Welcoming al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and allowing him to plan the 9/11 attacks from Afghan soil was a mistake the Taliban paid for with the loss of power and which matured for two decades.
The attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers “were the pretext that the United States was used to invade our country”, admitted the former foreign minister of the Taliban regime, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, in statements to EFE in 2011 .