Taliban+Control+in+the+late+90's

Taliban Control In The 1990's
Background __Rise to Power__
 * The Taliban are a group of fundamentalist Sunni Muslim militants living today mostly near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
 * The Taliban are made up of members that come from the ranks of the mujahedeen, that are battle-hardened Islamic fighters who beat back the Soviet military when they invaded Afghanistan.
 * The vast majority of Taliban are ethnic Pashtun.
 * They came to power during Afghanistan's long civil war. To a large extent, the Taliban was the offspring of the 10-year Soviet occupation.
 * The Taliban are one of the mujahideen ("holy warriors" or "freedom fighters") groups that formed during the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-89).
 * They were able to gain access to the southern cities by expanding their regimint through a mixture of force, negoatiation and payoffs
 * In 1994, the Taliban developed enough strength to capture the city of Kandahar.
 * In 1996, The Taliban was able to capture Kabul, the Afghan capital, and took control of the national government.
 * By the end of year in 1998, the Taliban occupied about 90% of the country
 * During the time of the civil war, more than a million Afghans were killed.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 175%;">The Taliban, under the directio of Mullah Muhammad Omar, brought about this order through the institution of a very strict interpretation of //Sharia//, or Islamic law.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 175%;">Among the most invasive aspects of the sharia were amputations for thieves and lethal stonings for people that committed adultry.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 175%;">In order to root out "non-Islamic" influence, television, music, and the Internet were banned.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 175%;">Taliban fighters dispensed with many of Afghanistan’s most important mujahideen and politicians
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Assef represents the Taliban in Kite Runner
 * **__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿ __**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">"When the Taliban rolled in and kicked the Alliance out of of Kabul, I actually danced on that street." (p. 200)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">"The Talibs said he was a liar and a theif like all Hazaras and ordered him to get his family out the house . . .Hassan protested again. So theytook him in the street and shot him in the back of the head." (p. 219)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">"I saw a dead body near a resturant. There had been a hanging. A young man danled from the end of a rope." (p. 259)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">"The cratered streets were flanked by little more than ruins of shelled buildings and abondoned homes . . . a wall with the words ZENDA BAD TALIBAN (Long Live the Taliban)." (p. 251)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">"The Taliban don't allow them to work." (p. 253)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">What makes Assef a good representation of the Taliban?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Why was the Taliban able to take over Afghanistan so easily?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Do you think Afghanistan was better off with the Russia or the Taliban in control of the country?
 * __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿ __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">[|www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/afghanistan604/who.html]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">[|www.cfr.org/afghanistan/taliban-afghanistan/p1055]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">[|www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/31/fvi/main1957678.shtml]

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Hayes, L., Brunner, B., & Rowen, B. (2007). Who Are the Taliban. //Information Please, 2//. Retrieved from []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 115%;">Moore, Molly. (2001). //The Taliban's Deadly Rise to Power.//Retrieved from []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Shapiro, A. (2007). //Afghanistan: the return of the taliban and heroin//. Retrieved from http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/afghanistan1-07.html
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">U.S Department of State. (2010, December 6). //Afghanistan//. Retrieved from http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm

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