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Taliban School in Pakistan

AdministratorMay 22, 2015

For years, the CIA and other Western intelligence services funded religious seminaries in Pakistan, hoping students would fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Many students, who later became leaders of the Taliban, studied at the Darul Oloom Haqqania. Samiul Haq heads the school, and is still proud of his former students and their brutal interpretation of Islamic law. Naomi Conrad reports.

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