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- garett_west0
Don't worry, in 300 years they'll make movies about how cool the Taliban was, too. Or does Rambo 3 count?
GreedoLives
(Oct 5 06, 14:00)Good call! Except Rambo III focused on the Afghan Mujahideen pre the Afghan Civil War. Following the Soviet retreat, many of the larger mujahideen groups began to fight each other. After several years of this fighting, a village mullah organized religious students into an armed movement, with the backing of Pakistan, who was being funded by the United States, which found the existing government to be too Russian-influenced, even following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This movement became known as the Taliban, meaning "students", and referring to the Saudi-backed religious schools which produced Islamic fundamentalism along the pacific coast of Asia. With each success the Taliban had, their popularity and numbers grew.
By 2001, the Taliban, with backing from the Pakistani ISI, had defeated most of the militias and controlled most of Afghanistan. The remaining militias were in the north-east of the country. The opposition allied themselves together and became known as the National Islamic United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan — the United Front, or Northern Alliance. Basically, Rambo III was about the Northern Alliance pre the split. But whaverer you want to believe. Good call on Rambo III though. It holds a Guiness world record you know for the most acts of violence in 101 minutes. Too bad Guiness can't record the Taliban's shit or Rambo would get smoked.