I knew if i took a peek after my shower id see all the crazies taking a free shot.
Klown..you want to know who equiped and armed the Taliban??
Pakistan's ISI"Taliban grew out of the turf battle between the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Interior Ministry in Islamabad during Benazir Bhutto’s second term. The Establishment had resisted their creation and reportedly criticised Benazir Bhutto for the use of the Taliban for their November 1994 operation in rescuing the trade caravan on its way to Central Asia that had been captured by the local warlord of Kandahar.
The ISI which had run the Afghan operations with complete autonomy since the late 1970s, was averse to the Taliban because they had continued to pin faith on the Hizb-i-Islami under Hikmatyar to dislodge the Rabbani government. More importantly, the ISI viewed the Taliban as yet another Benazir Bhutto ploy to reduce its role in Afghan affairs. But Maj. Gen.(Retd) Nasrullah Babar who had assumed a mandate from the Bhutto government to attempt a parallel track, which offered the possibility of opening new options in Afghanistan, relentlessly pursued the Talib option, which initially led to the weakening of the hold of the ISI on the conduct of Islamabad’s Afghan policy."
and financed by lots of Saudi loot. Dont confuse the Mujahadeen who fought the soviets, and were backed by the CIA with the Taliban.
The northern alliance , the arch enemy of the Taliban were a spinoff of the old Mujahadeen.
The Taliban originated in the Madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan . It means "student
