History Final Research: Taliban Packet: While the civil war was in Afghanistan‚ the Taliban was grouping in Pakistan. They were small religious schools for orphans and refugee children. With the influence from Mullah Omar‚ the schools got bigger until they were a political force. The Taliban started to take control of Afghanistan. September 1996‚ they came to power and renamed it to Islamic Ermiate of Afghanistan. At first the people liked the Taliban‚ they told them that they
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Taliban By Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid’s Taliban was the best book on the history and ideology of the Taliban when it was first published in 2000. It still is. In three sections that read easily and fluidly‚ Rashid oulines the ideological and historical origins of the Taliban‚ the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam‚ and the Taliban and Afghanistan’s place in "the new great game‚" a competition between regional and western powers for that region of the world. Fanaticism Resurgent In 2000‚ the Taliban was
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Global Terrorism GVPT 406 Term Paper The Taliban Patrick Arihi The US Department of State has never labelled or listed the Taliban in its foreign terrorist Organization list. In this paper‚ I will show that the Taliban is a terrorist organization and need to be labelled as such by the US Department of State. The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has defined international terrorism as follows: “Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human
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bringers of hope to a hopeless society‚ but soon after brought oppression and fear to all. The Taliban‚ or “students‚” were only brought to the attention of most westerners after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. However‚ they have a much deeper history rooted as far back as the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of the region. In order to comprehend the rise‚ fall and re-emergence of the Taliban‚ three men must be mentioned: Mohammad Omar‚ Ahmad Shah Massoud‚ and the most famous terrorist
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be. But a few years would change that all. Everything that the citizens of Afghanistan knew‚ their entire way of life would change. The cause? The Taliban. The Taliban are an extremist Muslim group from Afghanistan. The Taliban‚ who call themselves Jihad or “freedom fighters” are the most brutal extremist Muslims in the world. To understand the Taliban you must understand how they where able to gain control of Afghanistan ‚there rule during the time period they controlled Afghanistan‚ and how they
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[BACKGROUND INFO & TOPIC SENTENCE] “The Taliban claimed to follow a pure‚ fundamentalist Islamic ideology‚ yet the oppression they perpetrated against women had no basis in Islam. Within Islam‚ women are allowed to earn and control their money and to participate in public life. The 55-member Organization of Islamic Conference refused to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s official government. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt‚ regarded by many as an ultraconservative organization‚ denounced the
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AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN AND THEIR DOWNFALL 5. Geo-Strategic Importance of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is Central Asia’s land locked country‚ spread over an area of 253‚ 861 miles. Bordered on the North by the Republics of Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan‚ North-East by the Chinese province of Sinkiang‚ on the South-East by Pakistan‚ and on the West by Iran. Afghanistan’s geopolitical importance has been that of a buffer state first between the Tsarist Russian and the British Indian Empires and
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DIIS REPORT 2013:06 DIIS REPORT DIIS REPORT TALIBAN TALKS PAST‚ PRESENT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE US‚ AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN Edited by Mona K. Sheikh & Maja T. J. Greenwood DIIS REPORT 2013:06 DIIS . DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 1 DIIS REPORT 2013:06 © Copenhagen 2013‚ the author and DIIS Danish Institute for International Studies‚ DIIS Strandgade 56‚ DK-1401 Copenhagen‚ Denmark Ph: +45 32 69 87 87 Fax: +45 32 69 87 00 E-mail: diis@diis.dk Web: www.diis.dk
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The Taliban Afghanistan has had a rough past few decades due to the Taliban‚ who also call themselves a “political movement group.” The Taliban has made Afghanistan a very cruel place to live because of all the violence and ways the Taliban has changed the Afghanistan culture. The Taliban made the country a very scary place to live‚ as they also have access to many weapons they use to keep themselves a strong force. The Taliban has made a statement overall to the world‚ whether it is them making
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Causes Rise of the Taliban The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was part of a long term cause of the cause the of Taliban. The foreign influence that was exerted by the Soviet Union shaped the foreign and domestic policies in Afghanistan. The social and political impacts of communism and the Cold War put Afghanistan’s government in a very weak and unstable state. This made it easy for the allowing of the extremist group the Taliban to take over weaker groups and take power in 1994. Since
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