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I guess it's pretty well-known that the U.S. CIA were the ones who funded and trained the Taliban in order for them to act as insurgents against the invading Russians back in the 1980's. In fact, our people used the Pakistani border villages that are now suspected as the headquarters for Osama bin Laden as our primary bases of operations to train the Afghan Taliban.
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Not exactly. The Taliban didn't even exist when the Russians were there. The Taliban didn't form until after the Russians left and anarchy had taken hold in Afghanistan. The warlords who had been semi-united against the Russians turned on each other and turned the country into a wild-west shoot out. The Taliban formed as a response to quell the violence brought on by the warlords. Of course, that's not to say that some of the current Taliban people weren't also part of the resistance against the Russians. And, of course, once the Taliban took control, they had their own form of violence under Sharia law.