.
article_snippet.sent: For the next decade, Omar commanded rebel groups "against the invading Russians and Russians internal communist puppets," according to The biography.
article_snippet.sent: Along the way, Omar was wounded a number of times and was blinded in Omar right eye.
article_snippet.sent: In one battle, the biography claims, Omar and a fighter named Mullah Biradar Akhund destroyed four Soviet tanks, even though Omar and a fighter named Mullah Biradar Akhund were armed with only four RPG rounds.
article_snippet.sent: The biography says that Omar and The biography compatriots "launched Omar and his compatriots struggle and fight against corruption and anarchy" after an initial meeting in Kandahar in June 1994.