Taliban

Taliban is a group knowingly created by the CIA.

• How Washington Funded the Taliban (Ted Galen Carpenter, August 2, 2002)

CNN CROSSFIRE Have U.S. Efforts in Afghanistan Been Successful if bin Laden is Alive?; Will Fingerprints Stop Terrorists From Entering the Country? Aired September 10, 2002 - 19:00 ET

MCDERMOTT: It certainly is an improvement for the women of Afghanistan. But you've got to remember that of American policy, we put the Taliban there. We gave the money to the..

CARLSON: I beg your pardon?

MCDERMOTT: ... Pakistanis.

CARLSON: You're breaking news here, Congressman. I don't think this has ever been reported before in the United States.

MCDERMOTT: Oh, yes, it has been. We funded the Taliban through the Pakistanis, and all that money -- we could have cut off that money and stopped what was going on. We knew what was going on there.

CNN CROSSFIRE, Aired September 10, 2002