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To: TimF who wrote (12325)	2/16/2006 5:27:51 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 543674

Apologies, yes - the religious militia were key (about 50% anyhow) in removing the USSR, but they weren't known as Talibani then. If I remember rightly, the Taliban movement really came to prominence in removing the govt. the USSR left behind, allied with the druglords: and then, once the foreign-imposed government had been removed, turned upon their former allies and drove them out of Kabul and into a few strongholds. Hmm, why does this not give me any great sense of comfort...? I have read (newspaper not online) that Kurdish gangs are becoming prominent in supplying Europe with opium/heroin, sourced presumably from Afghanistan and sent through to Kurds in Turkey and others in Georgia etc. THe money goes partly to finance militia (don't know if also aiding Turkish Kurd terrorists, I have a feeling they're not aligned with Iraqi Kurds). There's an unhappy parallel, too.