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Taliban: United States
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Taliban were the answer to Pakistan's frustration with the old Mujahideen leadership. Pakistan with the help of United States encouraged and helped organize Taliban as a counter group. Now their dramatic success introduces a new and unpredictable element in an already muddled situation.
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The Taliban is an infamous organization, having ruled Afghanistan under strict Islamic rule for five years, between 1996 and 2001. The Taliban is ... notorious for harboring the international terrorist Usama bin Laden during its rule of Afghanistan. Today, the Taliban has been ousted from power but has re-surfaced as a non-state terrorist entity within Afghanistan.
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The Taliban banned music and dancing, shut down movie theaters and television stations, destroyed public works of art that depicted living beings, and forbade the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Men were ordered to grow full, untrimmed beards (in accordance with orthodox Islam) and were rounded up and beaten with sticks in an effort to force prayer in the mosques. The Taliban strongly enforced the ancient custom of purdah, the veiling and seclusion of women from men. Women were ordered to cover themselves from head to toe in burkas (long, tentlike veils). Girls’ schools were closed, and women were forbidden to work outside their homes. As a result, hospitals lost almost all their staffs and children in orphanages were abandoned.
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If the Taliban's strategy is to make Zabul too difficult for the central government and international aid agencies to work in, it has worked. The situation is so volatile that the United Nations and large non-government organizations have stopped working in Zabul. According to local officials, Taliban commanders have ... issued death warrants against any journalist entering the province.
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After the reports that Taliban insurgents used Iranian-made weapons against NATO forces appeared, the U.S. will control the Iran's involvement in Afghanistan. Richard Boucher, assistant U.S. secretary of state for South and Central Asia, told reporters that Washington would like Iran to continue its previous "generally positive role" in reconstruction in neighboring Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan's Endless War : State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban by Larry P. Goodson, assistant professor of political science at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Publication date: September 15, 2001 (Hardcover version)
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