The Taliban bragged about it! It was an inherent part of their ideology. India's jihadis are supported from Pakistan, the same people who were backing the Taliban. The entire Islamic Organization of Uzbekistan was wiped out in a US air strike in Afghanistan (they had foolishly assembled in a single vehicle column).
There are no strictly local problems in a part of the world with almost totally porous borders.
--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> are you sure? I'm no friend of the Taliban (for some
> reason they
> wouldn't have me ;-), but isn't it possible that U,
> T, I, and R's
> leading cliques were simply blaming the Taliban for
> internally-generated problems? It's common to blame
> class or ethnic or
> nationalist antagonisms on "outside agitators."
>
> For example, India has problems with "jihadists"
> because of the
> ongoing fight over Kashmir. Might not this problem
> (including the
> terrorism at India's parliament) have occurred
> anyway, even without
> the Taliban? After all, India or Kashmir wasn't the
> major focus of the
> Taliban's ire, was it?
>
> (do you know about the new radical washing machine?
>
> (yes, it has an outside agitator!
>
> (rim-shot)
> --
> Jim Devine / Bust Big Brother Bush!
> "Everybody gets so much information all day long
> that they lose their
> common sense." -- Gertrude Stein
>
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