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Taliban see History under Afghanistan .
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Taliban 'leaves' Pakistan district.
News Wire article from: Aljazeera.net; 4/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...25/2009 8:55:53 AM The Pakistani Taliban from the Swat Valley have pulled back...up a peace deal with the government, a Taliban spokesman said. "I do not know the exact...Swat valley in return for allowing the Taliban to enforce sharia, or Islamic law, in...
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Taliban also flee from eastern Afghanistan.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 11/13/2001; 700+ words
; ...2001 A popular uprising has forced the Taliban out of Afghanistan's third-largest...which has close contacts with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, said the people of Jalalabad forced the Taliban to flee though Alliance troops had not...
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Taliban soldiers cross enemy lines to join northern alliance.(The Dallas Morning News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/19/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...bruising air attack, a 30-something Taliban commander made a snap decision. "I...and his men. They fight now against the Taliban. Forget ideology; many pragmatic Afghan...standoffs in such cities as Kunduz, where the Taliban are hunkering down for either a nasty...
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Taliban taboos cast aside as music of love fills the air.(A)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/17/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Afghans love this kind of music. If the Taliban ever caught you listening to it, they would...joys that had been banned by the former Taliban rulers with their fanatical brand of Islam. The Taliban forbade anything that hinted of fun, from...
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Taliban holdouts keep US on edge: A major Taliban stronghold surrenders, but prisoners revolt and many are killed.(USA)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 11/26/2001; 700+ words
; ...revolt marked the fate of thousands of Taliban fighters besieged in the northern Afghan...stood as the biggest concentration of Taliban holdouts in the north - estimated at 3...that the US coalition could root out the Taliban and Al Qaeda with few big ground battles...
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Taliban leader urges retreating forces to regroup as opposition takes Jalalabad.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/13/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Afghanistan _ The rout of Afghanistan's Taliban extended into their ethnic Pashtun homeland...with the capture of Jalalabad even as the Taliban's supreme leader urged his retreating...near Kandahar, spiritual capital of the Taliban, heartland of the Pashtuns and a city...
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TALIBAN, AL-QAIDA UNDER THE GUN.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 11/24/2001; 700+ words
; ...Northern alliance troops closed in Friday on Taliban and al-Qaida fighters trapped in Kunduz...the fighters in the besieged city - the Taliban's last major garrison in the north...lieutenants to Osama bin Laden and to the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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TALIBAN ABANDON KANDAHAR.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/8/2001; 700+ words
; ...Washington Post - QUETTA, Pakistan -- Taliban forces Friday fled the southern Afghan...space of seven years. Almost as soon as Taliban forces pulled out in the pre-dawn hours...of the city and surrounding areas. The Taliban's founder and leader, Mullah Mohammed...
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Taliban extend deadline with no signs of breakthrough on hostage release.
News Wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea; 7/31/2007; 700+ words
; SEOUL, July 30 (Yonhap) -- The Taliban on Monday again extended their deadline...demand of the kidnappers, the release of Taliban prisoners. Marajudin Pathan, the governor...time for additional negotiations over the Taliban prisoners' release," the Associated...
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Taliban coming in from cold; Citing fatigue, five Taliban commanders have taken an amnesty offer this month. Will more follow?(WORLD)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 4/28/2005; 700+ words
; ...Science Monitor KHOST, AFGHANISTAN -- When Taliban commander "Dr. Rasheid" handed himself...invited to help the government persuade his Taliban friends to turn themselves in as well...three weeks by at least five mid-level Taliban officials. It's too soon to tell if...
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Taliban
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Taliban The Taliban is a radically militant Islamic movement that controlled some 90 percent of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. The Taliban emerged from their base in Kandahar in southwestern Afghanistan in reaction...
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Enduring Freedom, Operation
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...the al-Qaeda terror network. When the Taliban, Islamist extremists who controlled Afghanistan...undertaking to root out al-Qaeda and Taliban personnel in northern Afghanistan. With...President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban turn bin Laden over to the United States...
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Afghanistan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...anarchy. In 1993 a new group emerged, the Taliban . Supported by Pakistan, they aimed to...slighted by the international community, the Taliban regime supported itself through the drugs...opium was harvested in Afghanistan. The Taliban developed close connections to Osama Bin...
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Afghanistan: U.S. Intervention in
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...in Afghanistan and was supported by the Taliban government in Kabul. On 14 September...unsuccessful political attempts to force the Taliban government to expel Osama bin Ladin and...campaign on 7 October 2001, directed at Taliban military and political installations...
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War on Terrorism
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...of the repressive Muslim regime known as the Taliban in Afghanistan. Although the Clinton administration adopted a hostile attitude toward the Taliban, it did not make Afghanistan or the Taliban government a target of its efforts to combat...
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