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	Wikipedia: Taliban
		The Taliban belong to the Deobandi movement, a Sunni Islam movement which emphasizes piety and austerity and the family obligations of men.
		The Clinton administration of the United States was criticized for overlooking Taliban human rights abuses, since they presented the appearance of greater willingness to cooperate in talks, and to take action against drugs, than their predecessors.
		The stated intent was to remove the Taliban from power because of the Taliban's refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden for his alleged involvement in the September 11 attacks, and in retaliation for the Taliban's aid to him.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/t/ta/taliban.html (1407 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Taliban, whose name means "students of Muslim religious studies" in Arabic, is composed primarily of poorly educated youths recruited from the Afghan refugee population in refugee camps and religious schools in neighboring Pakistan.
		Taliban guards are stationed in hospitals and doctors' offices and can arbitrarily interfere with medical treatment if they believe that a doctor violated Taliban rules by, for example, lifting a female patient's burqa and touching a part of her body during an examination.
		Under principles of international customary law, the Taliban, although not widely recognized as the official government of Afghanistan, is obliged to act in accordance with treaties to which Afghanistan is a party in the regions under its control.
	www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/v6i2/taliban.htm (1725 words)

	Taliban's War on Women Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Taliban policies of systematic discrimination against women seriously undermine the health and well-being of Afghan women.
		Enveloped by the shroud-like burqas (a head to toe covering for women that have only a mesh cloth to see and breathe through) that they are forced to wear or else face beatings, the women and girls of Afghanistan are today facing a crisis that threatens their very survival.
		Most Afghan women are prohibited by the Taliban from working, from going to school, from moving anywhere outside their homes without an immediate male family member as chaperone, restricted from visiting doctors, hospitals or clinics, and from collecting humanitarian aid.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Life_Death_ThirdWorld/Taliban_WarWomen.html (546 words)

	Taliban
		Theprinciple of Taliban rule is a strict adherence to what they call Islamic law,which is heavily influenced by the traditions of the Pashtun tribe of which theTaliban are exclusively composed.
		The report reveals the harsh realities of life for Afghani women.Over a hundred interviews with Afghan women confirms that what is happeningunder Taliban rule is not only an abject violation of international humanrights standards, but an affront to Islamic values of Afghani civilians.
		Their unyielding opposition to the Taliban is supported by an archive ofhundreds of stories, articles, photos, movie clips, and press releases exposingthe Taliban's violent abuse of Afghani citizens.
	www.change-links.org /Afghani.htm (1107 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Typical is the Feminist Majority's claim that "Afghanistan, under the Taliban rule, [had] become the number one producer of illicit opium and heroin in the world." Insomuch as the Taliban did not come to power until 1995, and Afghanistan was already the major supplier of world heroin by 1985, this was a misrepresentation of facts.
		The Feminist Majority's narrow focus on Taliban rule, and its silence regarding the channeling of US aid to the most brutal and violent Afghan groups (of which the Taliban were only one), seemed to cast an ominous shadow on the integrity of its campaign.
		For example, the Taliban decree to ban girls and women from schools affected only a tiny minority of urban dwellers, since the majority of the population lives in rural areas where schools are almost nonexistent: approximately 90 percent of the female and 60 percent of the male population in Afghanistan is illiterate.
	www.fathom.com /feature/190136 (3140 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Terror's first victims
		If she is suspected of disobeying any rule of modesty or decorum -- say, meeting the eyes of a male, or laughing in public -- she can be publicly beaten by the police who roam the streets under the authority of the Department for the Propagation of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice.
		Taliban public relations consultant Laili Helms, the niece of former CIA director Richard Helms, is perhaps the regime's leading American apologist.
		In fact, the Taliban is said to have based many of its mandates for women on those of Saudi Arabia, one of the United States' staunchest allies in the region.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/2001/09/24/taliban_women/print.html (3207 words)

	revocation of rights
		On September 27, 1996, the Taliban, a fundamentalist Islamic militia, seized control of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, and violently plunged the occupied territories of Afghanistan into a brutal state of gender apartheid in which women and girls have been stripped of their basic human rights.
		Prior to the Taliban's arrival, women in Afghanistan were educated and employed: 50% of the students and 60% of the teachers at Kabul University were women, and 70% of school teachers, 50% of civilian government workers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women.
		Under Islam, women are allowed to work, to earn and control their own money, and to participate in public life.
	www.hazara.net /taliban/revocation_of_rights/revocation_of_rights.html (731 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Sex and violence under the Taliban
		She runs away with Janbaz to start a new life in Afghanistan, but soon learns the heaven she looked forward to is a kind of hell under Taliban rule.
		She sees the way women around her are treated, and life for her becomes increasingly unbearable, living in the kind of abominable conditions that she does.
		They propagate the teachings of Satan.” The excesses of the Taliban are also shown to include killing many non-Muslims for refusing to recite the kalima, executing Sushmita’s brother for spreading rumours about Taliban drug trafficking, forcing beautiful girls to marry them, and killing their opponents’ children.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /052003/taliban_movie.htm (1472 words)

	India & China Stage: Team Dispatch - May 13, 2000
		The Taliban rule over Afghanistan is so all-encompassing that in March 1997 residents of Kabul were ordered to cover windows in their homes to ensure that women could not be seen from the street.
		The Taliban believe that the body of a woman should not be viewed by any male other than a husband or close male family member, so male doctors are not permitted to provide treatment to females.
		Essentially under house arrest, they are not permitted to leave their homes without the accompaniment of a close male relative.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/asia/051300/051300teamafgan.html (1750 words)

	WHO ARE THE TALIBAN
		When Taliban reached Kabul, to their surprise, it was a no man land with Masood, Hikamat Yar and Dostam pitched on the surrounding hills, firing missiles on their own city mercilessly from three sides.
		City population welcome and joined Taliban, to win their freedom from the warlords, and after some resistance succeeded to push them out but the city had already turned into rubbles, with tens of thousands of innocent people dead at the hands of their ex-Mujahideen.
		Appearance of Taliban on the political scene of Afghanistan was a surprise for every one in Pakistan as in the rest of the world.
	www.yespakistan.com /afghancrisis/taliban.asp (2080 words)

	03.17.99 - Gender Apartheid Under Afghanistan's Taliban
		This is the plight of more than 11 million Afghani women living under the fundamentalist rule of the Taliban, an Islamic militia that seized control of much of the country in 1996 after a prolonged war against the Soviet Union.
		Prior to the Taliban's rule, Afghan women made up more than 50 percent of the students at Kabul University, 70 percent of the nation's school teachers, 50 percent of civilian government workers and 40 percent of the doctors, according to the Feminist Majority Foundation.
		Under Islam, she said, women are allowed to work, earn and control their own money and participate in public life.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/1999/0317/taliban.html (558 words)

	Alibris: Taliban
		This memoirist was a teenager and an aspiring journalist when the Taliban overcame her native Kabul and her active life was transformed into enforced seclusion.
		Included are essays on the role the West played in supporting the Taliban in their opposition to the Russian invasion of 1980, Afghanistan's relations with its neighboring states, its prospects for the future, and the draconian...
		Under the Taliban images of mammals with their heads depicted were illegal.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Taliban (1119 words)

	Taliban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Taliban sprang from religious schools in Pakistan near the Afghan border and, with almost no military experience, swept from obscurity to their 1996 capture of the capital in only two years.
		The lack of experience among the Taliban leaders in political, diplomatic, economic and cultural affairs, as well as their determination to interpret human rights on the basis of a particular school of religious thought rather than according to more widely accepted contemporary principles, brings the Taliban into confrontation with the logic of today’s world.
		The Taliban cannot understand why it should be the world’s business when they, for instance, amputate the hand of a thief, or stone to death an adulterer, as prescribed by Islamic criminal law.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /cosc/htracy/taliban.html (2118 words)

	Interview with Taliban Spokesperson
		He ascribed the Taliban strength to the anarchy and lack of security that overwhelmed the country during the rule of former Mujahideen.
		Ma'soum Afghani, the official spokesman of the Afghani Taliban Movement, in spite of his young age of 28, is considered one of the founders of the Movement.
		Under current circumstances, it is hard for us to provide education for women, due to our economical condition.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/docs/taliban2.htm (1259 words)

	Burka
		The eyes are covered with a 'net curtain' allowing the woman to see while other people can not see the eyes.
		It is used by some Moslem women and was compulsory under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
		In the Netherlands a few students wanted to wear it in school, but this has been forbidden because the school educates for professions where non-verbal communication, also through facial expression, is required.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bu/Burka.html (87 words)

	Terrorist Attack _______________ Information Only : Living blood banks of the Taliban
		He blames the Taliban's ranks of "foreigners" -- Arab and Pakistani religious zealots who see Afghanistan as the purest expression of Islam and are willing to fight to defend it.
		The Taliban, which fought its way to power in 1996, is a group of radical religious students, or "talibs," who govern according to their strict interpretation of the Islamic faith.
		It is a rocket-launcher at the front line blasting at the Taliban troops hidden in their bunkers in the Kalalatah Hills.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/66790/544847 (1098 words)

	Taliban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taliban (or Taleban) is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist movement which effectively ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, and is currently engaged in a protracted guerilla war against NATO forces within Afghanistan.
		In 1996, the Taliban were in discussion with Unocal in the USA and with Argentinian oil company Bridas regarding a proposal to build a gas pipeline to run from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.
		He projected the Taliban's action not as an act of irrationality, but as an act of rage over UNESCO and some western governments denying the Taliban use of the funds intended for the reparation of the war-damaged statues of the Buddha.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life_under_Taliban_rule (3444 words)

	Japanese Doctor says "Taliban are Well Liked"
		And he says that from what he has seen, the Taliban are being wrongly portrayed internationally.
		Villagers around Nakamura's Peshawar base hospital and 10 clinics in both northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan were pleased to see peace established under Taliban rule, he says.
		The people most vocal in criticizing the Taliban are upper-class Afghans who have been deprived of their privileges." Nakamura's words reminded me of news footage I have seen several times since the attacks on New York and Washington.
	members.tripod.com /saif_w/current/taliban/taliban_liked.htm (633 words)

	News & Events: Simmons College Welcomes Two Female Students from Afghanistan to Study for College Degree
		The IEAW helps Afghan women resume their educations after years under strict Taliban rule, when Afghan women were forbidden an education and were punished for trying to learn.
		One of the women was secretly home schooled in Afghan during the Taliban rule, and then set up her own secret home school for other Afghan women.
		College officials say the community is being encouraged to read the book about life under Taliban rule to help everyone understand the culture of Afghanistan, and its challenges during and after the Taliban rule.
	www.simmons.edu /about/news/releases/2004/398.shtml (497 words)

	'Osama' Film Depicts Girl's Life Under Taliban
		Born in Afghanistan in 1962, Barmak lived there most of his life, and he fled to neighboring Pakistan during the last 2-1/2 years of Taliban rule.
		Barmak returned to his native land in February 2002, not long after the Taliban was ousted by Afghan and U.S.-led forces, to head the reinstated Afghan Film Organization.
		If discovered, the daughter would face a Taliban trial, and possibly a death sentence, for women are allowed outside only with a male escort.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Sept03/film.html (604 words)

	Miserable life of educated Afghan women under Taliban rule
		Persisting war that has afflicted the city and its surroundings since then has left devastating effects on the lives of the locals, many of whom have preferred to migrate to those places which could be secure from the continuous fears of rocket attacks and infighting among different armed groups.
		Although, there is peace not only in Kabul but the whole of Afghanistan under the Taleban, the war-ravaged Kabul city presents the look of a ghost city with destroyed buildings, broken roads, child beggars in rags all around and a grief-stricken general population.
		When asked about any social activity in life, she said there was none, adding her children, two sons and a daughter all of them married were settled in foreign countries.
	www.rawa.org /educated.htm (791 words)

	My Forbidden Face: growing up under the Taliban: one woman's story - Special Report - Excerpt Current Events - Find ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On that day, the Taliban, a radical Islamic group, seized Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and the city where Latifa and her family lived.
		Under Taliban rule, it is Latifa who must now live in a cage.
		If the Taliban control the media, there won't be anything for us to glean from the press, which will be censored or cease to exist at all....
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_8_102/ai_93447696 (902 words)

	Cinecultist:CC Doesn't Wear Burkas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We’ve all read that the Taliban were a rare breed of religious hotheads who subjugated women to the point of nonexistence.
		KAREN It’s interesting how the Taliban rhetoric, as depicted in the film, implies that women just can’t trust men to control themselves—which is why women must be covered and curtailed—and then shows that men are motivated by lust to do despicable things.
		One of the film’s most evocative shots is the close-up of a pair of a woman’s ankles as she rides the back of a bicycle.
	www.cinecultist.com /archives/000357.php (1142 words)

	Weekend: Indie flicks
		The word "Taliban" isn't mentioned in subtitles (though perhaps in the film's Farsi language), but viewers recognize that group's imprint on this fictional drama based on Makhmalbaf's observations traveling in Afghanistan.
		This is a glimpse of the physical and emotional wreckage Taliban followers left behind when they headed for the hills.
		Armstrong is a quieter force, poising Sonja on the brink of a new life or the same old thing.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/02/07/news_pf/Weekend/Indie_flicks.shtml (1027 words)

	Oxford Education - The Breadwinner
		Afghanistan: Parvana's father is arrested and taken away by the Taliban solders.
		Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave home.
		The Breadwinner - a powerful depiction of life under the Taliban regime, told honestly and directly, in a way children will really understand, was published by Oxford University Press in November 2001.
	www.oup.co.uk /oxed/children/thebreadwinner (147 words)

	Taliban: Ultra-Patriarchal Imbeciles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But since the Taliban interpretation of Islam is not accepted by the vast majority of the world's Muslims, it seems fair to say that the Taliban are distorting, not upholding, the essentials of Islam.
		And any discussion of the Taliban dictatorship would be incomplete without mentioning who is most to blame for the plight of Afghanis subject to the Taliban yoke: none other than the United States.
		The Taliban, along with other mujahideen, received indispensable weapons, training and other wherewithal from the U.S. government in order to allow the Taliban to fight against, and ultimately kick out, Soviet forces which were occupying Afghanistan at the time.
	www.therationalradical.com /outrages/afghanistan-taliban.htm (820 words)

	Life under Taliban cuts two ways \| csmonitor.com
		When he was 8, Karim's family breathed a sigh of relief, as religious reformers known as the Taliban ("Seekers") toppled the bickering factions that had formed an Afghan government and brought peace to a majority of the country.
		The Taliban, unlike the fractious mujahideen rebels who ousted the Soviets, was able to unify a majority of the country under one regime and bring a level of peace that hadn't existed here for almost two decades.
		Today, the Taliban claim to control up to 90 percent of Afghanistan, but this figure must be tempered somewhat by the fact that Taliban forces still face fighting in more than half - 17 out of 32 - Afghan provinces.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/0920/p1s3-wosc.html (2618 words)

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