AFGHANISTAN IMPLICATIONS OF A TALIBAN "VICTORY"

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06570445
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2017
• Case Number: F-2016-01040
• Publication Date: May 1, 2001

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Terrorism Linked to Taliban-Ruled
Afghanistan
uspects in several major terror-
ist inci ents have been trained in, directed
from, or given safe haven in Afghanistan
since the Taliban gained control of most of
the country in 1996.
� Mustapha Hamza, leader of the main fac-
tion of Gama'at al-Islamiyya (1G), resided
in Afghanistan at the time his group con-
ducted the attack on foreign tourists in
Luxor, Egypt, in 1997, according to a for-
eign government service.
� The hijacking of India Air Flight 814 in
late December 1999 also underscored the
ties between Kashmiri militants and
Afghanistan. The hijackers ordered the air-
craft to Afghanistan, almost certainly
expecting to receive sympathetic treatment
from the Taliban The Taliban did not arrest
the hiiackers,
� According to press reports, suspects in the
attack on the USS Cole also trained in
Afghanistan.
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