The Taliban

             September 11, 2001 will be remembered as our nation's darkest day. Four planes were hijacked by anti American terrorist, two of those planes crashed into the World Trade Center buildings and another plane crashed into the Pentagon. The fourth plane never made it to its destination because of the brave American citizens on the plane who stopped the hijackers from killing even more Americans. Not long after the planes crashed into the buildings, the U.S. government knew who was behind the killing of thousands of American lives. That person was Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden is the head of a major anti American terrorist group called Alkehda that wants nothing more than to kill Americans for what they believed to be religious purposes. But could bin Laden been stopped along time ago? His terrorist group Alkehda was funded heavily by a new radical government in Afghanistan called the Taliban. The Taliban provided Bin Laden with financial aid, weapons, a place to train his terrorist group, and most of all security from other countries especially the U.S., that wanted Bin Laden captured. But why didn't we do anything about it, and how did a small group like the Taliban gain such power in a country full of caus? We knew that the Taliban was funding Bin Laden, and that the Afghan government was violating human rights with the way they treated Afghan women. So why did it take the killing of thousands of American lives to do something about it?.
             The Taliban was obviously a major part in the success of Osama Bin Laden's terrorist attacks, but how did this government become so powerful in a country like Afghanistan that has been in such a disarray for years? In order to answer this questions we first have to look at the recent history of Afghanistan. According to Neamatollah Nojumi, " because of its geostrategic location between the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan has become a significant player in the world.