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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Students of War - The Rise of 20210912 20:50:00

disarm the warlords. and we will then refer to our elders and we will liberate the country and we will then, we will not take power ourselves, we will call a jirga, which is a tribal council, of all the elders of the country and they we will decide who should rule the country. the taliban had been trained in schools or madrasses in pakistan, which had been funded by saudi arabia. they swept into southern afghanistan and took kandahar with little resistance. they were really seen as, you know, angels, these young angels who d arrived

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Students of War - The Rise of 20210912 13:41:00

you know, this was a way for the pakistani army to really exert its influence inside afghanistan, because what they hoped eventually was that the islamists would win and the soviets would leave, and pakistan would have its proxies inside kabul. the mujahideen, with better weapons and knowledge of the terrain, were not an easy force to defeat. the afghan government and the soviets controlled the main cities and communication routes. but vast tracts of the country were beyond their control.

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Students of War - The Rise of 20210912 02:38:00

that land over there is yours. you ll go back to it one day, because your fight will prevail, and you ll have your homes, your mosques back again, because your cause is right and god is on your side. as more and more afghans were brought over the border into pakistan, a lot of them did not want to stay in pakistan as refugees, they wanted to go back and fight, but they wanted weapons to go and do it with, and other kinds of assistance. that was an opportunity that president carter took advantage of. the americans knew the local arms industry could never supply the demand for weapons, and with the saudis matching the american contribution dollar for dollar, the mujahideen started to get better equipment. we begin to procure weapons, import them and get them to pakistan, where the pakistani army built the beginning

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Students of War - The Rise of 20210912 13:52:00

you know, angels, these young angels who d arrived to save the country. but any thoughts that the taliban were angelic young idealists soon faded. two more years of vicious fighting followed, including a 10 month bombardment of kabul before the taliban finally took the capital on 27 september, 1996. the taliban couldn t be defeated because they had enormous military support from pakistan, saudi arabia, all the gulf states, and arabs were extremely ruthless, brutal fighters and gave them a whole new dimension, new tactics a new, you know, kind of weaponry and retrained them. by the time they reached kabul, the leadership of the taliban is saying we will seize power, we will rule this country. the first act as victors was the torture and execution

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