A few months after the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan, on January 20, 1997, an unidentified US diplomat said: ” ‘The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis did. There will be Aramco [American oil company consortium that originally controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that,’…”
– Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 179