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The Army is replacing the first female commander of its prestigious drill sergeant school, it announced Wednesday, just days after it lifted her unexplained six-month suspension. Taliban: NATO nations should leave war like France The Taliban on Sunday... Full Article at Fresno Bee
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The 23-year-old, who returned to Pakistan last year after studying at Oxford, said her assassination was due to a combination of Islamic extremists, and Musharraf's regime. "Al-Qaeda issued the instructions to do it, the Taliban... carried out the... Full Article at Mmail
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Inhabitants of Castres pay tribute to Sebastien Devez, one of the French 8th marine parachutist regiment's (RPIMA) soldiers killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan on August 18, 2008, during Sebastien's funerals, on August 23, 2008 in front of the... View Photo »
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The only way you're going to understand who the Taliban are is reading and understanding what they have to say
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LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Marine commanders in Afghanistan have cracked down on war-zone photography in the wake of two international scandals this year in which U.S. troops were depicted posing with dead Taliban fighters. Rank-and-file personnel... Full Article at Marine Corps Times
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“The rate of incidents is still high, but the fatalities are down considerably,” said Mr. Kasper. Mr. Hunter, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has pushed JIEDDO to do a better job of keeping pace with how the Taliban change tactics and bomb... Full Article at Washington Times
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The 125 victims, who include girls as young as 10, were taken to hospital on Wednesday after complaining of nausea, headaches and dizziness. Police spokesman Khalilullah Aseer said he believed Taliban insurgents were trying to spread fear by poisoning... Full Article at Times of India
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Because of their bravery and dedication … we have broken the Taliban’s momentum ... We’ve built strong Afghan Security Forces. We have devastated al Qeada’s leadership. And one year ago, our troops launched the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. The goal that I set — to defeat al Qaeda, and deny it ...
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10,000 and 25,000 troops after 2014 as the U.S. seeks to avoid a precipitous departure from the war-torn nation that still poses a terrorist threat to the U.S. “I envision a platform from which we can conduct counterterrorism activities, protect the... Full Article at Bloomberg.com
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The group also has ties to al-Qaida and the Taliban. WASHINGTON -- A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33... Full Article at Contra Costa Times
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Congress should ask how it happened. The Pakistanis are supposed to be America's partners in the war against al Qaeda, pocketing $1 billion a year in aid. But Pakistan also provides safe haven to the Taliban and other Islamist terrorist groups. The... Full Article at Wall Street Journal
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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. It has regrouped and since 2004 revived as a strong insurgency movement... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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