Ben Laden and the Taleban regime are two sides of the same coin. Because that is what Ben Laden and Al Qaeda want for you. We in the West realise the Kabul regime emerged out of the chaos that ravaged Afghanistan after the Soviet army withdrew. Initially many Afghans believed the new regime could restore order to the country. But let us make no mistake about the sort of people they are.
Public administration is chaotic and getting worse.
The country is desperately poor and getting poorer because of the regime's policies. Teachers, doctors and other educated Afghans have been forced to flee or live in terror. Because the Kabul regime has so badly mismanaged the economy, the Afghan people are starving. Virtually the only arm of civil government that functions effectively is the Ministry of Enforcement of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice. This ministry enforces strict observance of all Taleban decrees on social and moral behaviour which bear scant relationship to the teachings of Islam.