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Originally Posted by New Era
Terrorism is a tactic, not a strategy. Please, please review the various regions in this database to see it is not a related to any one theology.
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
If this doesn't satisfy you, then take the Sate Department's word for it.
https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2015/257526.htm
Let's be accurate here. The United States created "the Taliban." The Taliban were one of the tribes that the CIA recruited and trained to fight the Soviets. It was their training and the power vacuum left by the Soviets that drove the Taliban to power. If the US had stuck around and not turned their back on the Taliban, they may not have radicalized.
http://www-pub.naz.edu/~aamghar6/His...%20Taliban.htm
bin Laden was actually at odds with the Taliban to begin with. Only later, with a common enemy, did bin Laden find a relationship and comfort with the Taliban.
http://www.e-ir.info/2012/11/17/the-...-and-al-qaeda/
That's a helluva an idea. Let the people be in control and punish their own by their own laws. Brilliant Captain. |
Bin Laden was pretty instrumental in the formation of the Taliban. Although. the Taliban had its roots largely in Madrassas in Pakistan, which were funded by Saudis. There was a split at some point between Bin Laden and the Taliban, but that was temporary and it was over the issue that Arabs should play in the Afghan government/military as opposed to any major ideological role.
Bin Laden returned to Afgahnistan in 1996 after being banned from Sudan and set up his own Al Qaeda mini-state there.
The USA was funding the Mujahideen, in the Afghan/USSR conflict. The Mujahideen were led by Bin Laden. So you can't say that the USA was funding the Taliban, who were in conflict with Bin Laden. It was the opposite, if anything, except that Bin Laden and the Taliban were not in conflict.
So for an overall timeline:
1990- Bin Laden leaves after defeating the Soviets - with US help.
1991-1996 - The Taliban, supported largely by Saudi sponsored madrass trained fighters in Pakistan gain control of Afghanistan. The Taliban did not gain control of Kabul until September 27, 1996.
1996 - Bin Laden returns to Afghanistan on May 18, 1996.
I'm not really seeing this major rift you're talking about. It looks like mutual support between the Taliban and Bin Laden to me, Bin Laden playing a large role in the Taliban founding throughout.