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  • The shot impacts its targets and spins the Taliban runner like a ballerina.†   (source)
  • The second battle was against the Taliban insurgency.†   (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)
  • Nearly every dawn, Taliban fighters launched rockets at the outpost.†   (source)
  • I think of Kim chasing Taliban insurgents and ducking flying trees.†   (source)
  • One of the Taliban fighters had a PKM machine gun.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It has been in combat in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Pashtun tribesmen.†   (source)
  • "And here I thought the Taliban had left town," Timur says.†   (source)
  • The Taliban had seen us and were raining bullets down, firing from a prime overhead spot.†   (source)
  • On the streets, the Taliban walked past me as though I were a grazing cow.†   (source)
  • Just so you all understand, their bodies will be found, the Taliban will use it to the max.†   (source)
  • From where I was lying, this looked like a signal that meant "Death to the Taliban."†   (source)
  • I have done business with warlords and Taliban in this country.†   (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)
  • Whatever the drop had contained, the Taliban had beaten the kids to it.†   (source)
  • You can see these potential Taliban recruits in any of the villages.†   (source)
  • But I was still confused and dizzy, uncertain, and I kept on asking, "Taliban?†   (source)
  • But I noticed he took no chances when there was any kind of suggestion the Taliban were coming in.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the Taliban, hidden all around in the hills, could scarcely miss me.†   (source)
  • Whenever I hear the word Taliban, I think of that day first.†   (source)
  • The Taliban have been in prominence since 1994.†   (source)
  • It just showed how jumpy they were, how nervous of the hushed killers of the Taliban army.†   (source)
  • The noise was worse than any blast all day… This was one gigantic Taliban effort to finish us.†   (source)
  • He made it clear the Taliban were not going to take me while he had anything to do with it.†   (source)
  • The Taliban need our support a lot more than we need theirs.†   (source)
  • It seemed to us like the Taliban were getting double value for every shot.†   (source)
  • If Taliban gunmen burst into my old house, they would not find me.†   (source)
  • And I guess I must have made more noise than the Taliban army has ever made in mountain maneuvers.†   (source)
  • And once more, the Taliban went to the grenades, blasting the terrain around us to pieces.†   (source)
  • Once more, I slowly raised my rifle and drew a bead on an armed Taliban tribesman.†   (source)
  • Kept running the edge of his hand over his throat and laughing, "Taliban, heh?†   (source)
  • We lit no lanterns, offering no clue to the Taliban.†   (source)
  • Gravely he handed me the Mark 12 sniper rifle and said simply, "Taliban, Dr. Marcus.†   (source)
  • Taliban casualties had been, of course, high.†   (source)
  • They would not have been expecting a communique from the Taliban saying SEALs had been captured.†   (source)
  • The Taliban army was still following me.†   (source)
  • They aimed them straight at Taliban forces in the city.†   (source)
  • Those Taliban guys are very mobile and very smart.†   (source)
  • By now I'd seen a whole lot of Taliban warriors, and he looked nothing like any of them.†   (source)
  • The Taliban and their al Qaeda cohorts were mercilessly cruel, but this Ben Sharmak was not stupid.†   (source)
  • And to everyone's certain knowledge, there were a minimum of a hundred Taliban.†   (source)
  • I tried to remember whether the goatherds had said, "No Taliban."†   (source)
  • Plainly, the Taliban were not saying a thing; therefore, they had no prisoners.†   (source)
  • The Taliban guys let him come in and watch them knocking me around.†   (source)
  • When they find the bodies, the Taliban leaders will sing to the Afghan media.†   (source)
  • We watched for Taliban sharpshooters, but no one came.†   (source)
  • This was one gigantic Taliban effort to finish us.†   (source)
  • Once in power, however, the Taliban showed their true colors.†   (source)
  • No one kicks a door in quite like that except a Taliban raiding party.†   (source)
  • I saw a report confirming thirty-two Taliban and al Qaeda died out there that night.†   (source)
  • And he ran the edge of his hand across his; throat, saying once more, "No Taliban!"†   (source)
  • Rocks and sand kept falling down on me as the Taliban warriors scrambled around above my position.†   (source)
  • The mujahideen has now emerged as the Taliban or al Qaeda.†   (source)
  • Fife came over and put his arm around me and said, "Ah, Dr. Marcus, Taliban very bad.†   (source)
  • The Taliban unleashed an avalanche of gunfire at us, straight down the mountain, from every angle.†   (source)
  • Also, if the Taliban found out we'd gone, we would be highly susceptible to ambush.†   (source)
  • EUit the Taliban had been hunting me down for too long.†   (source)
  • The lights went out for the Taliban that night.†   (source)
  • There were cells of Taliban warriors just waiting for their chance to strike against the government.†   (source)
  • The house was surrounded by more Taliban, all of them with AKs.†   (source)
  • They were committed to defend me against the Taliban until there was no one left alive.†   (source)
  • Or would the brutal killers of al Qaeda and the Taliban in the end get their way?†   (source)
  • I showed them the areas where I knew the Taliban were encamped, helped them mark up their maps.†   (source)
  • Gulab himself was under pressure since he'd received that threat from the Taliban.†   (source)
  • All we needed to do was coax the Taliban down there.†   (source)
  • That way we'd win or, at worst, cause a disorderly Taliban retreat.†   (source)
  • So the guys just closed in on me, somehow moving their own dragnet right past the Taliban dragnet.†   (source)
  • I only knew something had happened that had caused a lot of Taliban to get very obviously excited.†   (source)
  • He came back to me and whispered: "Taliban see light, they shoot you, Dr. Marcus."†   (source)
  • No. Was I afraid of their possible buddies in the Taliban?†   (source)
  • That's the basis of the Taliban view of women.†   (source)
  • It was my first close-up encounter with a fanatical Taliban fighter.†   (source)
  • It's easy to see why the Pashtuns and the Taliban get along just fine.†   (source)
  • I opened my eyes in time to see eight armed Taliban fighters come barging into the room.†   (source)
  • Wo Taliban!" shouted the man who I assumed was; the leader.†   (source)
  • I could see the Taliban guys falling all along the ridge.†   (source)
  • And still the bullets were humming around us as the Taliban started their pursuit.†   (source)
  • Television, music, sports, and cinema were banned, judged by the Taliban leaders to be frivolities.†   (source)
  • But they were planning to join the Taliban and leave Sabray, to fight for "freedom."†   (source)
  • The Taliban effectively told the whole lot of them to shove it.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the entire sprawl of the village of Sabray was surrounded by the Taliban.†   (source)
  • But that would not be true of the Taliban.†   (source)
  • They are also the quintessential supporters of the Taliban.†   (source)
  • I allowed an Englishwoman to visit, and the children talked and the Taliban raided the next day.†   (source)
  • On their Taliban salaries they couldn't afford the twenty-dollar buffet.†   (source)
  • "What's a very popular tactic that the Taliban employs in Afghanistan?†   (source)
  • I don't know exactly who told you that Taliban are crack mountain fighters, ma'am, but they're not.†   (source)
  • It felt really good knowing that we eliminated Taliban fighters harassing the outpost.†   (source)
  • Why did the Taliban have to kill our land?†   (source)
  • The annual Taliban summer offensive was in full swing.†   (source)
  • A split second later comes another run by an even taller, leaner Taliban.†   (source)
  • Taliban using a KGB code in Dari coming from West Virginia.†   (source)
  • We had no problem flying in bags of cash to pay the warlords to fight against the Taliban.†   (source)
  • The Taliban are good fighters and we already knew the operation had the potential to get squirrelly.†   (source)
  • The Taliban and al-Qaeda had been very clever about leading American soldiers into traps.†   (source)
  • I've never seen anyone but Taliban fighters in those sneakers.†   (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)
  • The Taliban just closed Afghanistan to all foreign reporters.†   (source)
  • The Taliban had burned not only our homes, but every bush and tree as well.†   (source)
  • But the Taliban offered him three hundred dollars when he graduated from his madrassa to join them.†   (source)
  • But the Taliban's top leadership in Kabul and Kandahar weren't as worldly.†   (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)
  • CHAPTER 20 TEA WITH THE TALIBAN Nuke 'Em All—Let Allah Sort Them Out.†   (source)
  • "We're very grateful that the Americans chased out the Taliban.†   (source)
  • I hear the Taliban are already holding two French reporters they caught sneaking in.†   (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)
  • By then, the Taliban had been driven out by the Northern Alliance, and the Americans had come to Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The story described the attack as "vicious" and the assailant as a former refugee with "suspected ties to the Taliban."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The truth is, however, neither al Qaeda nor the Taliban could function without the cooperation of the Pashtun villages.†   (source)
  • When the bodies of those three guys were found at first light, this mountain would be swarming with Taliban.†   (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)
  • The Taliban is a ruthless outfit, with instincts about killing their enemies which have barely changed in two thousand years.†   (source)
  • This was a border hot spot, where multiple Taliban troop movements were taking place on a weekly, or even daily, basis.†   (source)
  • I never knew where he was educated, but this young Taliban kid was a scientist, a master of explosives.†   (source)
  • It was obvious the Taliban had been through here recently in substantial numbers, and this was good news for us.†   (source)
  • We saw it circling, far away from the slopes where I believed the main Taliban and al Qaeda forces were camped.†   (source)
  • Upon the departure of the village elder, six hours after they had arrived, at around 0100, the Taliban suddenly decided to leave.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The trouble was, the Taliban steal those radios if they can, and they often used them to lure the U.S. helicopters down.†   (source)
  • Of course it occurred to me that these men might be just like the goatherds, loyal spies for the Taliban.†   (source)
  • It took only a few days to work out that Taliban fighters were nothing like so rough and dirty as Afghan mountain peasants.†   (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)
  • The Taliban were so busy trying to enslave the citizens, they forgot about the necessity for food, and there was mass starvation.†   (source)
  • The Ranger security guard was in formation around the perimeter, in case the Taliban decided to give it one last shot.†   (source)
  • The problem was, the Pakistani government has obvious sympathy with the Taliban, and as a result leaves the border area in the northeast uncontrolled.†   (source)
  • The Taliban AKs opened up again, and suddenly there were bullets flying everywhere, all around, just like before.†   (source)
  • We were still essentially carrying out our mission, but we remained on the highest possible alert for Taliban fighters.†   (source)
  • But what does Taliban really stand for?†   (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)
  • I figured the Taliban had probably split their search parly in this particular area and that I'd gotten rid of one half.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He was running and trying to make me keep up with him, and he kept shouting, signaling, again and again: Taliban!†   (source)
  • If you allow the Taliban and al Qaeda to make camp in and around your village, no good can possibly come of it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Never mind there's no shooting across the border in Pakistan, the illegality of the Taliban army, the Geneva Convention, yada, yada, yada.†   (source)
  • A hook-nosed Taliban warrior was peering straight at me through black eyes above a thick black beard.†   (source)
  • That steel core of the Taliban sect, that iron resolve and deadly hatred of the infidel, is unwaveringly Pash-tun.†   (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)
  • The Taliban wanted power in Afghanistan again; bin Laden's mob wanted death and destruction of U.S. citizens, uniformed or not.†   (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)
  • We had no clues which one harbored the most Taliban forces, and it had been decided we needed to take them both at gunpoint.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • We found it well to remember those Taliban insurgents were the very same guys who sheltered and supported Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • Barren, treeless moun-tainscapes are no place to conduct secretive landings and takeoffs, not with Taliban rocket men all around.†   (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)
  • However, die Taliban know this, and they move around disguised as cattle farmers, and we most certainly do bother with that.†   (source)
  • That's when the Taliban sniper shot me.†   (source)
  • Navy bombers taking off from the carriers targeted the Taliban's other military hardware, heavy vehicles, tanks, and fuel dumps.†   (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)
  • Maybe they had suspicion of someone in the village, worry that someone had tipped off the Taliban as to my precise whereabouts.†   (source)
  • The Taliban were still in power, and they were still hiding Osama bin Laden, but their isolation, political and diplomatic, was becoming total.†   (source)
  • The Taliban flatly refused to hand over their Saudi-born guest, who was providing them with heavy funding.†   (source)
  • The Taliban immediately stood up and stepped aside as the old man walked to the spot where I was lying.†   (source)
  • Was he in the clutches of the Taliban?†   (source)
  • Beyond that, anything goes, so the Taliban fighters simply swerve off the road and enter Afghanistan over the ancient pathways.†   (source)
  • But right now he believed the Taliban had gone into the house where I had been staying and found I was missing.†   (source)
  • There was silence for a few seconds, as if even these Taliban warriors understood that Mikey had died.†   (source)
  • I had with me the Texas patch I'd worn on my chest throughout my service in Afghanistan, fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda.†   (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)
  • Then in 1999 the United States persuaded the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Lyi ng here on my ledge, surrounded on all sides by hostile Taliban warriors, I could not afford another mistake.†   (source)
  • Two years later, even harsher sanctions were put in place in another attempt to force the Taliban to hand over bin Laden.†   (source)
  • Parts of eastern and southern Afghanistan have been officially designated unsafe due to increasingly daring Taliban attacks.†   (source)
  • And as if to make up our minds for us, the Taliban were again closing in, trying to make that 360-degree movement around us.†   (source)
  • The Taliban threats to both himself and his family were very much more serious than he had ever admitted.†   (source)
  • That took place on September 11, the same year, and was the beginning of the end for the Taliban and bin Laden's al Qaeda.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • In my experience, no Taliban commander had ever ordered his men to fight from anything other than the high ground.†   (source)
  • Here in these Taliban-controlled, hostile mountains, there was no earthly teammate for me, and my enemy was all around.†   (source)
  • Faced with the murderous cutthroats of the Taliban, we are not fighting under the rules of Geneva IV Article 4.†   (source)
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