Whose Monster? A Study in the Rise to Power of al Qaeda and the Taliban

This thesis seeks to determine which factors and parties were most responsible for the transformation of the Mujahedeen who pushed the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan into what would eventually become al Qaeda and the Taliban in the 1990s. First brought to America\u27s attention due to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, they would gain increased notoriety as the decade progressed due to the Taliban\u27s treatment of Afghan women, and finally culminating in the tragic terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001