All 20 Uses of
Taliban
in
No Easy Day
- Since September 11, 2001, DEVGRU operators had been on a steady cycle of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, targeting al Qaeda and Taliban commanders.†
p. 18..8
- He fell out of a Chinook helicopter after it was hit by two rocket-propelled grenades during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan and was killed by Taliban fighters at the start of the war.†
p. 38..9
- The dead fighters were dressed in baggy shirts and pants and black Cheetahs, high-top Puma-like sneakers worn by Taliban fighters.†
p. 101..1
- I've never seen anyone but Taliban fighters in those sneakers.†
p. 101..2
- The annual Taliban summer offensive was in full swing.†
p. 107..8
- A Taliban group captured him and quickly moved him closer to the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in hopes of getting him across.†
p. 107..9
- The fear was that the group that captured him would eventually sell him to other groups like the Haqqani network, a terrorist group allied with the Taliban.†
p. 108..3
- Less than a month after he disappeared, the Taliban released a video showing Bergdahl, dressed in the baby blue long shirt and baggy pants of the region, sitting in front of a white wall.†
p. 108..3
- The Taliban are good fighters and we already knew the operation had the potential to get squirrelly.†
p. 109..3
- One of the Taliban fighters had a PKM machine gun.†
p. 109..9 *
- Native Taliban forces mingle with foreign al Qaeda fighters, while mujahedeen militias also operate in the region.†
p. 121..7
- The plan was to patrol deep into a valley to the south of the outpost and conduct a kill or capture operation against a group of high-level Taliban who were having a meeting.†
p. 121..9
- The other two teams would patrol up the main road into the valley and try and flush the Taliban fighters out to where my team could ambush them.†
p. 122..8
- As he scanned the road that ran up the valley, he saw a half dozen Taliban fighters grabbing for their guns through a window.†
p. 132..5
- It felt really good knowing that we eliminated Taliban fighters harassing the outpost.†
p. 137..1
- Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters were constantly in the province, slipping easily in and out of neighboring Pakistan.†
p. 150..1
- U.S. and Afghan forces overran the Taliban and al Qaeda positions during the battle but failed to kill or capture Bin Laden.†
p. 150..7
- Under pressure from the international community, the Sudanese government exiled him, and Bin Laden fled to Afghanistan and the protection of the Taliban.†
p. 162..2
- After Coalition forces toppled the Taliban in 2001, Bin Laden went into hiding after narrowly escaping capture by Coalition forces at Tora Bora in Afghanistan.†
p. 162..5
- In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given Bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support.†
p. 274..7
Definition:
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(Taliban) a fundamentalist Islamic political faction that rules Afghanistan
(A fundamentalist is someone who strongly believes in old, traditional forms of a religion.)