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AFGHANISTAN - June 10 - US Marines Apply Lessons Learned In Iraq To Afghanistan.
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APS Diplomat Recorder
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June 14, 2008
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US marines pushed the Taliban out of this village and the surrounding district in southern Helmand Province so quickly in recent weeks that they called the operation a "catastrophic success Yet NATO troops conducted similar operations here in 2006 and 2007, and the Taliban returned soon after they left. The marines, drawing on lessons from Iraq, say they know what to do to keep the Taliban at bay if they are given the time. "There is definitely someone thinking out there", Captain John Moder, commander of Company C of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said of the Taliban. "That's why we need these people to be at least neutral to us", he said, gesturing to the farmers who ...
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I was one of the Taliban's torturers: I crucified people In an astonishing...
The Sunday Telegraph London;
September 30, 2001 ;
CHRISTINA LAMB in Quetta, Pakistan;
787 words
......and boys, robbing people, and the Taliban seemed like good people who brought law...So he became a Taliban "volunteer", assigned...However, as the Taliban leadership began...instructed to seek out people watching videos...terror spread by the Taliban was so pervasive...our ...
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Taliban continuing to sow fear But at grass roots, 'people are fed up'
International Herald Tribune;
March 1, 2006 ;
Carlotta Gall;
787 words
......southern Afghanistan.People are scared and few...to stand up to the Taliban, at least not without...least in his area.''People are fed up now with the Taliban,'' he said.''They...as you know, the Taliban are wild people, and they have committed...
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CULTURE-AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN DEFIANCE TO HURT COUNTRY'S PEOPLE
Inter Press Service English News Wire;
March 6, 2001 ;
STAFF;
787 words
......opinion, but it is the people of the drought and...goodwill that the Taliban had earned by banning...down heavily on the Taliban's decision. "Islam...history of millions of people throughout the world...newspaper Iran News. The Taliban's decision to destroy...believes that the ...
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NEWSWEEK INTERVIEW: Hamid Karzai President of Afghanistan; He'll Deliver...
PR Newswire;
December 12, 2004 ;
375 words
......including justice, to the people. (Photo: http://www.newscom...to hold elections if the Taliban had been around. The elections...thanks to the force of the people. The Taliban can only succeed if they...have a presence among the people. The Afghan people proved that this ...
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Analysis: People of Jalalabad are glad the Taliban are gone but wary of...
All Things Considered (NPR);
November 16, 2001 ;
LINDA WERTHEIMER;
628 words
...00-00-0000 Analysis: People of Jalalabad are glad the Taliban are gone but wary of...Eric Weiner reports, people there are glad the Taliban have gone, but are wary...chess. Now that the Taliban are gone the people of Jalalabad are, once...
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WAR ON TERROR: POLICE BUTCHERS: TALIBAN'S TORTURER; Secret police crucify...
The Mirror (London, England);
October 1, 2001 ;
787 words
......first was impressed by the Taliban. It had been a crazy situation...young girls and boys, robbing people, and the Taliban seemed like good people who brought law and order. So he became a Taliban volunteer , assigned to the...subversion. However, as the Taliban leadership began ...
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WAR ON TERROR: DELIGHT IN KABUL: LIBERATED; People celebrate fall of...
The Mirror (London, England);
November 14, 2001 ;
787 words
......was calm, with the people at first slowly but...dramatic collapse of the Taliban regime. Mohamad Ahmad...terrorism - tell your people that. We are happy to be rid of the Taliban. At first Mohamad...banks and former Taliban military bases. Most...restaurants were crowded as people ...
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TALIBAN BREAKS STONES, PEOPLE.(Editorial)(Column)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
March 15, 2001 ;
783 words
......has a point. The Taliban, students of the...recurrent drought its people are hungry and frightened...fate of the Afghan people - proud, rugged mountaineers...out of Kabul by the Taliban in 1992. But given...end or to give the people of Afghanistan, as...interference. The Taliban will ...
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Soaring crime has Afghans in the grip of fear The people of the Afghan...
The Sunday Telegraph London;
January 20, 2002 ;
Alex Spillius;
582 words
......robberies. Under the Taliban, Kabul was almost...and muggers. The people of Kabul have regained...on ice during the Taliban's reign are heating...poverty is driving people to crime. The city...say what is on many people's minds: that things were better under the Taliban. "I am too ...
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The commander is right: you'll never beat the Taliban
The Independent - London;
October 7, 2008 ;
Patrick Cockburn;
724 words
......FIRST serious talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban took place 10 days ago in Mecca under the auspices of...going to be solved by dialogue and not by fighting. The Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, was not present but his representatives...impossible has been overtaken by the talks in Mecca. "If the ...
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Taliban guns are bought with the lives of young Scottish people; BY TONY...
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);
October 7, 2001 ;
787 words
......possible because the Taliban regime in Afghanistan...drugs can wreak in people's lives. Despite...bin Laden and the Taliban buy are bought with the lives of young people in Scotland and elsewhere...calls to tackle the Taliban's evil trade. A senior...killing thousands of people on ...
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Lessons from the war, so far: ; Just for starters, the Taliban aren't the...
Charleston Daily Mail;
November 29, 2001 ;
Michael Kelly;
769 words
......superior force. The Taliban could no more turn...conclusively that the Taliban were not the government of the Afghan people. They were a foreign...imposed on the Afghan people. The power that...imported by the Taliban and al Qaeda. Destroying...al Qaeda and the Taliban- are the ones ...
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Why the Taliban appeal to Pakistani youth; The tribal system that once...
The Christian Science Monitor;
June 16, 2006 ;
787 words
......rising force can: the Taliban. Due to poverty, young people have no activities...telephone from Banu. The people of Mir Ali have sympathies for the Taliban. They fight for Islam...pragmatism draws young people to the Taliban. They are building...
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Skeletons in Afghan valley said to be those of people massacred by Taliban...
AP Worldstream;
January 11, 2002 ;
AFSHIN VALINEJAD, Associated Press Writer;
415 words
......the scene of a 1999 Taliban massacre of 72 people falsely accused of...group that opposed the Taliban, said Thursday people living in the area...uprising against the Taliban. Two of the group, which included people from all over Afghanistan...
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RIR soldiers prepare for home after doing battle with Taliban
Belfast Telegraph;
October 4, 2008 ;
Lt Col ANDREW CULLEN;
757 words
......the comfort of my office I read of 'contacts' with the Taliban in the green zone and days and nights of consistent probing attacks against them by the Taliban. As part of the Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams...capability of the Afghan National Army. Engagement with the Taliban became an every day ...
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