US State dept does not consider the taliban as terrorist ?
Aryavartha
02-05-2006, 20:07
The latest list of terrorist orgs by the US State dept is out. Surprisingly the taliban cannot be found in that list. Is this an oversight or an omission on purpose?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0502/dailyUpdate.html
When the US State Department issued its annual Country Reports on Terrorism last Friday, it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and groups it considers foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hizbullah. Conspiciously absent from the lists, however, was the Taliban.
The actual list is here...
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65479.pdf
On another note, I do find Jamaat ud Dawa (a front for Lashkar-e-Toiba) mentioned, that is a small positive for me...
Bodies Without Organs
02-05-2006, 20:10
According to that list the neither the Provisional IRA nor any loyalist paramilitary organisations are terrorists.
According to that list the neither the Provisional IRA nor any loyalist paramilitary organisations are terrorists.
Then again, according to the British government, neither are the Real IRA.
Tactical Grace
02-05-2006, 20:13
The US paid most of the Taliban to join the Northern Alliance in late 2001. They only really fought the few warlords who refused to rent out their allegiance. It is logical to assume this is one of the perks. :rolleyes:
Kulikovo
02-05-2006, 20:15
Well, the Taliban were an actual government after they came into power. They just happen to support terrorism.
Yootopia
02-05-2006, 20:17
The US paid most of the Taliban to join the Northern Alliance in late 2001. They only really fought the few warlords who refused to rent out their allegiance. It is logical to assume this is one of the perks. :rolleyes:
If only people remembered what happened last time the USA tried that.
@ Kulikovo
It doesn't stop Hamas from being on that list.
Bodies Without Organs
02-05-2006, 20:18
Then again, according to the British government, neither are the Real IRA.
Yeah, but they have no qualms about supporting, funding and employing the British Army, so we can see clear evidence that their opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt.
The latest list of terrorist orgs by the US State dept is out. Surprisingly the taliban cannot be found in that list. Is this an oversight or an omission on purpose?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0502/dailyUpdate.html
The actual list is here...
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65479.pdf
On another note, I do find Jamaat ud Dawa (a front for Lashkar-e-Toiba) mentioned, that is a small positive for me...
Why would you expect the 2006-list to be any different regarding the Taliban than the lists of 2001-2005?