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...Laden had been a hero of the 'jihad' against the Soviet occupiers, and the Taliban welcomed him back to Afghanistan in 1996 after his expulsion from the Sudan. Bin Laden has reportedly cemented his ties to the Taliban leadership through his daughter's marriage to its leader, Mullah Omar. But more importantly, his "Arab Afghan" fighters have played a leading role in the Taliban's ongoing military campaign against its opponents. The Taliban's elite brigade were trained in Bin Laden's camps, and are believed to be loyal to the Saudi terrorist's "Al Qaida" movement...
...unlikely, but it's not impossible. The Taliban's priorities are quite different from Bin Laden's - they want to build and consolidate an Islamic state in Afghanistan; he's waging a global jihad. And right now, those priorities are somewhat in conflict, because, as Pakistan has tried to warn its erstwhile protegees, standing with Bin Laden now will spark a confrontation that could see the Taliban overthrown. But the Taliban has become so dependent on Bin Laden's own forces and men loyal to him that they may struggle to rationalize giving him up without facing internal disintegration. They...
...singled out,” said Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) president Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02, who added that he has received one piece of hate mail since Tuesday’s attack. “In the media, the word ‘jihad,’ which typically means an internal struggle of religious devotion, has been turned into this idea of a violent holy...
...Laden passed most of the civil war years in far-off Sudan, but after being expelled as a result of U.S. pressure he returned to Afghanistan in 1996. And the Taliban welcomed him as a hero of the anti-Soviet 'jihad' and a man who commanded both means and military expertise. Although their priorities were somewhat at odds - Bin Laden was waging a global ?jihad' against America; the Taliban was trying to build their Mediaeval Islamist state - the relationship between them became extremely close. One of Bin Laden's wives is the daughter of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and many...
...that Bin Laden and his Taliban hosts are the likely targets of a U.S. ?jihad' against terrorism, Pakistan's government is being pulled in two directions: The Taliban is essentially Pakistan's prot?g?, and many Pakistanis are fiercely supportive of both the Afghan militia and of Bin Laden himself. But Pakistan's key traditional allies - the United States and China, which is facing a Bin Laden-backed insurgency in its Muslim western provinces - have made clear that they expect Islamabad to do its bit for the international campaign against terrorism...