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Cricket: England must not risk a gem called Giles First Test - Fletcher in quandary over the dearth of quality spinners as Key and Tremlett debates add to conundrums
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England begin a potentially momentous international season on
Thursday with the first of two Test matches against Bangladesh. It is
difficult to avoid the conclusion that a five-course king's banquet
with trimmings is starting with a couple of bowls of watery gruel.
One has to be digested before the other is served.
Bangladesh will give their all and compete honourably but they
will be swept aside, as Zimbabwe were summarily dispatched two
seasons ago. All England can do is to try to hone their own game in
readiness for the Ashes.
In not saying very much at all during a half-hour briefing on ...
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Taliban 'leaves' Pakistan district.
News Wire article from: Aljazeera.net
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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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 "The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)")
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TALIBAN, AL-QAIDA UNDER THE GUN.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
; ...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)
; ...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
; 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
; ...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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