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Topic: Taloqan

In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

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		Taliban massacred 3000-8000 civillians mostly Hazaras in the city of Mazar-e Sharif, Further territory along the Uzbekistan border was taken by Taliban forces on Aug. 12.
		Headed by Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern Alliance was the primary rebel force that had withheld the last 10 percent of Afghani soil from Taliban control.
		Representatives of several Afghan groups held talks in Bonn, Germany regarding the establishment of a provisional government for the country.
	www.angelfire.com /ak5/farda/Calendar.html (3548 words)

	Taliban Timeline
		The three had been on a mission to convince several Taliban leaders to defect when they were captured, then tried for treason and espionage.
		9 Northern Alliance forces, with help of U.S. air support, take cities of Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan from the Taliban.
		11 Three international journalists are killed near Taloqan in a Taliban ambush.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/taliban-time.html (1731 words)

	The Taliban's International Ambitions - Middle East Quarterly - Summer 2001
		Western intelligence sources contend that in the fighting that took place in 2000, some regular units of Pakistan's army aided the Taliban in taking over the strategic city of Taloqan.
		The United Front has long alleged that regular Pakistani soldiers, disguised in civilian clothing, are fighting with the Taliban, and they have recovered a Pakistani military identity card from a Taliban corpse.
		Indeed, the Taliban's campaigns at times have had overtones of ethnic cleansing, targeting either non-Pushtun ethnic groups or Afghanistan's Shi‘a minority, in particular in a series of well-documented massacres in Mazar-e Sharif in 1998, in the Shamali region in 1999, around Taloqan in 2000, and in Bamiyan early in 2001.
	www.meforum.org /article/486 (5505 words)

	ipedia.com: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the next three years, they were unable to overcome these limitations.
		Only one significant provincial capital, Taloqan, was captured and held.
		Mujahedin positions were expanded in the northeast and around Herat, but their inability to mass forces capable of overcoming a modern army with the will to fight from entrenched positions was clear.
	www.ipedia.com /democratic_republic_of_afghanistan.html (8038 words)

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