The obscure village mullah had been forced on him by Akhmad Yazid.

After several years of devastating fighting, a village mullah named Mohammed Omar organized a new armed movement with the backing of Pakistan.

The village mullah and qadi also played an important role in local affairs.

The father of the infected 18-month-old said his village mullah had never talked about AIDS.

An obscure village mullah, he is present when Ammar parachutes from Nebula Flight 106.

Mahmud, who like many Pakistanis and Afghans goes by only one name, said they had answered calls on the radio, from the village mullah and even the regional police to go and help the Afghans in their moment of need.

The village mullah's peaceful call to prayer at dusk was occasionally interrupted by gunfire, but no one seemed to notice.

Word of the outrage reached Muhammad Omar, a village mullah who ran a small Islamic school nearby.

The same elders and the village mullah were fired on by the Russians on the morning of April 7 while returning from the negotiations before the federal attack; the military command announced that it was the separatists who had shot at the elders.