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  • Going after bin Laden was a no-brainer; the Taliban, the atrocities they committed, they needed to be removed.†   (source)
  • After the American-backed victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan at the end of 2001, well-meaning aid groups dispatched hardy young Americans to Kabul.†   (source)
  • Former Taliban fighters renounced violence and the oppression of women after meeting Mortenson and went to work with him peacefully building schools for girls.†   (source)
  • The Taliban are good fighters and we already knew the operation had the potential to get squirrelly.†   (source)
  • I think of women naming the atrocities committed against them by the Taliban in Afghanistan or women telling of the systematic rapes during the Bosnian war or just recently in Sri Lanka after the tsunami—women lining up in refugee camps to name their nightmares and losses and needs.†   (source)
  • Nearly every dawn, Taliban fighters launched rockets at the outpost.†   (source)
  • The shot impacts its targets and spins the Taliban runner like a ballerina.†   (source)
  • It has been in combat in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Pashtun tribesmen.†   (source)
  • There were beheadings and burnings in Syria, a string of simultaneous suicide bombings in Baghdad, a Taliban raid in Kabul, a new round of fighting in Yemen, several stabbings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a gun-and-grenade attack on Western tourists at a beach hotel in Tunisia.†   (source)
  • When they first came back to Kabul, it distressed Laila that she didn't know where the Taliban had buried Mariam.†   (source)
  • Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break.†   (source)
  • The coalition forces have driven the Taliban out of every major city, pushed them across the border to Pakistan and to the mountains in the south and east of Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • He has dark, shoulder-length hair-a common thumbing of the nose at the departed Taliban, Laila has discovered-and some kind of scar interrupting his mustache on the left side.†   (source)
  • Laila has to explain to Aziza that when they return to Kabul the Taliban won't be there, that there will not be any fighting, and that she will not be sent back to the orphanage.†   (source)
  • On it, with a brush, Zaman has written four lines of poetry, his answer, Laila knows, to those who grumble that the promised aid money to Afghanistan isn't coming, that the rebuilding is going too slowly, that there is corruption, that the Taliban are regrouping already and will come back with a vengeance, that the world will forget once again about Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • And when asked about James (using the Taliban leader's real name), the women "of course had never heard of him," says Brian.†   (source)
  • It had been confirmed via multiple intelligence sources and surveillance techniques that the men in this compound were James and his Taliban militants.†   (source)
  • Ultimately this is more than just a fight between America and the Taliban or al Qaeda, just as World War II was more than just the Allies versus the Axis.†   (source)
  • I have done business with warlords and Taliban in this country.†   (source)
  • Gulab himself was under pressure since he'd received that threat from the Taliban.†   (source)
  • On the streets, the Taliban walked past me as though I were a grazing cow.†   (source)
  • That's the basis of the Taliban view of women.†   (source)
  • But the Taliban could see him now, and they opened fire on him as he lay on the ground.†   (source)
  • I have lived here since 2002, since shortly after the Taliban left.†   (source)
  • No. Was I afraid of their possible buddies in the Taliban?†   (source)
  • "And here I thought the Taliban had left town," Timur says.†   (source)
  • Kept running the edge of his hand over his throat and laughing, "Taliban, heh?†   (source)
  • It's easy to see why the Pashtuns and the Taliban get along just fine.†   (source)
  • I tried to remember whether the goatherds had said, "No Taliban."†   (source)
  • That way we'd win or, at worst, cause a disorderly Taliban retreat.†   (source)
  • It seemed to us like the Taliban were getting double value for every shot.†   (source)
  • All we needed to do was coax the Taliban down there.†   (source)
  • The Taliban have been in prominence since 1994.†   (source)
  • I only knew something had happened that had caused a lot of Taliban to get very obviously excited.†   (source)
  • I opened my eyes in time to see eight armed Taliban fighters come barging into the room.†   (source)
  • The Taliban effectively told the whole lot of them to shove it.†   (source)
  • No one kicks a door in quite like that except a Taliban raiding party.†   (source)
  • Those Taliban guys are very mobile and very smart.†   (source)
  • The Taliban and their al Qaeda cohorts were mercilessly cruel, but this Ben Sharmak was not stupid.†   (source)
  • They aimed them straight at Taliban forces in the city.†   (source)
  • The Taliban unleashed an avalanche of gunfire at us, straight down the mountain, from every angle.†   (source)
  • It just showed how jumpy they were, how nervous of the hushed killers of the Taliban army.†   (source)
  • They would not have been expecting a communique from the Taliban saying SEALs had been captured.†   (source)
  • From where I was lying, this looked like a signal that meant "Death to the Taliban."†   (source)
  • But I noticed he took no chances when there was any kind of suggestion the Taliban were coming in.†   (source)
  • There were cells of Taliban warriors just waiting for their chance to strike against the government.†   (source)
  • Television, music, sports, and cinema were banned, judged by the Taliban leaders to be frivolities.†   (source)
  • I showed them the areas where I knew the Taliban were encamped, helped them mark up their maps.†   (source)
  • He made it clear the Taliban were not going to take me while he had anything to do with it.†   (source)
  • Just so you all understand, their bodies will be found, the Taliban will use it to the max.†   (source)
  • We watched for Taliban sharpshooters, but no one came.†   (source)
  • Or would the brutal killers of al Qaeda and the Taliban in the end get their way?†   (source)
  • EUit the Taliban had been hunting me down for too long.†   (source)
  • Wo Taliban!" shouted the man who I assumed was; the leader.†   (source)
  • And to everyone's certain knowledge, there were a minimum of a hundred Taliban.†   (source)
  • Fife came over and put his arm around me and said, "Ah, Dr. Marcus, Taliban very bad.†   (source)
  • And he ran the edge of his hand across his; throat, saying once more, "No Taliban!"†   (source)
  • He came back to me and whispered: "Taliban see light, they shoot you, Dr. Marcus."†   (source)
  • They were committed to defend me against the Taliban until there was no one left alive.†   (source)
  • By now I'd seen a whole lot of Taliban warriors, and he looked nothing like any of them.†   (source)
  • But they were planning to join the Taliban and leave Sabray, to fight for "freedom."†   (source)
  • And still the bullets were humming around us as the Taliban started their pursuit.†   (source)
  • Plainly, the Taliban were not saying a thing; therefore, they had no prisoners.†   (source)
  • They are also the quintessential supporters of the Taliban.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the entire sprawl of the village of Sabray was surrounded by the Taliban.†   (source)
  • Once more, I slowly raised my rifle and drew a bead on an armed Taliban tribesman.†   (source)
  • Whenever I hear the word Taliban, I think of that day first.†   (source)
  • Once in power, however, the Taliban showed their true colors.†   (source)
  • The Taliban army was still following me.†   (source)
  • But I was still confused and dizzy, uncertain, and I kept on asking, "Taliban?†   (source)
  • And once more, the Taliban went to the grenades, blasting the terrain around us to pieces.†   (source)
  • The Taliban guys let him come in and watch them knocking me around.†   (source)
  • 10 — An American Fugitive Cornered by the Taliban†   (source)
  • Taliban casualties had been, of course, high.†   (source)
  • We lit no lanterns, offering no clue to the Taliban.†   (source)
  • This was one gigantic Taliban effort to finish us.†   (source)
  • Whatever the drop had contained, the Taliban had beaten the kids to it.†   (source)
  • Gravely he handed me the Mark 12 sniper rifle and said simply, "Taliban, Dr. Marcus.†   (source)
  • The house was surrounded by more Taliban, all of them with AKs.†   (source)
  • The lights went out for the Taliban that night.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the Taliban, hidden all around in the hills, could scarcely miss me.†   (source)
  • And I guess I must have made more noise than the Taliban army has ever made in mountain maneuvers.†   (source)
  • If Taliban gunmen burst into my old house, they would not find me.†   (source)
  • The noise was worse than any blast all day...This was one gigantic Taliban effort to finish us.†   (source)
  • So the guys just closed in on me, somehow moving their own dragnet right past the Taliban dragnet.†   (source)
  • I saw a report confirming thirty-two Taliban and al Qaeda died out there that night.†   (source)
  • When they find the bodies, the Taliban leaders will sing to the Afghan media.†   (source)
  • But that would not be true of the Taliban.†   (source)
  • Rocks and sand kept falling down on me as the Taliban warriors scrambled around above my position.†   (source)
  • You can see these potential Taliban recruits in any of the villages.†   (source)
  • The Taliban had seen us and were raining bullets down, firing from a prime overhead spot.†   (source)
  • Also, if the Taliban found out we'd gone, we would be highly susceptible to ambush.†   (source)
  • The Taliban need our support a lot more than we need theirs.†   (source)
  • The mujahideen has now emerged as the Taliban or al Qaeda.†   (source)
  • I could see the Taliban guys falling all along the ridge.†   (source)
  • It was my first close-up encounter with a fanatical Taliban fighter.†   (source)
  • Yet these innocent men were being held while the Taliban leaders went free.†   (source)
  • I allowed an Englishwoman to visit, and the children talked and the Taliban raided the next day.†   (source)
  • We had no problem flying in bags of cash to pay the warlords to fight against the Taliban.†   (source)
  • Taliban using a KGB code in Dari coming from West Virginia.†   (source)
  • I don't know exactly who told you that Taliban are crack mountain fighters, ma'am, but they're not.†   (source)
  • I've never seen anyone but Taliban fighters in those sneakers.†   (source)
  • But the Taliban offered him three hundred dollars when he graduated from his madrassa to join them.†   (source)
  • The annual Taliban summer offensive was in full swing.†   (source)
  • The Taliban and al-Qaeda had been very clever about leading American soldiers into traps.†   (source)
  • A split second later comes another run by an even taller, leaner Taliban.†   (source)
  • But the Taliban's top leadership in Kabul and Kandahar weren't as worldly.†   (source)
  • One of the Taliban fighters had a PKM machine gun.†   (source)
  • What's a very popular tactic that the Taliban employs in Afghanistan?†   (source)
  • The second battle was against the Taliban insurgency.†   (source)
  • It felt really good knowing that we eliminated Taliban fighters harassing the outpost.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 20 TEA WITH THE TALIBAN Nuke 'Em All—Let Allah Sort Them Out.†   (source)
  • The Taliban just closed Afghanistan to all foreign reporters.†   (source)
  • Why did the Taliban have to kill our land?†   (source)
  • The tea shops were abuzz with talk of lightning-quick Taliban victories.†   (source)
  • If the Taliban is gone, why do you still wear the burkha?†   (source)
  • We're very grateful that the Americans chased out the Taliban.†   (source)
  • The Taliban had burned not only our homes, but every bush and tree as well.†   (source)
  • For all their flaws, the Taliban had harshly suppressed the production of opium.†   (source)
  • The Taliban—who had banned music and ordered men to wear beards—were gone.†   (source)
  • I hear the Taliban are already holding two French reporters they caught sneaking in.†   (source)
  • On their Taliban salaries they couldn't afford the twenty-dollar buffet.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the fighting ended with the arrival of the Taliban, those sharp-faced young men with dark beards, kohl-rimmed eyes, and whips.†   (source)
  • You're Taliban.†   (source)
  • Shahir Anwar's family had been hounded by Taliban soldiers because his mother ran a school for girls.†   (source)
  • By then, the Taliban had been driven out by the Northern Alliance, and the Americans had come to Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • So my father said we might as well go home and restart, now that the Taliban had run to the Pakistani side of the border anyway.†   (source)
  • The story described the attack as "vicious" and the assailant as a former refugee with "suspected ties to the Taliban."†   (source)
  • He might have said something, some offering of impotent outrage, if this had been the work of the Taliban, or al-Qaeda, or some megalomaniacal Mujahideen commander.†   (source)
  • Pari listens patiently as Markos Varvaris makes protracted detours into the logistical challenge that are the elections in Afghanistan, which he says Karzai will win, and then on to the Taliban's troubling forays into the north, the increasing Islamist infringement on news media, a side note or two on the overpopulation in Kabul, then on the cost of housing, lastly, before he circles back and says, "I have lived in this house now for a number of years.†   (source)
  • And all the time, I was weighing the possibility of the Taliban coming in on some vengeful attack in retribution for yesterday's bombardment.†   (source)
  • Lined along the top were between eighty and a hundred heavily armed Taliban warriors, each one of them with an AK-47 pointing downward.†   (source)
  • I tried to ask them if they were Taliban, and they all shook their heads, the older men saying, in English, "No Taliban...no Taliban."†   (source)
  • The Taliban threats to both himself and his family were very much more serious than he had ever admitted.†   (source)
  • Gulab made his familiar dismissive gesture, and we both turned and watched the Taliban leader walking away through the trees.†   (source)
  • When the bodies of those three guys were found at first light, this mountain would be swarming with Taliban.†   (source)
  • Then in 1999 the United States persuaded the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • Their villages may not be straightforward military strongholds as the Taliban desire, but the Pashtuns are not easily intimidated.†   (source)
  • The Ranger security guard was in formation around the perimeter, in case the Taliban decided to give it one last shot.†   (source)
  • We were low down on almost flat terrain, but the Taliban's attack would be launched from the higher ground, the way they always preferred it.†   (source)
  • Two years later, even harsher sanctions were put in place in another attempt to force the Taliban to hand over bin Laden.†   (source)
  • The Taliban flatly refused to hand over their Saudi-born guest, who was providing them with heavy funding.†   (source)
  • But right now he believed the Taliban had gone into the house where I had been staying and found I was missing.†   (source)
  • In the fall of 2001, the Taliban and al Qaeda were mostly fleeing the U.S. offensive or surrendering.†   (source)
  • Before the dust had settled on lower Manhattan, the United States demanded the Taliban hand over bin Laden for masterminding the attack on U.S. soil.†   (source)
  • I needed to fight my way out, and I did not give a damn how many of the Taliban enemy I had to kill in order to achieve that.†   (source)
  • Parts of eastern and southern Afghanistan have been officially designated unsafe due to increasingly daring Taliban attacks.†   (source)
  • I think all of us in that little room, including Gulab, thought the Taliban would not risk another frontal assault on the Americans.†   (source)
  • It was obvious the Taliban had been through here recently in substantial numbers, and this was good news for us.†   (source)
  • Beyond that, anything goes, so the Taliban fighters simply swerve off the road and enter Afghanistan over the ancient pathways.†   (source)
  • A few weeks earlier, in February, the Taliban flatly announced they were increasing their attacks on the government as soon as the weather improved.†   (source)
  • In my experience, no Taliban commander had ever ordered his men to fight from anything other than the high ground.†   (source)
  • Here I was, just about defenseless, trying to walk backward, both hands full, when a Taliban fighter suddenly loomed up out of the rocks to our right.†   (source)
  • The Taliban moves around these mountains; only by the unspoken approval and tacit permission of the Pashtuns, who grant them food and shelter.†   (source)
  • Again the Taliban refused, perhaps not realizing that the new(ish) U.S. president, George W. Bush, was a very different character from Bill Clinton.†   (source)
  • But what does Taliban really stand for?†   (source)
  • We were still essentially carrying out our mission, but we remained on the highest possible alert for Taliban fighters.†   (source)
  • Let's face it, al Qaeda means "the base," and in return for the Saudi fanatic bin Laden's money, the Taliban made it all possible.†   (source)
  • The sheer volume of fire was ridiculous, unless the Taliban were planning to wipe out the entire population of Sabray.†   (source)
  • He kneeled down and offered me water in a little silver cup, gave me bread, and then stood up and turned on the Taliban.†   (source)
  • That's when the Taliban sniper shot me.†   (source)
  • And by June, he had a lot of records, the various methods used by these kingpin Taliban guys and their approximate access to TNT.†   (source)
  • The Taliban immediately stood up and stepped aside as the old man walked to the spot where I was lying.†   (source)
  • Lyi ng here on my ledge, surrounded on all sides by hostile Taliban warriors, I could not afford another mistake.†   (source)
  • We saw it circling, far away from the slopes where I believed the main Taliban and al Qaeda forces were camped.†   (source)
  • Navy bombers taking off from the carriers targeted the Taliban's other military hardware, heavy vehicles, tanks, and fuel dumps.†   (source)
  • Chaman, Zhob, key entry points for the Taliban and for bin Lad-en's al Qaeda as they fled the American bombs and ground troops.†   (source)
  • Was he in the clutches of the Taliban?†   (source)
  • No one wanted to risk sending in another MH-47 helicopter, since the Taliban seemed to have become very adroit at knocking them down.†   (source)
  • There was silence for a few seconds, as if even these Taliban warriors understood that Mikey had died.†   (source)
  • And I just crouched there, calling out the information to the comms guy next to me, identifying Taliban locations, the stuff I'm trained to do.†   (source)
  • The Taliban were so busy trying to enslave the citizens, they forgot about the necessity for food, and there was mass starvation.†   (source)
  • The Taliban AKs opened up again, and suddenly there were bullets flying everywhere, all around, just like before.†   (source)
  • Anyway, they found Axe, with the bullets the Taliban rifles had emptied into his face as he lay dying, just as they had done to Mikey.†   (source)
  • But the Taliban knew our objective, and as we tried to fight our way forward, they drove us back with sheer weight of fire.†   (source)
  • Upon the departure of the village elder, six hours after they had arrived, at around 0100, the Taliban suddenly decided to leave.†   (source)
  • A hook-nosed Taliban warrior was peering straight at me through black eyes above a thick black beard.†   (source)
  • Never mind there's no shooting across the border in Pakistan, the illegality of the Taliban army, the Geneva Convention, yada, yada, yada.†   (source)
  • They returned maybe fifteen minutes later and brought with them all my gear, which they had hidden away from the eyes of the Taliban.†   (source)
  • The Taliban made two major promises which they would carry out once in power: to restore peace and security, and to enforce sharia, or Islamic law.†   (source)
  • How about if he can't wait to scamper up those mountains and find his brother and the rest of the Taliban hard men?†   (source)
  • The steep, stony mountain crevasses and cliffs, dust-colored, sinister places, were now alive with the burgeoning armies of the Taliban.†   (source)
  • He was running and trying to make me keep up with him, and he kept shouting, signaling, again and again: Taliban!†   (source)
  • Invariably we were looking for the misfit, the one man in the village who did not fit in, the hit man of the Taliban who was plainly not a farmer.†   (source)
  • I was out to the world, the first time I had slept soundly for a week, oblivious to the weather, oblivious to the Taliban.†   (source)
  • However, die Taliban know this, and they move around disguised as cattle farmers, and we most certainly do bother with that.†   (source)
  • This was a border hot spot, where multiple Taliban troop movements were taking place on a weekly, or even daily, basis.†   (source)
  • Gunned down by the Taliban, right through the back, blood pouring out of his chest, his phone in the dust, and he still picked it up.†   (source)
  • The Taliban wanted power in Afghanistan again; bin Laden's mob wanted death and destruction of U.S. citizens, uniformed or not.†   (source)
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