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Originally Posted by vader9900
Bin Laden and the Mujahideen was funded and armed by the CIA in the 80s, to fight the Soviets. Ronald Reagan praised them as freedom fighters. These exact same people are todays Taliban. So the Taliban was around in the 80's, it just was not called that until 1994.
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The main people responsible for the rise of the fundamentalists were the Pakistani ISI. The Taliban were not supported by Reagan, as the Soviets left in 1989 and the Taliban emerged in 1995 in the Madrassas of Pakistan. Most of those people were supported by Pakistan, not the US. It's popular to say that the US abandoned Afghanistan, but there wasn't a government for us to support. The factions that fought the Soviets turned on each other after the USSR pulled out. This is what allowed the Taliban (supported by the ISI) to take over. When they did, they forced a lot of the older Mujahideen into exile or into the ranks of the Northern Alliance.