Directory of Taliban Islamic Movement Resources

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• BBC News - Analysis: Who are the Taleban?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/144382.stm
  BBC analyzes who the Taliban are and why they have the support of Afghans.

• BBC News - Special Reports: Taliban Conflict

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/taliban_conflict/
  Ongoing coverage focusing on the Taliban groups of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Includes history, maps, videos and interactives.

• BBC News - Who are the Taliban?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1549285.stm
  Ongoing coverage of the history of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• Council on Foreign Relations - The Taliban in Afghanistan

  http://www.cfr.org/afghanistan/taliban-afghanistan/p10551
  Extensive backgrounder report includes links to related materials.

• CPJ: Journalism under the Taliban

  http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/1999/Taliban/Taliban15dec99.html
  Report on Afghan journalists working under the Taliban in 1999. From the Committee to Protect Journalists.

• Danny Yee's Book Reviews - The Taliban by Peter Marsden

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Taliban.html
  A review of a 1998 book on the Taliban, written by Peter Marsden, a former NGO coordinator for Afghanistan.

• Guardian Unlimited: Mullah Omar - in his own words

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/26/afghanistan.features11
  Translated text of a Voice of America interview of the Taliban leader.

• Mother Jones: Pipe Dreams

  http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2001/10/pipedreams.html
  Energy politics helped set the stage for the current conflict, as at least one US oil company, California-based Unocal, courted the Taliban to close a deal to build a pipeline across the country.

• New York Times: Taliban: War for War's Sake

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/weekinreview/18CROS.html?searchpv=nytToday
  Reporting on the destruction of art objects by the Taliban.

• The New York Times - Topics: Taliban

  http://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/taliban
  Collection of recent and archived news and commentary, photos, multimedia and selected web resources.

• USA Today: Why the Taliban are Destroying Buddhas

  http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeology/2001-03-22-afghan-buddhas.htm
  Why the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued an edict against un-Islamic graven images which resulted in the destruction of statues of Buddha.

• Wikipedia - Taliban

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
  Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about the Taliban includes its history, ideology, wars and international relations.

• Women's eNews: Bush Gives Taliban $10 Million To Fight Opium

  http://www.womensenews.org/story/cheers-and-jeers/010526/bush-gives-taliban-10-million-fight-opium
  "The Bush administration has given Afghanistan $43 million including $10 million for “other livelihood and food security programs,” a reference to the ruling Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation that dramatically changed the economy of the war-torn nation."

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