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  • 3/25/2025
They were students of theology in the 1980s who grew to be part of a dangerous radical Islamist movement.

Here's how the Taliban came to power ...
Transcript
01:00We want to go to Kabul and announce the Islamic State in Kabul.
01:31By the fall of the Kabul government and the victory of the Taliban, this illegal flag is coming down and a new national flag will be going up.
01:42The reason was that we want to enforce the Sharia law in Afghanistan.
01:47We want to remove corruption from Afghanistan, especially from Afghanistan and all Islamic countries, so that we can enforce the Sharia law in Afghanistan.
02:00The Taliban wants to destroy the Islamic State.
02:06They want to destroy the Islamic State.
02:11They want to destroy the Islamic State.
02:15We want to restore the Islamic State. If they don't want to, we have to leave.
02:30The President makes the following demands on the Taliban.
02:34Deliver to United States authorities all the leaders of Al-Qaeda who hide in your land.
02:40These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.
02:46What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that far from ending there, our war against terror is only beginning.
03:06Most of the 19 men who hijacked planes on September 11 were trained in Afghanistan's camps.
03:13And so were tens of thousands of others.
03:43Every day there are explosions and bloodshed.
03:49There is no peace in Kabul.
04:14The Taliban wants to destroy the Islamic State.
04:19They want to destroy the Islamic State.
04:23If they don't want to, we have to leave.
04:28The Taliban wants to destroy the Islamic State.
04:33If they don't want to, we have to leave.
04:37The Taliban wants to destroy the Islamic State.

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