Taliban

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Due to B. Raman of the South Asia Analysis Group (saag.org), the CIA and General Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) are the creators and "the creation of the Taliban". At the instance of the US and on the orders of Mrs.Benazir Bhutto, the then Prime Minister, and Maj.Gen.(retd) Nasirullah Babar, her Interior Minister, he and Lt.Gen.Mohammad Aziz, the then Deputy Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), created the Taliban in 1994--95 and helped it overrun 90 per cent of Afghanistan. B. Raman is additional Secretary (retired), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and was in 2001-2002 Director of the Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. Source: http://www.saag.org/papers4/paper323.html

Officially the Taliban movement was formed in Kandahar in 1994 by Islamic students who took a radical approach to interpreting Islam. The Taliban captured Kabul in September 1996 from Mujaheedin regime. The government of Burhan-ul Din Rabani ousted. The USA, much to its disbelief and dismay, discovered in 1993 that many of its past Afghan policies had started to boomerang against the US interests. Many of the Mujahideen, including the Americans' own favourites and proteges like Gulbuddin. Hekmatyar, had turned Afghanistan into a breeding ground for terrorists. The Afghan War veterans, also known as "Afghanis" numbering in thousands, had officially got involved in anti-Western terrorist acts. The increasing menace of terrorist threat to the West, originating from Afghanistan since 1993, led to intense debate in the US. The concern began after the pipebomb explosions at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, the loss of 230 lives on board TWA Flight 800 in 1996, the bomb explosion at the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, the killing of CIA officials in Karachi, and the abduction of six Europeans by the Al-Faran in Kashmir. The Group of Seven Anti-Terrorism Conference was held in July 1996, in Paris, to initiate a global, coordinated effort to identify and locate thousands of veterans of the US-backed 1979-89 Afghan War against the Soviets. It was in this backdrop of the American commitment to combat the terrorist network, based in Afghanistan, that Washington provided a clear-cut incentive for the introduction of the Taliban movement that emerged on the Afghan political scene in October 1994. The US saw a strategic interest in the Taliban, as the latter promised to work towards, disarming of armed guerillas; driving out international terrorists from Afghanistan or fighting against Islamic fundamentalism. The Taliban victory over Kabul, operated by financial support of the Saudi Intelligence BID (->), therefore, was welcomed by the USA. Ex Afghan government leader Burahn-ul Din Rabani always insisted the Taliban are the operatives of the ISI, Pakistan' secrete service agency, through which the United States and its allies funneled huge money and arms to Afghan Mujaheedin groups. On October 10, 1999, the United State government declared political and economical sanction against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan because of holding and supporting Saudi billionaire Ben Laden. October 25, 1999, Taliban offered talks between Afghanistan and the US Government including the future of Osma bin Laden.

Compare: IA worked in tandem with Pak to create Taliban "The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said here. "I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on `Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia." Creating a Frankenstein... http://msnbc.com/news/632825.asp