All 24 Uses of
Taliban
in
Fearless
- Since late 2009, intelligence networks had been tracking a Kunar Province Taliban leader—code-named Objective Lake James—who had already taken credit for numerous deaths among coalition forces.†
p. 6..2
- In Afghanistan, the oppressive Taliban government that provided a safe haven to Osama bin Laden and his fellow al Qaeda terrorists had surrendered ten months earlier, on December 5, 2001, after just two months of war.†
p. 160..3
- The swift victory against the Taliban regime then shifted to a counterinsurgency mission of fighting hard-line Taliban insurgents and their allies—foreign jihadists pouring in from Pakistan and Iran.†
p. 160..7
- The swift victory against the Taliban regime then shifted to a counterinsurgency mission of fighting hard-line Taliban insurgents and their allies—foreign jihadists pouring in from Pakistan and Iran.†
p. 160..8
- He was at the top of the list, followed by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's founding father, and a laundry list of Taliban and terrorist leaders on the run in Afghanistan and around the globe.†
p. 161..1
- He was at the top of the list, followed by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's founding father, and a laundry list of Taliban and terrorist leaders on the run in Afghanistan and around the globe.†
p. 161..1
- War planners realized almost immediately after the surrender of the Taliban that this was merely the beginning of combat operations in Afghanistan.†
p. 161..2
- Then, while Afghanistan's post-Taliban government and national police and army were still under construction, another war was being planned in the Middle East.†
p. 161..2
- Going after bin Laden was a no-brainer; the Taliban, the atrocities they committed, they needed to be removed.†
p. 162..6
- They are poor; y'all cannot believe what little they have, Nathan and Savannah, but we have restored their dignity, and their lives…. the Taliban had taken that away.†
p. 188..5
- For two pages the letter described Marri's background and various anecdotes of life before and after the Taliban, ending with, Life here is very miserable.†
p. 188..9
- Now we heard about this attack on the towers in America with many people dead and my father says the Americans will come and remove the Taliban but we do not dare hope….†
p. 189..1
- If I start writing I will fill all the paper and my eyes will fill with tears because in these seven years of Taliban no one has asked us to write about our lives.†
p. 189..2
- Their living quarters were eight-foot-by-eight-foot plywood rooms with a blanket for a door, a bunk, and some shelves in a building built by Army engineers when the Taliban had surrendered four years before.†
p. 189..7
- Impossible to identify ("They don't carry the 'I'm a bad guy' flag," says one SEAL), these hard-line Taliban insurgents, foreign jihadists, aspiring terrorists, and good old-fashioned organized criminals all had the same goal: upset any attempts at regional (thus national) stability for either their own monetary gain or to accomplish Allah's will.†
p. 214..1
- The second battle was against the Taliban insurgency.†
p. 215..5 *
- On July 13, 2008, U.S. Army soldiers based at a remote command outpost near the village of Wanat in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, were surrounded and attacked by an estimated two hundred Taliban insurgents.†
p. 242..4
- Since 2008, DEVGRU's intelligence networks had been tracking a Kunar Taliban leader, code-named Objective Lake James, who "had more blood on his hands than any other Taliban leader in his district," says an Army officer familiar with operations in the Pech River Valley.†
p. 260..0
- Since 2008, DEVGRU's intelligence networks had been tracking a Kunar Taliban leader, code-named Objective Lake James, who "had more blood on his hands than any other Taliban leader in his district," says an Army officer familiar with operations in the Pech River Valley.†
p. 260..1
- That whole area was swarming with hard-core Taliban, so they snuck into that valley like it was the entrance to the nest, and they crept past all these hornets who were asleep and went straight for the queen that was James.†
p. 272..4
- Besides the AK, there were some other identifying factors that told me, without a doubt, this was a Taliban fighter.†
p. 273..9
- And when asked about James (using the Taliban leader's real name), the women "of course had never heard of him," says Brian.†
p. 277..1
- Nobody knows what was going on in his mind, but I was thinking, this target is going to shit, guys are pinned down, and we still have a long walk to a helicopter, so let's get this Taliban, let's get his ass out of the gene pool and go home before we see what this place looks like in the daylight."†
p. 278..3
- "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.†
p. 298..2
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.)