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	Taliban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taliban believed women should stay home in order that their children did not have to grow up in the care of another, and also believed that work is the duty of the male in the house and to reject this duty was haraam.
		Supporters of the Taliban suggested that the depression and the other problems plaguing Afghani women were the result of dire poverty, years of war, the bad economy, and the fact that many were left war widows, and could no longer provide food for their families without some sort of international aid.
		The Taliban stated that women were obliged to wear the burqa due to Islamic teachings which state that women must cover up her body in front of non-mahram men, and that both men and women should dress modestly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taliban (2965 words)

	Taliban - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Taliban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Although the Taliban claimed that the education of girls in rural Afghanistan was increasing, a UNESCO report stated that there was "a whopping 65 per cent drop in their enrollment.
		In March 2001, the Taliban ordered the destruction of two statues of Buddha carved into cliffsides at Bamiyan, one 38 metres tall and 1800 years old, the other 53 metres tall and 1500 years old.
		On September 22, 2001, with the U.S. blaming bin Laden and his hosts, the Taliban, for the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United Arab Emirates and later Saudi Arabia withdrew their recognition of the Taliban as the legal government of Afghanistan, leaving neighboring Pakistan as the only remaining country with diplomatic ties.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Taliban.html (1966 words)

	Learn more about Taliban in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The most influential members, including Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the movement, were simple village ulema—Islamic religious scholars, whose education was extremely limited and did not include exposure to most modern thought in the Islamic community.
		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.
		When the Taliban came to power, he was able to forge an alliance between the Taliban and his Al-Qaeda organization.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ta/taliban.html (1467 words)

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	Pakistan Facts - Taliban Finds New Strength in Pakistan
		The Taliban is also exploiting the alienation felt by ethnic Pushtuns in Afghanistan because of continued insecurity, a scarcity of development projects and ongoing U.S. military operations.
		Kabul's list of Taliban leaders said to be in Pakistan includes Haji Abdul Kabir, the former Taliban deputy prime minister of Afghanistan who is No. 3 in the Taliban hierarchy.
		The Taliban's old structures may still be largely intact; a Kabul-based security official says the "neo-Taliban" is guided by many of the same men who ran Afghanistan's theocracy from 1996 through 2001, when it provided protection for Osama bin Laden and the terrorist camps of al-Qaeda.
	www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php?story=20030901121712962 (1893 words)

	Outside View: Pakistan's Taliban play - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The caller happened to be a Taliban commander, and he asked the reporter to hand the phone to the Pakistani leader for a "quick chat." Indeed, if Gen. Musharraf were serious about cracking down on the Taliban, his focus should have been Baluchistan, not the tribal areas.
		The key is the ease with which former Taliban leaders and their financiers are able to plan, organize and stage attacks on Afghan and coalition troops across the border.
		Another Pakistani tactic is to claim that the Taliban resurgence is due to the "alienation" of Pushtun Afghans because of the Tajik dominated government in Kabul.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040826-031202-5107r.htm (1541 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		But even as fighting increases, a relatively moderate element of the Taliban is said to be interested in participating in national elections next June, and discussing a replacement for Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's fugitive leader.
		Taliban member Nadir Khan recently sat in the back seat of a reporter's car not far from a U.S. base and described how he and other Taliban members move back and forth across the Pakistani border, about an hour's drive away.
		The Taliban also crosses the border to silence informants aiding the U.S.-led coalition, such as a man beaten unconscious outside his Khowst home on July 19 because he spoke to U.S. troops based at the airport, Khan said.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/DA6180433671C5DE87256D9300635F21?OpenDocument (2154 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Afghanistan
		Once the feared rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban is now a militia operating in areas of the country outside the control of the government in Kabul, especially in the south and east.
		The Taliban – whose name in Arabic means "seekers of truth" – banned television, dance, film, photography, kite-flying, non-religious music and statues, such as the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, which the Taliban destroyed in March 2001.
		Under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islamic law - a controversial interpretation some Islamic scholars call a gross distortion - women were not allowed to work or attend school and had to be covered from head to toe when outside of their homes.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/afghanistan/taliban.html (607 words)

	Taliban leaders escape capture - PittsburghLIVE.com
		WASHINGTON -- Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is still believed hiding from U.S.-led forces inside Afghanistan, but most of the al-Qaida leaders whom he once harbored have left, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
		American troops thought early this month that they were on the trail of one-eyed Taliban spiritual leader Omar, who like most others from the routed fundamentalists regime have remained in their home country, defense officials said Tuesday.
		Regarding the Taliban, the United States and its allies have several leaders in custody, including Mullah Fazel Mazloom, army chief of staff; Mullah Abdul Wakil Muttawakil, minister of foreign affairs; and Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, ambassador to Pakistan.
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	List of Taliban leaders - Gurupedia
		Emir of Afghanistan; Head of the Taliban Movement
		Killed in late December, 2001 by a U.S. bombing raid in the Paktia province [7]
		Captured by Afghan forces in the province of
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	Soldiers say U.S. let Taliban general go
		Osmani, among the top six most-wanted Taliban, was flown to a detention center at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, for interrogation, the Special Forces soldiers said.
		He was one of the Taliban's top generals, leading thousands of troops as coalition forces ousted the hard-line regime.
		Osmani is one of a handful of top former Taliban leaders trying to organize a guerrilla force of fellow militants to disrupt the U.S.-backed government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.
	www.prisonplanet.com /news_alert_121802_terror.html (950 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| I come face to face with the Taliban leaders
		Those Taliban leaders that have been caught have been shipped off to Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for interrogation about their links with the al-Qaeda network.
		Yesterday Mullah Abdul Wakil Muttawakil, the Taliban's foreign minister, surrendered to Afghan officials and was turned over to US forces, becoming one of the highest ranking members of the deposed rulers to be detained in the war in Afghanistan, the US military said.
		Muttawakil was being held in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar for questioning that the United States hopes will yield intelligence about fleeing leaders of the Taliban and the allied al-Qa'eda guerrilla network.
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	Afgha.com - Resistance in Afghanistan gaining momentum as Taliban getting organized
		Taliban sources said their supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar, on the run after the ouster of his government by the US military in December 2001, had conveyed to his die-hard supporters to organise resistance cells to attack American and other foreign troops in Afghanistan.
		Mulla Biradar, one of the five founders of the Taliban Islamic movement and a close friend of Omar, was appointed as head of the council of ministers in place of Mulla Mohammad Hasan.
		Both Biradar and Hasan went underground after the fall of the Taliban regime and their whereabouts are unknown.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=29934 (415 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Taliban
		The most influential members, including Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the movement, were simple village ulema (Islamic religious scholars).
		Taliban may also refer to the people who inhabit the south-eastern regions of Afghanistan.
		Where was the world when men here were violating any woman they wanted?" Although the Taliban claimed that the education of girls in rural Afghanistan was increasing, a UNESCO report alleged that there was "a whopping 65 per cent drop" in their enrollment.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Taliban (1980 words)

	Still On the Run
		Below is a list of Taliban leaders who have been able to evade arrest or were captured.
		As former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Zaeef was the public face of the Taliban and their main spokesperson.
		However, some low-ranked Taliban officials claimed recently that he was alive and that he had feigned his death to confuse the Americans.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsJuly2002/specialrepjuly.htm (2235 words)

	List of Taliban leaders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Staged a public press conference in Kabul, late November, 2001 and denounced the Taliban [4], [5]; by August 2002, he supports the U.S.-backed Afghan government of Hamid Karzai [6]; at large
		Captured by Afghan forces in the province of Badghis in early April 2003
		Captured during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and held in a naval brig in Norfolk, Virginia until 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Taliban_leaders (691 words)

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	Afghan-Amnesty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Barno said Karzai, who is to be sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected leader Tuesday, is to produce a list of Taliban leaders to be excluded from the amnesty and pass it to Islamabad.
		Meanwhile, the U.S. military will start a register of lower-level Taliban willing to return to their villages and live in peace as a precursor to a reconciliation plan which the Afghan government has yet to formally announce.
		The military is hoping that the Taliban's failure to carry through on a threat to seriously disrupt the Oct. 9 presidential vote will persuade enough of them that fighting is futile, taking the pressure off U.S. troops who have failed to crush an insurgency focused along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/elxn_en/041205/p120502A.html (453 words)

	Taliban leaders condemn attack: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
		Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said the attacks were too complex to have been organized by bin Laden from Afghanistan.
		Taliban soldiers in Kabul said the explosions seemed to begin with a low-flying helicopter that fired rockets near the airport.
		Foreign aid workers and even Taliban commanders, who have spoken on condition of anonymity, say that the number of Arab nationals in Afghanistan has increased in recent months.
	www.sun-sentinel.com /news/health/bal-te.afghan12sep12,0,56462.story (651 words)

	Minister: Taliban leaders regrouping - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Afghan interim Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said some former leaders of the hard-line Islamic Taliban, overthrown as Afghanistan's rulers by the U.S.-led military campaign, were forming new organizations to oppose the government in Kabul.
		Most Taliban leaders who fled Afghanistan are thought to be in neighboring Pakistan, which had previously given backing to Taliban rule.
		In Kabul, about 270 Afghan Taliban prisoners were released in a ceremony at the presidential palace Saturday under the watch of Karzai, appointed in December to lead a six-month interim administration.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/terrorism/s_16724.html (721 words)

	Top Taliban official killed / Afghans say U.S. bombs caught ex-spy chief fleeing on motorcycle
		Nonetheless, the intelligence chief is hardly in the same league as the movement's spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, or bin Laden.
		A dramatic standoff between anti-Taliban fighters and Taliban loyalists continued to unfurl last night near the mountain hamlet of Baghran, 100 miles northwest of Kandahar.
		Commanders of the hodgepodge of warlords, tribal leaders and chieftains bound by opposition to the Taliban say they believe Omar is hiding in the region and is being protected by 1,000 to 2,000 hard- core Taliban militia.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/03/MN208951.DTL&type=printable (889 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Al Qaeda, Taliban Leaders Elusive
		Since early January, when the Pentagon announced that American troops would be searching even more intently for enemy leaders after toppling the Taliban and routing al Qaeda fighters from their mountainous Tora Bora stronghold, only two senior al Qaeda or Taliban members have been discovered dead and only three more have been captured.
		Of the seven senior al Qaeda or Taliban members listed as captured, all but one are in U.S. custody, two officials said.
		One official with access to the lists said that just because an enemy leader is not shown as killed does not mean that he is alive.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A38052-2002Mar29?language=printer (995 words)

	USATODAY.com - Officials name six Taliban leaders who threaten U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite their fall from power, a half-dozen key Taliban leaders pose a threat to U.S. interests in Afghanistan and elsewhere and remain high on America's target list.
		Several other Taliban leaders are in custody of the United States or its Afghan allies, including Mullah Fazel Mazloom, army chief of staff; Mullah Abdul Wakil Muttawakil, minister of foreign affairs, and Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, ambassador to Pakistan.
		The Taliban's intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah, was killed by U.S. bombing on Dec. 27.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/04/25/al-leaders.htm (668 words)

	Asia Times
		Before September 11, it actively collaborated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in their fighting against the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan and in the massacre of the Shi'ites (Hazaras) in central Afghanistan.
		The attack on the Germans in Kabul by the Pakistani terrorists, the stepped-up activities by the Taliban, the HEI and al-Qaeda in southern and eastern Afghanistan and the sporadic attacks on American troops in Iraq are an outcome of this joint strategy.
		While admitting that its members were involved in the clash, the Taliban has at the same time claimed that only eight of its members were killed and that the remaining were innocent civilians who, according to them, were killed by the Afghan security forces.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EF12Ag02.html (1382 words)

	Karachi News
		Reports reaching here from Pak-Afghan border said tension is mounting in the bordering areas of Balochistan as the Taliban have increased their troops near the Pak-Afghan border inside Afghanistan.
		Taliban are busy for another war as ditches are being dug out, besides, supplying weapons to the forces near border with Balochistan.
		PESHAWAR, Oct 6: The following is the list, provided to all the banks operating in Pakistan through an SBP circular in January 2001, of the Taliban leaders whose bank accounts and assets were directed to be frozen under UN resolution 1276 are:
	www.karachipage.com /news/Oct_01/100701.html (1997 words)

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