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How were the Mujahideen different from the Taliban?

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One story is that the rape and murder of boys and girls of a family who were travelling to Kandahar or some similar outrage by Mujahideen bandits aroused Mullah Omar, who is credited with the formation of Taliban, and his students to take a vow to rid Afghanistan of these criminals. read more

The Taliban grew out of one particular faction of self-proclaimed mujahideen in Afghanistan, which defeated most of its opponents in the Afghan civil war in 1996. read more

The mujahideen were part of the realm of traditional politics in which a conquered region is a turf that can be exploited by strongmen, who call themselves mujahideen so as to appear respectable. The Taliban's conquest of Afghanistan in 1996, by contrast, strayed from the path of tradition. read more

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