Taliban

**by Peer and Hee Seon **
 * TALIBAN **



**#What is Taliban?**  The word Taliban means “students” which is a word from Arabic and the Indolranian. Taliban is a militia that burst on the scene in early 1995 to take Afghanistan by storm. The spiritual leader and founder of Taliban is Mullah Mohammad Omar, a warrior known to his followers as “Prince of All Believers.” “In the spring of 1994, Singesar neighbors told Mullah Mohammad Omar that a warlord commander had abducted two teenage girls, shaved their heads and taken them to a camp where they were raped repeatedly. He gathered member for Taliban. 30 Taliban freed the girls and hung the commander from the barrel of a tank. However commanders were freed.”  Their strength got weak during 21st century and today; on 2001 was 45,000 and it became 25,000 on 2009.They banned women from public life. The Taliban members are mainly Sunni Muslim ethnic Pashtuns from the southern Afghanistan Durrani and Ghilzay tribes. The majority of them are believed to have been students at Muslim seminaries in northern Pakistan prior to the group’s establishment in October 1994. Ø 1994, the latest accords between the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani and the mujahideen groups were completely disrupted by the invasion of thousands of the young students of the Taliban, led by Mauna Fabler Raman. Ø 1995, February, Taliban conquered one-third of the country. Ø 1996, September. The Taliban captured the capital of Pakistan. They implemented Sharia (Muslim) law, banned women from taking jobs outside their homes, banned girls from attending schools, and ordered all men to grow “proper” beards. Ø 2001, September, 11. Osama bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Taliban harbored bin Laden and allowed Al Qaeda targets in the country on October 7. Ø 2007, 23Koreans got caught by Taliban. Ø  Now most members of the Taliban militia have either been killed, captured, or have switched sides.   - After the September 11 attacks on the U.S., the United States delivered this ultimatum to the Taliban: <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">i) <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Deliver to the U.S. all of Al Quaeda;   <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">ii)  <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Release all imprisoned foreign nationals; <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">iii) <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Close immediately every terrorist training camp;   <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">iv)  <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Hand over every terrorist and their supporters to appropriate authoritie; <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">v) <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">Give the United States full access to terrorist training camps for inspection.   <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">On September 21, the Taliban responded to the ultimatum, promising that if the U.S. could bring evidence that bin Laden was guilty, they would hand him over, stating that they had no evidence linking him to the September 11 attacks.   <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;">On October 4, The Taliban may have covertly offered to turn binLaden over to Pakistan for trial in an international tribunal that operated according to Islamic Sharia law, but Pakistan declined.  <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕;"> On October 7, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan offered to "detain bin Laden and try him under Islamic law" if the United States made a formal request and presented the Taliban with evidence. The U.S. rejected this offer as insufficient. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">
 * 1) What did Taliban do?

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 * 1) The main goals of the Taliban

<span style="display: block; font-family: 맑은 고딕; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">The Taliban wants to keep Afghanistan and Pakistan under their rule. They use Sharia law to keep administer the people in the country. Any Muslim that doesn’t believe in their interpretation of Islam is to be killed in their land. <span style="display: block; font-family: 맑은 고딕; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">The actions of the Taliban changed in the 21st century on different ways. On of them is very new; the Taliban is trying to cooperate with the NATO and they are talking seriously about a time of peace between each other. The last contact was on April, 21st 2010. The action of the 11th September 2001 was the reason for the Afghanistan war and made some other political difficulties. Because of some other reasons, they think that the USA is most evil nation in the world and have to be cleaned by them. The last attack was on the 2nd May 2010 in New York at the Times Square. A man tried to explode a bomb, but it was not working right. That gave a passant the time, to warn a police officer who was calling for help. The official reasons for the terror attack were the death of 2 leaders of the Taliban and the permanent attacks of American drones in Pakistan.
 * 1) How the Taliban changed as a result of globalization

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