-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] > > The Taliban occupied 95% of the territory, called the Islamic Emirate > of Afghanistan. The remaining 5% belonged to the rebel forces > constituting the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which the United > Nations had recognized as the official government in exile. > > So, the Taliban was only the legitimate government in the sense that > they declared themselves to be so. Nobody, outside of Pakistan and at > at some point SA and UAE, recognized them as the legitimate government. > So tell me again, how are insurgents lawful combatants?
95% seems pretty much de-facto control of the country to me! But... they weren't in uniform. (Did the IEA even *have* an Army?) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGAeWOS9HxQb37XmcRAmDgAJ9tyuOOufuBax4SY3rqeHdllGYcowCbB4PO NqZ0z8ROs+3lL19ZY94RIt0= =rYOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
