2006-08-30 22:47:09 · 8 answers · asked by smack_guy 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Don't listen to the morons who are saying "yes". The Taliban movement did not start until after the Soviets pulled out of Afganistan and installed a puppet government.
This government fought a civil war against several tribal groups and lost. The new government, called the Northern Alliance then fell to a new armed religious movement called the Taliban, which took the entire country over aside from a small section in the northeast. After 9/11 the US allied with the Northern Alliance to overthrow the Taliban.
2006-08-31 06:57:03 · answer #1 · answered by choppes 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Taliban did not start until the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan. The Taliban were Mujaheddin fighters who were against the King and his military regime, and they started a 100% Islamic State with Islamic Law. During the time of the Taliban, the "Northern Alliance" were are ally.
www.cia.gov (Facts)
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2006-08-31 01:05:39 · answer #2 · answered by Fitforlife 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
People here are confusing the Taliban with the various disparate Mujaheddin groups who fought the soviets. The Taliban came later and originated in Pakistan.
What is now Al Queada originated from the Arab Leagues of middle eastern volunteers who joined the Mujaheddin, not the Taliban.
I wish people would check their facts before they answer questions.
2006-08-31 20:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Taliban did not exist during the cold war. They came into existence ~1994, several years after the cold war ended.
2006-08-31 04:29:58 · answer #4 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blackman is right. Another important ally in that region, by the way, was Saddam Husseins Iraq. Afghanistan used to be a secular state with good education and participation for women before the US started to arm and support those ***!^
2006-08-30 23:30:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course, not just an ally, but they were called a crucial important allies and the ONLY FORCE brave enough to face and fight the SOVIETS without spending MILLIONS to build bombs, bunkers that were never used. Back then they were called the "Mujaheddin"
2006-08-30 22:52:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, CIA funded and aided them to fight Soviets in Afghanistan, Taliban was used to cripple USSR's plans in Afghanistan
2006-08-31 02:58:58 · answer #7 · answered by tring tring!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell yeah! Inorder to fight the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan
2006-08-31 02:31:00 · answer #8 · answered by Marty McFly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋