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In this photo taken on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, Taliban commander Baz Mohammed, center, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his headquarters in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. View Photo »
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In this photo taken on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, Taliban commander Baz Mohammed, center, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his headquarters in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. View Photo »
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi speaks during a campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect new president. View Photo »
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A supporters of the former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi, listens during an election campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president. View Photo »
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Supporters of the former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi attend his election campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president. View Photo »
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The former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi, left, talks with one of his supporters during a campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. View Photo »
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The former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi, background, greets one of his supporters during a campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. View Photo »
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi speaks during an interview with Reuters TV in Kabul August 2, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20. View Photo »
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi sits next to his supporters in Kabul, August 2, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20. View Photo »
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi (C) talks to supporters in Kabul, August 2, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20. View Photo »
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi (R) attends an interview with Reuters TV in Kabul August 2, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20. View Photo »
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi (R) talks to supporters in Kabul, August 2, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20. View Photo »
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Former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi speaks during an interview with Reuters TV in Kabul, August 2, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20. View Photo »
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Trucks destroyed by Taliban fighters sit by the roadside in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province July 8, 2009. Taliban fighters set 12 trucks, belonging to a construction firm, on fire and kidnapped two drivers, the local governor said. View Photo »
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In this photograph taken on June 8, 2009, Taliban fighters sit on the ground in a prison after their arrest during the joint Operation Tofan, involving the Afghan National Army and NATO forces, in the Balamurghab district of north western Badghis provin... View Photo »
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Pakistani internally displaced people, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley and Buner, queue for food at a makeshift camp in Swabi on May 14, 2009. View Photo »
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Pakistani internally displaced children, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley and Buner, attend a class in their tents school at a makeshift camp in Swabi on May 14, 2009. View Photo »
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Pakistani internally displaced people, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley and Buner, get buckets at a makeshift camp in Swabi on May 14, 2009. View Photo »
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Pakistani internally displaced people, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley and Buner, get buckets at a makeshift camp in Swabi on May 14, 2009. View Photo »
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Pakistani internally displaced children, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley and Buner, attend a class in their tent school at a makeshift camp in Swabi on May 14, 2009. View Photo »
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The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, also anglicised as Taleban; translation: "students") is a Sunni Islamist, predominately Pashtun movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when its leaders were removed from power by Northern Alliance and NATO forces. Full Article
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The former Taliban commander and presidential candidate Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi, background, greets one of his supporters during a campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president.
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Pakistani internally displaced people, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley and Buner, queue for food at a makeshift camp in Swabi on May 14, 2009.
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NOW ZAD, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 03: U.S. Marines fire a 120mm mortar on a Taliban position on April 3, 2009 in Now Zad in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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NOW ZAD, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 03: U.S. Marines unpack 120mm mortars to fire on Taliban positions on April 3, 2009 in Now Zad in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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Pakistani operations in Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Swat, Buner, Lower Dir, and now South Waziristan have significantly degraded Pakistani Taliban groups.The campaign, however, has not directly engaged the sanctuaries of the Afghan Taliban groups in Pakistan
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Pakistani operations in Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Swat, Buner, Lower Dir, and now South Waziristan have significantly degraded Pakistani Taliban groups.The campaign, however, has not directly engaged the sanctuaries of the Afghan Taliban groups in Pakistan
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Mullah Omar has previously denied that the Taliban are allied to al-Qaeda, although it is apparent that the Taliban’s new media strategy has emanated from al-Qaeda tutoring.
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The Taliban have threatened to retaliate against South Korea for its decision to send troops back into Afghanistan. A statement e-mailed to media outlets late Wednesday said that South Korea’s leaders ’should be prepared for the consequence of their action, which they will certainly face.’ South Korea h...
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The risk is that we will expend tens of billions of dollars fighting in a strategically less important Afghanistan, while Taliban and al-Qaida leaders become increasingly secure in Pakistan
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The Taliban and Al Qaeda don't have radar-seeking missiles we know of, so Predators and Global Hawks should work fine
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It is interesting, because in military definition, 'defeat' does not mean eradicate or wipe out an enemy ... It means prevent them from being able to accomplish their mission. That, in fact, is what we are trying to do with the Taliban. To the degree to which we can degrade their capability, prevent the...
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Achieving our objectives in Afghanistan ... will not be easy ... The Taliban has in recent years been gaining strength and expanding the extent of its control of parts of Afghanistan.
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama today authorized another round of missile attacks on Taliban-held villages
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Karzai claims mystery helicopters ferrying Taliban to north Afghanistan
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I don't foresee the return of the Taliban. Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling. The al-Qaeda presence is very diminished. The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country, no bases, no ability to launch attacks on either us or our allies.
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The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan [or Nooristan], on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles.
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Two Afghan teenagers held in U.S. detention north of Kabul this year said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked, deprived of sleep and held in solitary confinement in concrete cells for at least two weeks while undergoing daily interrogation about their alleged links to the Taliban.
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Bowing to the reality the Taliban is too ingrained in Afghanistan’s culture to be entirely defeated, the administration is prepared to accept some Taliban role in parts of Afghanistan…That could mean paving the way for Taliban members willing to renounce violence to participate in the central government...
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We’ve got to chase the Taliban out and end the war in Afghanistan and we can’t do that unless we have more troops there than we have now
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If such reports are true, the United States will have even fewer options in pursuing Taliban and al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, absent the active help of Pakistani authorities
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The most salient question, however, is whether improvements on the ground in Afghanistan will mean much if Taliban and al Qaeda sanctuaries in Pakistan remain or if instability within Pakistan intensifies
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The Obama administration is turning up the pressure on Pakistan to fight the Taliban inside its borders, warning that if it does not act more aggressively the United States will use considerably more force on the Pakistani side of the border to shut down Taliban attacks on [U.S.] forces in Afghanistan.
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Well, I suppose if you were a card-carrying member of al-Qaeda or the Taliban you might have trouble getting in. Or, a card-carrying member of the Republican Party
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The recent Pakistani military offensives have gone after the Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan and we have yet to see their operations directed at the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani network or some of the Al Qaeda strongholds
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To be sure, these operations have not directly engaged the sanctuaries of the Afghan Taliban groups in Pakistan, nor those of some of the extremist syndicate I described earlier
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President George Bush rejected as ‘non-negotiable' an offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan.
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Under the banner of this domestic unity and international legitimacy—and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden—we sent our troops into Afghanistan.
SOURCE: UK Indymedia Newswire
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