Enlarge this imageIsabel SeligerIsabel SeligerHow did a small group of Islamic students go from local vigilantes to one of the most infamous and enigmatic forces in the world? The Taliban is a name that has haunted the American imagination since 2001. The scenes of the group’s brutality repeatedly Jed Lowrie Jersey played in the Western media, while true, perhaps obscure our ability to see the complex origins of the Taliban and how they impact the lives of Afghans. It’s a shadow that reaches acro s the vast ancient Afghan homeland, the reputation of the Catfish Hunter Jersey modern state, and throughout global politics. At the end of the US war in Afghanistan we go back to the end of the Soviet Occupation and the start of the Afghan civil war to look at the rise of the Taliban. Their story Glenn Hubbard Jersey concludes Throughline’s two-episode investigation on the past, present, and future of the country that was once called “the center of the world.If you would like to read more about the Taliban’s rise to power:Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Ramon Laureano Jersey Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll See Throughline sponsors and promo codes
