| Abdul Mujahid of The Taliban Listen to an audio file or read the speech made by ambassador-designate of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Abdul Hakeem Mujahid. http://www.saja.org/mujahid.html |
| Afghanistan Under the Taliban Articles, audio, video, in-depth analysis from CNN.com Asia. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/taliban/ |
| Bush Gives Taliban $10 Million To Fight Opium Brief, critical article from NOW's Womensenews. (May 26, 2001) http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/561/context/outrage |
| Guardian Unlimited: Mullah Omar - in his own words Translated text of a Voice of America interview of the Taliban leader. (September 26, 2001) http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,558076,00.html |
| ISIM: The Taliban Enigma M. Nazif Shahrani examines factors in Afghan history and political culture that gave rise to the militant movement. (Page 20 of the PDF document) (October, 2000) http://www.isim.nl/files/newsl_6.pdf |
| Journalism under the Taliban Committee to Protect Journalists discusses how Afghan journalists do their jobs. http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/1999/Taliban/Taliban15dec99.html |
| Mother Jones: Pipe Dreams Energy politics helped set the stage for the current conflict, as at least one US oil company, California-based Unocal, recently courted the Taliban to close a deal to build a pipeline across the country. (October 12, 2001) http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/pipedreams.html |
| PBS News: The Taliban Interview of Noorullah Zadran, a Taliban representative, following cruise missile attacks by the US in response to embassy bombings in Africa. (August 21, 1998) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec98/taliban_8-21.html |
| The Islamic Taliban Movement and the Dangers of Regional Assimilation Abu Abdul Aziz Al-Afghani provides a pro-Taliban profile of the militant movement and warns about regional assimilation. http://www.islam.org.au/articles/18/taliban1.htm |
| The Taliban - A Factsheet History and information about the Taliban in Afghanistan from Oddsworld. Links to related websites. http://www.oddsworld.co.uk/factsheet/taliban.html |
| The Taliban by Peter Marsden A review by Danny Yee of a 1998 book on the Taliban, written by someone who worked as an NGO coordinator for Afghanistan. http://dannyreviews.com/h/Taliban.html |
| The Taliban, Afghanistan's Fundamentalist Leaders Canadian Broadcasting Company analyzes who the Taliban are. (July, 2001) http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/taliban.html |
| The Taliban: Exporting Extremism A essay by Ahmed Rashid on the history of the movement and its threat to the surrounding region, from Foreign Affairs. (November, 1999) http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/Terrorism/think_tank/taliban_extremism_fa_nov_99.htm |
| Who are the Taliban? Report by AsiaSource, with links to news articles and commentary. (September 21, 2001) http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=61691 |
| Why the Taliban are Destroying Buddhas Why the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued an edict against un-Islamic graven images which resulted in the destruction of statues of Buddha. (August 13, 2001) http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeology/2001-03-22-afghan-buddhas.htm |