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	Afghanistan
		In 1998 there were credible reports that the Taliban executed large numbers of civilians during fighting with the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan in Faryab province, and that the Taliban engaged in mass killings in Mazar-i-Sharif in August 1998; ethnic Hazaras and to a lesser extent ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks reportedly were targeted.
		Afghanistan's official name, according to both the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) and the Northern Alliance (the Islamic State of Afghanistan), reflects the desire of the factions to promote Islam as a state religion.
		The United Nations withdrew its personnel from southern Afghanistan in late March 1998 to protest the assault on a U.N. worker by the Taliban governor of Kandahar province and the interference with its work by the Taliban.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/431.htm (12926 words)

	Afghanistan
		In 1998 there were credible reports that the Taliban executed large numbers of civilians during fighting with the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan in Faryab province, and that the Taliban engaged in mass killings in Mazar-i-Sharif in August 1998; ethnic Hazaras and to a lesser extent ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks reportedly were targeted.
		Afghanistan's official name, according to both the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) and the Northern Alliance (the Islamic State of Afghanistan), reflects the desire of the factions to promote Islam as a state religion.
		The United Nations withdrew its personnel from southern Afghanistan in late March 1998 to protest the assault on a U.N. worker by the Taliban governor of Kandahar province and the interference with its work by the Taliban.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/431.htm (12926 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		The incursions from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan into the three Central Asian republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Islamic militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) are part of a wider strategic co-ordination with the Taliban and their offensive against the opposition Northern Alliance.
		Although the IMU has strategic aims to mobilize a Central Asian-Caucasus force of Islamic rebels and tactically to set up bases in the Ferghana Valley for a prolonged guerrilla war against President Islam Karimov, the IMU actions are also providing direct assistance to the Taliban offensive inside Afghanistan.
		The linkages between such warlord groups and the drug mafia are long established in Central Asia as opium provides a major source of financing for the Taliban, the IMU and the Bin Laden network.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=132 (12926 words)

	“Taliban let us down” say Pakistani volunteers
		TFT has consistently noted a stream of Pakistani volunteers crossing into Afghanistan from the tribal areas to defend the Taliban against “American aggression.” Similarly, over the years, thousands of Arabs have joined the main Taliban force, conquering for the militia most of Afghanistan except some pockets in the north.
		The Pakistani volunteer, one of the hundreds who crossed into Afghanistan to fight along the side of the Taliban, spoke about the events that followed the Islamic militia’s retreat and the Northern Alliance’s advance into Kabul in the early hours of Tuesday morning on November 6.
		TFT has learnt that the NA commander leading his troops outside Kunduz has refused to allow safe passage to the non-Afghan Taliban supporters who want to leave the city and go to Kandahar which is being bombed by the Americans.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3bfdcc0d1302.htm (1722 words)

	Islamic Movement of Afghanistan free three regions
		He said some four thousand soldiers previously under Taliban's command had initially surrendered themselves to the Islamic Movement before the Saturday developments within the three freed regions, which encouraged the people to clear their region from the remainder of the Taliban forces and delivered them to the Islamic Movement.
		According to this Islamic Movement military source another 45 Taliban soldiers, too, surrendered themselves to the United Islamic Front's forces along with their commanders, arms and ammunition in Hazrat Sultan Commanderate region.
		Mashhad, Oct 14, IRNA -- The military forces of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, led by General Abdrurashid Dustom freed three regions in Sarpol Province of that country, a military source attached to that front told IRNA Saturday.
	raceandhistory.com /cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/305 (1722 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A Uzbekistan
		The IMU was formally founded in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998, and its leadership developed close bonds with the Taliban, experts say.
		Officially, the role of the troops in Uzbekistan is limited to humanitarian relief and search-and-rescue missions inside Afghanistan, but a joint U.S. Special Forces command center at Khanabad reportedly played a key role in directing the activities of U.S. Special Forces personnel during the early phase of the fall 2001 U.S. attacks on the Taliban.
		The leader of the IMU, Juma Numangani, reportedly led Taliban and al-Qaeda forces into battle against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance.
	www.terrorismanswers.org /coalition/uzbekistan.html (983 words)

	NCSJ- Hanford Nominated
		He has mined Uzbekistan's 85-mile border with Afghanistan and declared war against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a homegrown terrorist group fighting inside Afghanistan at the side of the ruling Taliban militia.
		In joining the anti-Afghanistan alliance, Uzbekistan's immediate goal is not only to wipe out the Taliban, but also to crush the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which aims to oust Karimov and install a fundamentalist religious government here.
		For now, however, the Islamic Movement is helping the Taliban, with its fighters currently battling the Northern Alliance in northern Afghanistan.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/100901Uzbekistan.shtml (984 words)

	United States war in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omar, the Taliban leader, remained defiant despite the fact that his movement only controlled 4 out of the 30 Afghan provinces by the end of November and called on his forces to fight to the death.
		Bush stated that at the same time as Taliban military and terrorists' training grounds would be targeted, food, medicine, and supplies would be dropped to "the starving and suffering men, women and children of Afghanistan." [3].
		The Taliban refused to directly speak to Bush, stating that talking with a non-Muslim political leader would be an insult to Islam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._invasion_of_Afghanistan (6718 words)

	[ Afghan Elections 2004-2005 ]
		The compromise leader of the interim government ushered in by the Bonn agreement, Karzai is an ethnic Pashtun with a natural power base in southern Afghanistan, where he rallied forces to help oust the Taliban during U.S.-led air strikes in late 2001.
		Hamid Karzai's resolve to see the ouster of the Taliban regime is said to have stiffened when his father was killed in 1999 while in self-exile in Quetta, Pakistan, presumably by elements allied with the Taliban.
		The powerful Afghan Nation (aka Afghan Social Democratic Party [Afghan Mellat]) backed Karzai for president (Radio Afghanistan), in addition to the newly formed Republican Party, the National United Party of Afghanistan (Hizb-e Mutahed-e Melli-ye Afghanistan), the Islamic Justice Party of Afghanistan (Hizb-e Addalat-e Islami-ye Afghanistan) ("Hewad"), and the Youth National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan ("Erada").
	www.azadiradio.org /en/specials/elections/candidates-karzai.asp (586 words)

	Testimony on the Situation in Afghanistan Before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - Council on Foreign Relations
		Today's Taliban movement (Da Afghanistano da Talibano Islami Tahrik, or Islamic Movement of Taliban of Afghanistan) formed in response to the failure of the mujahidin to establish a stable government after the withdrawal of Soviet troops and the collapse of the government the Soviets left behind.
		This group, primarily composed of Tajiks, is led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, leader of Jamiat and president of the Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA), the government deposed from Kabul by the Taliban.
		NIMA was the strongest force in the North during 1992-97, ruling several provinces partly through the remaining state structures of the former regime, but its internal disputes have weakened it considerably.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=3088 (13398 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly War My enemy's enemy
		When the Taliban movement emerged as a group of militant religious students in 1994, its surprising military might and particularly harsh brand of Islamic fundamentalism became a new point of convergence.
		Other anti-Taliban factions within the United Front basically divide along ethnic and religious lines: Jamiat-i Islami Afghanistan, the party of nominal President Burnhanuddin Rabbani -- who, although controlling less than 10 per cent of the country's territory, still holds Afghanistan's seat in the United Nations -- are Tajik.
		The Taliban are Pashtuns, but so are most of the royalists surrounding the former king, Mohamed Zahir Shah, who briefly instituted a constitutional monarchy before being expelled in a 1973 coup.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/559/7war.htm (2599 words)

	The Nation and Citizens of Afghanistan
		National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan: Led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam, who served under Najibullah before helping broker his ouster, this group is predominantly Uzbek.
		Now in control of more than 90% of Afghanistan's territory, the Taliban's strict rule and its harboring of Osama bin Laden (who, according to some reports, is married to Umar's daughter) and his associates have alienated much of the international community.
		Ismail Khan, another legendary mujahedin commander who was governor of Heart Province from 1992 until 1995 and escaped from a Taliban prison last year, could emerge as the faction's new leader.
	www.progress.org /afghan01.htm (1409 words)

	OCHA-Online - Humanitarian Report 1997
		With the Taliban having consolidated their position in the southern and central two thirds of the country, fighting continued on two main fronts: in Badghis Province and in the strategically important Ghorband Valley west of Charikar, which leads to the central highlands and the north of the country.
		In the southern provinces of Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, Nimruz, Oruzgan and Zabol, the cessation of fighting and the establishment of local authority by the Taliban have restored a measure of security.
		Throughout 1996, the Taliban fought forces allied to the Government and other groups, and expanded their control of the southern and western provinces until they captured Jalalabad and Kabul in September.
	www.reliefweb.int /ocha_ol/pub/humrep97/afghan.html (1488 words)

	Strategic World Impact: Get Hooked-Up
		The members of the Taliban Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (TIMA) are mostly Pashtuns from Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan and are led by a mullah (a village-level religious leader), Mohammad Omar.
		The Taliban 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.
		The Taliban ("the Seekers") was formed in September 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.
	www.swi.net /documents/taliban.html (1488 words)

	TIME.com: TIME.com Primer: The Taliban and Afghanistan -- Page 1
		The Taliban's elite brigade were trained in Bin Laden's camps, and are believed to be loyal to the Saudi terrorist's "Al Qaida" movement.
		Iran is implacably hostile to the Taliban over that movement's extremist theology and over its killing of Afghan Shiite Muslims.
		The Taliban, who overran most of Afghanistan in 1996, are a militia driven by an extremely harsh Medieval interpretation of Sunni Islam.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,175372,00.html (1344 words)

	Taliban rules out political parties
		The Taliban movement, which controls more than two thirds of Afghanistan, is fighting a north-based opposition alliance of several factions.
		ISLAMABAD, July 4,1998 (Reuters) - The supreme leader of Taliban Islamic movement Mullah Mohammad Omar was quoted on Friday as ruling out political parties under the Taliban rule.
		Taliban restrictions on women and punishments like amputation of hands for theft and stoning to death for adultery have been criticised by Western government and human rights groups.
	www.rawa.org /parties.htm (228 words)

	Scoop: Dennis Hans: When John Negroponte Was Mullah Omar
		Remember Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban, the Islamist movement that mis-governed the failed state of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001?
		He and the Taliban played host to Osama bin Laden, providing him and his al Qaeda organization a safe haven from where they could plot terror attacks and train recruits who came to Afghanistan from every corner of the globe.
		New U.S. ambassador to Iraq once provided an Afghan-style sanctuary for terrorists every bit as nasty as Osama and al Qaeda
	www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/HL0405/S00012.htm (228 words)

	Protests against Afghan Yellow Badges, 2 June 2001
		NEW YORK (June 1) - NEW YORK - Lined up along the Holocaust Memorial Wall across from the United Nations headquarters, Jewish, Christian, and Hindu leaders wore yellow stickers and spoke out in solidarity with Afghan Hindus, who are being forced by the nation's ruling Taliban movement to wear saffron-colored garments.
		Since the Taliban came to power in 1996, the radical Islamic movement has banned education for girls, beaten men for trimming their beards, and destroyed ancient Buddhist statues.
		The country's Hindu minority, which has lived in the area for over a millennia and once numbered in the tens of thousands, is about 1,500 strong today.
	www.genocidewatch.org /nyafghandemo.htm (228 words)

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	US turns a blind eye toward its Uzbek hosts
		This is home of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a distant relation to the Taliban which runs Afghanistan; like the Taliban, the IMU hopes to install a similar strict Islamic regime in Uzbekistan.
		In an effort to broaden their appeal, the IMU changed its name earlier this year to the Islamic Movement of Turkistan, the historic name for the entire Central Asia region.
		The IMU "has raised tensions across the region but these have been exacerbated by the response of the government of Uzbekistan, which has stepped up repressive measures, driving moderate Muslims and opposition figures into the arms of extremists.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/CK10Ag03.html (2316 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		The IMU has bases in eastern Tajikistan and Afghanistan and was linked to the Taliban movement and their Al-Qaeda guests.
		The IMU was fighting in Afghanistan alongside Taliban forces in the summer of 2001 and was still present when U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan later that year, after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.
		The precise origins of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) are vague but the founders of the movement were Jumaboy Khojaev, better-known as Juma Namangani, and Tohir Yuldash (also given as Yuldashev).
	www.rferl.org /specials/kyrgyzelections/parties/Islamic.asp (296 words)

	Asia Times
		"The Taliban movement as a movement is finished, is gone.
		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)

	New Page 1
		Russia proposed Friday the publication of a list of high-ranking leaders of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in a bid to stop the spread of terrorism in the country.
		Referring to Taliban leaders who occupied high posts in the radical Islamic movement when it ruled Afghanistan during 1996-2001, Kamynin said the individuals should be declared outside the law and made to stand trial.
		"We believe the Taliban issue can be resolved if a list of the Taliban leaders ranking down to 'deputy minister' and 'governor' is made public," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said.
	www.bakhtarnews.com /67.htm (157 words)

	ABC News: Karzai Offers to Back National Role for Rival Qanuni
		But any national movement in Afghanistan would run counter to the character of a country that has so often been defined by its ethnic, tribal and regional divisions.
		The switch in emphasis to reconstruction cannot happen too soon for a nation emerging from three decades of conflict, and still waiting for more visible signs of the benefits of having U.S. and Western forces stationed in their country hunting Taliban fighters and al Qaeda remnants loyal to Osama bin Laden.
		Many people had expected Qanuni to be offered a senior role in the cabinet, and his omission was interpreted by analysts as a snub to the mujahideen, or Muslim holy warriors, of the Northern Alliance who led the fight against the Soviet Union and the Taliban.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/12/24/cache/418566.html (705 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly War My enemy's enemy
		Once at odds with Massoud and comprised of mainly Uzbek backers of the former Communist leadership, the Junbish-i Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan (National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan) is shaped by its notorious leader, Abdurrashid Dostum.
		The Taliban are Pashtuns, but so are most of the royalists surrounding the former king, Mohamed Zahir Shah, who briefly instituted a constitutional monarchy before being expelled in a 1973 coup.
		Other anti-Taliban factions within the United Front basically divide along ethnic and religious lines: Jamiat-i Islami Afghanistan, the party of nominal President Burnhanuddin Rabbani -- who, although controlling less than 10 per cent of the country's territory, still holds Afghanistan's seat in the United Nations -- are Tajik.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/559/7war.htm (2599 words)

	National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
		An ethnic Pashtun, like the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan, the king has been drawn into the political mix since the U.S. threatened to use military force against the Taliban, which has offered sanctuary to Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
		The United Front represents the government driven from power by the Taliban in 1996.
		The main opposition in Afghanistan is called the United Front, although it’s best known as the Northern Alliance because of the location of its enclave.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/Chapandaz/nothernalliance.html (599 words)

	The Antiwar Movement Legitimises Political Islam
		However, this movement condemns American imperialism and its war with the Taliban, but forgets that the Taliban and political Islam in general, are the products of American 'imperialism', and the West.
		Azar Majedi: First, let’s make it clear that political Islam refers to a political movement, and not a religious one as such, whereas fundamentalism, at least in the original sense of the word, refers to the basis of a religion, its foundations and dogmas.
		Thus, the issue is not dogmas, and how dogmatic they are, but it is a political movement, which bases its identity, ideology and views on Islam, and which is fighting for political power.
	www.wpibriefing.com /37Antiwar.htm (1302 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		The movement claims to have the secret support of many Taliban members, who it says will switch allegiances in massive numbers if the movement is seen to have powerful backing.
		Kasib says the movement is anxious not to be seen as the puppet of any foreign power, but he agreed that the Pakistani government is now looking favorably on the movement's efforts.
		The U.S. State Department also sent a diplomat to meet with the king and with potential members of a new opposition movement.
	www.rferl.org /features/2001/10/09102001120815.asp (1314 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Local people on the ground in Afghanistan this week have now being been saying it was not a Taliban or Al Qaeda hideout, that it was simply a place where friendly Afghan forces were storing ammunition and weapons they had captured, and that the U.S. was incorrect in storming that facility.
		BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: The group that released the photographs of Daniel Pearl is calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty.
		That was that special forces raid north of Kandahar against a Taliban hideout, in which 15 were killed and 27 were captured.
	www.cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0201/28/lt.07.html (359 words)

	Afghanistan (Country Profiles from National Geographic MapMachine)
		From among the various factions arose the Taliban ("students of religion"), a militant Islamic movement.
		Three weeks after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., the U.S. and Britain bombed terrorist camps in Afghanistan; by November 2001 Kabul fell to anti-Taliban forces.
		As a result, Afghanistan is a country of ethnic minorities: Pashtun (38 percent), Tajik (25 percent), Hazara (19 percent), and Uzbek (6 percent).
	plasma.nationalgeographic.com /mapmachine/profiles/af.html (245 words)

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