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Pentagon: Taliban a resilient force in Afghanistan
2008-06-27 16:05:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Taliban has regrouped after its initial fall from power in Afghanistan and the pace of its attacks is likely to increase this year, according to a Pentagon report that offers a dim view of progress in the nearly seven-year-old war. Noting that insurgent violence has climbed, the report said that despite U.S. ...
By: TexasFred's
NATO, Afghan troops move against Taliban
2008-06-18 09:09:00 ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan’s largest city Wednesday to root out any Taliban militants there, while an explosion elsewhere killed four British soldiers, officials said. Troops in Arghandab district just outside of Kandahar exchanged fire with militants during “a few minor contacts,” NATO ...
By: TexasFred's
Taliban militants destroy bridges in Afghanistan
2008-06-17 12:56:00 ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants destroyed bridges and planted mines in several villages they control outside southern Afghanistan’s largest city in apparent preparation for battle, residents and officials said Tuesday. More than 700 families - meaning perhaps 4,000 people or more - had fled the Arghandab district 10 miles northwest of Kandahar city, said Sardar ...
By: TexasFred's
US think tank: Pakistan helped Taliban insurgents
2008-06-10 01:13:00 Pakistani intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have helped train Taliban insurgents and have given them information about American troop movements in Afghanistan, said a report published Monday by a U.S. think tank. The study by the RAND Corp. also warned that the U.S. will face "crippling, long-term consequences" in Afghanistan if Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan are not eliminated. It echoes recent statements by American generals, who have increased their warnings that militant safe havens in Pakistan are threatening efforts in Afghanistan. The study was funded by the U.S. Defense Department. "Every successful insurgency in Afghanistan since 1979 enjoyed safe haven in neighboring countries, and the current insurgency is no different," said the report's author, Seth Jones. "Right now, the Taliban and other groups are getting help from individuals within Pakistan's government, and until that ends, the region's long-term security is in jeopardy." Pakistan's top military...
Taliban Defends Peace Accord with Pakistani Government
2008-06-09 18:24:00 The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqué from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban movement) defending the recent peace accord negotiated between the Pakistani government and local Taliban forces. According to the statement, “We consider the peace accord in Pakistan as an internal affair, which pertains to that country alone—yet the occupation forces in Afghanistan and the forces hostile to Islam around the world oppose this peace accord and argue it...(read more)
Afghan paper says US should target Taliban in Pakistan
2008-05-27 18:45:00 Something we should’ve done a long time ago. Too bad Robert Gates and Condi keep advising Bush to NOT fight the war on terror he pledged to do after 9-11. Reuters KABUL, May 26 (Reuters) - The United States should target militant bases in Pakistan, an Afghan state-controlled paper said on Monday, reacting to a threat ...
Pakistani Taliban seek sharia rule
2008-05-24 13:30:00 Pakistani Taliban fighters have said that the success of a peace deal signed with the government in the northwestern area depends on the complete enforcement of Islamic law in the region.The agreement, signed on Wednesday, ends months of fighting in the Swat valley between troops and fighters loyal to Maulana Fazlullah, a pro-Taliban commander.The Pakistan government has agreed gradually topull out troops from the Swat valley. More...
Motorcycle Crackdown on the Taliban
2008-05-22 16:00:00 The Honda 125cc motorcycle has become to the Taliban what the Humvee is to the American military: the ride of choice. The government of Afghanistan and its US-led allies have launched commando attacks, sent out spies and paid bribes as part of efforts to subdue a bloody Taliban insurgency. But yesterday one province tried a new tactic - banning unregistered motorcycles. Authorities in Ghazni said the Taliban had been using motorcycles to carry out bombings and shootings. The Honda 125cc motorcycle has become to the Taliban what the Humvee is to the American military: the ride of choice. Ali Ahmed, director of the province's criminal department, said the ban was issued after gunmen on motorcycles killed the former governor, Taj Mohammed Qari Baba, on March 18. Mr Ahmed, whose police force has the task of approaching suspected Taliban militants and demanding motorcycle registration papers, said: "Today we stopped any motorcyclists traveling in or entering ...
Another Pakistan Deal with the Taliban Jihadists
2008-05-22 11:00:00 Once again , the Pakistan government signs another deal with the Taliban, while counting on an impotent American government and an uninformed American public to continue to provide them billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars as our "ally". This is becoming an near-annual event in Taliban appeasement by the Pakistan government: the September 2006 North Waziristan Accord, the August 2007 calls by President Musharraf to "mainstream" the Taliban, and now a peace agreement with the Taliban in Swat. The next...(read more)
Taliban Renounce Militancy Peace Pact Signed
2008-05-22 07:54:00 The NWFP government and militants led by Maulana Fazlullah signed an agreement on Wednesday to restore peace in Swat. Taliban have accepted governments writ in the region and will help the local administration in maintaining law and order in the district NWFPs Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour told newsmen. Mr Bilour had led the govt?s ...
US 'reserves judgment' on Pak-Taliban peace deal
2008-05-22 01:17:00 CNews WASHINGTON:The United States said on Wednesday it would 'reserve judgment' on Pak-Taliban peace deal, and would monitor how effective it is in stopping attacks."We'll see. We'll reserve judgment on these things," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters when asked about the deal for Swat Valley.Success in fighting militancy involves not just security, but also political and economic measures, he added. "What you have to do is get the right mix of elements," McCormack said."What we don't want to see is any sort of effort that results in the violent extremists, militants being able to use" the region "for the purposes of planning and launching terrorist attacks," McCormack added.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
NWFP government, local Taliban ratify peace truce
2008-05-22 01:07:00 CNews PESHAWAR: NWFP government and local Taliban have agreed to a peace agreement under which ?Shariah? laws will be promulgated in Sawat and Malakand districts and security forces will be withdrawn, while the Taliban have agreed to acknowledge the writ of the government. Senior Minister of NWFP Bashir Ahmad Bilour said government and local Taliban have agreed on 15 points. Under the agreement, there would be a ban on display of weapons and training camps of militants would be eliminated. Talking to media, Bilour said Imam Dherai would be turned into an Islamic university and local Taliban would fully corporate with government. Responding to a question, he said there would be a gradual withdrawal of security forces and Islamic laws would be enforced in Sawat and Malakand. He said government would facilitate drive against contagious diseases and private militias would not be tolerated.He said Taliban would not attack Music and Barber shops and only licensed FM radio stations would b...
The home of the Taliban
2008-05-21 23:23:00 BBC says, "The provincial government in north-west Pakistan has agreed to pull troops out of a valley under a peace agreement signed with pro-Taleban militants.The authorities say they will also allow the militants to impose Sharia law in Swat in return for promises to close training camps and end attacks."When they are defeated in Afghanistan we should do something about their homeland.
By: Christian Quoter
US warns China over weapon links in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
2008-05-16 14:41:00 The US military in Iraq had said its troops had found Chinese-made missiles which they believe were smuggled in by groups in Iran aiming to arm militants fighting US-led forces. The US military has repeatedly accused Iranian-linked groups of training Iraqi extremists in the use of armor-piercing weapons known as explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs). Afghan authorities had also ...
By: 1913 Intel
Taliban leader killed in Pakistan? 14 dead in missile strike
2008-05-14 20:55:00 From BreakingNewsOn on twitter A Taliban spokesman says the house of Taliban leader Maulvi Ubaidullah was targeted in a suspected US missile strike; at least 14 dead. More reports will come out, I’m sure… Associated Press KHAR, Pakistan (AP) ? Residents say a missile strike on a house in a Pakistan border village has killed about a dozen people. At ...
Taliban deliver silent death threats after midnight
2008-05-13 17:05:00 Afghans call them 'night letters' -- notes scattered or pushed under doorways by Taliban militants in the dead of night, threatening villagers' lives if they cooperate with foreign forces and the government.The notes are often poorly written but the message is clear -- have nothing to do with the foreign troops or serve in the government they back, otherwise, your business will be destroyed, your livestock snatched or your throat cut. More...
Taliban Night Letters Of Death
2008-05-13 09:31:00 Afghans call them “night letters,” notes scattered or pushed under doorways by Taliban militants in the dead of night which threaten vilalgers if they cooperate with foreign forces or those of the government. As American troops intensify their efforts in southeastern regions of the country, the mailmen of the night increase their delivery of deadly ...
Marines Ignore Afghan Poppy Fields
2008-05-08 09:03:00 The Marines of Bravo Company, 1st Platoon, sleep beside a field of poppies as Afghan workers quietly gather up the opium bulbs. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit has moved into southern Helmand province which is the world’s largest largest opium poppy-growing region. But, unlike the foolish policies of the Bush administration, the Marines are not ...
War Footage Of The Day: Afghanistan
2008-05-07 19:32:00 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehotjoints.-com%2F2008%2F05%2F07%2Fwar-foot-age-of-the-day-afghanistan%2F';- addthis_title = 'War+Footage+Of+The+Day%3A+Afgh-anistan'; addthis_pub = ''; Related PostsVideo: President Bush Gets Fired Up At Press ConferenceBritain Caught Negotiating With The TalibanVideo: Volkswagen Outwits The TerroristsPakistan Releases Taliban LeaderIslamic Militant Found Guilty of ‘Inciting Terrorism’ In Britain
By: The Hot Joints
Pakistan, Taliban and Politics of Peace Accords!
2008-05-07 13:21:00 History is against any peace deals with the Taliban. At least three such initiatives (so called ‘peace deals’) had been signed with the Taliban in the past, only to be collapsed soon after. When Rehman Malik, adviser to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on internal affairs welcomed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud‘s latest offer for truce and peace talks, many observers (including me) thought that the newly crowned civilian government in Pakistan shouldn’t...(read more)
Pakistan's 'Gandhi' party takes on Taliban, Al Qaeda
2008-05-06 10:38:00 The ANP, for its part, wants to bring more accountability to negotiations by putting all the facts before the people. Past negotiations under the military-led government were never made public, says Sen. Zahid Khan of the ANP. So when agreements inevitably fell apart amid accusations and counteraccusations, no one knew who was right. "We'll make all the developments in the talks public so as the masses can judge who is backing out of his words," he says. "The party going against the agreement would have to take the ire of the masses." In this way, negotiations can serve a strategic purpose. Defense analyst Ikram Sehgal says there are many natural points of disagreement between Pashtun tribals and foreign terrorists, such as the tactic of suicide bombing. "Terrorist ideology is completely anathema to tribal ideology," he says. "The whole idea is to drive a wedge between the tribals and the terrorists." Yet Rashid and others say that to ultimately succeed, the government...
By: Circle of 13
Taliban Continue Targeting Civilians, Casualties Increasing
2008-05-05 17:42:00 Numbers of civilians killed by Taliban increasing: NATO Here is further proof of terrorists intentionally TARGETING CIVILIANS. Something terrorists do because they know they cannot win a fight against an actual military. So being the cowards they are, they target the unarmed. There is a special place in Hell reserved for these pieces of excrement. NATO-led ...
[Spiffy] For just $42 a night, you can stay at the fabulous Taliban Towers
2008-05-04 07:10:00 Daily Mail
[Lupe, der Satire-Blog] Taliban- Vertreter würden CSU wählen
2008-05-04 00:00:00 da werden doch plötzlich die strammen, vaterlandstreuen bayern (solange es den freistaat mitbetrifft) schwächlich und ängstlich. aus angst vor einer niederlage bei den kommenden bayern- wahlen, macht die csu massiv druck auf die bunde...
By: BlogNews
Mini-surge: 2,400 Marines surround Taliban stronghold
2008-04-29 23:20:00 A serious beatdown is about to occur in Afghanistan: Times Online US Marines went into action today, pouring into a lawless town in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the first time that a sizeable American force has fought in the largely British sector of Afghanistan for several years. Some 2,400 marines, many of them veterans of the war ...
Taliban Shot and Hang Kidnappers in Mahmand and Orakzai Agency
2008-04-27 14:00:00 Last year, 6-year old Ali was kidnapped from Rawalpindi when he was playing outside his home with other kids. After paying ransom of 2.5 million (after selling their home and everything) his parents received body of their kid from the mountains of Mahmund Agency. Thousands of people get kidnapped each year from NWFP and Punjab and ...
April Showers In Afghanistan Rain Taliban Bullets
2008-04-27 13:47:00 It is close to seven years since American forces led an invasion of Afghanistan that threw out Taliban leadership, but President Karzai’s attempt to preside over a ceremony resulted in attacks by suspected Taliban militants which forced him to flee for his life. The president was at a pageants that marked the sixteenth anniversary of ...
Taliban Leader Calls Cease-Fire in Pakistan
2008-04-25 06:19:00 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 24 -- A top Taliban leader in Pakistan with links to al-Qaeda has ordered his followers to stop attacking Pakistani forces in the country's troubled northwest region as he negotiates a deal with the new government to end
By: Get rich
Pakistan: Peace Deal Between Islamabad, Pro-Taliban Militants Rankles U.S.
2008-04-24 16:33:00 Rferl - Pakistan's new government is close to signing a peace accord with pro-Taliban militants as part of a softer counterterrorism policy from Islamabad that deemphasizes military strikes and calls for U.S. forces to show more restraint in the area.Britain has expressed reservations about the strategy, and Washington has said it wants Pakistani forces to continue fighting insurgents in the tribal regions near the border with Afghanistan.Under the proposed deal, pro-Taliban militants would order their fighters to stop using violence and stop sheltering or giving support to foreign Al-Qaeda fighters. In return, Pakistani government troops would be gradually withdrawn from the region.The orders to the militants were reportedly issued in pamphlets on April 23 by Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the country's umbrella militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The pamphlets say militants who violate Mehsud's directives "will be publicly punished."
Pakistan Releases Taliban Leader
2008-04-21 22:20:00 From the AP: Pakistan freed a pro-Taliban cleric and quickly signed an accord with his hard-line group Monday, the first major step by the new government to talk peace with Islamic militants and break with President Pervez Musharraf’s policy of using force. The day’s developments began with the release of Sufi Muhammad, who is believed in his ...
By: The Hot Joints
Pakistan Ambassador Kidnapped By Taliban
2008-04-19 16:01:00 It appears that Pakistan’s ambasador to Afghanistan has been a c aptive of the Taliban for neaerly two months according to a new video released today. Ambassador Tariq Azizzuddin is shown sitting on the ground amid green brush in front of three masked men wearing traditional robes and holding automatic weapons. The ambassador tells ...
NATO Supplies Taliban-By Mistake!
2008-04-18 17:15:00 The confusing swirling world of the Afghan war took another twist of irony when a NATO helicopter by mistake dropped supplies of food, water and arms o Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan. Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from the helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province. The helicopter apparently missed the ...
Troop levels reach record high in Afghanistan
2008-04-11 00:55:00 BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) ? The 101st Airborne Division took command of American forces in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, helping to boost U.S. troop levels in the country to their highest number since the 2001 invasion. Marching in step, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne retired the unit’s flag during a ceremony under a light rain beside the ...
By: TexasFred's
Defeating the Taliban by Treating the World's Sick: A New Approach ...
2008-04-07 06:07:00 Defeating the Taliban by Treating the World's Sick: A New Approach ...Yahoo! News - 10 hours agoThe World Health Organization (WHO), doctors and NGOs around the developing world have noted repeatedly the shortage of morphine as a major obstacle to ...
Taliban commander arrested, 15 killed in Afghanistan
2008-04-06 12:38:00 Kabul, April 6 (DPA) Afghan police have arrested a senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan, while 15 insurgents have been killed in Afghan and NATO joint operation in the same region, officials said Sunday. Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Jabar was arrested by police in southern province of Kandahar Saturday, the interior ministry said in statement. It described ...
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Taliban stones couple accused of adultery
2008-04-02 18:20:00 The sick Islamists in Pakistan are up to their usual savage ways… Foxnews A couple found guilty of adultery by an Islamic “qazi” court was stoned to death by Taliban militants in Pakistan’s northwest border region, according to a report in Dawn, Pakistan’s English-language newspaper. The execution, which reportedly took place Monday, is the first by stoning ...
Now Taliban regrets cellphone disruptions
2008-03-27 23:07:00 Taliban attacks on telecom towers have prompted cellphone companies to shut down service across southern Afghanistan, angering a quarter million customers who have no other telephones. Even some Taliban fighters now regret the disruptions and are demanding that service be restored by the companies. The communication blackout follows a campaign by the Taliban, which said the United States and NATO were using the fighters' cellphone signals to track them at night and launch pinpoint attacks. About 10 towers have been attacked since the warning late last month ? seven of them seriously ? causing almost $2 million in damage, the telecom ministry said. Afghanistan's four major mobile phone companies began cutting service across the south soon after. The speed with which the companies acted shows how little influence the government has in remote areas and how just a few attacks can cripple a basic service and a booming, profitable industry. The shutdown could also stifle international...
Taliban foot soldiers deeply ignorant of the world - Globe and Mail
2008-03-27 08:37:00 Taliban foot soldiers deeply ignorant of the worldGlobe and Mail, Canada - 49 minutes agoA survey of 42 insurgents in Kandahar province posed a series of questions about the fighters' view of the world, and the results contradicted the ...
Conference: Asymmetric Taliban Strategies
2008-03-19 15:26:00 Countering Asymmetric Taliban Strategies in Afghanistan, at RUSI, London, 26th March 2008. Speakers include Steve Tatham and James Shinn. NATO forces in Afghanistan possess an overwhelming advantage over their opponent insurgent forces in firepower. Yet, despite this, they have been unable to defeat, or decisively rout the Taliban forces. Although the insurgents might be militarily weak, ...
By: KuiperCliff
The Kite Runner (2007)
2008-03-18 11:24:00 UÇURTMA AVCISI Yön: Marc Forster Yazar: David Benioff, Khaled Hosseini Süre: 128 DK. Ülke: ABD .
By: Filmometre
Taliban for ceasefire if new govt opposes Mush policies
2008-03-17 04:48:00 A top Pakistani Taliban commander has offered the country's new government, to be formed by PPP and PML-N, a ceasefire and talks if it stopped suppor1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Taliban telephone ban: Afghan wireless capitulates
2008-03-14 11:17:00 Those Taliban sure know how to get their own way?do what we want or we?ll blow it up!! The Taliban recently told Afghan mobile phone operators that if they didn?t shut down their services during the hours of night they will target mobile phone towers, and it seems the Afghan operators have capitulated to their ...
By: Phones Review
Taliban pressures Afghan cell networks into 5PM curfew
2008-03-13 00:00:00 Filed under: CellphonesAfter a series of attacks on mobile phone towers, it appears life in Afghanistan has gotten even harder: the four privately-owned Afghan cell companies have all cowed to the Taliban's demands and begun shutting off their networks between 5PM and 7AM every night. The Taliban claims that the ...
We?re killing ourselves in Afghanistan
2008-03-12 15:22:00 From Matthew Cole, Salon: “In a secret meeting with a Taliban commander, I learned how Bush administration aid to Pakistan helps fund insurgents who kill U.S. troops.” March 10, 2008 | KABUL, Afghanistan — On a recent bitterly cold winter day, I sat huddled on a red Persian carpet in an unheated Kabul office, waiting for a ...
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Al-Qaida supporters lash out at Taliban for straying from global jihad
2008-03-11 21:30:00 JPost - Al-Qaida supporters on the Web have unleashed an unprecedented flood of criticism of Afghanistan's Taliban, once seen by extremists as the model of an Islamic state.Now extremists accuse the Taliban of straying from the path of global jihad after its leader Mullah Omar issued a statement saying he seeks good relations with the world and even sympathizes with Shi'ite Iran."This is the worst statement I have ever read ... the disaster of defending the (Iranian) regime is on par with the Crusaders in Afghanistan and Iraq," wrote poster Miskeen, whose name translates literally as "the wretched" and who is labeled as one of the more influential writers on an al-Qaida linked Web site.
[Hero] British soldier whips 150 Taliban singlehandedly, survives fight by
2008-03-11 01:33:00 London Times
Court orders arrest of pro-Taliban commander in Bhutto?s killing - Thaindia
2008-03-11 00:00:00 Thaindian.comCourt orders arrest of pro-Taliban commander in Bhutto?s killingThaindian.com, Thailand --4 hours ago... operating in the country?s restive tribal areas, accusing him of masterminding the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, officials said. ... More: continued here
By: Pakistan News
Taliban Defeat in North-West Frontier?
2008-03-06 22:55:00 Pakistan's February 18 elections signaled a dramatic shift in Islamist parties' fortunes in the North-West Frontier Province. In the 2002 general election, religious parties won 67 seats in the 99-seat provincial assembly, while in 2008 they won only nine seats. Some commentators have attached great strategic significance to these results. For example, Heritage Foundation research fellow Lisa Curtis wrote that "[p]erhaps the most important outcome" of Pakistan's elections "was the victory of a secular...(read more)
Is Taliban Making Mistakes In Pakistan?
2008-03-03 15:19:00 A few weeks ago, a prominent Taliban leader in Pakistan called for a cease fire and offered to negotiate with the Pakistan government concerning ways to reduce violence in northwest regions of the nation. Over the weekend, an 18 year-old boy blew himself up at a jirga meeting where tribal elder were discussing ways ... |
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