Background Information
- The Taliban originally claimed that its goal was to help the country by getting rid of factionalism and the rule of warlords
- Some Afghans viewed the Taliban was viewed as a group that would restore order in Afghanistan
- The United States even viewed these as a means of restoring order
- Delta oil pressured the Taliban in 1998, the absence of international investment, and the Taliban's double-dealings with rival pipeline projects, the U.S. oil company Unocal pulled out of a major business deal that would have facilitated the construction of a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan through Afghanistan, a project planned by Unocal and a Saudi company
- Women's right groups also pressured the Taliban
- Talibanization, refers to the new form of radical Islam
