History of the Taliban
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Was the Talaban a Part of Afghanistan?
Most afgans thought that aleban were really weird ean when they emerged. They came out of the two most poverty stricken, neglected provinces in afgaristan - orusgan and helmont. Many of them had never been a part of modern existence, modern life. The only thing they knew was the koran. When they joined a taliban, they were given guns. And so this is why, even their religiosity and their piousness,. everything went down very badly with other alf gons who never experienced anything likewhy were they so successful? Well, initially they took the whole of southern afghanistan, literally without a shot being fired; then they laid siege to
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