Reply #88: show me the proof. from *your own article*: "US intelligence supported the Taliban

[Hannah Bell]

as a vehicle of regional influence at least between 1994 and 1998. This policy continued up to the year 2000, despite growing cautions.

Continued US sponsorship of the al-Qaeda-Taliban nexus in Afghanistan was confirmed as late as 2000 in Congressional hearings. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on South Asia, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher – former White House Special Assistant to President Reagan and now Senior Member of the House International Relations Committee – declared that ‘this administration has a covert policy that has empowered the Taliban and enabled this brutal movement to hold on to power’.