The US military has alleged without formal charge that some of these detainees are linked to Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

He stated that the Taliban and Al Qaeda had introduced " a very wrong perception of Islam " and that without the support of Pakistan the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.

He stated that the Taliban and Al Qaeda had introduced " a very wrong perception of Islam " and that without the support of Pakistan and Bin Laden the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.

The United Front ( Northern Alliance ) and SAD and Special Forces combined to overthrow the Taliban with minimal coalition casualties, and without the use of international conventional ground forces.

Finally, in early December, the Taliban gave up Kandahar, their last stronghold, dispersing without surrendering.

In it he promised " more Afghan War ," and said the over one hundred suicide bomb attacks in Afghanistan in the last year had been carried out by bombers acting on religious orders from the Taliban – “ the mujahedeen do not take any action without a fatwa .” In April 2007, Omar issued another statement through an intermediary encouraging more suicide attacks.

‘ Since the US-led offensive that ousted the Taliban from power ,’ reported Forbes in 2005, " the project has been revived and drawn strong US support " as it would allow the Central Asian republics to export energy to Western markets " without relying on Russian routes ".

In the initial stages of the War in Afghanistan USSOCOM forces linked up with CIA Paramilitary Officers from Special Activities Division to defeat the Taliban without the need for large-scale conventional forces.

* Resolution 1267 ( 1999 ) of 15 October-demands the Taliban turn over Usama bin Laden, forbids aircraft to take-of or land in Taliban-controlled territory without approval and freezes assets of the Taliban.

In a speech given at the Perdana Global Peace Forum in 2005, Chossudovsky stated that " Osama bin Laden and the Taliban were identified as the prime suspects of the 9 / 11 attacks, without a shred of evidence " and that " Amply documented, the war on terrorism is a fabrication.

( see video ) He stated that the Taliban and Al Qaeda had introduced " a very wrong perception of Islam " and that without the support of Pakistan and Bin Laden the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.

He regained consciousness and was rescued by local Pashtun, who ultimately saved his life, as in his condition, without assistance, he would surely have been killed or captured by the Taliban.

Iran did not have any form of relations with the Taliban.

The United States and its allies quickly eliminated any remaining strength or ability of the Taliban to operate aircraft.

" Additionally, the Taliban insisted that any trial of Bin Laden be held in an Afghan court.

" A person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.

" We don't have any formal negotiations with the Taliban.

Throughout the war, the Taliban laid siege to Abdullah Gan, refusing to allow any aid through.

Despite repeated requests, Australian, German and U. S. consuls in Kabul had been denied any meetings with Taliban authorities for a week.

The operation involved 2, 000 U. S. soldiers supported by Afghan troops, but failed to engage any Taliban or allied militants.

After her release on 9 October 2001, when her Taliban captors escorted her from the Kabul prison to a Pakistan border post at the foot of the Khyber Pass, near Peshawar, she revealed that she had kept a concealed diary inside a box for a toothpaste tube and in the inside of a soap wrapper, and had been on hunger strike throughout her captivity, but denied to have been physically hurt in any way.

Other countries such as Nicaragua during Sandinista rule, Cuba, Iran ( Islamic Republic of Iran ) and Afghanistan during Taliban rule and Iraq during the Saddam Hussein regime, have attempted to prohibit their citizens from receiving any satellite broadcasts from foreign sources.

" Other topics covered include Ralph Nader, the War in Afghanistan, ( though notably absent is any mention of the Taliban government in control in Afghanistan at the time, the war being launched, according to Zinn, based merely on the belief that bin Laden was hiding in the country ) and the USA PATRIOT Act.

At one stage, Guergis indicated in response to an opposition question that " there are no specific details or specific evidence to support any of the allegations made by Taliban alleged terrorist detainees ".

Thus, the term " enemy combatant " has to be read in context to determine whether it means any combatant belonging to an enemy state, whether lawful or unlawful, or if it means an alleged member of al Qaeda or of the Taliban being detained as an unlawful combatant by the United States.

Removing the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda leadership from Afghanistan --- and Saddam and his regime from Iraq, were just the beginning in addressing the real threats against us.

In his official apology to the family and friends of the dead and injured Canadians, Schmidt stated: " My perception was that we had been ambushed, as we had been briefed that Taliban were expected to use ambush tactics in and around Kandahar ... I believed that the projectiles posed a real and present danger to our flight and specifically to my flight lead ... I believed at the time that my flight lead's transmission to ' check master arm, check laser arm ,' indicated he concurred with my decision that the situation required self-defense.

A district court has since held that the " Geneva Conventions applied to the Taliban detainees, but not to members of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

On 7 October 2001, the Taliban proposed to try bin Laden in Afghanistan in an Islamic court.

Hicks is silent on the matter in court filings, but his father, in filing the brief, stated that he believed that his son had joined the Taliban forces.

U. S. District Judge Robert E. Jones asked Hawash during the hearing " You and the others in the group were prepared to take up arms, and die as martyrs if necessary, to defend the Taliban.

The Taliban denied UN food supplies to 160, 000 starving civilians, and conducted a policy of scorched earth burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes during their rule from 1996-2001.

The Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians, denied UN food supplies to 160, 000 starving civilians and conducted a policy of scorched earth burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes during their rule from 1996-2001.

* In 2009, Pakistan Army's paratroopers conducted a combat jump operations during Operation Black Thunderstorm and Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban Forces in North-West Pakistan, to seize control of strategic mountains areas to support Special forces and infantry troops.

The SASR's main role in Afghanistan was to conduct surveillance of al Qaeda and Taliban positions, though SASR Troopers also conducted a number of offensive operations.

45 Commando conducted a number of intelligence led, targeted operations against the Taliban.

Following the attacks on the U. S. of September 11, 2001, then Rear Admiral Stufflebeem became the face and voice from the Pentagon of U. S. military operations being conducted in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power and rid the country of al Qaeda.

He served as the political head of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( UIFSA ), an alliance of various political groups who fought against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

India " unofficially " supported the Northern Alliance minority groups against the Pakistani-backed Taliban.

The CIA's Special Activities Division created successful guerrilla forces from the Hmong tribe during the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, from the Northern Alliance against the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan in 2001, and from the Kurdish Peshmerga against Ansar al-Islam and the forces of Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf send more troops against the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan | United Front of Ahmad Shah Massoud than the Afghan Taliban.

After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former archnemesis, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

According to a 55-page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf-then as Chief of Army Staff-was responsible for sending thousands of Pakistanis to fight alongside the Taliban and Bin Laden against the forces of Massoud.

Of roughly 45, 000 Pakistani, Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers fighting against the forces of Massoud only 14, 000 were Afghan.

Resentment was increasingly gathering against Taliban rule from the bottom of Afghan society including the Pashtun areas.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

ISAF and Afghan troops led many offensives against the Taliban but failed to fully defeat them.

The Taliban considered " politics " to be against Sharia and thus did not hold elections.

Taliban are still very much alive and fighting a vigorous insurgency from bases in the frontier regions of Pakistan with suicide bombings and armed attacks being launched against NATO, Afghan government targets and civilians.

In 1995, he successfully defended his province against the Taliban, in cooperation with Massoud.

During the U. S. intervention in Afghanistan, he fought against the Taliban within the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( Northern Alliance ) and thus regained his position as Governor of Herat.

* 2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

* 1999 – U. S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Aged 20, he decided to travel to Afghanistan to fight for the Afghan Taliban government forces against Northern Alliance fighters.

Ahmad Shah Massoud withdrew his forces from Kabul to the northern regions of Afghanistan where he and his former enemy Abdul Rashid Dostum created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.