Event
The Taliban take Kabul
The Taliban seized Jalalabad on 11 September 1996 and Kabul by the end of the month.
- Dates
- Sep 1996
- Place
- Kabul
Connections 3
involved
- Taliban Scholarship & press 1
- Osama bin Laden cemented his ties with the Taliban afterwards Primary record 2
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Timeline 1 date
- Sep 1996 The Taliban take Kabul
Proof 2 sources
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Afghanistan: Crisis of Impunity: The Role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in Fueling the Civil War, Human Rights Watch, Jul 2001.
Scholarship & press
culminating in September in its greatest victories to date, the seizures of Jalalabad on September 11 and Kabul itself by the end of the month
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9-11-commission, 22 Jul 2004.
Primary record
But after September 1996, when first Jalalabad and then Kabul fell to the Taliban, Bin Ladin cemented his ties with them.
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