Tag: Taliban

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2009-03-08 Two USA drones were flying over a village in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area and one of them was hit by militants.
2009-02-17 "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means. ... We're going to have to use diplomacy. We're going to have to use development."
-- Barack Obama, President of the USA, in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp
2009 In the South of Afghanistan (and across the border in Pakistan) the Taliban are increasingly becoming indistinguishable from the Pashtun people. The Pashtun tribes are a good home for the Taliban.
The problem with the convergence of ‘Taliban’ and ‘Pushtan’ is that the Pushtans comprise around 40% of Afghanistan’s population and are the largest single ethnic group. That’s an awful lot of people to fight.
-- According to Keith Rice
2008-11-14 In North Waziristan, Pakistan, a USA Predator attack demolished a compound owned by Amir Gul, a Taliban commander said to have ties to al-Qaeda. At least 11 people, including six foreign fighters, were killed.
2008-09-10 “No external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan.”
-- Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the Pakistani Army, in a statement criticizing USA for sending commandos into Pakistan to fight the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
2008-09-03 In Afghanistan, 3 Canadians soldiers were killed in an Taliban tackat on their armoured vehicle while they were on a security patrol in the Zhari district of the southern Kandahar province.
2008-09-03 Raid by American Special Operations forces into Pakistan’s tribal areas, attacking a compound in South Waziristan where Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces were believed to be leaving a dozen or more Pakistanis dead.
2008-09 “We can hunt down and kill extremists as they cross over the border from Pakistan.
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But until we … eliminate the safe havens from which they operate, the enemy will only keep coming.”
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently remarked
2008-06-23 "There are now 13,000 religious schools [in Egypt] that produce terrorists, like the Taliban madrassas in Pakistan. At religious schools they teach children that Muslims who do not pray should be killed."
-- Dr Sayyed al-Qimni, one of Egypt's best known liberal writers and historians
2008-04-27 In Kabul, Afghanistan, Taliban gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at a state parade, sending Hamid Karzai, his cabinet and military top brass as well as foreign diplomats diving for cover.












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