- Taliban Plotting Return (January 11, 2002)
...... - Pakistan Poll Reveals Taliban Support (December 21, 2001)
...... - US Holds Thousands in Afghanistan (December 21, 2001)
...... - Taliban 'Preparing for Spring Attacks' (March 29, 2002)
...The Taleban are reportedly preparing a spring offensive against American forces in Afg... - Taliban and al Qaeda at Odds Before 1998 Bombing (August 7, 2002)
...A major American newspaper reports Osama bin Laden and the Taleban were often at odds, so much so that the terrorist was on the verge of bein... - Controversy Clouds Karzai's Visit (January 27, 2002)
...stan have been protesting at the US bombing, which they say is killing not Taleban fighters, but ordinary civilians. They want Mr Karzai to call for the... - Omar Warns US of War (May 17, 2002)
...AFGAHNISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER – The former Taleban ruler of Afghanistan Mullah Muhammad Omar has warned that his war with the... - US Releases Three Teenage Guantánamo Prisoners (January 29, 2004)
...est prisoners at the US military base and were suspected of supporting the Taleban in Afghanistan. The boys' detention without trial provoked strong crit... - Afghan Mass Grave Revealed (May 3, 2002)
...vered a new grave in northern Afghanistan which may contain the remains of Taleban fighters who surrendered to Northern Alliance forces in November and Decem... - Court Rules Detainees Have No Legal Rights (March 11, 2003)
...A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. has ruled that suspected Taleban and al-Qaida members held at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba h... - Saudis 'Given Access' to Guantánamo (June 29, 2002)
...... - Three Afghan Prisoners Released from Guantánamo Bay (October 30, 2002)
... links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, or Mullah Omar Mohammed, the Taleban leader. Describing their ordeal yesterday to Taj Mohammad Wardak, the... - 'US Had Role in Taliban Prisoner Deaths' (June 15, 2002)
...US soldiers took part in the torture of Taleban prisoners and may have had a role in the "disappearance" of around 3,000 m... - Marines to face guerrilla war as Taleban fighters change tactics (March 21, 2002)
...es heading for Afghanistan face a protracted guerrilla war as al-Qaeda and Taleban forces begin to adopt classic, pro-active insurgency tactics, American and... - Hundreds of Bodies Found in Mazar (November 23, 2001)
...... - Kandahar Cut Off From Food (December 11, 2001)
...... - Trial of Qaeda Members a Headache for US (December 8, 2001)
...... - News Blackout on New Afghan Battle (May 17, 2002)
...ave put a virtual news blackout on a coalition operation against suspected Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters in the eastern Paktia province. British and US f... - Resurgent Taliban Stalk Afghan Gov't (December 12, 2003)
...s returning with a vengeance. Two years after they fell from power, the Taleban are back, rearmed with guns and a determination to stop the march of devel... - Ex-Taliban Officials Run in New Election (December 13, 2001)
...... - US 'Rewriting Rules on Prisoners' (February 8, 2002)
...n that the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war will apply to captured Taleban soldiers, but not al-Qaeda fighters. The White House continues to maint... - Afghan Media Reforms Under Scrutiny (May 17, 2002)
...official daily Anees, Faizullah Muhtaj, also worked for the paper when the Taleban were in charge – a time when only rigidly Islamic opinion was tolerated. "... - Taliban Supporters Massacred, Travelers Say (December 11, 2001)
...... - 'Inadequate' US troops pulled out of battleground (March 12, 2002)
...ble to advance through the unfamiliar mountains to track down al-Qaeda and Taleban foes. ìThey were not trained for the kind of fighting we do in the mou... - Pakistan Troops Killed 'By al Qaeda' (June 26, 2002)
... the control of the central government, in an attempt to stop al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters slipping over the border from Afghanistan. First engagement - Al Qaeda's Scorn for Afghans (August 3, 2002)
...A deep rift emerged early on between al-Qaeda and their nominal hosts, the Taleban, who seemed locked in mutual scorn. One top al-Qaeda lieutenant, Morgan al... - US, Taliban Hold Secret Talks on POWs (March 17, 2002)
...Taliban have announced their willingness to release 18 US troops in exchange for a... - UN 'Averts War in Mazar' (February 4, 2002)
...n the area since the Northern Alliance seized control of the city from the Taleban in November. The situation threatened to explode last Thursday when bot... - Taliban Kill 10 Italian Soldiers in 'Vicious' Khost Airport Attack (January 15, 2004)
...Ten Italian soldiers have been killed as a result of an attack by the Taliban in southeastern Afghanistan. Our correspondent reports from Khost that... - New Front in War on Terror (November 5, 2002)
...y of the key figures in the organisation's leadership come from Yemen. Taleban collapse Intelligence reports have pointed to their continued prese... - Taliban Official Predicts Revival of Movement (February 18, 2002)
...... - Afghan City, Free of Taliban, Returns to Rule of the Thieves (January 6, 2002)
...... - Taliban Prepare for Fierce Defense of Kandahar (November 24, 2001)
...... - Afghans: al-Qaida, Taliban Regrouping (February 28, 2002)
...... - Karzai Watches as Afghan Taliban Prisoners Freed (February 9, 2002)
..."Around 270 Afghan Taliban prisoners were released in a ceremony at the presidential palace on Saturd... - Alliance Says bin Laden With Taliban (November 26, 2001)
...... - Taliban-Style Enclave Sets Up in Iraq (January 11, 2002)
...... - Taliban Officials Set Free (January 9, 2002)
...... - Afghan Vice President Qadir Gunned Down (July 7, 2002)
...was a rare Pashtun in the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance that drove the Taleban from power last year. As well as being one of Afghanistan's three vice pre... - Taliban Soldier Says Biological Attack Near (December 12, 2001)
...... - Taliban Form 'Resistance Force' (June 24, 2003)
...ISLAMABAD — The shadowy leader of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, Mullah Omar, has named a 10-man leadership council to organize res... - US Drones Take Combat Role (November 6, 2002)
... from the scene of the engagement. But the war against al-Qaeda and the Taleban led to drones being specially adapted to carry weapons — notably Hellfire... - Fatal Errors that Led to Massacre (December 1, 2001)
...... - Pakistanis Interrogate at Camp X-Ray (August 2, 2002)
...stani intelligence officers and diplomats went to Cuba to help interrogate Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamno Bay,... - Al Qaeda, Taliban Shipping Gold to Sudan (September 3, 2002)
...Al-Qaida and the Taliban have quietly shipped large quantities of gold from Pakistan to Sudan in re... - Central Asia Gas Deal Signed (May 30, 2002)
... There are now hopes the plan can be revived following the removal of the Taleban rulers in Afghanistan, and the restoration of a measure of stability to th... - 'US Taliban' Refused Access To Lawyer (July 12, 2002)
...... - Lindh Defense Raises 1st Amendment Challenge to Case (May 16, 2002)
...ay asked that most of the charges against the California man captured with Taliban soldiers be dismissed because they violate Lindh's First Amendment right t... - US Suffers Heavy Losses in Afghan Offensive (April 6, 2002)
... US army suffered heavy losses in Afghanistan during its offensive against Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters in Shahi-Kot valley on Thursday night, a media repor... - Savage Victory (November 17, 2001)
...... - Refugee Count Inflated by Taliban (February 16, 2002)
...GENEVA — Taliban officials dramatically inflated the number of people living in Afghanistan... - Warlords Take Afghan Provincial Capital (June 18, 2004)
...s of territory outside of the capital, and a growing insurgency led by the Taliban. Din Mohammed Azimi, the deputy governor of Ghor, said the governor ha... - No Money, No Way Forward for Afghan Women (March 8, 2002)
...ew women's minister, whose job is to restore women's rights after years of Taliban oppression in which girls could not go to school and women could not go ou... - 'Jihad-on-Line' Webmaster Says he is Under House Arrest in Gulf State (February 17, 2004)
...ation quarters that he would be shipped to Guantanamo, where Al-Qa'ida and Taleban prisoners are being held, if he released any information in the name of Al... - Afghanistan War 'Just Beginning' (February 19, 2002)
...ountry. He said a threat to peace in Afghanistan remained, even though the Taliban had been replaced, because Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'eda network was still w... - Not All Ex-Taliban are on the Run (February 10, 2002)
...... - Surrender Talks Fail (December 12, 2001)
...... - Karzai Denies Report of Qaeda Resurgance (December 18, 2002)
...ames to the UN consolidated list of those associated with al-Qaeda and the Taleban so law-enforcers can know who to go after. So far, 92 groups and 232 pe... - Some Are More Human? (January 27, 2002)
... however, seems to be concerned about the fate of hundreds of al Qaeda and Taliban captives being kept in Cuba precisely so they cannot approach a court of l... - Karzai Blames Fellow Officials in Assassination (February 15, 2002)
...re senior figures in dominant political faction in Northern Alliance, anti-Taliban coalition that forms core of Karzai government; Karzai says he has asked S... - U.S. Guantánamo Prisoners Stage Hunger Strike (February 28, 2002)
...... - Why Doesn't the CIA Want to Talk to a Top Ex-Taliban? (February 15, 2002)
...The Taliban's former deputy Interior Minister, who could help find Mullah Omar, wants... - Villagers Denounce Bombing (January 10, 2002)
...... - Heavy Fighting in Afghanistan Between Two Rival Warlords (January 31, 2002)
...... - Eight Civilians Killed in US Strike on Taliban (September 20, 2003)
...dren, were killed in a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan that also killed two Taliban guerrillas, Afghan officials said on Saturday. In a separate incident,... - Tales of Terror (February 14, 2002)
...en stories of excesses by the US troops rounding up suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban men in Afghanistan, before flying them off to the US base in Cuba. The... - Afghan Prisoners Complain of US Brutality (February 11, 2002)
... intelligence, and that the prisoners were neither members of al-Qaeda nor Taliban fighters. Local officials put the death toll at 21; the Pentagon says... - Afghan Warlord Vows to Keep Fighting (February 10, 2002)
...... - Taliban Official Sought US Help in 1999 (June 9, 2002)
...KABUL, Afghanistan — A senior Taliban official said he approached U.S. representatives three years ago for help... - Powell Wary of Iraq Move (December 21, 2001)
...... - A Powerful Figure in and Out of Afghan Government (July 7, 2002)
...me the most powerful man in eastern Afghanistan before being ousted by the Taliban. He had once again emerged as an important figure and a power broker in... - Afghan Fundamentalists Raid Girls' Schools (November 1, 2002)
...last night investigating a series of well-coordinated attacks by suspected Taliban sympathisers against girls' schools in a central region near to Kabul. F... - Coalition Forces Close in on Regrouped Taliban (September 1, 2003)
...cked by US air strikes, said they were closing in on hundreds of suspected Taliban fighters in the remote mountains of southern Afghanistan yesterday as inte... - US Base in Afghanistan Under Rocket Attack (April 26, 2002)
...coalition forces are concentrating their search for remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists in the mountainous east of the country. US sources said it... - Fatal Attacks Indicate New Taliban Offensive In Afghanistan (January 28, 2004)
...e NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kabul indicated that Afghanistan's ousted Taliban was launching new offensives against foreign troops in the country, observ... - Karzai Denies U.S. Accusation of Iran's Interference in Afghanistan (February 26, 2002)
...erfering in Afghanistan and providing assistance to al-Qaeda network and Taliban fugitives. U.S. intelligence officials have alleged that they have spo... - US Wants Secret Questioning of Lindh Witnesses (May 17, 2002)
...ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners may soon be answering questions from lawyers for fe... - British forces caught in attack by Taliban (March 21, 2002)
...Taliban and al-Qa'ida fighters have carried out an attack on American troops and B... - Fighting Erupts in East Afghanistan Town (April 27, 2002)
...KABUL – Remnants of Taliban and al-Qaeda forces on Saturday attacked the main eastern Afghanistan town... - Foreign Nationals Held in Cuba Sue (February 19, 2002)
...... - Afghans Now Fear Reprisals, Havoc (November 15, 2001)
...... - Afghan Villagers 'Killed in American Bombing Raids' (February 13, 2003)
...vince in southern Afghanistan, a Pashtun area where many had supported the Taliban regime. Haji Mohammad Wali, a spokesman for the Helmand provincial au... - Rumsfeld: US Ready for Taliban (April 27, 2002)
...day 12,000 U.S. and other Western troops would "go after" any al Qaeda and Taliban guerrillas who regroup to launch a spring offensive in Afghanistan. Rum... - Fighting the Wrong War (December 11, 2001)
...... - Prisoner Revolt Turns Deadly After Kunduz Surrender (November 25, 2001)
...... - US Warplanes Wipe Out Afghan Wedding, Kill 10 (May 17, 2002)
...of the province of the same name. Khost was a stronghold of the ousted Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Its airport is being used as a bas... - Karzai Angry Over Musharraf's Comments (July 7, 2003)
...tical of Pakistan since his government was installed after the fall of the Taliban. Karzai's government is dominated by the Northern Alliance, the former... - Afghanistan Raid Killed Ten, May Have Missed Target (December 9, 2003)
...tes military admitted Monday that it might not have succeeded in killing a Taliban suspect in an air assault on a village on Saturday that left nine chil... - How 'Liberation' Brought Anarchy to Kabul, Baghdad (July 2, 2003)
...m seriously. Turns out the Imam, Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz, had condemned the Taliban's interpretation of Islam. Those pesky Taliban "remnants" — always "remnan... - Poppy Farmers Set to Defy Government (August 30, 2002)
...e United Nations Drug Control Program, UNDCP, was surprised to find that a Taleban decree ordering a one-third reduction in poppy cultivation had been strict... - The Taliban Minister, the US Envoy, the Warning Ignored (September 7, 2002)
...r, the United States and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil.... - Taliban Minister Promises Security for Foreign Workers (November 13, 1999)
...A senior Taliban minister Saturday promised security for the foreign workers in Afghanistan... - Afghan Women Still Under Strict Rule (December 16, 2001)
...... - Four Afghan Soldiers Killed in Rocket Attack (July 14, 2002)
...tland of southern Afghanistan — once the stronghold of the vanquished Taliban — was turning against the U.S. and its allies since the wedding bombi... - Warring Doubts (February 13, 2002)
...mps destroyed to make Americans safe against future terrorist attacks. The Taliban government of Afghanistan, sustained with bin Laden's money and helped in... - War and Peace in Afghanistan (March 4, 2002)
...Two months after the US's sweeping victory against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the radical fighters are trying to regroup in eastern Afghan... - Afghans: US Forces Killed Wrong People (January 27, 2002)
...ed, 27 captured and a large number of weapons destroyed during a raid on a Taliban arms depot. Villagers, however, claimed U.S. forces bombed their town... - At Least 16 Killed in Afghan Explosion (January 31, 2003)
...ern city of Kandahar, in an attack that the local police attributed to the Taliban or other rebel forces. The explosion, probably from an antitank mine, g... - Mazar-e-Sharif Skirmishes Continue (December 31, 2001)
...... - Taliban Warns US, Pakistan To Stop Attacks (March 19, 2004)
...The Taliban has vowed to attack US and Pakistan forces if they did not stop hunting su... - Unpaid Soldiers Spark Crimewave in Kabul (December 15, 2001)
...ewave of looting and killing in Kabul which is awakening nostalgia for the Taliban. Lawlessness is creeping into daily life, after six years of Taliban o... - Warplanes Attack Afghan Convoy (December 22, 2001)
...... - Why Americans Join in Jihad (June 10, 2002)
...... - Prosecutors Cannot Link Lindh to CIA Death (April 3, 2002)
...ave admitted to a federal court that they have no evidence linking accused Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh to the murder of a CIA agent or direct attacks o... - Fighting in Afghanistan Sometimes Hand-to-Hand (March 7, 2002)
...battle around the eastern Afghan town of Gardez is continuing with no sign Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters plan to surrender. They are battling more than 2... - Returning to Istalif (August 1, 2002)
...f managed to survive Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union. But when the Taliban arrived, the Shomali Plain turned into the front lines. By 1999, the Talib... - U.S. Soldier Killed in Fierce Fighting in Eastern Afghanistan (March 1, 2002)
...fighters backed by U.S. Special Forces launched a major attack Saturday on Taliban and al-Qaida forces regrouping in eastern Afghanistan. Defenders fought ba... - Warlords Put High Price on British Heads (April 21, 2002)
... capital last month. According to senior British and American officers, Taliban and al-Qa'ida fighters may pose as journalists to infiltrate Bagram and ca... - Thousands Held in Afghan 'Auschwitz' (May 14, 2002)
... action by Afghan authorities to end the plight of more than 2000 starving Taliban supporters being held prisoner in conditions he compared to the Nazi death... - Karzai Appeals to Iran and US to Make Up (February 25, 2002)
...d Khatami, praised Iran for the assistance it gave Afghanistan against the Taliban and urged Iran to help Afghanistan develop its education and health system... - US Accused Of Airstrike Cover-Up (July 28, 2002)
...The attack took place early on July 1 as American forces hunted pockets of Taleban and al-Qaeda resistance. A US helicopter gunship opened fire on targets ar... - Much Violence to Come in Afghanistan (January 8, 2002)
...... - US-Israel-India: Strategic Axis? (September 9, 2003)
...he US remains dependent on Pakistan for its fight against al-Qaeda and the Taleban it is likely to continue an awkward balancing act in its policy towards So... - New Battle in S.E. Afghanistan (May 17, 2002)
...in several weeks, despite three major operations to hunt down al Qaeda and Taliban fighters still in hiding. Operation Condor, part of the ongoing Operat... - Afghan Newspaper Blasts Karzai (September 23, 2002)
...ept to power last year in the wake of the U.S. air assault that ousted the Taliban. "We believe Karzai still has the chance to review his policies and ma... - $2b Raytheon Pact Approved (December 6, 2002)
... has fired about 1,100 earlier-model Tomahawks, including up to 70 against Taliban and Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. The new weapon entered initial pro... - US and Britain Begin New Combat Mission in Afghanistan (April 16, 2002)
...A new operation to search out and destroy Al Qaeda and Taliban forces is under way in eastern Afghanistan involving a sizable contingent... - Sixty-One Killed in Upsurge in Afghan Violence (August 14, 2003)
.... Border police in the south-eastern province of Khost killed up to 16 Taliban and al-Qa'eda guerrillas in an overnight battle during which five border p... - The Questionable Outcomes of Operation Anaconda (March 12, 2002)
...n. Ultimately Operation Anaconda will not finish off al Qaeda or even the Taliban fighters. Instead it signals the beginning of a protracted guerrilla war t... - Detainees Flow Into Guantánamo (August 5, 2002)
...Thirty-four detainees suspected of being al Qaeda terrorists or Taliban fighters arrived at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from Afgh... - Donors Promise Afghanistan $1.24 Billion for 2003 (December 18, 2002)
...ts ranging from roads to educating girls barred from schools by the ousted Taliban regime. Afghanistan's government expressed hopes after a two-day meetin... - The strange battle of Shah-i-Kot (March 22, 2002)
...... - In Kabul, Musharraf Spurns U.S. Aid in Hunting Qaeda (April 2, 2002)
...also rejecting any future American military operations against Al Qaeda or Taliban forces who have fled to Pakistani tribal areas adjoining Afghanistan. H... - Taliban Prisoners Die After Surrender (December 11, 2001)
...SHIBARGHAN, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 – Dozens of Taliban prisoners died after surrendering to Northern Alliance forces, asphyxiated... - EU Threatens to Block Afghan Aid (April 15, 2002)
...re are two sorts of "afghanis" in circulation, one printed in Kabul by the Taliban and earlier governments and the other by the Uzbek warlords in the north.... - Afghan Officials Criticize US for Civilian Deaths (July 2, 2002)
...ions" were needed to prevent the U.S.-led effort to hunt down al Qaeda and Taliban fugives from killing civilians, Foreign Minister Abdullah said: "This situ... - US Embassy in Kabul May Be Attacked (June 6, 2002)
... reopened earlier this year following the collapse of the Islamic militant Taliban regime. The loya jirga, which ends on June 16, faces the complex task... - Afghan Officials Say Mullah Omar Has Escaped (January 6, 2002)
...... - Police Fire on Student Protesters in Kabul, Kill at Least Two (November 13, 2002)
...n violent in years. It occurred on the eve of the first anniversary of the Taliban's retreat from Kabul under attack by U.S. and Afghan forces, and it alread... - German Spies Say Bin Laden Is Alive (July 14, 2002)
...mated that more than 5,000 supporters of al-Qaida and Afghanistan's ousted Taliban militia remain in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, while many others... - Evidence of a Massacre of Taliban Prisoners (June 29, 2002)
...ided by local and international allies, massacred thousands of defenceless Taliban in the course of the war in Afghanistan. The international press first... - Alliance Bans Womenís March in Afghanistan (November 28, 2001)
...instead of the much-hated burqa, which women were forced to wear after the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996. They were among the first to show their faces o... - Southern Afghanistan Suffers as Aid Groups Threatened (July 18, 2003)
...vince, where Jalal and many others wait for help. Observers believe the Taliban are targeting aid groups in order to deepen the Pashtun vs. non-Pashtun di... - Military Admits Raid Was Mistake, Pays Families of Dead (February 3, 2002)
...ct government offices, they destroyed ammunition that once belonged to the Taliban, killed two guards and captured 27 prisoners. But according to Afghan... - Afghan Cave Search Comes Up Empty (June 3, 2002)
...dge near the Pakistani border, ready to face perhaps dozens of al-Qaida or Taliban fighters. But they found only caves and buildings that had not been lived... - Rocket Lands Near Kabul Airport (June 29, 2002)
...assembly. "We have some renegade individuals such as Hekmatyar and the Taliban who resort to these kinds of acts," Jurat told reporters. He was refer... - 15 Die as Afghan Army Clashes With Attackers (August 7, 2002)
...ing a relatively quiet period eight months after the fall of Afghanistan's Taliban government. The attack on the Kabul army garrison began about 7 a.m. wh... - Guantánamo Base Chaplain in Detention (September 20, 2003)
...ing Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American-born Saudi who allegedly fought with the Taliban, and José Padilla, a former Chicago gang member charged with plotting to d... - After Battle, Injured Foes Are Treated With Allies (March 10, 2002)
...t this old Soviet airfield is that wounded Americans lie side by side with Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. These are all men injured in the biggest land ba... - Saudi Arabia is Now 'Kernel of Evil' (August 6, 2002)
...m and Riyadhís lack of co-operation in the military campaign to remove the Taleban from Afghanistan. ìThe Saudis are active at every level of the terror... - Lindh Admits Guilt to Two Charges (July 15, 2002)
...ñ John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban, pleaded guilty Monday to two charges in a surprise deal with prosecutors... - Afghan Ballot Counting Set To Begin (October 12, 2004)
...dermined a vote in which millions of Afghans turned out despite threats of Taliban attacks. The impoverished, Islamic nation has been torn by war for more... - The War, Part II (January 8, 2002)
...... - Somali Ruler Says Country 'Terrorized' by US (January 11, 2002)
...ut Somalia is not Afghanistan. The transitional national government is not Taliban. I am not Mullah Mohammad Omar," the president said, referring to the Tali... - Afghan Unity Serves Whom? (February 14, 2002)
...eking support, but he bypassed Moscow. Karzai represents a faction of anti-Taliban Pashtuns. Many of these Pashtuns fought against Russian forces in the 1980... - Afghan Recruits Paid $200 a Month by US Troops (March 5, 2002)
...Afghan soldiers involved in a new campaign against a Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan are being... - DoJ Lawyers Question Lindh Case (June 24, 2002)
...ment of John Walker Lindh, he said the rights of the 20-year-old "American Taliban" had been "carefully, scrupulously honored." But inside the Justice Depart... - Afghan Group Claims US Attacks (September 2, 2002)
...States refers to as "friendly fire" mishaps in the search for al-Qaida and Taliban. Although similar pamphlets have appeared from time to time since the... - Tribal Leader Warns of War Over US Raids (December 23, 2001)
...voy near the town of Khost. Senior US officials have insisted Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders were in the convoy. Din said the US attacks had killed only ci... - Afghan Blast May Have Been Trap (March 7, 2002)
...since Jan. 10, when gunmen opened fire on a plane carrying 20 al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Most recently... - Heavy Fighting Breaks out in Central Afghanistan (April 13, 2002)
... campaign, late last year wrested control of Afghanistan from the hardline Taliban militia. "Now the fighting is taking place at Dasht-i-Top, about six ki... - Guantánamo Prisoner Granted Access to Lawyer (December 19, 2003)
...ximately 660 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay jail for alleged al Qaeda and Taliban fighters could also be given their first habeas corpus hearings in a U... - A 'heartbreaking' decision: MSF leaves Afghanistan (July 28, 2004)
...e: a proper investigation by the Afghan government and an apology from the Taliban. Five of her colleagues are dead, many more put in danger and her agen... - US, Allies Plan New Attacks (March 17, 2002)
...and its allies are planning new attacks on several pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters believed to be hiding in southern and eastern Afghanistan, the U.... - US Ignored Taliban Killings: Film (September 1, 2002)
...n the Afghan war, says US troops failed to stop a massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners and Pakistani volunteers by Afghan militiamen allied with the Un... - In Afghanistan, US Shooting in the Dark (June 28, 2003)
...l manipulation in Pakistan, in the year and a half since the demise of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have failed to bre... - Red Cross Warns Afghan Children Of Cluster Bombs (June 29, 2002)
...erial campaign to help U.S.-backed rebels overthrow Afghanistan's Islamist Taliban rulers. "The size and color of the bomblets are unfortunately very att... - Afghans Release Pakistani POWs (May 12, 2002)
...PESHAWAR, Pakistan – More than 200 pro-Taliban fighters from Pakistan flew home Saturday after being released from a pris... - Heavy US Bombing in E. Afghanistan (March 3, 2002)
...stan for a third day Sunday, pressing a new offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters believed to be regrouping there. One American and three U.S.-a... - Hostilities in the Other US War (March 31, 2003)
...st US troops in southern Afghanistan, the former stronghold of the deposed Taliban regime, have spiked in recent weeks, culminating Saturday with the ambush... - A Secret Hub for the US in Afghan War (March 6, 2002)
... covert CIA operations and a host of other activities aimed at rooting out Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan and developing intelligence to thwart... - Afghan Warlords and Bandits Back in Business (December 28, 2001)
... As warlords have carved out chunks of Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, the lawlessness that gave rise to the strict Islamic movement in the mid-... - Afghans Say U.S. Troops Abused Them (March 23, 2002)
... at a U.S. airport base outside Kandahar, 25 miles east of here. Scores of Taliban and al-Qaida terrorist suspects are held there. A U.S. military spokesm... - Captives Remain Holed Up in Kandahar Hospital (January 15, 2002)
...y December, when Kandahar was being bombed by American warplanes, and anti-Taliban forces were advancing on the city. The men were armed with handguns and ha... - US Operation Claims Six More Afghan Children (December 10, 2003)
...eld after an attack by an A-10 ground attack aircraft that was targeting a Taliban suspect. US officials have apologised for that incident. Friday's op... - Al Qaeda Still Active (September 3, 2002)
...Financial officers of al Qaeda and the Taliban have quietly shipped large quantities of gold out of Pakistan to Sudan in... - Allies Preparing for Long Fight as Taliban Dig In (October 28, 2001)
...LONDON, Oct. 27 — Stung by the stubborn resilience of the Taliban, senior American and British officials are bracing themselves for a milita... - The Afghan Battle that Would Be Over in 24 Hours (March 7, 2002)
...tion in eastern Afghanistan in little more than 24 hours. Some thought the Taliban and al-Qa'ida forces of no more than a couple of hundred would take to the... - Pipeline Politics Taint US War (March 18, 2002)
...wrote that the U.S. oil company Unocal Corp. had been negotiating with the Taliban since 1995 to build "oil and gas pipelines from Turkmenistan, through Afgh... - Allies ëFought Locals, Not the Enemyí (May 18, 2002)
...hat area for several days and we believe it was being used by al-Qaeda and Taleban." Coalition liaison officers have agreed to meet local leaders this mo... - Bush Shifts Position on Detainees (February 7, 2002)
...sterday and declared that captured combatants who fought for Afghanistan's Taliban regime will be formally covered by the Geneva Conventions. But the preside... - Afghan Massacre Haunts Pentagon (September 14, 2002)
...mber, during the freezing desert nights. Nobody knows exactly how many Taliban prisoners were secretly interred in this mass grave, a short distance from... - Officials Reveal Bin Laden Plan (May 18, 2002)
...nt. As Masoud's chief of intelligence, Arif ran spy networks inside the Taliban and received reports from interrogations of Taliban and other Islamic mili... - US Apologizes for Deaths of Afghan Children (December 8, 2003)
...enly killed nine children. The United States said the suspect, a former Taliban commander, was killed in the attack, but villagers said he had left the ar... - UBL's Biographer Questions US Information About Usama's Hideout (October 4, 2004)
...tely reviewed, many important points will come to light. The pro-Al-Qa'ida Taliban government in Afghanistan was removed about three years ago. But up to now... - Friendly Fire Horror Shocks Troops (April 18, 2002)
...nstructional videos made by the terrorist group. Since the fall of the Taliban regime that harboured al-Qaida in Afghanistan, however, the site has been... - US Losing Control in Forgotton Afghanistan (December 14, 2003)
... into the mountains in their biggest ever ground offensive against the Taliban and al-Qa'ida. The events give a glimpse into the continuing conflict in A... - Tribal Leaders Balk at Aiding Search for Taliban (January 17, 2002)
...ating with American Special Operations Forces in the hunt for Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, weapons caches and intelligence that could prevent future terror... - Violence Casts Pall Over Afghan Assembly (December 7, 2003)
... of nine children Saturday in a U.S. air assault on a village where a lone Taliban terrorist was said to be hiding, have cast a jittery pall over preparation... - Opium Fuels Violence Against Afghan Aid Workers (October 3, 2003)
... said. Local authorities generally blame all violence on the extremist Taliban movement toppled from power by a U.S.-led force two years ago, but a confo... - US Continues Afghan Offensive (March 20, 2003)
... a Pentagon official in Washington said intelligence suggests al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the area of the operation have communications equipment, consi... - Afghan Political Violence on the Rise (August 3, 2003)
...ious council that recently decreed that, contrary to pronouncements by the Taliban Islamic movement, there is no legitimate jihad, or holy war, against the c... - Suicide Tactics in Afghanistan (May 21, 2002)
...ion forces have been scouring eastern Afghanistan in search of al Qaeda or Taliban holdouts but have repeatedly returned empty- handed. U.S. officials sai... - US forces get OK to use CIA methods (October 1, 2002)
...American commandos hunting Taliban and al Qaeda guerrillas in Afghanistan have gained permission to employ ne... - Rumsfeld Toughens Terror Fight (August 2, 2002)
...n sources said Mr. Rumsfeld is not happy at the rate at which al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are being found and eliminated in Gen. Franks' theater. Some of M... - Political Bickering Delays Start of Loya Jirga (June 9, 2002)
...Northern Alliance, which played a key role in defeating the fundamentalist Taliban, wants to keep key posts in the new government and supports interim ruler... - Pashtuns Prey to Vengeance After Taliban's Fall in North (March 7, 2002)
...most exclusively by ethnic Pashtuns, the group that formed the core of the Taliban movement. The Pashtuns are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, but a m... - 'Fiercely Independent' Clan Accused of Harboring Al-Qa'ida in Pakistan (March 24, 2003)
...nd US authorities believe that following the defeat of the largely Pashtun Taliban in Afghanistan, many Al-Qaeda militants took refuge with sympathetic membe... - Doubts Raised Over al Qaeda Arms Cache Discovery (May 12, 2002)
...Lane, that the large-scale offensive stage of the war against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces was "all but won" was unwittingly misleading and may have understat... - Afghan Attacks Stark Reminder (September 8, 2002)
...ey were regarded here as a declaration by the remnants of al-Qaeda and the Taliban that Afghanistan's slow progress toward stability would not continue witho... - Pakistani Roundup 'No Threat to al Qaeda' (April 2, 2002)
...ective control of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda following the collapse of the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. According to the latest reports, most of the 40... - Pakistan Tilting Toward Extremism? (October 13, 2002)
...his is the million dollar question." Pakistan long supported the former Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan, which was close to Osama bin Laden's Al... - Marine Generals Assess Performance (August 29, 2002)
... advance base built around a remote airstrip in the Afghan desert near the Taliban's former stronghold of Kandahar. To prepare the base last November, 1,... - New Confidence U.S. Has a Qaeda Leader (April 1, 2002)
...to discuss his possible capture publicly. All told, some 25 Arabs and 5 Taliban fighters were seized in the Thursday raids. The prisoners included citizen... - US Bombing Kills at Least 30 at Afghan Wedding (July 1, 2002)
...ng. Some of the foreigners' choppers also came to help. "There are no Taliban or al Qaeda or Arabs here. These people were all civilians, women and chi... - The Dream of an Easy Victory in Iraq (November 29, 2001)
...reakfast, you would have no trouble making Thanksgiving dinner for 30. The Taliban turned out to be a flimsy opponent whose defeat required only minimal exer... - Daschle Criticizes War Expansion (February 28, 2002)
...ll have failed in the war on terrorism unless it finds Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Daschle, D-South Dakota, also said he wil... - US Planning Afghan Spring Offensive (January 28, 2004)
...de assault on foreign troops in as many days, marking an escalation in the Taliban-led rebellion and increasing its parallels with the insurgency in Iraq. ... - High Court to Hear Appeals from Guantánamo Prisoners (November 10, 2003)
...of the detainees on Guantanamo were not involved in either al Qaeda or the Taliban, but were simply swept up in the chaos that enveloped Afghanistan as the U... - 'I Saw Bodies Flying Like Straws' (July 3, 2002)
...f the U.S. military as it continues its efforts to track down al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives in the country. Afghanistan's government says wedding guests... - Human-Rights Group to Estimate Civilians Killed in War (February 8, 2002)
...r Wednesday to Mr. Karzai's government after it was determined they aren't Taliban or al Qaeda fighters. That incident followed a December air strike on... - No Easy Victory Is Seen in Fierce Battle (March 5, 2002)
...ting. There is no question that Al Qaeda members and other "non-Afghan Taliban," as the Pentagon calls its foe, will be defeated by a qualitatively and n... - At Afghan Border, Warnings of Attacks Tied to Iraq (January 28, 2003)
...UNGORADA, Afghanistan, Jan. 24 — Hundreds of Qaeda fighters and Taliban supporters — now living with families in the rugged tribal area of South W... - Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World (August 20, 2002)
...s life. The Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance--our ally in fighting the Taliban and which now controls the Afghan military--was long backed by Iran. A bru... - US Eyes Japan Aid in Iraq Attack (April 20, 2002)
...destroyers to the Indian Ocean to support the U.S.-led strikes against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. The request ignited a political brushfire... - Afghans Plead for Aid; UN Warns Gov't is Shaky (January 17, 2002)
...$70 million is needed just for back wages of government employees whom the Taliban stopped paying in September because of threatened U.S. air strikes. Anothe... - Kabul Airport Killing 'Part of Plot' (February 16, 2002)
...lity of the new interim government to establish effective security in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who arrived in Kabul ea... - US Charges Guantánamo Prison Worker With Espionage (September 23, 2003)
...orked as an Arabic language translator at the prison camp for al-Qaida and Taliban suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Shavers said. The Air Force enlisted man... - Four in US Charged in Plan to Join al Qaeda (October 4, 2002)
...s accused of plotting after the Sept. 11 attacks to join with Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in a "jihad" against the United States. The Federal Bureau of... - Marooned Taliban Tick Off Grim Hours in an Afghan Jail (March 14, 2002)
...ime at the Jowzjan Jail opens with a macabre display of the sick and dying Taliban prisoners, carried from their cells and laid in the dirt for a few moments... - Raid May Have Involved Mistaken Deaths, Beatings of Innocents (February 11, 2002)
...mistakenly took 27 prisoners in the raid, believing they were al-Qaeda and Taliban warriors. The 27 were released last week. Several contended in reports... - Powell Asks Bush to Reverse Stand on War Captives (January 27, 2002)
...law of war does govern the United States' treatment of all captives of the Taliban military and the terrorist network Al Qaeda. Mr. Powell asked for the r... - Examination of a 'Loya Jirga' (June 10, 2002)
...nterim government led by Hamid Karzai to fill the power vacuum left by the Taliban's collapse. However, his government — which to a large extent shored... - Cuba Prisoners Denied Court Access (August 1, 2002)
...a not sovereign American territory WASHINGTON — Suspected Taliban or al-Qaeda prisoners being held by the U.S. military in Guant·namo Bay ha... - Seven Nations Have Units Aiding US Offensive (March 8, 2002)
...al represents about 10 percent of the U.S.-led force battling al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers are taking part, along with about... - Paying the Warlords to Tyrannize Afghan People (August 3, 2003)
...gs worse rather than better. More than 18 months after the collapse of the Taliban regime, there is a remarkable consensus among aid workers, NGOs and UN off... - Bin Laden Believed Still Alive (February 25, 2002)
...to put ground troops into the Tora Bora area in late November to help anti-Taliban Afghan allies track down members of the Taliban leadership and bin Laden's... - Bush Revises Views On 'Combat' in Iraq (August 19, 2003)
...of U.S. soldiers in the country since the war there began. By the time the Taliban government had been vanquished in December 2001, U.S. troops numbered fewe... - Rumsfeld Offers US Support for Georgia (December 5, 2003)
..., whose forces collaborated with American ground troops to help topple the Taliban regime two years ago, are making progress toward disarmament. Rumsfeld... - The Guerilla Trap in Afghanistan (March 23, 2002)
... is emerging in Afghanistan? America's vast military superiority meant the Taliban government, which had sheltered the al-Qaeda terrorist network, was swiftl... - US May Send More Troops to Afghanistan (March 6, 2002)
...800 were taking part in the pitched battle against entrenched Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in eastern Afghanistan as of Tuesday, and that number will be incre... - Making Themselves Feel Right at Home (April 29, 2002)
... computer discs were found in caves and on the bodies of dead al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters, some of them booby-trapped. "There is evidence that the area had... - US-Philippine Command May Signal War's Next Phase (January 16, 2002)
...ayed a critical role in Afghanistan, calling in airstrikes, assisting anti-Taliban forces and, in some case, engaging in direct combat. But they will have a... - General Warns of Unwinnable Guerrilla War (March 22, 2002)
...are worrisome signs." He said America must resist taking the al-Qa'eda and Taliban on in guerrilla warfare and again stressed the need for reliable intellige... - Interview with Author of 'Forbidden Truth' (August 13, 2002)
...DONAHUE: Welcome back. In his book, "Forbidden Truth"-"U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for bin Laden" its subtitle-autho... - War's Reality — Risks Remain (March 3, 2002)
...mportant battle could emerge with so little warning. The flight of the Taliban from Kabul last year was so sudden and the collapse of their defenses in t... - How The US Blurred The Line Between Aid And The Armed Forces (July 29, 2004)
...s. "Christian Aid worked in Afghanistan in the Soviet period and under the Taliban," Mr Nutt says. "This the most dangerous period for aid workers it's ever... - The War After the War (August 21, 2003)
...ers and Iraqi civilians will die. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan this week, the Taliban offensive against the Karzai government resulted in the deaths of ninety p... - Al Qaeda Monitored US Negotiations With Taliban Over Oil Pipeline (June 5, 2002)
...wledge of negotiations that were taking place between Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and American government and business leaders over plans for a U.S. oil and... - U.S. Harbored Terrorists to Bolster Its Case (March 15, 2004)
... he "harbors a deadly terrorist network" -- when it was not Hussein, but a Taliban-like crowd of Islamic radicals in the U.S. Air Force-protected north, doin... - Cheney Says Allies Will Back US on Iraq (February 15, 2002)
...operation with Iran after it tacitly approved their campaign to topple the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan. But recently, U.S. officials have accused Tehran of... - Bomber Attacks Peacekeepers in Afghanistan (June 7, 2003)
...ed. Suspicion immediately fell on remnants of al-Qaida and the defeated Taliban regime, as well as fighters loyal to renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.... - Five US Soldiers Injured in Afghan Ambush (July 27, 2002)
...Saturday in a 4-hour gun battle in eastern Afghanistan during a search for Taliban and al Qaeda fighters believed holed up in the lawless region. At least... - Flaws in US Air War Left Hundreds of Civilians Dead (July 21, 2002)
...trikes to the use of ground forces to hunt down remaining fighters for the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Since then, air power has been deployed in mostly a supporti... - Are We Losing the Peace? (July 7, 2002)
...American demonstration in Kabul, the Afghan capital, since the fall of the Taliban. A few days later, Haji Abdul Qadir, a Deputy President in Karzai's govern... - Plot Against Ex-Afghan King Revealed (April 21, 2002)
...ool were found in Kandahar, once the spiritual headquarters of the deposed Taliban regime, which restricted education, an Afghan official said Saturday. K... - Details of Victory Are Unclear But It Is Celebrated Nonetheless (March 13, 2002)
...s remote and dusty valley, which was finally wrested from Al Qaeda and the Taliban on Tuesday after 11 days of fighting. Unfortunately, the press outing,... - Fresh Memories of War (May 25, 2002)
...caves. As they moved down an L-shaped corridor, the stiffened limbs of a Taliban soldier jutted from beneath piles of rock and dust in the sweltering after... - Loya Jirga Again Tries to Appoint Afghan President (June 11, 2002)
...eal after U.S. air power helped opposition forces to drive out the Islamic Taliban. Former king Mohammad Zahir Shah announced at the opening of the meeti... - Pakistan Groups Rally for Jihad (August 18, 2003)
...cks of Sept. 11, 2001, she adds, when Pakistan broke its alliance with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, and broke relations with religious parties at h... - US Can Hold Citizens As Combatants (January 8, 2003)
...ot change the fact he was captured in Afghanistan while fighting alongside Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. "Judicial review does not disappear during warti... - 'Anyone With a Gun is the Government' (December 28, 2002)
... new pro-Western government led by President Hamid Karzai has replaced the Taliban regime that was ousted more than a year ago, but much of the country remai... - When Bad Information Kills People (March 3, 2002)
... compound in Uruzgan province, killing 16. Locals say the victims were not Taliban or al-Qaeda but supporters of Karzai. Pentagon officials have conceded... - US Troops Say Afghans Failed Them (March 11, 2002)
...roud, 400 American soldiers who fought tenacious battles with Al Qaeda and Taliban troops in eastern Afghanistan returned here Sunday, some of them telling b... - West Pays Warlords to Stay in Line (July 21, 2002)
...to anarchy, allowing Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist group and former Taliban elements to regroup. Foreign Office sources in London confirmed last w... - Afghan Aftermath: The Future of Film in Afghanistan (February 1, 2004)
...Osama, Siddiq Barmak's study of one girl's life under the Taliban, is a big critical success, but will it help to build a new Afghan cinema?... - New Goals in War Zones: Streamlining (October 7, 2003)
...n sharply critical of the Bush administration's plan for postwar Iraq, and Taliban militias are feared to be reorganizing in Afghanistan. A confidential memo... - Tribal Leaders in Pakistan Warn the US to Keep Out (March 25, 2002)
...h share a porous 450-mile border with Afghanistan, become a safe haven for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters to rest and regroup. This is exactly what American o... - Halliburton Subsidary Awarded Guantánamo Expansion Project (July 26, 2002)
...a. The high-security prison is nearly full, with 564 suspected al-Qaida or Taliban prisoners captured during the war on terrorism. Brown & Root Services,... - Why the US Needs the Taliban (July 30, 2003)
...eported increased attacks over recent weeks on US and Afghan forces by the Taliban, al-Qaeda and other anti-US groups that have joined hands. He also reveale... - French Warplanes Join E. Afghanistan Campaign (March 3, 2002)
...ing the Arma mountains late on Friday to root out hundreds of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants believed holed up in the area. Afghan troops under the guidan... - Hunger and Vengeance in Afghan Tent City (January 26, 2002)
...ny people live in Maslakh, such is its sprawl. Officials of the vanquished Taliban regime counted 300,000 people on these plains - making Maslakh more of a c... - Energy Concerns Drive Push into Central Asia (March 8, 2002)
...ndian Ocean.î The US oil giant Unocal had negotiated, discreetly, with the Taleban from 1995 until December 1998, four months after the US missile strikes ag... - Detainees' Protest Wins US Reversal (March 1, 2002)
... A hunger strike yesterday by almost two-thirds of the 300 al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, called to protest two guards' rem... - Military Lawyer Criticizes Tribunals (January 22, 2004)
...n Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was arrested while allegedly fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan in late 2001. "The commission process has been created and... - Rocket Attack on Eastern Afghanistan Airport (May 5, 2002)
...nce as part of Operation Mountain Lion, a nationwide hunt for al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists. On Friday, a US spokesman said a coalition base in Khost ha... - Rocket Hits Near U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan (August 20, 2002)
....-led coalition forces have been pursuing remnants of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime and fighters of Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites)'s al Qaeda netw... - Karzai Takes On Secret Service Led by Defense Minister (July 24, 2002)
...the intelligence service is seen here as a contest over who will rule post-Taliban Afghanistan. To the ethnic Pashtun president and his supporters, the unche... - Bush Knew of Terrorist Plot to Hijack US Planes (May 19, 2002)
...ior sources at the Ministry of Defence said yesterday that the al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters who were being pursued were numbered in 'tens'. Escape routes hav... - US Urges Pakistan Toward New Attacks (May 12, 2002)
... there. "The territory is hostile to the U.S. forces and sympathetic to Taliban and Arabs," a Pakistani military official agreed. He indicated that the Un... - More than 60 Afghan Fighters Killed or Wounded (October 9, 2003)
... the worst outbreaks of fighting between pro-government factions since the Taliban fell almost two years ago, a faction official said. The ethnic Uzbek Ju... - The Real Battle Comes After the War (March 8, 2002)
...ernational force in the capital, and now the genuine battles going on with Taliban and al-Qaida forces near Gardez all suggest that much remains to be done.... - Expecting Taliban, but Finding Only Horror (July 8, 2002)
...olving 300 to 400 American and Afghan soldiers against suspected Qaeda and Taliban positions in this isolated corner of southern Afghanistan had apparently t... - Al-Qa'ida Member Recalls US Bombardment, Accuses Taliban of Betrayal (October 29, 2003)
..." locations in Kandahar during October and November 2001. He accused "some Taliban elements of betrayal by identifying some Arab families' houses in Kandahar... - Detained Citizen Meets Lawyer After Two Years (February 4, 2004)
...A U.S. citizen jailed since he was captured with Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan in 2001 met with his attorneys for the first time... - Afghan Factions Resume Fighting (April 28, 2002)
...orts by the U.S.-led military coalition to hunt down residual al Qaeda and Taliban fighters near the Pakistani border. Rockets rained down on the provinci... - US Begins Withdrawal from Pak. Bases (January 11, 2002)
...stern flank, causing some consternation in Washington that it would enable Taliban and al-Qaeda to slip away or slip into Pakistan. But with no sign of the t... - US Units Attacking al Qaeda In Pakistan (April 25, 2002)
...ary to keep al Qaeda fighters and their allies in Afghanistan's vanquished Taliban militia on the run. Relentless pursuit of al Qaeda members, they calculate... - Situation Deteriorating Rapidly in Afghanistan (August 28, 2002)
...Summary Recent reports indicate the Taliban and al Qaeda are regrouping in preparation for a major escalation of fight... - New Plan — Join the Fray (March 4, 2002)
...e American military to use its muscle to prevent the Qaeda and "non-Afghan Taliban" fighters, as the Pentagon refers to Arab and other foreign forces, from g... - In Afghanistan, Most Politics Is Still Local (January 16, 2002)
...ior who has become what amounts to the lord of northern Afghanistan. Since Taliban rule was defeated in an alliance with U.S. air power this past fall, Dostu... - NATO Enters Afghan Mire (August 11, 2003)
...y the United States to the mercy of fate after its formal victory over the Taliban, seems to be of no concern to NATO. But something extremely alarming is... - Interview with Muslim Chaplain of Camp Delta, Guantánamo (January 15, 2004)
...in of Camp Delta in Guantanamo Base in Cuba — that holds 680 Al-Qa'ida and Taliban prisoners — is proud of the moment when he embraced Islam in 1993 as a gra... - Transcript: Interview with Hamid Karzai (June 27, 2002)
...gs in this country, from a prosperous hippie haven a generation ago to the Taliban disaster. What is your vision of what Afghanistan should look like? A:... - How Long Can Guantánamo Prisoners Be Held? (April 9, 2002)
...at is where any similarity to a seaside vacation will end for Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters who find themselves behind bars at the soon-to-open Camp Delta. ... - Karzai Survives Assassination Attempt in Kandahar (September 5, 2002)
..., which were among the worst incidents of violence since the defeat of the Taliban militia and the installation of the Karzai government late last year. Vice... - Detained Colorado Native Virtually Inaccessible (August 15, 2002)
...ties to Islamic terrorists, is being held in the same facility as American Taliban fighter John Phillip Walker Lindh and the so-called "20th hijacker," Zacar... - Marines Face Afghan Backlash (April 13, 2002)
...et to begin their operations in Afghanistan this week against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces, there are ominous signs that armed factions are preparing to chall... - US Raids Along Afghan Border Seen as Lasting Past Summer (May 6, 2002)
...icut. Their mission is to hunt relatively small numbers of Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters who have dispersed to avoid detection. In some ways, it is more l... - Afghan Regime Change One Year Later (October 8, 2002)
...y nonchalant Karzai brushed off the Sept. 5 attack in Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. “I expected these things to happen, he... - Afghanistan On the Brink of Another Disaster (August 14, 2002)
...and sinister corner of America's Afghan adventure. In the aftermath of the Taliban's defeat humanitarian workers have achieved some little miracles. Unicef r... - Afghan Women Still Being Arrested for 'Moral' Crimes (July 18, 2003)
...is still governed by restrictions that recall the morality policing of the Taliban. A gynecologist, who asks to be called Dr. Afzali for fear of retribution,... - Flaws in the Afghan Model (March 25, 2003)
...Under the Taliban government in Afghanistan, the rule of law came up with some original meth... - Qaeda Network Still Poses Danger (December 17, 2002)
...andler, who chairs the Monitoring Group on sanctions against Al Qaeda, the Taliban and associates, said that many Al Qaeda operatives remained at large and n... - Senior al Qaeda Leader Handed to US (April 1, 2002)
...t it does not mean the al-Qaida threat has ended. Since the fall of the Taliban, Zubaydah has been leading an effort to reconstitute al-Qaida in Pakistan.... - Around the World, Hints of Afghanistans to Come (May 24, 2002)
...up based in Brussels. Nearly eight months after the first bombs fell on Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan, the effort to stamp out other potential safe h... - Kabul Rushes 1,000 More Men to Join G.I.'s on Battle's Sixth Day (March 8, 2002)
...ed a furious air attack today on the well-fortified positions of tenacious Taliban and Qaeda fighters as the Afghan government sent 1,000 reinforcements to t... - The Human Cost of War (July 9, 2002)
... the mishap in Uruzgan, in the first anti-American demonstration since the Taliban fell from power, a group of protesters in the Afghan capital of Kabul warn... - Casualties of US Miscalculations (February 11, 2002)
...als say they believe these hills may hold answers to why more al Qaeda and Taliban fighters were not found after they surrendered the cities of Afghanistan.... - Suicide Bomber Blows Up Bus in Pakistan (May 8, 2002)
...al attacks claimed by Islamic radicals, who backed Afghanistan's collapsed Taliban regime and protested Pakistan's support for the coalition war on terror. ... - The Return To Afghanistan: Collateral Damage (August 6, 2002)
...s were obsessed with one idea: that the village contained leaders from the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida movement. A former member of a Special... - Warlords Steal Food Meant for Victims of Quake (March 31, 2002)
...al aid by local warlords. The gangs, who took over the areas after the Taliban fled last year, are insisting that aid agencies employ them to deliver eme... - As the War Shifts Alliances, Oil Deals Follow (December 15, 2001)
...less cooperative. The State Department is exploring the potential for post-Taliban energy projects in the region, which has more than 6 percent of the world'... - Hussein Enters Post-Sept. 11 Web of Prisons (December 18, 2003)
...ve sprouted up to handle the hundreds of suspected terrorists of Al Qaeda, Taliban warlords and former officials of the Iraqi government arrested by the Unit... - US Pulls Troops from Battle as Afghan Forces Split (March 10, 2002)
...strength. In a sign that maybe deals were already being done, a senior Taliban commander fighting against U.S.-led forces surrendered to government force... - Afghanistan Imperiled (September 26, 2002)
... helping to rebuild the country. Almost a year after the defeat of the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai's government is weaker than it was a few months ag... - Minimum Security (May 13, 2002)
...ed in a plot to overthrow Karzai's government. There are even reports that Taliban and Al Qaeda cells may be regrouping for an offensive. In short, now mi... - Sculptors Explore Tradition To Terrorism (June 6, 2002)
...ent George W. Bush and his allies attacked Afghanistan, toppled the ruling Taliban government and tried to capture Osama bin Laden but to no avail. Nyoman Nu... - In Jail Without Charge (April 15, 2002)
...mdi was captured in Afghanistan and shipped, along with other al Qaeda and Taliban detainees, to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It then turned out that he was born... - An Urgent Need (April 20, 2002)
...s an inevitable consequence of the war that freed them from the oppressive Taliban regime. But their anger is rising because they cannot understand why Washi... - Court Accepts Case of 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect (February 21, 2004)
...ed by the court in which a U.S.-born Saudi national captured as an alleged Taliban fighter in Afghanistan is challenging the president's authority to designa... - Paris: al Qaeda to Blame for Karachi Bombing (May 9, 2002)
... participating in the US-led multinational coalition fighting al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists in Afghanistan. French forces have been engaged in the effor... - Largest US Ground Assault of War Underway (March 4, 2002)
...d the difficulties and risks as U.S. forces pursue pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban resistance. While the Taliban government has fallen and Osama bin Laden's... - FBI and Military Unite in Pakistan to Hunt al Qaeda (July 14, 2002)
... a religious school, thought to be harboring Jalalhuddin Haqqani, a senior Taliban military commander. The raid, carried out in April, failed to capture him.... - Afghanistan Plans Gas Pipeline (May 13, 2002)
...ometre pipeline had been previously discussed between Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, US oil company Unocal and Bridas of Argentina. The project was... - Wolfowitz Granted Authority for Tribunals (June 24, 2003)
... Paul Wolfowitz in authority over the tribunals that will try al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, the officials said. Under an order that President Bush issued... - No Trials In Sight For Camp X-Ray Prisoners (July 14, 2002)
... The court has yet to rule on the action. In all, there are 564 alleged Taliban and al-Qa'ida fighters being held at the base ñ a situation that has becom... - More Bombing Casualties Alleged (January 4, 2002)
...s, particularly during the early days of the campaign when the then-ruling Taliban reported whole villages slaughtered from the air, have been exaggerations... - The US Bomb That Nearly Killed Karzai (March 27, 2002)
...d smoke. Some of the men thought the ground beneath them had been raked by Taliban mortar fire. Yet only one thing in the Afghanistan war could convulse t... - Pentagon: Strikes Against Iraq Could Be Coming (February 19, 2002)
...rom over." Pentagon strategy in Afghanistan relied on the fact that the Taliban rulers that sheltered al-Qaida terrorists were unpopular among Afghans, Wo... - Uncivil Liberties (August 30, 2002)
...captured by Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan while serving with the Taliban. After a stay in Guantanamo, he is now in a Navy brig in Norfolk, Va.,... - Female Afghan Official Fears Reprisals from Islamic Conservatives (June 24, 2002)
... had been systematically subjugated and denied rights by the former ruling Taliban. In January, she and Karzai were special guests of President Bush at hi... - Bush Formalizes Office of Global Communications (January 21, 2003)
...eant to influence global opinion, particularly about opponents such as the Taliban and al-Qaida. The office proposed internally to use the Internet and other... - The Case of the Sidelined King (June 12, 2002)
...launched its massive air assault to wipe out Al Qaeda and its sponsor, the Taliban regime, perceptions of the US government are shifting. Instead of viewi... - Afghan Jihadi Leader Hekmatyar Says Iran Not Telling Truth About Bank Account (December 22, 2004)
...ing. They have achieved none of their aims other than the overthrow of the Taliban government. Henceforward, neither will they rest in any part of this count... - Afghanistan's Toughest Battle Lies Ahead (December 31, 2002)
... commanders of the Northern Alliance resistance. In a matter of weeks, the Taliban and Al Qaeda were routed and a pro-American government was installed. It w... - Dostum's Forces Capture Afghan Town (April 8, 2004)
...ved in several rounds of fighting for territory since the overthrow of the Taliban in late 2001. A federalist, he unsuccessfully opposed Karzai's bid for a s... - Key Questions Over Afghan Deaths (July 2, 2002)
...mbers of the wedding party during a major operation to track down fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. The U.S. military in Afghanistan said a gr... - Rice Urges Allies to Get on with Pressuring 'Axis' (February 3, 2002)
...rn contrasts with the strong unity shown in fighting to oust Afghanistan's Taliban government and shut down the al Qaeda Islamic militant network. Rice o... - Mandela: US a Threat to World Peace (September 10, 2002)
...he moderate wing of the government of Afghanistan. That is what led to the Taliban in Afghanistan. But the most catastrophic action of the United States was... - Al Qaida Spokesperson Threatens Attacks (June 2, 2002)
...esterners. Since the United States and its allies toppled Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, who harbored bin Laden and al-Qaida, bin Laden and other al-Qaida... - Saudis in Iraq 'Preparing for a Holy War' (August 19, 2003)
...al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the leader of the Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime Mullah Mohammed Omar were still alive. But it also asserted that re... - Peacekeepers Won't Go Beyond Kabul, Cheney Says (March 20, 2002)
...e military and see they are supplied with equipment captured from defeated Taliban and al Qaeda forces. Officials across the Bush administration agree tha... - Lawyer Barred From Client, a US Citizen (June 26, 2002)
...imilar to that of John Walker Lindh, an American accused of supporting the Taliban and conspiring to kill Americans. Mr. Hamdi was captured while Mr. Lindh w... - $25m Offered by US for Capture of Hussein (July 3, 2003)
...n Laden, the al-Qaida leader missing since U.S. forces helped dislodge the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. On top of the money for Saddam, the U.S.-led Coa... - Interim Gov't Falling to Pieces (February 23, 2002)
...an and for Hamid Karzaiís interim government, it was easier to destroy the Taliban regime than to defeat barbarism. This is the way this country is organized... - Afghan Stability in Question (February 15, 2002)
...n amalgam of groups from northern Afghanistan whose troops helped oust the Taliban in November. A senior aide to Karzai said tonight that three of the of... - Musharraf Says Pakistan Doesn't Want U.S. Troops (September 2, 2002)
...look at neighboring countries. Large numbers of fighters of the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and their allies from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda net... - Ashcroft Refuses to Release Torture Memo to Congress (June 8, 2004)
...stration has said that the memo's discussion notwithstanding, al Qaeda and Taliban detainees, including those held at Guantanamo Bay, have been treated in ac... - Pashtuns Losing Faith in Karzai, US (July 13, 2002)
...e them in the fight against terrorism, but they have failed to capture the Taliban or al Qaeda leaders, while alienating the populace by making the warlords... - Al Qaeda 'Game Plan' on Bush's Desk Sept. 9 (May 16, 2002)
...ept. 11, the security directive included efforts to persuade Afghanistanís Taliban government to turn al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden over to the United Stat... - Detained Warlord's Gunmen Pursue Western Journalists (March 4, 2002)
...their patron, a minor local warlord, apparently on suspicion of supporting Taliban or al Qaeda. Within earshot of an interpreter, they plotted in Pashto to k... - Rumsfeld May Expand Secret War (August 12, 2002)
...operation with the American-led military campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. In some cases, efforts by American Special forces working with anti-Ta... - UK, EU to Protest US Military Tribunals (July 7, 2003)
...fghanistan during and after the U.S.-led military campaign that ousted the Taliban government in late 2001. Some, however, were seized as part of the U.S. "w... - Bush's Tactics Could Bring Iran and Iraq Closer Together (July 28, 2002)
...ic ties between this Farsi-speaking area and Iran. After his defeat by the Taliban in 1995, the local warlord Ismail Khan, an ethnic Tajik belonging to the I... - Afghanistan Reconstruction Caught at Chaotic Juncture (October 5, 2003)
...UL, Afghanistan — Two years after America launched air strikes to oust the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan is teetering in a chaotic state between r... - Peace Puzzle (September 15, 2002)
...r, the operation that wrested control of Afghanistan from Al Qaeda and the Taliban was a "calculated crime against humanity that differs from September 11th... - NATO Planning For Takeover Of Afghan Military Operations (October 13, 2004)
...he country's southeastern border regions three years after the fall of the Taliban regime in a US-led invasion. Rumsfeld first floated the idea of having... - Pakistan Elections 'Seriously Flawed' (October 13, 2002)
...ighest number of seats in Baluchistan, also bordering Afghanistan. Several Taliban and al-Qa'ida leaders are believed to be in hiding in both provinces. The... - New Assault Prepared Near Gardez as US Leaders Find They Misjudged Size, Firepower of Enemy (March 8, 2002)
...s Afghan forces for what it hopes could be a final assault on al Qaeda and Taliban positions as early as this weekend. While U.S. warplanes stepped up bom... - Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (February 19, 2002)
...eaflets and broadcasting messages into Afghanistan when it was still under Taliban rule. But it recently created the Office of Strategic Influence, which... - Georgia Says Al Qaeda in Its Rebel Abkhazia Zone (March 7, 2002)
... Security Minister Valery Khaburdzania said reports of an al Qaeda and Taliban presence in the breakaway territory stemmed from information gleaned from... - FBI Warns Attack May Be Imminent in US or Yemen (February 11, 2002)
...amo Bay, Cuba, where several al-Qaida operatives are being held along with Taliban fighters. Officials said the information was specific enough to be dee... - US May Send Hundreds of 'Advisers' to Afghanistan (August 3, 2003)
... roads. The United States attacked Afghanistan in 2001 to overthrow its Taliban rulers, who had provided shelter to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Presi... - US Ready to Wage War on Two Fronts (April 27, 2002)
...orts of American troops operating in Pakistan in the hunt for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, Gen Franks said there were no "unilateral" missions on Pakistani... - Two Worlds Paired by War (December 31, 2001)
... Now the capital of Afghanistan was spread out before him, freed of the Taliban and as quiet as midnight in Central Park. He was momentarily content. "The... - NION: Anti-War Voices Raised on Campuses (October 8, 2002)
...ns, involving many students and professors who did not oppose toppling the Taliban, suggest that the Bush administration may find it far harder to build publ... - US Strike Kills Six in Al Qaeda (November 5, 2002)
...t first gained notice after it was used in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Taliban leader Mohammad Omar. The missile destroyed Omar's sport-utility vehicle,... - Qatari Lawyer Builds Case for Detainees At Guantánamo Bay (May 13, 2002)
...m from a half-dozen countries to represent the families of 70 al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners held at a U.S. Navy base in Cuba and is preparing to ask the U.S... - Remarks of Gen. Anthony Zinni Opposing War with Iraq (August 23, 2002)
..., making sure Al Qaeda can't rise again from the ashes that are destroyed. Taliban cannot come back. That the warlords can't regain power over Kabul and Karz... - Why Our World is More Dangerous (September 2, 2002)
...d as if they might do. Bush drew a potent alliance together to destroy the Taliban and attempt to root al Qaeda out of Afghanistan. He seized on, and became... - Super Puppeteer (September 2, 2002)
...oslavia, and then proceeded to replace the anachronistic government of the Taliban, with a weak and fragile one. In both cases the action was at least partia... - US–UK ... Divided They Fight (June 27, 2002)
...ncertainty over how successfully it had "found and destroyed" al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in the Shah-i-Kot mountains, and which cost nine American lives ... - US Closes Consulate in Pakistan (August 5, 2002)
...e threats come despite stepped up pressure by Pakistani security forces on Taliban and al-Qaida members who fled the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan. ... - Easing Sanctions on Bin Laden Associates Urged (August 16, 2002)
...ravel, arms and financial embargo on al Qaeda and erstwhile members of the Taliban, the former Afghan rulers who once harbored bin Laden and his followers, t... - Afghan Opium Farmers Singing in the Rain (February 18, 2003)
...g new anti-poppy laws by the December 2001 collapse of the hardline former Taliban regime, which imposed strict punishment for cultivating the plants. "T... - US Wants DNA of All Afghan Detainees (March 3, 2002)
...ility to identify a vast majority of captured fighters of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, federal authorities are proposing to create a DNA databank of terrorism s... - Collateral Damage (April 5, 2004)
...lated to this state-centric worldview. The military was used to depose the Taliban -- conceptualized as a state sponsor of al-Qaeda -- and then packed up to... - Al Qaeda Interrogations Fall Short of the Mark (April 21, 2002)
...The effort to obtain information from al Qaeda and Taliban fighters detained at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba has been hampered by inexp... - Bush Clarifies 'Terror Doctrine' (April 2, 2002)
... network that was sheltered by Afghanistan's now-toppled government of the Taliban militia. "The situation in the Middle East is, indeed, different," said... - The Kurdish Jihadis (July 14, 2002)
...looded into Afghanistan in this period to be trained and to fight with the Taliban. This does not of course prove any kind of Saddam-bin Laden link. Penta... - When Nation-Building Destroys (April 4, 2002)
...ised concerns about 'rival factionsÖstill jostling for power, al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters remain[ing] on the loose, and Iran creating trouble by spiriting... - Pentagon: War Costs $30B for Year (February 25, 2002)
...r humanitarian supplies; $19 million for the costs of holding al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and $100 mill... - Fragile Alliances in a Hostile Land (May 5, 2002)
...nd other U.S. troops forged with Afghan fighters were key to defeating the Taliban. But it wasn't easy. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Protected by darkness,... - Four Of Seven French Nationals Held At Guantanamo Transferred To France (July 27, 2004)
...01 and early in 2002, when the United States went after Al-Qaeda and their Taliban hosts following the September 11 attacks. Their repatriation follows th... - Not a Dress Rehearsal (August 14, 2003)
...strong. Unlike in Iraq, the locals, almost two years after the fall of the Taliban, want more American engagement, not less. And not just American: the rebui... - Live Bombs Litter Streets After Afghan Arms Blast (June 29, 2002)
...p at a former Muslim religious seminary during operations against fugitive Taliban and al Qaeda militants in southern Afghanistan following last year's U.S.... - German Unit Will Pull Out If U.S. Attacks Iraq (August 31, 2002)
...as part of Germany's contribution to the campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan that followed the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. ... - On the Greater Middle East (March 1, 2004)
...anistan, where Bin Laden was said to be hiding under the protection of the Taliban regime. After overthrowing the Talibans, Bush came forward with the theory... - DOJ E-Mails Question Lindh's Guilt (June 15, 2002)
...: John De Pue John, The FBI wants to interview American Taliban member John Walker some time next week. The interview would occur in Afgha... - US Prepares to Expand Cuban Prison (July 25, 2002)
...tanamo Bay Naval Station is nearly filled, with 564 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners from the campaign in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The facility... - DoJ E-mails Express Concern Over Lindh's Rights (June 15, 2002)
...To: John De Pue John, The FBI wants to interview American Taliban member John Walker some time next week. The interview would occur in Afgha... - Sept. 11, One Year Later (August 29, 2002)
...important thing right: the prosecution of the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Perhaps the United States should have obtained more international backing... - US Sends Commandos to Hunt Down Bin Laden (December 15, 2001)
... reward of about $10 million for information leading to the capture of the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, in addition to the $25 million reward for th... - Tales of Despair From Guantánamo (June 17, 2003)
...e saying this is a prison for 150 years," said Suleiman Shah, 30, a former Taliban fighter from Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan. None of those... - Bare-Faced Resistance (July 20, 2002)
...ey became refugees again when they fled from the extreme oppression of the Taliban, and spent two years in Pakistan, but the destitution that faced so many A... - Due Process Necessary, Even in War (June 25, 2002)
...otes show Lindh saying at one point that he had been fighting only for the Taliban, not Al Qaeda, and would have stopped doing that if it were possible after... - A20 Analysis: On Stopping Open-Ended, Permanent War (April 25, 2002)
...anti-Soviet fundamentalists in Afghanistan and this led to the rise of the Taliban and their harboring of Osama bin Laden. The path to ending terrorism, w... - Militias Providing Only Security in Afghanistan (April 24, 2003)
...ded to form a militia of their own to keep the peace. "We are happy the Taliban are gone; we have no choice but to be happy," says Haji Mohmand, the Manga... - A Safe Place for War (February 8, 2002)
... brutal thugs. "It is clear that they're ordinary criminals, unlike the Taliban, who fought for a cause," said Capt. Harold Cabunoc, commander of the Phil... - The World in 2005 (March 1, 2002)
...husiastic than it was in Afghanistan when the United States dismantled the Taliban regime. The Middle East, then, may be poised for a flip-flop, with the Un... - Interview with Al Qaeda's Abu Ghaith (June 24, 2002)
...ng to do with this battle. But if America thinks that the fall of the Taliban is a success, then they still donít know the Afghan people ñ this strong p... - To Rebuild Afghanistan, Look Next Door (February 28, 2002)
... Shiites and particularly the Hazara ethnic minority. During the period of Taliban power, Iran continued to aid what there was of the Hezb-i-Wahdat active in... - Bombing Victims Gather in Kabul (April 7, 2002)
... which began last October as the United States waged war to bring down the Taliban government. The limited survey, in eight of Afghanistan's 29 provinces,... - A20: Thousands March Peacefully in Nation's Capital (April 21, 2002)
...ors railed against the U.S.-led war on terrorism and its fight to oust the Taliban and al Qaeda from Afghanistan. Several protesters told CNN they believe fi... - Story of find in Afghan cave 'was made up' to justify sending British marines (March 24, 2002)
...nment had decided to send the Marines to Afghanistan to fight al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. The claim, carried by a number of newspapers yesterday, was denied... - Firing Leaflets and Electrons, US Wages Information War (February 23, 2003)
... saw that the population understood why coalition forces were fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda." In Iraq, he said, "it will be when we see a break with t... - How to Lose a War (October 27, 2001)
...ar here — even as Mr. Rumsfeld and his generals now tell us that the Taliban, once expected to implode in days, are proving Viet- Cong-like in their in... - The Making of a Muslim Holocaust (December 1, 2004)
...at US troops were collaborating in the torture and killing of thousands of Taliban prisoners near Mazaar-e Sharif. At the time, the film prompted demands for... - The Axis of Nonsense (May 15, 2002)
...ent hateful to the sight of US ultra-conservatism. First there was the Taliban. Beyond them lay the improbable axis of evil – at the apex of which is Ira... - An Uneasy Peace (April 29, 2002)
...r not wear the burqa or any form of head covering. After five years of Taliban oppression, the worst in the world for women, such freedoms are heartening... - GIs Guard Afghan Leader Amid Concerns (July 22, 2002)
...on, gave little away at a recent news conference. He did not rule out that Taliban or Al Qaeda could have been involved, but Mr. Qadir, who had long been a s... - 27 Israeli Reserve Pilots Refuse to Bomb Civilian Areas (September 25, 2003)
...tions General Assembly, defended American military action that toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. "He is going to lose in Afgh... - Magnet for Evil (August 20, 2003)
...rchy, even as Afghanistan also slips back into chaos, with a reconstituted Taliban fighting machine killing 90 in the last month. The democracy dominoes a... - Afghan Defense Official Looks Warily at Iraq (December 6, 2002)
... gave lots of cash to many warlords and commanders during the war with the Taliban and al Qaeda," a government official told EurasiaNet. "Now they have lots... - Emotions Mixed for Soldiers Hunting Qaeda (March 23, 2003)
... "If it's over in three to five days and there's no search for Al Qaeda or Taliban holdouts afterwards, there may be no more role for infantry there," he sai... - Karzai's Control Often Illusory (February 25, 2002)
...to unqualified "jihadis" — Islamic militia members who fought against Taliban forces in the 1990s. Some hinted that Rahman's slaying was part of a plot... - Pentagon May Eliminate New Office of Influence (February 25, 2002)
... Rumsfeld said on the CBS News program "Face the Nation," adding: "And the Taliban and the Al Qaeda were lying about it, and we needed to find ways to tell t... - Turkey, Drugs, Faustian Alliances & Sibel Edmonds (June 28, 2004)
...elligence confirmed the presence of a linkage between Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and international terrorist Osama Bin Laden. He went on to say that al... - US Behind Secret Transfer of Terror Suspects (March 11, 2002)
...outheast Asian archipelago not to plan an attack but to seek refuge as the Taliban neared collapse and al Qaeda leaders sought to flee Afghanistan. Western o... - Peace is Hell (March 3, 2002)
...ast tuned in, U.S.-led forces liberated Kabul as if by remote control. The Taliban fled in the face of surgical airstrikes that left hands-on fighting to Nor... - Elite Guard Unit Told to Get Ready (August 20, 2002)
...ext to the former home of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-time leader of the Taliban who vanished from sight after the war began. Special forces soldiers al... - US Holds Suspected Al Qaeda Trainee (July 20, 2002)
... U.S. intelligence officials said that possibly hundreds of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters who escaped from Afghanistan had gone to Indonesia and that natio... - Bush Broadens Anti-Hussein Order (June 16, 2002)
...with the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance forces as they began to overrun the Taliban. There is no such tradition in Iraq, officials said, and the standing Iraq... - The Rogues of Academe (December 1, 2002)
...hese flaws would become a thing of the past if Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed Taliban leader and former ruler of Afghanistan, were placed in charge. Mullah Omar... - Warlords Named to Afghan Cabinet (June 20, 2002)
... ethnic Tajiks from the Northern Alliance, the army that helped defeat the Taliban last fall. Karzai could not afford to alienate them, in part because they... - Shackles Loosened on US Intelligence (July 8, 2002)
...and the elder President Bush's invasion of Panama in the 1980s. The Afghan Taliban regime was first to fall to this new policy. Iraq is next on the administr... - US Prisoners in Cuba Run the Gamut (June 13, 2002)
...ing members of bin Laden's al Qaeda organization and/or the fundamentalist Taliban. The bulk of those at Camp X-Ray, like most militant Muslims around the... - US Faces Setbacks in Terror Cases (August 27, 2002)
...e major cases. American John Walker Lindh pleaded guilty to being an enemy Taliban soldier and is cooperating with prosecutors. Zacarias Moussaoui faces tria... - Chairman Walks Out of Afghan Council (December 31, 2003)
... ascendant, and the Tajiks, who have dominated Kabul since the fall of the Taliban. The rivalry heated up when the Tajik camp accused the chairman and his... - The Mess in Afghanistan (February 12, 2004)
... Hamid Karzai set out for Kabul for the first time since the defeat of the Taliban. He had been fighting along with his fellow Kandahari tribesmen in the las... - Anti-War Voices Can Trump Bush's Failed Iraq Policy (October 3, 2002)
...of religion and social policy, Iraq under Saddam represents everything the Taliban and Al Qaeda hate. It's conceivable that bin Laden and Saddam have become... - Two Lost Years (September 11, 2003)
...t disguise the fact that in Afghanistan, where the US fightback began, the Taliban and the terrorists are now resurgent. He could not hide the uncomfortable... - Al-Qa'ida Military Training on the Internet (February 16, 2002)
... its leader Usama Bin Ladin. Among the sites that have been supporting the Taliban since the start of the war on 7 October is the "Jihad On Line" site, so mu... - Security Tight for Pearl Kidnapper's Court Appearance (February 24, 2002)
.... He also the kidnapping was also to protest against U.S. treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners from the Afghan war. His group called itself th... - Kashmiri Militants Angry at Being Blocked From India (June 8, 2002)
...e segment of the population by joining America in its campaign against the Taliban and Al Qaeda and vowing to lead this Islamic republic of 140 million peopl... - Afghan Warlord Muddles Interim Government's Plans (May 21, 2002)
...le provincial capital near the Pakistan border, Khost was once a Qaeda and Taliban stronghold. "I want to remove the Kalashnikov culture," he said, using... - Reagan-Appointed Judge has Words for Ashcroft (July 15, 2002)
...panel reversed a district court judge's ruling that the "Sec- ond American Taliban," a young man born in Louisiana to Saudi parents, had a right to an attorn... - US, China on Collision Course Over Oil (February 2, 2004)
...i nuclear effort that may one day leave a nuclear weapon in the hands of a Taliban-type regime in Riyadh or Islamabad. Since 9/11, a deep tension in U.S.... - The Death Convoy of Afghanistan (August 26, 2002)
... the nearby Sheberghan prison. What they saw shocked them. More than 3,000 Taliban prisoners—who had surrendered to the victorious Northern Alliance forces a... - Why bin Laden's 'Confessions' Keep Flopping (April 18, 2002)
...he professional-class killers of 9/11 – still maintain that the war on the Taliban and Al Qaeda is nothing more than an exercise of brute force against Islam... - America's Shady Ally Against Terror (March 11, 2002)
... sustain a Muslim insurgency, and now has crushed a Muslim insurgency, the Taliban, that turned into a government. It may prove to be the case in Uzbekistan,... - In Terror War, 2nd Track for Suspects (December 1, 2002)
...inistration officials, noting that they have chosen to prosecute suspected Taliban member John Walker Lindh, "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and alleged Sept. 11... - 'Friendly Ire' in Afghanistan (February 19, 2003)
...n high-profile operations in eastern and southern Afghanistan, routing out Taliban and Al Qaeda holdouts along the Afghan- Pakistani border. But as the co... - 'Combatants' Lack Rights, US Argues (June 20, 2002)
...he filing in the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, the U.S.-born man captured with Taliban forces and being held at a Navy brig in Norfolk, provides the most forcefu... - The Domination Effect (January 8, 2004)
...a office. As it turned out, this referred to broadcast interviews with Taliban officials. The various attacks on al-Jazeera in Kabul, Basra and Baghd... - I'm No Taliban ... Get Me Out Of Here (February 22, 2004)
...hal Ahmed, all of whom were arrested by US forces in the wake of the anti- Taliban operations in Afghanistan in October 2001. On their arrival home they... - Saddam in the Crosshairs (November 21, 2001)
...e next phase of the "war on terrorism" suddenly flared up last week as the Taliban fled Kabul. "Where to go next and how big it should be is what's being arg... - Where the Enemy Is Everywhere and Nowhere (July 20, 2003)
... Lowri Kariz, the village the troops will search, hunting Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Steel bars split the village into quadrants. Squads will cover each secti... - The Permanent War Campaign (February 12, 2002)
...e world. Perhaps the sharpest divide has come over the US treatment of Taliban fighters held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The White House has repeatedly desc... - Level of Food Aid to Afghans Drops (November 30, 2001)
...WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 – When allied forces routed the Taliban from Kabul and most of northern Afghanistan, international aid organizatio... - Anti-US Militants Showing Up All Over (June 23, 2002)
...s in Afghanistan were nonsense. These wild exaggerations came from lumping Taliban tribal warriors with some 5,000 Islamic resistance fighters from Kashmir,... - US Military May Intervene if Afghan Violence Continues (May 13, 2003)
...— many of whom were close allies of the U.S. during the war on the deposed Taliban regime — seem to be growing. During a visit to Kabul on Friday, Deputy Sec... - Daschle Defends Challenge of Bush on War (March 1, 2002)
... ever be judged successful as long as terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mohammad Omar remain at large. During a trip to Iowa yesterday,... - Iranian Security Leader Criticizes Bush (July 23, 2002)
...Americans felt that they could gain a victory in Afghanistan and after the Taleban government was overthrown, the Americans became magalomaniacal. They decid... - Military Lands Exactly Where It Didn't Want To (March 6, 2002)
... the U.S.-led force of more than 2,000 will continue battling Al Qaeda and Taliban forces until the militants are either dead or captured. But Defense Sec... - US Seeks New Afghan Aid Amid Criticism of Reconstruction (July 27, 2003)
...nd often work to undermine Karzai's central authority. Remnants of the Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan until the United States and its allies toppled it... - Profile of 'Local Leader' of Al-Qa'ida in Saudi Arabia (December 10, 2003)
...i youths arrived in Afghanistan before the start of the US war against the Taliban regime. Some members of these groups were later killed, others were arrest... - EU Seeks to Firm Anti-Terror Commitment from Pakistan (May 18, 2002)
...os in EU aid and trade benefits available since Islamabad reversed its pro-Taliban policy and joined the international combat against terrorism. "I will... - How to Squander Moral Capital (September 9, 2002)
...eels of the nearly-unanimous support given to the attacks on Afghanistan's Taliban regime. Until recently, the Bush gang at least had the American people... - Why Can't We Find bin Laden? (November 17, 2002)
...ler's town in the northern tribal area of Waziristan that's full of former Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives, have to spend as much time guarding against count... - Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost (August 24, 1998)
...majority of those who fought and died for Afghanistanís freedom – like the Taliban regime that now holds sway over most of that tortured nation – were Afghan... - Karzai Faces Revolt In Fragile Coalition (October 5, 2003)
...that Afghans need to defend themselves from resurgent forces of the former Taliban rulers and that their own fighters need more assurances of official suppor... - Losing the Peace? (May 13, 2002)
...y night families gather to watch Afghan TV, back on the air after years of Taliban blackout. The newscast even features a woman announceróa bold declaration... - US Envisions Blueprint on Iraq Including Big Invasion Next Year (April 28, 2002)
...not believe that even an expanded version of the strategy used to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan would work. In that model, precision airstrikes combined... - India Prepares for Blitzkrieg (June 1, 2002)
...ross the ceasefire line into Indian Kashmir. Some could be al-Qaeda or Taliban fugitives, but the vast majority belong to indigenous Pakistani or pro-Pak... - Al Qaeda Suspect Blows Self Up Outside Yemeni Capital (February 15, 2002)
...uding American John Walker Lindh, who is accused of fighting alongside the Taliban. But prior to Sept. 11, the Salih government did not give FBI investig... - Britain Drops Charges in Leak of U.S. Memo (February 25, 2004)
...inking about invading Iraq after the campaign in Afghanistan to topple the Taliban. She added, "Everybody was just like, `You've got to be kidding.' " Ms.... - Bush Doctrine Begins to Blur (April 2, 2002)
...tional coalition for a military campaign in Afghanistan that dislodged the Taliban regime and at least dispersed the al Qaeda terrorist network responsible f... - Army Reservists in Iraq Ordered to Stay Up to One Year (September 9, 2003)
...rd the Pentagon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to process al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and to Iraq sinc... - Bush Authorized 'Targeted Killings' (November 6, 2002)
...ailed effort last year to use a Predator to kill Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban leader. The strike against him was aborted because of the possibility that... - Mugabe's 'Taliban' Torture Opponents in Terror Camps (March 2, 2002)
...g horrific wounds after being held at camps by gangs of youths dubbed 'the Taliban' by local people. The youths, whose ages range from 10 to 30, are offi... - Northern Afghan Warlord Comments On Regional Violence (June 27, 2002)
... Of course they never mentioned that we were the first group to attack the Taliban and al Qaeda. That was the Northern Alliance. We freed five provinces in o... - In Afghanistan, A New Robosoldier Goes To War (July 31, 2002)
...nd-and-control structures because its "eyes" make it hard for Al Qaeda and Taliban remnants to congregate even in small groups without being seen. The war in... - Bustling US Air Base Materializes in the Mud (April 27, 2002)
...ned itself to the American-led military coalition that declared war on the Taliban regime. About 2,000 American troops are also stationed in neighboring U... - Ironic if Bush Himself Causes Jihad (September 10, 2002)
...beral opposition to America's Afghan war is that it would be better if the Taliban were still in power. And it can be ugly: the post-September 11 crowing of... - The Long and Short of It (September 8, 2002)
... decades earlier, now seems silly. Routing al Qaeda and its protector, the Taliban regime in Kabul, proved remarkably easy. Watching joyful Afghans dancing i... - The Truth About Sept. 11 (September 5, 2002)
...l 2001, the Bush administration funneled millions of dollars in aid to the Taliban in order to reward the hardline Islamic regime for virtually eliminating o... - Ghosts of Vietnam Era Haunt US in Endgame (March 5, 2002)
...mportant unfinished business. This was a war against al-Qa'ida and the Taliban — yet their respective leaders, Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed O... - The War According to Col. Hackworth (August 4, 2003)
... prevail, I tried that in '91 and just saw in Afghanistan what happened to Taliban and Al-Qaida, I will run away for another day." Saddam is saying, "I a... - Pinprick Attacks on US Forces Mount Worldwide (October 9, 2002)
... their operations in the east of the country, especially around the former Taliban and Al Qaeda stronghold of Khost, have been hit by frequent gun, rocket an... - Blue Man Group (August 27, 2003)
...rocess, while America remains control over its forces hunting Al Qaeda and Taliban remnants in the countryside. The same approach could work in Iraq. Putting... - How to Lose a Friend (September 16, 2002)
...y and support, and vowing to join in the retaliation against Afghanistan's Taliban regime. One year later, Schroeder has emerged as Europe's most outspoken o... - Rumsfeld Defends Status Quo on Central Asian Tour (February 26, 2004)
... example, five Afghan non-governmental organization workers were killed by Taliban militants, who have increased operations inside Afghanistan in recent mont... - Expert: US Failure to Comprehend Islamic Radical Motivations Undermines Democratization Hopes for Middle East, Central Asia (May 13, 2004)
...ences fighting in Afghanistan, first in the late 1980s and later under the Taliban. Converts also play a significant role in international jihadist movem... - Killing the 20th Hijacker (April 2, 2002)
...was to announce that the captured John Walker Lindhóthe so-called American Talibanóhad suddenly become the new public enemy number one in the war on terroris... - How Much Do US Presidents Know about Terror? (May 17, 2002)
...my. This is still truefive months after the United States brought down the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and stripped al Qaeda of its main territorial base,... - Afghans Say US Scuttled Surrender (December 13, 2001)
...use they were afraid of being killed after giving up. Hundreds of captured Taliban soldiers died after the Northern Alliance seized the city of Mazar-e Shari... - Al Qaeda's Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing (March 17, 2002)
...kistani Islamist group, was part of an extensive paper record that fleeing Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters left behind last fall at sites across Afghanistan. R... - Report: US Has a Plan to Occupy Iraq (October 11, 2002)
...haos and in-fighting that have plagued Afghanistan since the defeat of the Taliban. Mr. Bush's aides say they also want full control over Iraq while American... - The Roots of Torture (May 24, 2004)
...iginally, Geneva Conventions protections were stripped only from Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. But later Rumsfeld himself, impressed by the success of techniq... - The CIA's Secret Army (January 26, 2003)
... 32, was killed in Afghanistan in November 2001 after being overpowered by Taliban prisoners he had been interrogating; uncharacteristically, the CIA confirm... - New Book by Al-Qa'ida's Al-Ayiri Views Region's Future After Fall of Baghdad (August 29, 2003)
...rtantly, "The Truth of the Crusader Wars", "Al-Mizan (the balance) and the Taliban Movement", "Hidayat Al-Hayara fi Hukm Al-Asara" (Guiding the confused peop... - Pakistan's Military Gov't Heading for Crisis (July 17, 2002)
...o end the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane that was forced to land in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. "There are wheels within wheels," said a Western d... - Security No Longer Safe Issue for Bush in '04 (August 22, 2003)
...h proclaiming "victory" in the war in Iraq, he also said "we destroyed the Taliban" in Afghanistan, and predicted that in the war on terrorism, "we do not kn... - Could Sept. 11 Have Been Prevented? (August 4, 2002)
...st training camps and bin Laden was being protected by the radical Islamic Taliban regime. The Taliban had come to power in 1996, bringing a sort of order to... - Russia Recasts Bog in Caucasus as War on Terror (October 5, 2002)
...11 attacks, in words that directly echoed President Bush's warnings to the Taliban last year and Saddam Hussein now, Mr. Putin threatened to launch pre-empti... - GIs Battle 'Ghosts' in Afghanistan (May 16, 2002)
...assaults of months past. With no known large concentrations of al Qaeda or Taliban fighters to attack, the U.S. campaign has evolved into a sometimes frustra... - Weaker al Qaeda Shifts to Smaller-Scale Attacks (October 15, 2002)
...ntelligence officials said that after the U.S.-led defeat of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, hundreds of al Qaeda fighters were told to flee Afghanistan to the... - Guantanamo Issue Took Two Years to Reach UN Commission (April 15, 2004)
...held. Most of the men, who the United States describes as Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, have been held at Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba since Janu... - Ashcroft Defends Antiterror Plan, Says Criticism May Aid Foes (December 6, 2001)
... Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan fighting alongside the Taliban, saying that while he would not be tried by a military tribunal, "I would... - A Lifetime in Limbo (June 4, 2003)
...ational rules of war and fights for an outlaw outfit, like Al Qaeda or the Taliban, rather than for a recognized nation. Unlike the two other U.S. citizens,... - Has the US Lost Its Way? (March 3, 2002)
...ly of sallying forth with massive military heft to destroy demons like the Taliban, only to retreat again into our air bases and boot camps. They underst... - Bin Laden May Still Be Alive (November 13, 2002)
... power equals God's. The man said the attacks against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, led by the United States, should have been sufficient warn... - Kurds' Deaths Could Alter Iraq's Shape (February 2, 2004)
...al said the group, which follows an extreme Muslim ideology similar to the Taliban in Afghanistan, still operates in northern Iraq, though it has been weaken... - US Ships al Qaeda Suspects to Arab States (July 26, 2002)
... is careful to show how fairly it's treating the hundreds of orange-suited Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters locked behind the razor-wire of the US base at Guant... - 'Neo-Liberals,' George W. Bush, and War in Iraq (March 10, 2004)
...ct. So did the intervention in Afghanistan against Usama Bin Ladin and the Taliban. Apart from US security interests, it was possible to clothe it in "humani... - We the People, We the Warriors (August 26, 2002)
... it in our readiness to tar Iraq with the same brush used to discredit the Taliban. The cause of peace is threatened as much by specialization in the dist... - Can We Kill Osama's Ideas? (January 1, 2002)
.... After September 11 bin Laden and the Arabic-speaking spokesmen of the Taliban tried, through the Gulf-based satellite-television channel Al Jazeera and... - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Need to Work on Common Plan to Thwart US Allegations (September 12, 2003)
...ness of the Pakistani Government's efforts to stop the recent emergence of Taliban resistance. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are considered to be the US ally cou... - A Path of Lies (September 9, 2003)
...d America and our allies must not, and will not, allow it." Forget the Taliban. It was now time for a full-blown "axis of evil" — a wish-list of targets... - Councils of War (January 1, 2002)
...porates this theme, and it is clearly how the war against al Qaeda and the Taliban began. Perret argued at great length that preparing for war, waging war... - Nepal's Leader to Seek Help from Bush (May 4, 2002)
...han negotiate, seeking to link the Maoist insurgency with al Qaeda and the Taliban. As a result, the Nepalese Maoists' demands were rejected. They, in tur... - Kurds, Secure in North Iraq, Are Cool to US Offensive (July 8, 2002)
...her Iraqi opposition fighters, would seek to replicate the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, using the Kurdish-controlled areas and troops much as the... - The Struggles of Democracy and Empire (October 10, 2002)
...stration. The first phase of the war on terror saw the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the escape of the leaders of Al Qaeda. The second sent... - Manifest Destiny Warmed Up? (August 14, 2003)
...r nor easy. Nearly two years after a singularly successful toppling of the Taliban, the country is still largely in the hands of warlords of dubious allegian... - US Exploring Baghdad Strike as Iraq Option (July 29, 2002)
...in on direct notice that regime change is American policy. But just as the Taliban and Al Qaeda had little doubt that the United States would respond to the... - Retreat of Afghan Allies Forced GIs to Take Lead in Fighting (March 10, 2002)
...fter the battle started. That quickly changed when Qaeda and non-Afghan Taliban fighters surprised the allied force with a fierce defense, killing one Ame... - Bush officials pressuring Pakistan to catch Osama bin Laden by election (July 8, 2004)
... to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman Al Zawahiri, or the Taliban's Mullah Mohammed Omar, all of whom are believed to be hiding in the lawle... - High-Tech Strategy Guides Pentagon Plan (July 13, 2002)
...This ignores the difficulties that have followed the rapid toppling of the Taliban. An administration that came to office scorning "nation-building" is now k... - Peace Activism a Tough Sell on Campus (April 21, 2002)
...ary effort in Afghanistan, where even residents seem grateful to be rid of Taliban rulers. Few rage about the loss of civil rights to America's anti-terro... - Guantánamo Spy Cases Evaporate (January 24, 2004)
...py ring was operating in the high-security prison for alleged al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. "I find it difficult to believe professional prosecutors are... - What Michael Moore Misses About the Empire (July 5, 2004)
...he sea. It's true that Unocal had sought such a pipeline, and at one point Taliban officials were courted by the United States when it looked as if they coul... - America Alone in the World (September 23, 2002)
...errorists in the past -- or even the present. Useful as it was against the Taliban, the idea of taking action against not only terrorists but also the states... - Approval for US After Sept. 11 Cooling (August 14, 2002)
... many other Europeans give Washington credit for dismantling the hard-line Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which harbored Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda ter... - 'Secret' War Prevents Us From Learning the Truth (May 19, 2002)
...m four directions — by fighters loyal to bin Laden's al-Qaeda and the Taliban at 2pm on Thursday afternoon. By Friday morning American airpower, primari... - On the Front Lines of a War on Dissent (April 14, 2002)
...WASHINGTON — Nineteen-year-old Naureen Shah has been called a "Taliban," a "Nazi" and "un-American." Three of her classmates at Chicago's Nor... - Va. Student Held for Months in Saudi Prison (November 22, 2003)
...o of the men of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda and the Taliban by planning to go to Afghanistan to fight U.S. troops. U.S. counterterr... - How the US Watches Suspects of Terrorism (February 12, 2003)
...were indicted last fall on charges they conspired to join al-Qaeda and the Taliban to fight U.S. military forces. The agents were given the time largely beca... - Website of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh (February 2, 2004)
... world. The year 2001 saw the attack on Afghanistan and the removal of the Taliban regime. And now the latest chapter in the 'War on terror' is surrounding I... - The Privatization of War (December 10, 2003)
...s over whether they are combatants in a deepening conflict with emboldened Taliban insurgents. And in the small town of Hadzici west of Sarajevo, a milit... - Why Bush's Middle East Propaganda Campaign Won't Work (July 12, 2002)
...zeera and "NBC Nightly News" and concluded that Al-Jazeera was neither pro-Taliban nor anti-American and just as professional as the American news coverage.... - Bush's Vietnam (June 23, 2003)
...ld collapse without American guns. Al-Qaeda has not been defeated, and the Taliban are re-emerging. Regardless of showcase improvements, the situation of wom... - Terror and Just Response (July 2, 2002)
...cites applies far more clearly to the US war against Nicaragua than to the Taliban or al-Qaeda, so if it is taken to justify intensive US bombardment and gro... - Prophet of Hope (August 27, 2002)
... "Yes." Would he meet, say, Abu Hamza, the sheikh of Finsbury Park, a Taliban sympathiser who admits to sharing the views of Osama bin Laden? "Yes."... - Things We Lost In the Fire (September 17, 2002)
...d The Progressive magazine that the officers asked whether she had any pro-Taliban material. "No," she replied. "I think the Taliban is just a bunch of assho... - Nation-Building Lite (July 27, 2002)
...2; he runs a foul and dilapidated prison where he kept about 800 Pakistani Taliban fighters captured in the battle for Kunduz last November. When representat... - Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq? (May 23, 2004)
...termination that the Geneva Convention “does not apply to al Qaeda and the Taliban,” Gonzales opined, “substantially reduces the threat of domestic criminal... - Qaeda Position on Recruiting Europeans, Americans (August 3, 2003)
...ni city of Panu, telling them that he decided to fight in the war with the Taliban forces. He was arrested during the rebellion of Al-Qa'ida prisoners in the... - A Grand Strategy of Transformation (December 1, 2002)
...The Bush administration got a taste of Agincourt with its victory over the Taliban at the end of 2001, to which the Afghans responded by gleefully shaving th... - Fears Prompt U.S. to Beef Up Nuclear Terror Detection (March 3, 2002)
...fied since American-backed forces routed Osama bin Laden's network and its Taliban backers in Afghanistan. "Clearly . . . the sense of urgency has gone up... - Al Qaeda May Foment Unrest in Iraq Among Kurds (July 11, 2002)
...an air power helping them, and see the overthrow of a terrible regime, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and hopefully Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Another view is that... - John Bolton vs. the World (July 16, 2003)
...power has a tendency to ebb and flow. Moreover, despite the removal of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein's vicious regime, it's hard to see the world as a bette... - The United States, Territorial Security and the Threats Against It (November 22, 2004)
...errorist crimes (the murder of the Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan by the Taliban and Al-Qa'ida forces), gain their cooperation in fighting terrorism and ot... - Crime and Holy Punishment (November 24, 2002)
...'s Iran. There's Sudan. Perhaps most famously, there was Afghanistan under Taliban rule. There are a few other places where criminal sharia is applied region... - Iran: Threat or Victim? (September 2, 2002)
...ficials against attempting to upset the stability of Afghanistan or giving Taliban and Al-Qa'eda members refuge in their country. Tehran rejected what it ref... - Mighty in Pink (February 14, 2003)
...e divided over the war in Afghanistan: Some applauded the overthrow of the Taliban, while others objected on anti-imperialist, nonviolent or practical ground... - German Interior Minister on Deportations, Detainees, Iraqi Aid (September 15, 2003)
...d? Who should order it on the basis of what facts? That brings to mind the Taliban and al-Qa'ida prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, for whom no legal category has... - Anti-Iraq Rhetoric Outpaces Reality (February 23, 2002)
... Munitions (JDAMs), the precision systems that guided 1,000-pound bombs to Taliban and al Qaeda targets, to contemplate an attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. ... - Regime Change (January 27, 2003)
...harges of war crimes. 2001: Afganistan a US-led invasion topples the Taliban government after it refuses to detain suspects or provide information rega... - A New Grand Strategy (January 1, 2002)
... destroying their networks and their infrastructure, and waging war on the Taliban movement that harbors them. The larger task will take time, because it amo... - Iran's Rafsanjani Says All Terrorists Created by 'US Money, Policy, and Support' (February 27, 2004)
...ery well, and the Americans know better than anyone else, they created the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to fight Iran. They created the Al-Qa'ida in order... - Al-Qa'ida's Abu-Muhammad al-Ablaj on Bin Ladin, Weapons, US Targets (September 21, 2003)
...turned better than they were before and are cooperating with the students (Taliban). (Khalil) Are you targeting Hamid Karzai? (Al-Ablaj) Brother, let i... - The Eagle Has Crash Landed (July 9, 2002)
... will accomplish. Thus far, these schemes have led to the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan (without the complete dismantling of al Qaeda or the captur... - Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News (March 13, 2005)
...segment included an interview with an Afghan teacher who recounted how the Taliban only allowed boys to attend school. An Afghan doctor described how the Tal... - The Fighting Next Time (March 10, 2002)
...ode into American landmarks, and then monitored the subsequent rout of the Taliban, the reformers could barely contain the urge to gloat: this is the sort of... - Torture Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas (December 26, 2002)
...valuable prizes in the war on terrorism — captured al Qaeda operatives and Taliban commanders. Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret CIA interr... - India Doubting its US 'Strategic Partnership' (March 27, 2004)
...pardon of Khan in return for greater Pakistani cooperation in crushing the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It was after this revelation that Indian intelligence and de... - The Gray Zone (May 24, 2004)
... that, American intelligence believed, contained Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban leader. A lawyer on duty at the United States Central Command headquarters... - Scientists Refuse to Get Paid for Killer Ideas (September 10, 2003)
... troops and some of their foes—the bombers of the UN HQ in Baghdad, or the Taliban. Kuiper and Potter are avowed pacifists; most are not. Though Kei Koizumi,... - The Bubble of American Supremacy (December 1, 2003)
...s openly building nuclear weapons, and Iran is clandestinely doing so. The Taliban is regrouping in Afghanistan. The costs of occupation and the prospect of... - The Currency War (January 26, 2003)
...h administration ignored the U.N. sanctions that had been imposed upon the Taliban and entered into negotiations with the supposedly "rogue regime" from Febr... - Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents (September 1, 2002)
...e? I think the government should protect me from terrorists, and plus this Taliban doesn't seem so great." The movement failed to address such questions, and... - Terror Assets Hidden In Gem-Buying Spree (December 29, 2002)
... Kenya and Tanzania. The United States had moved to freeze $240 million in Taliban and al Qaeda assets. "It was at that point that al Qaeda realized where... - 'I Want to Go Home' (January 26, 2002)
...d with John Walker Lindh, the young American charged with fighting for the Taliban. Moussaoui and Lindh have become notorious. Oulai is unknown. He is one... - Crossing the Threshold (March 11, 2004)
...e forces had captured Hamdi, whom they described as armed and loyal to the Taliban, and handed him over to the US military. Hamdi’s father filed a habeas cor... - Off Target & Stillborn: US-Based Alhurra Fails to Impress (February 19, 2004)
...lhurra has been in the works since the invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and pursue Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network. Funded by a $62 milli... - The Media and War with Iraq (November 17, 2002)
... Afghanistan where our war criminal allies buried over a thousand of their Taliban enemies after they were suffocated to death in containers. But let me g... - The Fifty-First State (September 18, 2002)
.... The war itself might be quick, perhaps even quicker than the rout of the Taliban. But the end of the fighting would hardly mean the end of America's commit... - It's Empire Versus Democracy (September 10, 2002)
...n U.S. intelligence gathering that made September 11 more likely? Have the Taliban actually been defeated, or simply faded into the mainstream population? Ar... - Interview with Chirac (September 22, 2003)
...eal with either. We are seeing the re-emergence of a certain number of the Taliban. In any case, there is a process in place to which the majority of respons... - Preemptive Strike (July 27, 2003)
...olunteered to do anything she could to help, and ended up flying into post-Taliban Afghanistan as part of the team that reopened the embassy there. A few wee... - The Need for a New Wilsonianism (September 2, 2002)
...h doctrine, Pakistan was forced to relinquish its long-time support of the Taliban and its tolerance of al Qaeda, and Saudi Arabia had to confront the fact t... - Headlines Over the Horizon (July 1, 2003)
...vered that they shared a stake in checking U.S. global power, opposing the Taliban in Afghanistan, fighting narcotics trafficking in Asia, and developing mut... - Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq In Pursuit Of A Neocon Utopia (September 24, 2004)
... than greed itself. Iraq was to the neocons what Afghanistan was to the Taliban: the one place on Earth where they could force everyone to live by the mos... - The First Casualty (June 19, 2003)
...hat, in December, after the Afghanistan campaign against bin Laden and his Taliban sponsors, he was told to come up with a justification for war with Iraq to... - How to Get Out of Iraq (April 15, 2004)
...ith the threat of international terrorists based in Afghanistan. After the Taliban was defeated, other countries contributed troops and accepted casualties -... - Mr. Bush & the Divine (November 6, 2003)
...September 13, 2003, radio address, that in Afghanistan we had "removed the Taliban regime that harbored al-Qaeda." As the crisis of the initial attacks exten... - Creating the Enemy (March 22, 2004)
...owns have volunteered to blow themselves up in Israel or to fight with the Taliban, or al-Qaeda, against US forces. British racist David Copeland used nail-b... - What I Heard about Iraq (February 3, 2005)
...s playing music, cheering, flying kites, and doing all the things that the Taliban and al-Qaida would not let them do.’ I heard the vice president say: ‘T... - Which War: A One-Shot Publication of Social Reconnaissance (March 1, 2004)
...ions next November. Bush himself was surprised by the speed with which the Taliban regime fell: why not repeat the operation, while settling an old account l...
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