KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's Taliban and al-Qaida have different ideologies, says a study, noting it is possible to encourage the former to renounce the latter.
"The Taliban and al-Qaida remain distinct groups with different goals, ideologies, and sources of recruits; there was considerable friction between them before September 11, 2001, and today that friction persists," say the key findings in the New York University study by experts Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn.