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Saddam and the Taliban

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on June 29, 2015

Alleged photograph of Mullah Omar. Other photos are very rare

Alleged photograph of Mullah Omar. Other photos are very rare

In examining the Saddam Hussein regime’s long relationship with al-Qaeda, a noticeable sub-theme is the connections the Saddam regime had with the Taliban theocracy in Afghanistan. The evidence accumulated suggests that Saddam’s policies in his later years, namely the Islamization of his own regime and instrumentalization of Islamists in foreign policy, included welcoming relations with the Taliban. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Saddam and Islamism and tagged 55th Arab Brigade, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Abu Wael, Afghanistan, Ahmed Dahestani, al-Qaeda, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Ansar al-Islam, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ayman az-Zawahiri, faith campaign, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Fazlur Rehman Khalil, Fedayeen Saddam, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Gulf War, Iraq, Iraqi Intelligence Service, ISIS, Islamic State, Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan al-Sahlani, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Mawlana Fazlur Rehman, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Nashwan Abd al-Razzaq Abd al-Baqi, Northern Alliance, Osama bin Laden, Russia, Saadan Mahmoud Abdul Latif al-Aani, Saddam Hussein, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Taliban, Tariq Aziz on June 29, 2015 by KyleWOrton.

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