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...during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) is just one more chapter on the flexibility of airpower. Bombers in the early stages of the war destroyed the Taliban air force on the ground and the limited air-to-air defenses, as well as disrupting command and control nodes. Orbiting close over problem areas, heavy bombers, guided by ground terminal attack controllers, precisely s...

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...ween the US Government and the United Nations about the level of fatalities caused by the attack and about whether those killed had been civilians or Taliban-linked insurgents. Allegations soon emerged that the attack had been based on false information deliberately fed to the US military by Afghan employees of ArmorGroup, a private security contractor, and that these empl...

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...trition. America financially backed Iraq against Iran in that war and the Taliban against the Soviet Union and now those regimes were the wrong choic...

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...nerheim's intelligence expedition to Turkistan and China in 1906- 1908. Q: Was the Taliban the creation of Pakistan? Can you tell us about its form... ...an? Can you tell us about its formation and how was Russia involved in it? A: The Taliban was not a creation of Pakistan, although Pakistan was am... ...uted to the genesis and development of this peculiar movement. It is true that the Taliban (which was established only as late as in 1994 as a reli... ...as a religious movement) had a significant influx from Pakistani madrassas. But the Taliban is not only an extreme religious movement, but also an e... ... The role of the Pakistani Islamist opposition in the formation and support of the Taliban is widely recorded. But more important are those who mad... ...itary power. This is where Russia enters the game, too. In order to understand the Taliban, we must recall the background situation in Afghanistan ... ...recall the background situation in Afghanistan ever since the events in 1970s. The Taliban is not monolithic. Even less so is the Northern Alliance... ...er in 1995, when Hekmatyar's rebellion was losing strength, Tanai defected to the Taliban. So did many other communist army and Khad officers. It... ...other communist army and Khad officers. It was Tanai's defection that provided the Taliban with Soviet artillery, Soviet air force, Soviet intellig...

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...egard are worse than mine! Your evangelical right is no different than the Taliban and Al Queda. And their myths center around the same God. Is He re... ... ―In Afghanistan allied soldiers gave food and books to the villagers. The Taliban quickly moved in to take them away. Accepting more gifts, the vill... ... them away. Accepting more gifts, the villagers knew, would result in the Taliban removing their life blood. Fear is an effective motivator. ―...

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...e being pushed backwards. In Baghdad as Americans paid Iraqi tribal leaders to fight the jihadists, the tribal men were treating women as the Taliba... ...ing books and defacing art—like was done to Michelangelo‘s Pieta in St. Peter‘s in Rome, like Savonarola in Renaissance Florence, or like the Taliba...

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...ss or self fulfillment. “When I hear of Islamic radicals, like the Taliban, burning down schools in Afghanistan where 70% of the people are...

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...ues should come from valid basic assumptions. But, as with the case of the Taliban, male supremacy reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-hu... ...y reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-human status. Under the Taliban‘s mistaken ideas of traditional Moslem values, women, non-Muslims, ... ...try without any real provocation, we can see he is in the same boat as the Taliban in terms of flaunting his supposed values. Were the Israelis follo... ... come out on top. Is it Muslim God-based? Then Saudi Arabia, or the former Taliban Afghanistan might come out as best. If it is Catholic then the God... ...em. Henry the Eighth did the same with Catholic books. And what about the Taliban in Afghanistan blowing up the Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley?...

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...pon leaving, he remembered an article he had forgotten to bring to them: the Taliban's restraint of war ravaged widows from work. The doctors liked su...

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...ous interprets the information it receives. During the U.S, attack on the Taliban Government, Afghan children did not even flinch when bombs or b... ...ug industry of growing poppies and manufacturing cocaine and opium. Which the Taliban had been fighting against and destroying. Just like they indu... ... once and for all. Did Americans refuse to support Bush’s destruction of the Taliban by the insane, obsolete tactics of mass-bombing a-la World-War...

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...tential trouble at home but potentially useful abroad.Those who joined the Taliban movement, espousing a ruthless version of Islamic law, perhaps coul... ...hnya. Pakistani intelli- gence officers reportedly introduced Bin Ladin to Taliban leaders in Kandahar, their main base of power, to aid his reasserti... ... entirely. 70 For a time, it may not have been clear to Bin Ladin that the Taliban would be his best bet as an ally .When he arrived in Afghanistan, t... ...Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who, though an Islamic extremist, was also one of the Taliban’s most militant opponents. But after September 1996, when first Jal... ... But after September 1996, when first Jalalabad and then Kabul fell to the Taliban, Bin Ladin cemented his ties with them. 71 That process did not alw... ...ad new freedom to publish his appeals for jihad.At about the time when the Taliban were making their final drive toward Jalalabad and Kabul, Bin Ladin... ...nings, including from the Saudi monarchy. 72 Though Bin Ladin had promised Taliban leaders that he would be circum- spect, he broke this promise almos... ... immediately , giving an inflammatory inter- view to CNN in March 1997.The Taliban leader Mullah Omar promptly “invited” Bin Ladin to move to Kandahar... ...n July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Ladin. Sources reported that one, or perhaps both...

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...glowing embers of the Manson Family were fueled by Manson’s prejudice, the Taliban’s Best of Freshman Writing 17 flames of hatred have been fanned by... ...se flames, ignited at the millennium by the Afghanistan ra- dio network of Taliban-controlled broadcastings, will be much more diffi- cult to put out ... ...l Afghan rebels disengage themselves from the strings of Bin Laden and the Taliban. Per- haps the road to the end of terrorism— covered with rocks and... ...pitchers to the plate. Let us imagine a game: The United States versus The Taliban; in the game let us imagine the president as the pitcher, the battl... ...e military as the Designated Hitter. The president pitches the ball to the Taliban and eas- ily gets them out. Now it is the United States’ turn at th...

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... Suffocated Inside Cargo Con- tainers” states: Scores, if not hundreds, of Taliban prisoners of war suffocated to death inside metal cargo containers ... ...479.00.htm>. White, Jerry. “More Evidence of US War Crimes in Afghanistan: Taliban POWs Suffocated Inside Cargo Containers.” World Socialist Web Site...