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Originally posted by UnseenWorld
You have thought it somehow important that he was TECHNICALLY not a soldier for the Taliban. My point, since seem unwilling to draw the obvious conclusion, is that you are making a distinction without a difference.
Maybe he wasn't a soldier fighting for the Taliban, but by fighting for them on another front, he essentially provided them a soldier (since they then could send one less soldier to the Northern front).
Sheeeesh!!!
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Well...I did not think that it was an important point that he was not a member of the Taliban Army. He would have been an official member of the Taliban Army if Taliban law allowed it.
Most people make a big deal about him being a member of al Qaeda, because the general public are under the misconception that all members of al Qaeda were trained to be terrorists and they were not. Many of them were merely trained in military skills. Foreign nationals had to become members of the al Qaeda if they wanted to assist the Tabliban in their fight against the "Northern Alliance".
How many of the thousands that were trained by the al Qaeda were trained to be terrorists, I do not know.