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Those who fight in the support of Taliban have their own agenda like any other fighters but the media lable them as "islamic Terrorst".
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan
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The answer, according to emerging clues and security analysts, is that North Waziristan, once a hub of Taliban fighters with links to Pakistan's military, has evolved into a stewpot of militant groups, each with different loyalties.
In Pakistan, ex-spy Khalid Khawaja's killing is surrounded by mystery
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Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said military leaders wanted troops to remain through the end of 2012 to finish off the fighting season and give them the best chance to debilitate the Taliban.
Military leaders: Drawdown plan aggressive
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Last year he dispatched troops into Swat and South Waziristan to oust the Taliban from their mountain lair; more recently, he helped the US increase drone strikes.
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Zuhra Bahman, a consultant from Kabul, said that urging Taliban fighters to give up arms and join the government will not amount to the democratization of Afghanistan.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to seven French soldiers killed last week in Afghanistan, saying they fought in a just war against what he called the "tyranny" of the Taliban movement.
Sarkozy: French Troops Killed in Afghanistan Fought Taliban's 'Tyranny'
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The more that they appear the more likely it is that a British patrol is being "dicked" (observed) and information is being passed back up the Taliban chain.
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The offensive has provoked an al-Qaida-linked self-proclaimed commander of the Pakistani Taliban to suspend peace talks with the government.
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Afghanistan has long pressed the U.S. to tackle what it calls the bases of terrorism in Pakistan, and Obama's reported pledge will likely please Karzai, who has accused Pakistan's intelligence service of supporting the Taliban in plotting bombings and other attacks in Afghanistan - claims that Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in its war on terror, flatly denies.
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That includes a recent visit to Kabul by representatives of the most "buyable" Taliban leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
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As we stood there on the fringe of a park studded with tall, old pine trees, the Taliban spokesman called Sami's cell phone claiming responsibility for the attack.
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According to a DAI report, the security incidents mostly involved Taliban insurgent threats and violence around the subproject construction sites.
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But that -- as you said, there is a lot increase in violence in Afghanistan, and that's really blamed on an insurge of -- increase in Taliban activity.
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Associated Press Writers = KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
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But any further inquiry along those lines would have disclosed that the ISI was an original patron of the Taliban, a fact "knowable" by anyone yet inconvenient for the ISI's senior partner in Langley, Virginia, to admit.
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Mr. Omar, who heads a Taliban leadership council called the Quetta "shura" -- named after the city in southeast Pakistan where it is believed to be based -- has typically focused on choosing Taliban leaders and funneling money, religious guidance and strategic advice to fighters.
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But Hashemi believed that ultimately this would not solve the problem, which he described as incurable, between the Taliban government and the United States.
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Recall his blustering campaign rhetoric about defeating the Taliban; recall the public commitment last
Obama Never Considered Diplomacy In Afghanistan
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A Canadian diplomat is blunt: "Things are going worse for us than they have during the past four or five years - the Taliban controls more of our territory than before, and we have made no progress at all on corruption.
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Adding to the complexity is a new alliance between China and Iran, a secret one between China and the Taliban, the attempted defection of a North Korean spy to the West and the usual moles on each side.
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the Taliban enforced a strict Muslim code of behavior
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The US is bombing Taliban and al - Qaeda sanctuaries in Pakistan.
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In that interview, Mr. Karzai said he has ma jor interests in Afghanistan's only cement factory and a housing development outside the southern city of Kandahar, where U.S. and Afghan forces are making a push against the Taliban.
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And yesterday I saw Kafiristan on the television, and it's a major Taliban stronghold ...
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The Pakistani military has declared the province off-limits to U.S. Predator strikes, and the country's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) seems to be giving the Taliban a free hand.
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They say that they do in their diplomatese, which is to say that the Taliban must cooperate, must understand what a grave situation it faces, and must make the right decision.
CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2001
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Menacing warlords intimidate, the Taliban strikes and the foreigners remain unwilling to risk the necessary relationships they need to develop with Afghans.
Patricia DeGennaro: Mr. President, Take a Firm Lead in Afghanistan
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It is the destruction of the Al Qaeda network and terrorist organizations with global reach, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the taking asunder -- that, sir, maybe that, asunder, that is not quite as good as eviscerate -- but it has to do with taking down this illegitimate government of the Taliban that provides harbor to Al Qaeda.
CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2001
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There is some concern that overgenerosity may alienate Afghans who have not sided with the Taliban.
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“British forces believe that, in many respects, their Afghan allies pose more of a challenge to their mission than the Taliban … It is the Afghan government that is now proving more of an obstacle to stability in an area where a mixture of official corruption, ineptitude and paranoia are stymying British efforts.”
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The first two clips highlight our efforts to attrite Taliban 5th Corps in the north near Mazar-i-Sharif.
CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001
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He also asked India to "sympathise" with Pakistan's fight against terror as its army is fighting Taliban in the troubled northwest region bordering Afghanistan.
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They talked up the threat cyber security is to national security, but now Marcus Sachs and co are starting to look stupid on the world cyberstage, because their claims of bgp disruption, satellite communications going down and a cyber 9/11 orchestrated by Taliban isn't a reality threat, its just a buzz threat model to create stimulation and growth in an industry that is running out of profit options.
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Taliban captors held him hostage for seven months, until June of last year, when he and his Afghan colleague managed to flee from a compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.
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Control of Kandahar, the Taliban movement's birthplace, is seen as key to reversing Taliban momentum in the war.
Taliban Steps Up Attacks In Kandahar With Second Day Of Blasts
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Romney would more than likely get confused, if he ever had to decide on military action, if he was American or the Taliban, and this sir is a risk no American can take. best quote today so far. jim
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Instead, Obama is sending a pin prick which will do nothing but provide more targets for the Taliban and higher US casualties and have SQUAT effect on the overall war.
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Iran-Israel Conflict a Growing Concern I was watching another youtubers video and grabed a screen-shot to show you, it says the Iran bomber drone is aimed at Israel. death to these shaytan parasts = taliban!! taliban beheading suicid bomber bombers afghan afghanistan madrassa islam muslim osama binladen al qaeda ramadan wahabi arab arabian world pashtun pashtunwali culture pathan tribal areas pakistan iran ahmadinejad kabul kandahar usa obama drones irak war
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Meanwhile, in Afghanistan -- from where Al-Qa'eda plotted to attack us on 9/11 -- their hosts, the Taliban ( 'union of religious scholars') resurge from the mountains, to undo all of the progress we once made there.
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We have learned, according to a source inside of Kandahar, that a meeting called a shura, a meeting of tribal elders of a Pashtun tribe called the Norzai met together last night and had decided that one of Mullah Mohammed Omar -- the spiritual leader of the Taliban -- one of Mullah Omar's deputies would become the chief administrator of the city of Kandahar.
CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2001
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There are also anti-Taliban fighters from the Hazara ethnic minority who control parts of the exquisite, ravaged Bamiyan valley.
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Analyst and newspaper editor Rashed Rahman says the central problem in the relationship is what he calls the "proxy war that the Pakistan military is waging through the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Shah smuggled a video camera into Afghanistan to secretly film the reality of life under the Taliban.
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Taliban anti-aircraft positions were located on a hill nearby and the neighborhood, Wazir Akbar Khan, was home to many Taliban officials.
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I don’t want to be thought of as the “girl who was shot by the Taliban” but the “girl who fought for education.” This is the cause to which I want to devote my life. Malala Yousafzai
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On June 17 2008, the men of D Squadron, accompanied by Cpl Bryant of the Intelligence Corps, left their base in Lashkar Gah to pick up a dead Taliban fighter in a village eight miles away, but were "channelled" onto well-used tracks because they could not drive off road.
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That apparently was too much for the Taliban government, which then issued its edict.
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Dont confuse yourself, learn to take a clear stand, either come forward and accept that Taliban's version of Shariat is True Islamic Shariat and you support what and how they are doing and implementing that version of shariat in Swat.
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Defending the absurd notion that the windbaggery of Mr. Galloway is somehow a threat to our national security, a spokesperson for the virginal Jason Kenney, Alykhan Velshi, referred to Gorgeous George as "someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
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The former was present with Washington's decision to defenestrate the Taliban regime after it hosted al-Qaeda.
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Will make it that much easier to dump him in 2012 when the Taliban retakes Afganistan.
WH denies Afghan decision made, as tensions flare with Pentagon
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A military surrender in Swat was legitimized by the national assembly when they passed the Taliban law called Nizam-e-Adl.
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On the other hand, as mentioned, The Taliban persecutes Shia so it would be Shia helping Sunni to kill Shia.
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He said his top priority is to "maintain the momentum" on the battlefield by continuing to pursue the Taliban, especially in what he called the decisive terrain of southern Afghanistan that has been the Taliban's power base.
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According to the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf confirmed the statement of the Taliban chief in which he praised the people of Afghanistan for what he called foiling the American drama by avoiding participation in the American-manipulated elections.
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During the Bush years, the designation encompassed not just members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban but also anyone who associated with them, supported them, or supported organizations associated with them, even if unwittingly.
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Myers explained, “The only way that the Afghan people are going to be successful in heaving the terrorist network out of their country is to be successful against” that portion of Taliban and the Taliban leadership that are so closely linked to the al-Qaida.”
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In other words, the military sees itself persuing both an occupation-as-nation-building and military action against recalcitrant elements supporting, aiding, abetting, or otherwise interfering with the pursuit of al Qaeda, namely the resurgent Taliban.
Muddling Afghanistan
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Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable.
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After listing what it describes as recent "notable successes" against al-Qaeda, particularly its Afghan Taliban allies, the committee gives its thanks and congratulations to "the administration as a whole and in particular the men and women of the U.S. military.
Military expands intelligence role
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The Tories and the military have suggested the diplomat was duped by the Taliban into writing what they call groundless reports.
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We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar.
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The game, which took place last month, was the first proper match since the Taliban took power in 1996, although it was preceded by off-pitch violence as thousands of ticketless fans tried to get into the stadium.
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It is difficult to believe that the Taliban brand of Islam can dehumanise a person to such an extent - making him insensitive to even the sublimest of art form ….
What Will Happen to Ancient Art in the Taliban’s Swat?
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ABDUL SATTAR, PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER: The Pakistani delegation -- at a high level -- will be conveying to the Taliban government of Afghanistan the imperative of compliance with security council resolutions, both those that have been adopted in the past and the one that was adopted on the twelfth of September.
CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2001
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So part of this campaign and this kind of reemergence of the Taliban, how in the world could something like this happen?
CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2008
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To the east was the Afghan Taliban, a regime that espoused a ruthless brand of Sunni Islam and viewed Iran's Shia Muslim leaders as heretics.
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The security personnel then resorted to aerial firing to scare away the rioters, which prompted the Taliban militia to fire back in retaliation.
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The Taliban's promise - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.
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And finally, we know that the ratio of ISAF to Taliban insurgent is about 50 to 1 in kills when they do go toe to toe.
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(A few weeks earlier, Taliban leader Mullah Omar had floated the idea of convening a tribunal of Islamic religious scholars to review the evidence against the Al Qaeda leader.)
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Again if you actually look at what the Afghanis think, they want the Taliban to stop trying to take over militarily, at which point they would support some sort of negotiated settlement between the current government and the Taliban.
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If insurgents like the Taliban again seize power, do you think the women in any of those countries will fare better or worse?
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The soldier that looks up there knows that that's protecting him, the townsman knows that that's protecting him, the Taliban knows that that might be looking at him.
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Afghanistan has long pressed the U.S. to tackle what it calls the bases of terrorism in Pakistan, and Obama's reported pledge will likely please Karzai, who has accused Pakistan's intelligence service of supporting the Taliban in plotting bombings and other attacks in Afghanistan-claims that Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in its war on terror, flatly denies.
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Often they're dull and tell the interviewers little they didn't already know; sometimes, though, they give insight to "atmospherics" - how Afghan locals feel about US forces or the Taliban.
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In northwestern Pakistan, a missile striked and killed 7 taliban members on Sunday.
Pakistan Suspects US Missile Strike Yet Again
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The Taliban does claim that several innocent civilians were killed when U.S. bombs hit what they called a clinic -- a Red Cross resupply clinic in the city of Kandahar.
CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2001
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While in recent years contemporary art has more than ever basked in the luxury of international money and media attention, epitomised in the Frieze Art Fair, an event which each year has me reaching for the Taliban application form, even among the literati poetry seems to be fighting a losing battle against prose fiction.
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That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul.
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It is entirely unclear just what North did to "corroborate" US military claims of Taliban deaths, but his efforts to bolster the military stance appear about to go down in the same flames that killed 90 Afghan civilians.
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A Pashtun man swore his undying support for the Taliban.
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I think that if we have a situation where the Taliban comes into power in Afghanistan, it's going to be very difficult to deter them from somehow hosting Al Qaida elements, because they can very easily establish what you call plausible deniability.
CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2009
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Medecins Sans Frontieres became the first major aid agency to quit Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban.
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Just like the taliban twist and rewrite islam to keep there uneducated slaves faithfull in blowing them selves up in market squares.
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Mullah Omar, popularly known as the one-eyed Taliban, was the first member of the Taliban I met back in 2001.
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But Mullah Omar's Taliban has adopted the rhetoric of a national liberation struggle, to oust foreign forces and restore Islamic rule.
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Pakistan Taliban Claims it Carried Out CIA Attack hosted. ap.org MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) -- The Pakistani Taliban claimed Friday that they used a turncoat CIA operative to carry out a suicide bombing that killed seven American CIA employees in Afghanistan as revenge for a top militant leader's death in a US missile strike.
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The former communists dubbed the repatriated Afghan as Pakistani agents and Taliban supporters.
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JALALABAD: The American-backed campaign to persuade legions of Taliban gunmen to stop fighting got under way here recently, in an ornate palace filled with Afghan tribal leaders and one very large former warlord leading the way. “OK, I want you guys to go out there and persuade the Taliban to sit down and talk, †Gul Agha Shirzai, the governor of Jalalabad, told a group of 25 tribal leaders from four eastern provinces.
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I witneesed the local student was bushed by the taliban. as a pashton boy I am shameful that most of the taliban belong to this ethnic. these criminal (taliban) invited Osama Binladan to cam to Afghanistan promote terorist activity here kill innocent human, destory our country More Nato forces will be killed unless NATO quickly get out of Afghanistan.
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Assailants from al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban Movement in Punjab province claimed responsibility, calling Bhatti an "infidel Christian.
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Karzai reportedly said, “I swear that I am going to join the Taliban.” well considering that he is a Pushtu and from Kandahar he probable has been a Taliban.
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But they believe the risks of noninvolvement, losing the Afghan democracy, having the Taliban come back in and institute the most repressive government in modern history against women and little girls, giving free reign to the Afghan -- Al Qaeda, all over Afghanistan -- those risks are far greater.
CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2009
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Put a different way, had NATO assaulted Tora Bora and eliminated the al-Qa'ida force, to include bin Laden and his inner circle, along with the remnants of the Taliban forces, NATO losses would have been miniscule as comparedto the losses the region has suffered over the past seven years of endless warbecause those forces were allowed to escape.
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ROBERTSON: Well, what the Taliban has been trying to do, according to NATO commanders, is turn from a phase one insurgency, which is small groups of armed men, trying to take control of perhaps a road or a strategic road junction, trying to fight limited skirmishes, to ambush convoys, to turn it into what they call a phase two insurgency.
CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007
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A Pakistani newspaper reported that Taliban fighters have even left Afghanistan to confront the Pakistani army, leading to a noticeable lowering of insurgent activity in American-patrolled Kunar province.
The Two Malcontents
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U. S.-led forces there say they are planning what they call decisive operations to reclaim two southern Afghan towns recently captured by Taliban.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, for example, told Congress last week that Pakistan was "abdicating" to the Taliban extremists.
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Under the pen name Carew, he gave interviews to the media following the September 11 attacks, posing as an expert on Taliban strategies.
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KABUL — Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the ...
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The most unexpected, and potentially risky, aspect of NATO's resurgence is Abdul Razziq, the 32-year-old police colonel best known for allegations of pocketing millions of dollars in illegal customs dues, who has left the border to lead hundreds of his militiamen into Taliban-held villages that have bedeviled NATO troops for years.
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The Pentagon is not succeeding in degrading the Taliban's military capacity.
Robert Naiman: Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
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There have been contacts between the U.S. government and the Taliban, there have been contacts between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and there have been some contacts that we have made, all of us together, including the Taliban," Mr. Karzai said in the interview Wednesday in his office at the Arg Palace in Kabul.
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But Mullah Omar's Taliban has adopted the rhetoric of a national liberation struggle, to oust foreign forces and restore Islamic rule.
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Afghans believe Karzai is an illegitimate American puppet and consider his regime to be as foreign as the Taliban.
Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance
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Close friends of Rabbani said that the former president returned from a trip to Iran to meet with a man who had been described as a high-ranking Taliban contact.
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Intelligence agents obtained the tape during a search of a private house in Jalalabad after it was abandoned by the Taliban and officials are now debating whether to release the tape.
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In addition, both the Taliban and Northern Alliance may have engaged in more traditional types of mine warfare and existing minefields may have shifted or expanded and new ones been laid.
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Those talks will mark the anniversary of the Australia, New Zealand, U.S. Security Treaty, or the Anzus Treaty, a post-World War II pact that paved the way for the country's special forces and navy to support the U.S.-led military response against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks and later the invasion of Iraq.
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We concluded that this subproject was not only a casualty of Taliban insurgent actions and violence but also was a waste of USAID money.
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Swat Taliban paying mercenaries 'blood money' to "behead" policemen ISLAMABAD - The Swat Taliban has engaged a band of private armed terrorists and is paying them handsome amounts to target security officials in Mingora and other adjacent areas.
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I don't think Fatima bashes her aunt more and twists the facts to say that there were only three countries in the world that actually recognized the Taliban rule in Afghanistan: besides Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Benazir's Pakistan.
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I think the point of Afghanistan was to get Osama and destabalize al Qaeda and you think the point was to "unseat" the Taliban, and you think I'm the idiot?
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban required women to wear the full-body chadri in public, and that solved the problem of institutionalized violence against women forever , yay!
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Western officials say that the counter-insurgency effort against the Taliban should be strengthened by the unification of the Nato and US missions in Afghanistan under the single command of McKiernan no--the missions will not be unified, they will just have the same commander, double-hatted, which is due to be confirmed by Congress later this month. posted by Mark, Ottawa at 8:27 AM
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We're using a carrier-based aircraft and coalition aircraft -- carrier based as well as land based -- that are predominantly flying close air support missions or on-call interdiction missions, to be called in by the special forces working with any Taliban forces.
CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2002
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The White House recently, through it's coalition information center, released what it called a catalogue of Taliban lies.
CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2001
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In any case, the vast bulk of opium is grown in three areas – Wardak, Kandahar and Helmand, where the local control elements, whether Taliban or not, derive power from their drug income.
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Martin Weiss says: well we clearly are in an armed conflict with Al Q (they declared war to the death on the US back in the1990s) but what about other groups (e.g., the Taliban have not ‘declared’ war to the death with the US, neither have dozens of other terrorist groups)?
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Ghamsharik also led a group of Afghan militias during the 2001 U. S.-led campaign against the Taliban, including at Tora Bora, a complex of caves near Nangahar's border with Pakistan, from where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden escaped.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities now believe a dangerous new militant group, out to avenge a deadly army assault on a mosque in Islamabad three years ago, has carried out several major bombings in the capital previously blamed on the Taliban.
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That may change, but for now surely we are witnessing the wages of eight years of FISA, the Patriot Act, overseas renditions, Guantanamo, tens of thousands of Islamists 'attrited' in Iraq (cf. the much ridiculed 'flypaper trap' theory), the routing of the Taliban from Afghanistan, Predator attacks in Pakistan, and quiet European intelligence work that would be classified as "shredding the Constitution" if it were done here in the US.
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One top Taliban source says he has heard that the Pakistan military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) picked up Zakir in an effort to "brainwash" him.
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They call Sami ul Haq the "Father of the Taliban," one of Pakistan's most well-known and hard-line Islamists.
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The main Taliban commander here is Anwarul Haq Mujahid, son of a former mujahideen commander, Mohammad Younus Khalis.
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Allowing for hyberbole and the possibility that the University of Bristol study has inferred a more general opposition to females in the Anglican priesthood from a few anecdotes, it still seems as if there are a fair number of English anglicans whose views on women would let them fit right in with the Taliban.
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Prince Harry used the term raghead to mean Taliban or Iraqi insurgent.
CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009
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Pakistan's ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani, vehemently denied claims the country's intelligence agency, the ISI, had backed the Taliban.
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Scenario Two: the Taliban are reduced to a minority regional party with a political structure that most Afghanis prefer.
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According to Canadian deputy commander Colonel Fred Lewis, the Taliban appear to be concentrating forces and digging in defences - moving to what he called "semi-conventional" combat, compared to guerrilla-style tactics employed before.
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“Our commanders think that these additional forces and one of the reasons for the president's decision to try and accelerate their deployment is the view that this extended surge has the opportunity to make significant gains in terms of reversing the momentum of the Taliban, denying control of Afghan territory and degrading their capabilities”
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Welcoming the Af-Pak policy unveiled on Tuesday, minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor said the pressure maintained by the US on Taliban and al-Qaeda there is in the interest of India as it keeps such elements on the "backfoot".
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Following a tinny peace agreement this week, allegations have arisen that there may have even been a $6 million bribe to encourage Taliban leaders 'cooperation, revealing the extent of the government's impuissance and desperation.
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In some instances, military means could be important, such as in the case of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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So, if you mean that (neo -) keynesianism is over and we have a bunch of Taliban left over, that's true, but if you mean that macroeconomics or econometrics is passe, new classicals (e.g.: Sargent, Prescott, Lucas) and new keynesians (e.g. Mankiw) will certainly disagree.
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After all, should the Karzai government begin behaving like the Taliban on top of the endemic corruption, they should be removed just like the Taliban.
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In Afghanistan, the burka is known as the 'chadri'; it became common only when the Taliban came to power.
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They're pushing further and further out, trying to what they call interdict communications John supply lines leading to and from Kandahar that could be used by the Taliban.
CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2001
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Pakistan in particular, if the inchmeal approach of the Taliban toward the capital is not halted, will need to be robustly confronted.
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Most damningly of all, the Taliban control 70% of the country.
Azeem Ibrahim: Negotiations With the Taliban Point to the Need to Leave Afghanistan
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This time both the Taliban and a second insurgent faction, Hezb-i-Islami, claimed responsibility for the bombing, although until the identity and motivation of the bomber are established - and the kind of detonating device he was using known - it will be hard to gauge their veracity.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Pakistanis bristle at what they see as growing Indian influence in Afghanistan, and some contend that India funds anti-Pakistan Taliban factions responsible for terrorist bombings.
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The Taliban would struggle to come up with a more effective way of undermining morale.
The Sun
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Those Afghan leaders are asking the Taliban leaders and followers to foreswear violence and join their fellow citizens in rebuilding their country.
Ed Koch: Mr. President, Bring All of Our Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq Home, Now
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Defending the absurd notion that the windbaggery of Mr. Galloway is somehow a threat to our national security, a spokesperson for the virginal Jason Kenney, Alykhan Velshi, referred to Gorgeous George as "someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The effort to reassure people with the captures failed to instill much confidence, and the most immediate fallout of the jailbreak was a mounting sense among Afghans that government corruption, incompetence and complacency were as much to blame as the Taliban.
NYT > Home Page
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Similar nonobjective analysis is applied to the 9/11 attack: It was a strategic blunder by al Qaeda, Mr. Bergen concedes, because the U.S. response destroyed the safe haven provided by the Taliban in Afghanistan; it nearly obliterated the senior leadership of the organization; and it elicited world-wide condemnation.
America's Most Wanted
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The first, Mullah Berader, is a longtime senior Taliban leader who sits on the Quetta shura, which is believed to have about 20 members.
Taliban Chief Extends Control Over Insurgency
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The Taliban would struggle to come up with a more effective way of undermining morale.
The Sun
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WOLFOWITZ: We started in April with the notion of attriting (ph) the Taliban by assisting the Northern Alliance.
CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2004
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At the point of mentioning Khwaja, the caller identifies himself as someone from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), based in South Waziristan, and indicates that he needs the information to crosscheck the abducted Khwaja and use it for his execution.
Abdulhadi Hairan: How a Top Pakistani Journalist Encouraged a Militant Commander to Kill a Former Official
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Operations had also disrupted what he called lower and mid-level Taliban commanders.
Afghan elections: British commander predicts surge in Taliban violence
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But then, as the Taliban were deliberating about how to "disinvite" their troublesome guest after 9/11, the U.S. began its assault on the Taliban and bombed them into togetherness with Al Qaeda.
Scott Atran: Talking to the Enemy: How to Turn the Taliban Against Al Qaeda
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There are some countries that endorse Buck's worldview and intermix God and government -- Iran and Afghanistan under Taliban rule come to mind -- but they're generally not countries the United States tries to emulate.
Michael J.W. Stickings: Why Do Ken Buck and the Republican Taliban Hate America?
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Also on Sunday, the Taliban vowed to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
Kabul Bank Crisis
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Even doctors at Peshawar's main hospital have been ordered by the Taliban to stop wearing Western clothes, and to adopt the loose-fitting national dress known as shalwar kameez.
Taliban's Reign of Fear Spreads in Pakistani City
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In the villages it is not Taliban officials who decide local issues but jirgas, small councils of village elders whose rulings are highly respected.
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Meanwhile, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced its new leader in Pakistan, following confirmation that Baitullah Mehsud was indeed killed at the beginning of the month: his hot-headed brother-in-arms Hakimullah Mehsud.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Potential Peace With North Korea And Iran, Afghanistan Elections, New Leader For Pakistan Taliban And Lethal Attack In Baghdad
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A secret US document, marked as releasable to the Government of Pakistan, has linked former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Gul to the Taliban and al-Qaeda networks.
Letter incriminates gul
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Reuters reports that “Taliban fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said on Friday, as it relaxed a curfew to allow civilians to get out.”
Wonk Room » The WonkLine: May 15, 2009
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Recall his blustering campaign rhetoric about defeating the Taliban; recall the public commitment last December of Defense Secretary Robert Gates to strengthen military bases in Afghanistan.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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Guttenberg's pronouncement was both a backtrack on his own remarks a month ago, when he called the airstrike "militarily appropriate," and a rebuke to the colonel who summoned US fighter-bombers to blow up two fuel tanker trucks stolen by the Taliban.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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And since it is not a democracy, that means it lies with the Taliban, the warlords and their satrapies, and Karzai, to the degree anybody listens to Karzai.
Gordon Adams: Afghanistan:Why Do We Stay?
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*** World-Wide Pakistani security forces ended a nightlong Taliban siege of a Karachi air base that left 10 dead.
What's News—
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To build the world's biggest dam here and expect it to light the entire continent is like building the world's biggest nuclear plant in the land of the Taliban -- or the world's biggest medical marijuana farm in Mexico's borderlands.
Lori Pottinger: Grand Illusions for African Energy in Davos
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Bush justified the Afghan invasion and overthrow of the Taliban on the vague claim that it 'harbored' Al-Qaeda -- but the Afghans themselves were not involved in 9/11.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Michael Munk: Warfare, corruption breed terrorism
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Iran's official English language press service is claiming that the al Qaeda linked al Shabaab terrorists have agreed to back their formal rivals of the 'moderate' Islamic Courts Union, aka the Somalian Taliban.
The Jawa Report
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To the east was the Afghan Taliban, a regime that espoused a ruthless brand of Sunni Islam and viewed Iran's Shia Muslim leaders as heretics.
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Afghanistan prior to the Taliban was a godforsaken hellhole that lead the world in heroin production, so it effectively was a series of criminal enterprises and not a state.
Matthew Yglesias » Gaza in Context
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On another hand, there are real questions as to whether — as a matter of policy, not law — the CIA is the right agency to conduct what increasingly looks to amount to a parallel conventional war using drones in Pakistan, not in a pure counterterrorism strategy, but really in support of the conventional war by Pakistan against the Pakistan Taliban.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Clandestine Military Operations
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The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan offered a grim view Wednesday of military efforts in southern Afghanistan, warning that 17,000 new troops will take on emboldened Taliban insurgents who have "stalemated" U.S. and allied forces.
National Coalition for History
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The Taliban claimed it shot down the helicopter, but the official said there was no sign of hostile fire.
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Six-plus years after 9/11; while the Taliban attempts an Afghanistan comeback; as Islamist terrorists cause mayhem in Algeria and occupy huge swaths of tribal Pakistan; despite "United 93" and "The Kite Runner," a library-full of books, presidential commissions, congressional hearings, and four election cycles — despite all of that, a strange, Victorian reticence about naming the enemy in the contest for the human future in which we are engaged befogs this political season.
The War Against Jihadism
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Nous devons en effet pouvoir face à la nouvelle menace créée suite à l'attaque par les talibans de la prison d'où ils ont fait échapper un millier de prisonniers.
WN.com - Photown News
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It's hard to comprehend how the U.S. would fail to forecast that its enthusiasm for a Taliban power-sharing arrangement might trigger angst amongst the warlords of the Hazara, Tajik and Uzbek minority groups in the north.
Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions
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This particular route, beside an abandoned coalition base, is a favorite for Taliban bomb planters who often return to the same area to reseed it, the British military says.
U.K.'s 3-D Imaging Gets a Look in Libya
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We understand that the Taliban is claiming that a bus was hit, with civilian passengers on it, it says, And then we are also hearing from our own sources; they say there has been unusually heavy striking near what they call populated areas.
CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2001
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But a senior U.S. diplomat in Kabul said "there is some thinking going on in Washington" now about being more open to reconciliation, even to Karzai's proposed outreach to Taliban leaders that the Pentagon has described as unreconcilable, including hard-line chief Mullah Mohammad Omar.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Joe Wilson wing nut from the GOP confederated Taliban state of south carolina.
CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan
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I don’t want to be thought of as the “girl who was shot by the Taliban” but the “girl who fought for education.” This is the cause to which I want to devote my life. Malala Yousafzai
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The term urban taliban is finding repeated expression on these pages and this term is not only distorting the issue but is also capable of creating confusions.
Bloggers.Pakistan
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Earlier this month, the United States criticized Pakistan's counterterror efforts, saying the country had no clear path to defeating Taliban and al-Qaida-linked militants in the border region.
Taliban Stages Yet Another Deadly Attack on Pakistani Navy
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Robert Semrau, charged with the second-degree murder of a badly wounded Taliban ambusher during a patrol in Afghanistan.
The ugly side of the Canadian Forces
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Our main mission is to destroy the capabilities of AQ/Taliban.
Matthew Yglesias » Afghan Public Opinion Turning Around
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The Taliban also fit this pattern: a potent terrorist organization that provides not only security but also such services as dispute adjudication.
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Mujahid blamed U.S. intelligence agencies, saying they were trying "to demoralize the Taliban.
Taliban deny that their leader is dead
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Despite the concerns, Western officials -- who generally do not back the idea of dealmaking with top Taliban leaders -- lined up this week to support the peace jirga.
For Karzai, Afghan peace meeting is key chance to regain political legitimacy
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The United States is heading a campaign, ahead of an April NATO summit in Bucharest, for what it calls a fairer sharing of the burden in the fight against Taliban insurgents.
Poles closer to increasing forces in Afstan by 400
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BLITZER: So when the national security director, Negroponte, says that there are secure hideouts in Pakistan, a lot of experts suggest that, in this Waziristan area, some of the tribal border areas in Pakistan, not far from Afghanistan, that you have effectively allowed not only Al Qaida, but the Taliban, to have what he calls secure hideouts.
CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2007
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Jonathan Evans, the head of the British Security Service MI5, was quoted as saying that "Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militia in Somalia, is closely aligned with al-Qaida, and Somalia shows many of the characteristics that made Afghanistan so dangerous a seedbed for terrorism in the period before the fall of the Taliban.
Azeem Ibrahim: The Biggest Argument Against Staying in Afghanistan: Somalia
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He said local Taliban as well as foreigners - a term locally used for Al Qaeda militants of Arab origin - were among the dead and injured.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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Taliban have rejected that, he said, because of U.N. indifference toward what he called the atrocities in Afghanistan.
CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2001
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Too bad the limbaugh lemmings, the neo-con cabal and the domestic "christian" Taliban were doing their best to make sure America and President Obama fails by insisting we respond.
CNN Poll: Americans don't want to intervene in Iran election crisis
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Obama said he hopes the talks and the upcoming new U.S. plan for the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda would "invigorate" NATO participation in the U. S.-led operation, now in its 8th year.
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The Hezb-i-Islami (HIA) party led by a former premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which runs a separate insurgency force from the Taliban against the government and NATO and U. S.-led forces, said the offer was "completely unacceptable and out of question".
Reuters: Top News
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In this CNN video tape, Taliban officials display what they call the wreckage of one of the choppers.
CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2001
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One of them, a poet by profession, considered the term "Christian talibans" (the title of the article as it appeared in Italy) calumnious and filed suit against the author before the municipal tribunal of Zagreb.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Predrag Matvejevitch Must Not Go to Prison!
