Hm... interesting. Yes, the media can be quiet awful in their portrayals. But I do not believe that all in the Taliban are good. Read Three Cups of Tea. Several of the schools that have been built were destroyed by Taliban. Perhaps they are not the main Taliban? A rouge group?
But Osama Bin Laden who was one of the Taliban leaders was an evil man who believed in killing and some of his people forced women to cover up and stay indoors. When I say cover up, I mean at least a hijab. That should be a choice between a woman and God. Maybe some of the Taliban push for education, but there are also those who have pushed against it.

I laughed so hard after reading this post, sorry couldn't help. If this is what the media is projecting about taliban and alqaeda, mixing the two up and making all these people sound like some cruel blood thirsty war mongers, I am truly astounded.
Does anyone know what taliban means? Ok I'll just give a small back ground. Taliban means "students" and there were some nice group of students who started a movement for the spread of knowledge of Islam in Afghanistan since it was ruled by the brutal un-islamic but afghan war lords( who had little to do with religion and were very corrupt people). As long as the War lords assumed control of Afghanistan, the west was pretty fine with them, even though they were the most In-human barbaric people of that region, but they had power. Power how? Power= drug fields= big world market for narcotics, US included, everyone was happy.
Taliban came and destroyed the drug fields, the Narcotics business was at stake ( its multi billionaire plus plus) and didn't want to settle for any deals with the Us for drugs. All hell broke loose, everyone knows what happened. Now, Drug fields born , flourishing again, taliban been side-lined and portrayed as the terror symbols which in fact they are not, but uncle sam needs them to be, to push their agenda back home and all over the world to maintain their hold on the region. Taliban openly announces that it wants to engage in peaceful deals with the US, The Us stages a drama of mis-trust, because they don't want a deal, they don't want to go, and they wont publicize a word of it in their media, but we know whats happening. Afghan innocent people and children are dying, for a war they didn't know who started and why.
The taliban supporters are growing everyday and about half of Afghanistan is still under their control, you cant force people to support a movement that they have seen ,and means well for them, and sincerely works for them.
And Americans think that taliban are the most brutal people on this planet and must need to get rid of.
AlQ? Are you talking about the puppet organization made by CIA themselves? taliban and Alq are not allies, taliban openly declare they have nothing to do with them, why? because Alq has suspicious motives which always seem to kill more muslims every other day than anyone else. Everybody knows US supports Alq in Iran, Middle East and Afghanistan, if all common people know that, then everybody knows that.
Do you know that 95% of the people who have died all over the world, supposedly because of ALQ, are all Muslims? Then what the hell are these Americans so scared of? There is one thing though they should be suspicious of and that is their govt. and its motives, which is completely controlled by Zionists, sorry but thats the truth. I wish I could prove it you, but I wont have to, you will see it for yourself one day, all truth comes out one day, you can only keep a secret for so long, just keep your eyes open. If you'd read the end of times hadiths, you'll understand.
peace.