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Taliban |
Most Shocking Video Ever: 12 Year Old Taliban Boy Beheads Man (Uncensored Version - Proceed with extreme caution) -- Strongest possible content warning: You are about to see the true face of our enemies. This is not an American propaganda video, it was made by the Taliban themselves. This is why we fight. This is why we must win. |
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2/15/2008 |
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Taliban |
Revealed: British Plan To Build Training Camp For Taliban In Order To Get Them To Switch Sides -- Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December. (Idiot Brits: sure, the Taliban will accept their training and continue to pursue jihad.) |
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2/5/2008 |
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Taliban |
Official Says Iranian Mines Found In Taliban Commander's House -- A provincial police chief says authorities have discovered a weapons cache in western Afghanistan containing 130 land mines of different types that appear to have been imported from Iran. The cache, discovered in Farah Province near the Iranian border, includes about 40 sophisticated remote-controlled mines. |
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1/25/2008 |
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Jihad |
Suicide Bomber Falls Down Stairs -- A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah. |
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1/24/2008 |
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Sharia Law |
Afghan Journalist Sentenced To Death -- An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam. |
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1/22/2008 |
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Taliban |
3,200 Marines Prepare for Afghan Tour -- Military officials said that about 3,200 Marines are being told to prepare to go to Afghanistan - a move that will boost combat troop levels in time for an expected Taliban offensive this spring. |
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1/15/2008 |
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Al-Qaeda |
6 Killed In Attack On Luxury Kabul Hotel -- Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel on Monday, killing at least six people in a brazen attack on Western civilians in Kabul, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the Norwegian foreign minister, who was not hurt, was the target of the assault, which came as the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. |
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1/14/2008 |
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Sharia Law |
Afghan Clerics Warn Karzai Against Missionaries -- Afghanistan's Islamic council has told President Hamid Karzai to stop foreign aid groups from converting locals to Christianity and also demanded the reintroduction of public executions. |
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1/5/2008 |
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Iran |
Iran Behind Flood Of Weapons To Taliban -- Canada has challenged the Iranian government over concerns that weapons and bomb-making equipment are slipping across the border to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. |
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12/26/2007 |
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Europe |
Afghanistan Expels Briton Accused Of Taliban Talks -- British and European officials today scrambled to head off a diplomatic row with Afghanistan, saying the expulsion of two western aides for allegedly holding talks with the Taliban was the result of a "misunderstanding". |
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12/26/2007 |
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Mullah Omar |
Mullah Omar vows to keep fighting jihad -- In a message to mark Eid al-Adha, the militant chief said there would be no rest for troops in Musa Qala, which the Taliban held for 10 months before its recapture. “We’ll not allow rest for invading forces in Musa Qala. Our mujahedin (holy warriors) are still around the villages,” Omar said. |
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12/19/2007 |
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Islam |
UNICEF Photo Of The Year Calls Attention To Child Marriage (more like child abuse) -- The photograph shot by U.S. freelance photographer Stephanie Sinclair shows a wedding couple in Afghanistan who could not be more opposite. The groom, Mohammed, looks much older than his 40 years. The bride, Ghulam, is still a child; she just turned 11. |
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12/19/2007 |
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Taliban |
Afghan Border Attacks Drop 40 Percent -- A top American general said Sunday that attacks along the Afghan-Pakistan border have dropped more than 40 percent since July and the U.S. and its allies are making progress in the fight against the Taliban.
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12/16/2007 |
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Taliban |
Heavy Taliban Losses in Musa Qala -- The Afghan Ministry of Defence says that hundreds of Taliban soldiers have been killed, wounded or taken prisoner in the fighting in and around the Afghan town of Musa Qala. |
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12/14/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Commander Killed in Eastern Afghanistan -- Afghan army backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces have killed a senior commander of Haqqani Network, which is loyal to the Taliban, in an operation on Dec. 11 in eastern Afghanistan, said a Coalition statement issued here on Friday. |
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12/14/2007 |
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Taliban |
Over 50 Taliban Killed in 2-Day Battle -- Afghan soldiers backed by NATO air power killed more than 50 Taliban fighters during a two-day battle with militants who tried to attack a southern Afghan town near the one they were routed from this week. |
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12/12/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban "Hanged Boy, 12, for Spying for U. K." (photo) -- Taliban fighters hanged a 12-year-old boy from a mulberry tree, claiming he was passing information on Taliban roadside bomb attacks to police and British forces, Afghan police have said. The gruesome murder, which occurred in Sangin, an area held by British forces since driving out the Taliban in April, sparked outrage among politicians, who accused the al-Qaeda-linked militant group of atrocities against villagers. It was the second execution of a child attributed to the Taliban in three months. |
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12/9/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Leaders Seized in Assault on Afghan Town -- Afghan and NATO-led forces have captured two senior Taliban commanders during their offensive to retake the insurgents' most important stronghold in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defence Ministry said on Sunday. Musa Qala, in the southern province of Helmand, has a symbolic significance for both sides in the conflict in Afghanistan as the only sizeable Afghan town controlled by the Taliban. |
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12/8/2007 |
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Taliban |
Afghan and NATO Troops Storm Taliban Stronghold -- The Afghan National Army, supported by international coalition forces, launched an operation Friday to recapture Musa Qaleh, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province. |
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12/8/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Militants Mistakenly Blow Themselves Up; Troops Launch Offensive to Retake Afghan Town -- Three Taliban militants were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb they were planting exploded prematurely, as Afghan and foreign troops launched an operation to retake a neighboring Afghan town controlled by Taliban militants. |
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12/7/2007 |
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Taliban |
Allies Prepare To Seize Taliban Stronghold -- Western sources have told The Daily Telegraph that it is planned that Afghan forces will lead the assault - the first time that the fledgling national army has undertaken an operation on such a scale. |
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12/6/2007 |
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Osama Bin Laden |
Bin Laden's Call "Ridiculous": Afghan President -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai called "ridiculous" Friday a call attributed to Osama bin Laden for Europe to break ranks with the United States and quit the fight against extremists in Afghanistan. |
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11/30/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taleban Makes Regular Contact and Wants Peace -- Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said yesterday Taleban insurgent leaders were increasingly contacting him to try to find ways of making peace. Afghan and western military leaders and diplomats recognise talks will ultimately have to be held to end the insurgency which has claimed about 5,000 lives this year alone. But, they say, talks should be held from a position of strength.
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11/23/2007 |
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Taliban |
"He's Lucky. Because He Killed One Medic. The Second Medic Saved His Life." -- Omar Khadr seems an unlikely poster boy for the war on terror. Khadr is a Canadian citizen, he likes Harry Potter, and he was only 15 years old when he was captured by the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. And that's what makes his case so controversial: his age. |
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11/19/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Torture, Execute 5 Afghan Police -- Taliban militants tortured five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and then hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday. |
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11/18/2007 |
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Taliban |
Boy Killed for teaching English -- Taliban militants have shot dead a teenage boy for teaching English in eastern Afghanistan, while several Taliban were killed and seven detained in a clash with coalition forces. |
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11/15/2007 |
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Taliban |
Another Jihadi Mass Slaughter of Innocent Schoolchildren -- Dozens of schoolchildren and five teachers were among those killed in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this week — the country’s deadliest since the fall of the Taliban — the government said Friday. |
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11/9/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Surrounded in Kandahar Fight -- Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks Wednesday and fled two villages infiltrated by hundreds of Taliban militants outside Afghanistan's second-largest city. U.S., Canadian and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded. |
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10/31/2007 |
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Sharia Law |
Three-Year-Old Bride in Afghanistan -- (photo) |
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10/13/2007 |
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Taliban |
Afghan Teenager with U. S. Dollars Hanged -- Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police. |
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10/1/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban spokesman arrested -- Qari Yousef Ahmadi was taken into custody with his brother during a police operation Wednesday in the village of Sufiyan in the southern province of Helmand. |
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9/27/2007 |
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Taliban |
"More than 100" Taliban killed -- The number of Taliban killed in a major operation under way in southern Afghanistan passed 100 today, the US-led coalition said after earlier announcing 61 were dead. |
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9/26/2007 |
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Taliban |
"More Than 100" Taliban Killed -- THE number of Taliban killed in a major operation under way in southern Afghanistan passed 100 today, the US-led coalition said after earlier announcing 61 were dead. The fighting, involving international ground and air forces, started yesterday in the Musa Qala district of the southern province of Helmand, the coalition said. |
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9/26/2007 |
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Taliban |
Pastor: Korean Hostage Was Killed for Refusing to Convert to Islam -- The youth pastor who was leading the group of 23 South Korean aid volunteers in Afghanistan was killed for refusing to convert to Islam, the head pastor of the church revealed after the final 19 former hostages arrived home. "Among the 19 hostages who returned on the second (of September), some were asked by the Taliban to convert and when they rejected, they were assaulted and severely beaten." |
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9/5/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Involved in South Korean Kidnappings Has Been Killed -- Security forces killed a Taliban commander involved in the July kidnapping of 23 South Koreans, officials said Tuesday, as around 40 other rebels were reported killed in fresh fighting. The commander, Mullah Mateen, and 15 other insurgents died in an Afghan and US-led coalition operation that started late Monday in the central province of Ghazni and lasted several hours, they said. |
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9/4/2007 |
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Taliban |
60 Suspected Afghan Militants Killed -- Afghan police and foreign forces killed around 60 suspected Taliban fighters, many in the region where the insurgents recently released a group of South Korean church workers they had been holding, authorities said Saturday. |
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9/1/2007 |
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Taliban |
NATO Airstrike Kills Taliban Commander Mullah Berader -- US and Afghan forces continue to strike hard at the Taliban's leaders in southern Afghanistan. The US Air Force killed Mullah Berader, a senior Taliban general and leader, after British and Afghan forces called in an air strike on Taliban fighters attempting to ambush their patrol in Helmand province. Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense has confirmed Berader's death in the fighting. |
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8/30/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Agree to Free 19 Korean Hostages -- The Taliban militants holding the 19 Korean hostages agreed with the Korean governemnt to free them, according to a report. Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported Saturday that the agreement came with the mediation of the government of Saudi Arabia. |
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8/25/2007 |
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Mullah Omar |
Mullah Omar Urges Afghans to Join Hands against Western Troops -- Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has appealed to fellow Afghans to shun their differences and join hands for a jihad to drive western troops out of the country. |
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8/19/2007 |
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Taliban |
Joint Assault on Al-Qaeda Hideout -- United States and Afghan air and ground forces yesterday pounded al-Qaeda militants in the Tora Bora mountains near the Pakistan border. |
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8/17/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban to Resume Direct Negotiations With Korea -- Face-to-face negotiations with Taliban kidnappers for the release of 19 Koreans in Afghanistan are to resume at the Afghan Red Crescent office in Ghazni Province at 10 a.m. Thursday. |
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8/16/2007 |
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Taliban |
Negotiation Focused on Ransom - Taliban Demand $10 Million for Freeing All Hostages -- Taliban militants are demanding just over $0.5 million for the release of each of the remaining hostages, The Korea Times has reliably learnt from a source, Tuesday. With 19 hostages still being held by Taliban - two (men) were killed and two (women) freed - the total ransom being demanded is around $10 million. However, the source said, a Korean delegation is offering only US $0.5 million for the safe release of all the remaining captives, and current negotiations are focused only on that issue. |
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8/14/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Says Not Releasing South Korean Hostages -- Afghanistan's Taliban has decided not to free any of 21 South Korean hostages despite earlier saying two women could go, the Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday citing an insurgents' spokesman. Yonhap quoted Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi as saying: "Our leaders have changed their minds and decided not to free two female hostages." |
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8/12/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Attack U.S.-Led Coalition Base -- A group of 75 Taliban militants tried to overrun a U.S.-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a rare frontal attack that left more than 20 militants dead, the coalition said in a statement. The insurgents attacked Firebase Anaconda from three sides, using gunfire, grenades and 107 mm rockets, the coalition said. A joint Afghan-U.S. force repelled the attack with mortars, machine guns and air support. "Almost two dozen insurgents were confirmed killed in the attack." |
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8/8/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Overshadowed By A Larger Threat -- The Taliban have changed tactics, now they favor kidnapping foreigners and suicide bombings, to try and weaken the government. The traditional Taliban tactics, of war bands (of 50-100 gunmen) roaming the countryside, attacking the police and terrorizing villagers into supporting the cause, have failed. |
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8/6/2007 |
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Taliban |
Afghan Group without Pity -- The murders of two of 23 South Korean hostages show that the Taliban of Afghanistan remain outside the norms of civilised behaviour. The Afghan zealots seized the South Koreans as a bargaining tool against the Kabul government. The Taliban leaders have demanded the release of Taliban prisoners. |
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8/6/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Executes 4 Afghan Judges after Kidnapping -- Taliban militants have executed four local judges being abducted in Afghanistan's central Ghazni province, a purported Taliban spokesman Mullah Tariq said Wednesday. |
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8/1/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Commander Reportedly Says Korean Hostage Talks Failed, Vows to Kill Captives -- Taliban commander reportedly says Korean hostage talks failed, vows to kill captives. (Breaking news on 7/30 says the Taliban have killed a second hostage). |
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7/30/2007 |
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Taliban |
Chairman of Afghanistan's Taliban Military Council Killed -- Qari Faiz Mohammad killed in a raid in Helmand province.
Coalition forces struck another blow to the senior Taliban leadership in Afghanistan. On July 23, Afghan and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops killed Qari Faiz Mohammad, the chairman of the Taliban Military Shura, or council, during a targeted raid in Helmand province. Mohammad was also a close associate of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and a chief financier for the Taliban. |
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7/29/2007 |
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Mullah Naimatullah |
Taliban Commander Mullah Naimatullah Killed in Balochistan -- Some unknown persons in Chaman area killed the Taliban Commander in Afghanistan Mullah Naimatullah and other 2 Uzbek Nationalists here on Wednesday. According to a private television channel, Taliban Commander in Afghanistan had come to Chaman a day before to meet his brother. When he was going back, the unidentified persons opened fire on him, which resulted in his death on the spot. |
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7/28/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban in First Heat-Seeking Missile Attack -- Taliban militants have used a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile to attack a Western aircraft over Afghanistan for the first time. The attack with a weapon believed to have been smuggled across the border with Iran represents a worrying increase in the capability of the militants which Western commanders had long feared. |
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7/28/2007 |
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Taliban |
Korean Hostage Tells Media of Group's Plight -- Eight days after the abduction of 23 Koreans in Afghanistan, the voice of one of the young women in the group was heard for the first time on Thursday. ¡°We are in a very difficult time. Please help us,¡± said a woman who introduced herself as Im Hyun-joo (32), a former nurse from Seoul, in a phone interview with U.S. broadcaster CBS. |
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7/28/2007 |
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Taliban |
Several Senior Taliban and Al Qaeda Commanders Killed by Security Forces -- A clash in Zabul province this past Sunday between Taliban rebels, the ANA and officers from the national intelligence service left 14 Taliban dead. One of the corpses was later identified as a ‘senior’ Taliban commander named Mullah Muhammad Hussain Mustaad, according to a government spokesman who talked to Pajhwok News. This marks the middle of a series of targeted killings this month by security forces against known al Qaeda and Taliban commanders on both sides of the border. |
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7/25/2007 |
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Taliban |
Bullet-riddled body of S. Korean found -- The bullet-riddled body of a South Korean hostage was found by police Wednesday in central Afghanistan after a purported Taliban spokesman said the militants had killed one of the captives. |
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7/24/2007 |
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Taliban |
US, Afghan Soldiers Kill 50 Suspected Taleban -- U.S. and Afghan forces called for air support on Sunday after Islamist fighters ambushed a military patrol with a suicide car bomb in Helmand province, the heartland of Afghanistan's poppy growing region. |
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7/23/2007 |
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Taliban |
Germans kidnapped, suicide bomber strikes in Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have abducted two Germans and their five Afghan colleagues, provincial officials said on Thursday, in the latest kidnappings of foreigners in the war-torn country. The abductions were reported as more violence shook the country, with a suicide bomber killing at least one civilian and wounding 27 outside a police post in northern Badakhshan province. |
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7/20/2007 |
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Islamofascism |
Afghan Rebel Leader Says "End Insurgency" -- A wanted rebel leader in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has declared a ceasefire against the government, a statement signed by Hekmatyar said. "Members of Hezb-i-Islami have stopped and refrained from brother killing and from the destruction of the country and assumed political activity." |
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7/19/2007 |
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Taliban |
Schoolgirls in the Gunsights of the Taliban -- WITH their teacher absent, 10 students were allowed to leave school early. These were the girls the gunmen saw first, 10 easy targets walking hand-in-hand through the blue metal gate and on to the winding dirt road. A 13-year-old named Shukria was shot in the arm and the back, and teetered into an adjacent wheat field. Zarmina, her 12-year-old sister, ran to her side, listening to the wounded girl's precious breath and trying to help her stand. But Shukria was too heavy to lift and the two gunmen, sitting astride a single motorbike, sped closer. |
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7/15/2007 |
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Taliban |
Key Leaders Captured, Large Number of Insurgents Killed in Shah Wali Kot area -- Afghan National Security Forces, advised by Coalition forces, concluded a month-long mission called Operation Adalat in the Shah Wali Kot area of Kandahar province July 5. The operation ended with a significant number of insurgents killed, two key leaders captured and no civilian casualties. Captured were Mullah Jalil, a key leader in the area, and Mullah Mohammed Younis, a chief improvised explosive device assembler. |
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7/10/2007 |
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Islamofascism |
Afghan Girls Traded, Sold to Settle Debt -- Unable to scrounge together the $165 he needed to repay a loan to buy sheep, Nazir Ahmad made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender's son. "He gave me nine sheep," Ahmad said, describing his family's woes since taking the loan. "Because of nine sheep, I gave away my daughter." |
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7/10/2007 |
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Abu al-Yazid |
Al-Qaeda's New Leader in Afghanistan: A Profile of Abu al-Yazid -- Al-Qaeda's late-May naming of Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid as the "general leader" of the group's activities in Afghanistan shows that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri believe that helping the Taliban win the Afghan war is a top priority. |
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7/3/2007 |
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India |
Indian Special Forces Contingent Deployed To Serve In Afghanistan -- India has sent a 75 men strong contingent of special Indo-Tibetan Border Police commandos to serve in Afghanistan where terrorist activities from Pakistan is seeing a marked rise for the past 18 months. |
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6/26/2007 |
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Taliban |
Mine Team Seized by Taliban Fighters -- Taliban fighters have seized 18 Afghan mine clearing experts and threatened to kill them if investigations suggest they are working for US-led forces in the country, officials and the insurgents said on yesterday. |
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6/26/2007 |
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Taliban |
Boy: Taliban Recruited Me to Bomb Troops -- The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders. |
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6/25/2007 |
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Taliban |
Long haul fight to defeat the Taleban -- The battles may be raging in Helmand province, the suicide and roadside bombs are killing people across the country, but the Taleban have been hit hard by Nato's spring offensive. |
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6/25/2007 |
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Mansour Dadullah |
New Taliban Commander Was Released in Prisoner Swap for Reporter -- It’s not like they knew he was an important figure. He’s merely the brother of the former commander, Mullah Dadullah, who spent the last several years waging jihad and sawing off heads on film for the entertainment of the faithful. Now this guy’s replaced him. |
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6/23/2007 |
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Taliban |
Nato Accuses Taliban of Using Children in Suicide Missions -- Children as young as six are being used by the Taliban in increasingly desperate suicide missions, coalition forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday. |
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6/23/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban To Step Up Suicide Bombings -- The Taliban promised yesterday to unleash a wave of suicide attacks on Kabul with the ultimate goal of expelling foreign forces. |
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6/23/2007 |
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Taliban |
Man Who Betrayed Slain Taliban Chief Dies in Custody -- A former close aide to Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah who was killed last month by Afghan government and NATO forces has died "in custody" after he was accused of betraying his former master. After Dadullah’s killing, Takht Mohammed fled to Kuchlak from where he was recently abducted by the Taliban. He then died of cardiac failure.” |
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6/21/2007 |
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Taliban |
Enough Murder, Enough Mayhem, Tribes Vow to Fight Talibanisation -- Call to arms from moderates abandoned by Islamabad on the chaotic Afghan frontier |
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6/21/2007 |
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Mansour Dadullah |
New Taliban Military Commander Mansour Dadallah: Bin Laden Is Alive and Well -- When Mullah Dadallah was still alive, he instructed me to carry out his mission if he was martyred. We had been together since we fought together on the fronts and until the end. Mullah Dadallah taught me a lot, because I grew up before his eyes. Therefore, he chose me as his assistant, even when he was still alive. I represented him in many missions, and after his martyrdom, the Emir of the Believers appointed me to replace him." |
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6/21/2007 |
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Taliban |
Canadian, Afghan Troops Jointly Fight Taliban in Fierce Four-Hour Battle -- Operation Season began under the cover of night. Hours later, the soldiers emerged from battle under the scorching Afghan sun, looking tired but elated that the mission was an apparent success. |
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6/20/2007 |
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Taliban |
Police Say Armed Men Crossed into Afghanistan from Iran -- More than 20 armed men crossed the border from Iran into Afghanistan and entered a town, a police commander said in the first such blunt claim by a high-ranking Afghan official. |
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6/20/2007 |
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Mansour Dadullah |
Taliban "Graduation Leader" Was Swapped for Italian Hostage -- The Taliban military commander [Mansoor Dadullah] who led the "graduation ceremony" for 300 suicide bombers was one of five men released from an Afghanistan prison earlier this year in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist. |
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6/20/2007 |
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Sharia Law |
Afghan Women Treated "Like a Piece of Meat" -- They may no longer run the government, but southern Afghanistan’s influential religious leaders continue to make life painfully hard for women, says Kandahar’s new director of women’s affairs. |
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6/20/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Fighters Back in Caves of Tora Bora -- Insurgents backed by al-Qa'eda have opened a new "front" on the eastern border of Afghanistan, re-occupying the Tora Bora cave complex from which Osama bin Laden escaped the closing net of US forces in 2001. |
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6/19/2007 |
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Taliban |
Suicide Bomber Blows Up Kabul Bus, Kills Dozens -- A Taleban suicide bomber blew up a police bus in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing around 35 people in one of Kabul’s deadliest explosions in recent months amid rising nationwide violence, police said. The blast tore apart the bus, wrecked several other vehicles and scattered body parts. |
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6/17/2007 |
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Taliban |
Suicide Bombers Kill 5 in Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck near a convoy of foreign forces in northern Afghanistan, killing one civilian and injuring at least six others. |
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6/15/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taleban Failed to Mount Spring Offensive: NATO -- The Taleban failed to mount their long-threatened spring offensive in Afghanistan, and indications are the guerrillas may have trouble recruiting fighters after the harvest, a NATO commander said. |
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6/15/2007 |
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Mullah Bashir |
Police Kill Taleban Commander -- Mullah Basir was shot in the head by police as he left a mosque in Char Diwar in Andar district, governor Mirajudin Patan told the BBC. |
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6/14/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban "Radio Boss" Joins Afghan Peace Scheme -- The former head of the Taliban regime's radio station and spokesman for its leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has surrendered to the Afghan government. |
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6/11/2007 |
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Taliban |
134 Indian Commandos To Be Deployed To Counter Taliban Threat -- With Taliban activities in Afghanistan witnessing a rise, India is sending Indo-Tibetan Border Police commandos to beef up security of its personnel engaged in reconstruction work there. |
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6/10/2007 |
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Iran |
Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban -- NATO officials have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces. |
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6/9/2007 |
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Mullah Dadullah |
Taleban Handed Commander's Body -- The Taleban say Afghan officials have handed over to them the body of former senior commander Mullah Dadullah in exchange for the release of hostages. |
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6/9/2007 |
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TV News |
AP Reporter Sees 9-11 As "Bush Administration Conspiracy Hung on Al-Qaeda" -- One of the AP reporters says he believes 9/11 was a Bush administration conspiracy hung on al Qaeda. The other reporter never takes off his Che Guevara T-shirt. Maybe these two will provide unbiased footage and commentary notwithstanding their personal views -- maybe not. |
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6/6/2007 |
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Taliban |
New Taliban Commander Threatens to Kill 1 Captive Daily until Former Commander's Body Returned -- The Taliban's new southern commander said the hardline militia beheaded an Afghan health worker Tuesday and would kill one of their other hostages every day until the body of the former Taliban commander was handed over. |
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6/6/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Threaten to Kill Afghan Doctor and Nurses -- The Taliban threatened Sunday to behead an Afghan doctor and three nurses captured two months ago unless the government hands over the body of slain top commander Mullah Dadullah. |
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6/4/2007 |
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Iran |
Tehran Calling -- In early April...British forces operating under NATO command in Afghanistan's wild-west Helmand province stopped a convoy carrying what appeared to be ordnance of Iranian origin intended for delivery to the Taliban. The explosives bore suspected Iranian markings similar to those found on weapons confiscated from Shiite militias in Iraq—and the Brits intercepted another shipment a month later. |
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6/4/2007 |
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Taliban |
New Wave of Military Operations Against Taliban -- Afghan security forces supported by North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led and US-led troops have launched a wave of operations against Taliban militants in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, the defense ministry said Sunday. |
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6/3/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Warn Civilians of Big Afghan Offensive -- The Taliban will stage a "massive operation" against Western troops in Afghanistan and civilians must stay away from them in order to avoid casualties, a spokesman for the group said on Sunday. |
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6/3/2007 |
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Islamic Forum Confused About 12-Year Old Headchopper -- One of the most depraved stories from the "holy warriors" recently was the video of a 12-year old boy hacking off the head of a helpless captive, with an audience shouting "Allahu Akbar!" Clicking the picture below will take you to Liveleak, where you can watch an edited (non-graphic) version. Even without showing the actual murder, it’s very disturbing. |
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6/3/2007 |
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Taliban |
Boat Sinks Crossing Afghan River; 60 Die -- A boat crossing a river in Afghanistan's most dangerous province sank on Saturday, and at least 60 people were killed, including Taliban militants, the Defense Ministry said. |
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6/2/2007 |
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Taliban |
U.S., Afghan forces clash with Taliban -- Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces clashed with Taliban militants Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan , leaving six suspected insurgents dead and one wounded, the coalition said. |
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5/30/2007 |
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Taliban |
What's the Status of the Taliban Spring Offensive? -- It may not have materialized but fighting far from over. |
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5/30/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Learns Tactics, Propaganda from al Qaeda -- Afghan security officials say the association has enabled the Taliban to develop from a xenophobic, home-grown Islamist movement into a more outward looking force that is helping to advance al Qaeda's global interests. |
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5/30/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Al-Qaeda’s Waiting Game -- Americans tend to forget that while we were surprised by the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was not. The attacks’ exact date was known to bin Laden and two or three others only six days before Sept. 11, 2001, but they had long known the attacks were coming. Thus al-Qaeda was able to move important operatives, archives, materiel, and other assets out of Afghanistan in advance. |
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5/30/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taleban Tries To Round Up Traitors After Rise in Tip-Offs -- Taleban insurgents fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been hit by a wave of defections and betrayals that has resulted in a witch-hunt within the militant movement after the deaths of Mullah Dadullah and Aktar Mohammed Osmani. |
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5/29/2007 |
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Taliban |
French minister confirms three Afghan hostages freed -- The three were kidnapped with Celine Cordelier and Eric Damfreville on April 3. Cordelier was freed on April 28 and Damfreville on May 11. |
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5/27/2007 |
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Taliban |
Hunt for 'traitors' splits Taliban -- spy mania grips the Afghan rebels as top commanders fall victim to tip-offs by informers to coalition troops since two of the Taliban's most senior commanders have now been killed -- after being betrayed by close associates. |
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5/27/2007 |
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Taliban |
Taliban Child Beheading Uncensored Video Frames *Bumped* |
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5/24/2007 |
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