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> > The Taliban did not exist back then. The guys the US aided
> > were for the most part, the guys that are running
> > Afghanistan now. The major recipients of US aid, for
> > example "the lion of Afghanistan" were the people the
> > Taliban murdered.
On 20 Mar 2003 at 8:16, Mike Rosing wrote:
> The "Talib's" have been around for more than a century. The
> British fought them in the late 1800's in their first try to
> conquer Afghanistan.
The British did not fight Sunni islamic fundamentalists. The
Taliban belongs to a sect that has never had a large following
in Afghanistan, which is part of the reason why they drove out
much of the Afghan population.
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