The Washington Post, September 13th, 2001
Afghanistan, 250,000 square miles of often forbidding terrain pinched between Iran and Pakistan, has been controlled by the radical Islamic Taliban movement since 1996. Negotiating -- even reasoning -- with the Taliban has vexed governments and international organizations ever since the group assumed power after a long civil war. Only three countries -- Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government in Kabul. The group, whose name means "seekers of religious knowledge," sprang up from ultra-conservative religious schools in refugee c...
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