Taliban Negative Effects

Taliban, a Muslim group took control of Afghanistan’s government in 1996 to 2001. Taliban is known for publicly executing people and taking away the rights of women which including the right of education. Afghanistan under a new leadership control, which put the country in the worse place . The relationship broke between U.S. and Taliban after 911 when Mullah Omar providing a refuge to Osama Bin Laden. When the Taliban comes to power in Afghanistan, it negatively effected the people.
Taliban, Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement, rules approximately two third of Afghanistan. According to washingtonpost.com, “with the help of government defections, the Taliban emerged as a force in Afghan politics in 1994 in the midst of a civil war between forces in northern and southern Afghanistan (Kalpan).” The Taliban continued to growing their powers in 1994. “By September 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul, the Afghan capital, and took control of the nation government (Laub),” according to cfr.org. By this time, Taliban received most support from Afghans. Because they captured the capital, Taliban has the good chance to win the elections in 1996.
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and Afghanistan when Mullah Omar provided a refuge to Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 911. According to washingtonpost.com, “before its ouster by U.S.-led forces in 2001, the Taliban controlled some 90 percent of Afghanistan’s territory (Kaplan).” With the U.S. support, Taliban almost controlled the entire territory in Afghanistan. According to cfr.org, “Mullah Omar granted al-Qaeda sanctuary on the condition that it not antagonize the United States, but bin Laden reneged on their agreement in 1998 when he orchestrated bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa (Laub).” Even though U.S. was the largest support of Afghanistan, Mullah Omar still rejected to give up Bin Laden. He knew what’s going to happened after he rejected the U.S., but he is still not wanted to give up Bin