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	Moderate Taleban?
		A high ranking delegation of the Taleban was received in the United States for the purpose of studying the possibility of entering into a contract with Unocal regarding the extension of a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and beyond via the land of the Afghans.
		Taleban reportedly roam around freely in the south of the country and in Pakistan especially in the province of Baluchistan that is neighboring Kandahar.
		One of the arguments by the extremists and the Taleban elements is that the US is in Afghanistan not as true helpers of the country, but as foreign forces to dictate the will of their nation on the Afghan government and people.
	users.tns.net /~mroashan/politics/countrycorner/CCorner4/DR020904.htm (2880 words)

	CNN.com - Ruined Buddhas shown off by Taleban - March 26, 2001
		Four trucks of Taleban soldiers armed with rocket launchers and heavy machine guns then took the reporters -- the first foreigners known to have visited the area since the destruction -- to a plateau overlooking the statues.
		Taleban soldiers who have been waging a see-saw battle for Bamiyan against their northern-based opponents initially captured the area in 1997.
		Islamic countries issued appeals to the Taleban to spare the statues, saying their presence in Afghanistan did not offend Islam because they were no longer worshipped.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/15/taleban.buddha (817 words)

	The Buddhas of Bamiyan - Destruction - IGP - ETH Zurich
		The Taleban people was a fundamentalist Islamic militia that has governed most of Aghanistan from 1996 to December 2001.
		Taleban leader rejected also a proposal to build a concrete wall in front of the two Buddhas statues instead of their destruction.
		Taleban have been considered the descendent of all the other barbarians who destroyed what their ideologies could not accept: the Vandals and Huns stealing of the Roman Empire; Stalin's destruction of churches; Mao's Cultural Revolution; Pol Pot's razing of schools and cities; Hitler's book burnings and desecration of synagogues.
	www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch /research/bamiyan/buddha/destruction.html (903 words)

	Taleban ("the Seekers")
		The Taleban ("the Seekers") was formed in September of 1994 in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar by a group of graduates of Pakistani Islamic colleges (madrassas) on the border with Afghanistan, run by the fundamentalist Jamiat-e-Ulema.
		The members of the Taleban Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (TIMA) were mostly Pashtuns from Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan and were led by a mullah (a village-level religious leader), Mohammad Omar.
		The Taleban advocated an ‘Islamic Revolution’ in Afghanistan, proclaiming that the unity of Afghanistan should be re-established in the framework of Sharia (Islamic law) and without the mujahedin.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/taleban.htm (551 words)

	Afghan Emissary Tries to Soften Image of Taleban
		Even though the Taleban faces many issues--its alleged tolerance of international terrorists and the opium trade as well as possible alliances with other fundamentalist regimes--it was the Taleban's treatment of women that dominated the October forum at the Fletcher school of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts and provoked the most heated exchanges.
		She accused the Taleban of ruining her country, saying that when she was studying at home, 40 percent of doctors were women and 60 percent of medical students were female.
		Taleban officials had said that one reason for the restrictions on women was that the chaos in the country led to the rape and molestation of women.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/325/context/archive (1504 words)

	The Taleban Returns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Taleban is back, although it is not quite the same organization that ruled Afghanistan with such efficient ruthlessness.
		The Taleban is back in business, with new recruits, new tactics, and safe havens across the border in Pakistan from which to launch its attacks on Afghan and NATO forces.
		Seth Jones says the Taleban re-established contacts with allies inside Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or I.S.I. He adds that the sudden appearance of suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices, which had previously been unknown in Afghanistan, can be traced to what might be called a terrorism exchange program.
	voanews.com /english/Taleban2006-10-30-voa10.cfm (1000 words)

	Who are the taleban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Four years after losing power in the country, the Taleban are making their presence felt by launching guerrilla operations against the US-led coalition forces, killing aid workers and kidnapping foreigners involved in reconstruction work.
		The circumstances of the Taleban's emergence remained the centre of controversial debate.
		The Taleban were overwhelmingly Pashtun, the ethnic group that forms the majority of Afghanistan's diverse population and also inhabits the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan in neighbouring Pakistan.
	www.meta-religion.com /Extremism/Islamic_extremism/taleban.htm (976 words)

	CNN.com - U.N. chief to take up Afghan statues with Taleban - March 11, 2001
		Taleban spokesman Abdul Hayee Mutmaeen told Reuters on Saturday that the fundamentalist Islamic militia had destroyed about 80 percent of the two historic Buddhas, which tower 53 meters (175 feet) and 36 meters (120 feet) above the desert.
		Taleban foreign minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil said he would meet Annan in Islamabad on Sunday as the secretary-general embarks on the first leg of a South Asian tour.
		Taleban leaders say the statues targeted by their edict are graven images offensive to Islam -- an interpretation few other Muslims share.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/10/afghan.taleban (681 words)

	Taleban in Texas for 1997 Talks on Gas Pipeline Which Led to the War Against Terrorism in Afghanistan
		A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan therefore went the United States in December 1997 for talks with Unocal, an international energy company, that wanted to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.
		When the Taleban refused to play according to Unocal's and Enron's conditions and according to the counter-conditions established by the U.S. administration and Bush's colleagues, Enron over the following three years ended up with a serious cash-flow problem as loans for its South Asian investments were called.
		Just before the meeting with the Taleban in Texas, the Argentinian firm, Bridas, announced that it was close to signing a two-billion dollar deal to build the pipeline, which would carry gas 1,300 kilometres from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, across Afghanistan.
	www.geocities.com /dong_nam_a/0202/SEA-talebangas.html (2366 words)

	The Truth Seeker - Resurgent Taleban
		Two years after they fell from power, the Taleban are back, rearmed with guns and a determination to stop the march of development and democracy in an attempt to win back the hearts and minds they once controlled.
		In the parched village of Sangesar, birthplace of Mullah Omar, the Taleban leader, villagers are hard-pressed to think of any great change that the fall of their former favourite son has brought.
		Taleban fighters are active in the rocky mountains just miles from here and intelligence officials say that this is one of many villages they effectively control, if not during the day then at least at night.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?ID=1332 (2032 words)

	The Taleban drag the good name of Islam ever deeper into disrepute - by Michael Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Taleban claim that the age-old Buddhist monuments are "an insult to Islam".
		In terms of their mindset, the Taleban are reminiscent of a fanatical sect from early Islamic history, the Kharijites, who counted among their number the murderer of Caliph Ali (raa).
		The Taleban's is not so much an austere interpretation of Islam as one that distorts, often violates the words and spirit of the faith.
	www.islamfortoday.com /taleban1.htm (1601 words)

	US Hearts and Minds Cash Goes to Taleban
		The Taleban have made inroads in the province over the past several months, and now are beginning to bring back their own form of justice.
		Nasrullah Khan, a resident of the village of Bakhshi, said that the Taleban came into the mosque to warn the community that if they accepted money and goods from the soldiers, it would be their own fault if the militants conducted suicide attacks against the coalition forces in the village.
		Mullah Nasir Kakar, the Taleban's representative in one Ghazni district, with dozens of combatants under his command, said his men were harboured by villagers, and insisted that the cooperation was voluntary.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=arr&s=f&o=325721&apc_state=henh (1692 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Analysis: Who are the Taleban? (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Taleban said their aim was to set up the world's most pure Islamic state, banning frivolities like television, music and cinema.
		The Taleban now control all but the far north of the country, which is the last stronghold of the ethnic Tajik commander Ahmed Shah Masood.
		The sanctions are intended to force the Taleban to hand over the Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden, who is accused by the United States of plotting the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 250 people.
	news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_144000/144382.stm (520 words)

	Afghanistan: Taleban Show Renewed Strength : Indybay
		For the remnants of the Taleban regime, which was ousted from power in late 2001 by United States troops and their Afghan allies, these attacks are proof that their fighters have successfully regrouped and are now capable of launching attacks anywhere in the country.
		The Taleban have denied responsibility for the bombing but many still consider the group to be behind the attack.
		The Taleban insist these attacks are part of their long-term strategy to overthrow the current government and drive US forces from the country.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2005/07/23/17551991.php (1362 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Where the Taleban train
		Governor Owai Ahmad Ghani, speaking on Pakistani television, flatly denied that the Taleban were operating in Quetta and rejected claims that Pakistan was interfering in Afghanistan.
		Taleban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, in an exclusive interview with IWPR, said the stories of Taleban bases inside Pakistan were just propaganda.
		The Taleban had no need of foreign bases, he insisted, adding, âThe Taleban are sons of Afghanistan.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=14986 (1416 words)

	Opinion: Taleban's tyranny
		The Taleban's Ministry of Vice and Virtue claims that the yellow labels are designed to protect Hindus from harassment by the religious police force that terrorizes those not following the government's extreme Islamic ordinances.
		The declaration is only the latest of the Taleban's demeaning and tyrannical moves against those who do not adhere to the militia's non-mainstream Islamic practices.
		In an act denounced globally as barbaric, the Taleban last month destroyed two giant sandstone Buddhas that dated from the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., claiming that the figures encouraged idolatry.
	www.sptimes.com /News/053101/news_pf/Opinion/Taleban_s_tyranny.shtml (540 words)

	CNN.com - Taleban says most of ancient Buddhas destroyed - March 3, 2001 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Taleban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal said Saturday that the fundamentalist Muslim movement's troops used rockets and mortars to destroy the head and legs of the sandstone statues, which are carved into the side of a cliff in central Afghanistan.
		The Taleban, which rules more than 90 percent of the country, has ordered the statues destroyed as part of a campaign to rid the country of idolatrous and "un-Islamic" representations of the human form -- an interpretation even many Muslim countries have criticized.
		Taleban fighters are still battling an opposition movement in the northern mountains led by Ahmed Shah Masood, a hero of the war against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
	www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/03/afghan.buddhas/index.html (747 words)

	Taleban expel BBC correspondent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Taleban's Foreign Ministry said it was unhappy with the BBC's reporting, which it said was not based on "existing realities" and conflicted with Taleban mentality.
		The Taleban were reportedly particularly angry over the BBC's broadcast of an interview with a US professor, who described the destruction of the statues as "barbaric".
		Speaking to the Associated Press, Taleban official Tayyab Agha said the BBC had used "derogatory language" against the Taleban and its reporting on the Buddhas demolition was "misleading and hostile".
	www.rawa.org /bbc-kate.htm (277 words)

	Taliban
		The Taleban applied a strict interpretation of Sharia, enforcement of which is administered by the "Department for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice" [patterned after an agency of the same name in Saudi Arabia].
		The Taleban were initially trained by the Frontier Constabulary, a para-military force of the Interior Ministry of Pakistan, which at the time was headed by Gen. Nasrullah Babar.
		Even before the Taleban's victorious drive on Kabul, the ousted Afghan government had long insisted that the Taleban were actively backed by Pakistan's ISI and by some members of the Pakistan's powerful military.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/taleban.htm (1091 words)

	Taleban threat to kill UK troops
		Taleban fighters have told the BBC they plan to target and kill British troops starting a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
		A local Taleban commander in Helmand, one of the country's most volatile provinces, called the British "an old enemy of Afghanistan".
		Taleban fighters on the ground in Helmand are specifically threatening British troops.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/april2006/250406_b_Taleban.htm (482 words)

	rediff.com US edition: Pak had no role in creating Taleban: Ex-ISI chief
		The Taleban, Ashraf explained, comprised Afghan mujahideen (holy warriors) who were invalided out of the war because of physical disabilities sustained in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1988.
		The only help the Taleban received from Pakistan was in the form of fuel and wheat, both of which they paid for, he said, adding that the Taleban later started buying fuel from Iran because of lower prices there.
		The Taleban, which seized power in Kabul in 1996, is now facing an US military onslaught in retaliation for the September 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington.
	www.rediff.com /us/2001/oct/12ny5.htm (540 words)

	US Military Announces Capture of Senior Taleban Member in Afghanistan
		U.S. military officials believe Taleban commander Mullah Janan was responsible for rocket attacks on one of the coalition bases in the southern Uruzgan Province.
		A brief U.S. military statement says the senior Taleban official was captured late Sunday in the Deh Raud region of the province.
		Members of the ousted Taleban and their allies are blamed for guerilla attacks on American and Afghan forces that have killed dozens of people in recent weeks.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2003/10-20.htm (269 words)

	rediff.com US edition: Bush urged to take on Taleban
		The law-makers condemned the Taleban edict mandating that all Hindus in that country wear a two-meter yellow cloth to identify themselves.
		Jan Schakowsky (Illinois-Democrat), the driving force behind the letter, said, "The action of the Taleban towards Afghanistan's Hindu minority is disturbingly reminiscent of Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews.
		Armitage agreed with the consensus among law-makers that this latest act by the Taleban was "despicable and horrible" and worthy of the strongest condemnation.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/may/24bush.htm (597 words)

	Taleban flog woman, cut off two men's hands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		According to Islamic law enforced by the Taleban, an unmarried adulterer should be flogged 100 times, but a married adulterer should be stoned to death.
		Taleban officials said that the man who had illegal sex with Sohaila had escaped arrest.
		The Taleban, who seized control of Kabul in 1996, have enforced strict Islamic code in the more than two-thirds of Afghanistan it controls and have cracked down on crime.
	www.rawa.org /handcut.htm (564 words)

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