Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga tsakiyar shekarun 1990s Taliban ta ba da mafaka ga Osama bin Laden, ɗan ƙasar Saudiyya wanda ya yi yaƙi tare da su a kan Soviets, kuma ya ba da tushe ga shi da sauran ƙungiyoyin ta'addanci. Kwamitin Tsaro na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ya yi wa Taliban horo akai-akai saboda wadannan ayyukan. Bin Laden ya ba da tallafin kuɗi da siyasa ga Taliban, kamar yadda Pakistan da Saudi Arabiya suka yi, har sai matsin lamba na Amurka ya tilasta su su daina goyon bayan jama'a ga Taliban bayan Satumba 11, 2001. An zargi Bin Laden da kungiyarsa ta Al Qaeda da kai harin bam a ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka
a Nairobi da Dar Es Salaam a 1998, kuma a watan Agusta 1998 Amurka ta kaddamar da wani harin makami mai linzami a kan sansanin 'yan ta'adda na bin Laden a Afghanistan. Bin Laden da al Qaeda ana zaton suna da alhakin hare-haren 11 ga Satumba, 2001 a Amurka, a tsakanin sauran laifuka.