TITLE

Islam's student-warriors greeted as liberators--for now

AUTHOR(S)

Zubrzycki, John

PUB. DATE

September 1996

SOURCE

Christian Science Monitor;9/20/96, Vol. 88 Issue 208, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Newspaper

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the takeover by the Islamic student militia Taliban of the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan in September 1996. Reaction by city residents to the siege; Concerns on the group's utopian ideals; Background to the establishment of the group; Aims of the group; Activities by the group.

ACCESSION #

9610010276

Tags: JALALABAD (Afghanistan) -- Social conditions;  TALIBAN

 

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