Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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On 03/21/07 20:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
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>
> The Taliban occupied 95% of the territory, called the Islamic Emirate
> of Afghanistan. The remaining 5% belonged to the rebel forces
> constituting the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which the United
> Nations had recognized as the official government in exile.
>
> So, the Taliban was only the legitimate government in the sense that
> they declared themselves to be so. Nobody, outside of Pakistan and at
> at some point SA and UAE, recognized them as the legitimate government.
> So tell me again, how are insurgents lawful combatants?
95% seems pretty much de-facto control of the country to me!
But... they weren't in uniform. (Did the IEA even *have* an Army?)
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