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	America at War -- U.S. Warplanes Pound Taliban Front Lines -- Missile strays; civilian injuries are reported Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 10/28/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Saturday on Taliban front lines in the north...Taliban opposition lines. A family of...all but one civilians, were injured...At the front line near the rebel...arms of a young man, had cut hands...asked. "We are civilians. We thought...buried Sunday in Peshawar, ...
	Taliban patrols Peshawar; Militants kidnap officials, control roads and terminals.(PLUGGED IN - NATIONAL SECURITY) Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/26/2009; 700+ words ; ...Peshawar is a new front line for Pakistan...from Islamabad, Peshawar is the capital...happening in Peshawar and Khyber Agency...most of them civilians. Landi Kotal...kidnapped in Peshawar. * About 60...classes attended by men and women together...
	Old guard crafts new Afghan rule: As US planes target front lines around Kabul, exiles start talks.(World) Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 10/23/2001; 700+ words ; ...Some are men of peace. Others...marathon talks in Peshawar, starting today...airstrikes on front-line Taliban positions...Afghan exiles in Peshawar say they are...University of Peshawar and a representative...thousands of civilians, until ousted...
	U.S. Jets Pound Taliban Front Line News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/27/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Pound Taliban Front Line JOM QADAM...Taliban front lines in the north...opposition lines. A family...all but one civilians, were injured...At the front line near the rebel...of a young man, had cut hands...We are civilians. We thought...buried Sunday in ...
	U.S. Jets Hit Taliban Front Lines News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/27/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Jets Hit Taliban Front Lines JOM QADAM, Afghanistan...Taliban front lines in the north...Taliban opposition lines. A family of...At the front line near the rebel...arms of a young man, had cut hands...We are civilians. We thought...buried Sunday in ...
	Pakistan's jewel now a front line Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 11/2/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...s jewel now a front line Byline: Jane...Section: NEWS PESHAWAR, Pakistan...killing at least 60 men. The militants...had captured 44 men and were holding...the starved civilian apparatus, including...also here in Peshawar, where he was...
	PASHTUN LEADERS PLANNING NEW FRONT Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/19/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...frontier city of Peshawar to plot the overthrow of the hard- line Muslim regime...between 100 and 200 men and insist that...Taliban from another front along the eastern...techniques. The men admit that they...US bombing of civilian areas in Afghanistan...Afghan soil. The men ...
	Pakistan Blast Kills 21, Mostly Troops; Attack in Tourist Region Of Northwest Spotlights New Front in Insurgency Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/26/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...has become another front in the nation's...people, including civilians, were injured...tribal areas that line the border with Afghanistan...Maulana Fazlullah's men have been patrolling...conspiracy to make men infertile. He has...Ali reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.
	The heroes who don't carry guns; Aid workers have been pulling out of Iraq as their security becomes increasingly threatened. Yet many will stay. Often, they are the first into a danger zone and the last to leave when even soldiers have fled. In a remarkable new book, some of the bravest tell their stories of life on the front line ... Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/22/2003; 700+ words ; ...unbelievable. The poor man stood on a mine five...the afternoon at an old man's house where I cleared...fragments of brick. Men and boys sell oranges...ruins and a group of men in jumpers and overcoats...There are no weapons in civilian hands, a huge improvement...the American Club in ...
	New Daylight Raids Near Kabul News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/28/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...backing up Taliban front lines north of Kabul...On the front lines of the opposition...targeting rear-line military installations...Taliban front lines in the north...arms of a young man, had cut hands...We are civilians. We thought...buried Sunday in ...