Taliban
- Taliban launches largest attack on Kabul in 11 years
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Taliban launches largest attack on Kabul in 11 years " Dozens of fighters launched gun, rocket and suicide attacks on embassies, Nato bases, ... (Afghanistan, Taliban, Guardian) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-16 15:07 - 0 comments
- Collateral Damage. Kim Barker and Paul Ham
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The Taliban Shuffle (2011) is her true-life reporting from these war-torn countries. Paul Ham ...
SlowTV - admin - 2012-04-11 15:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Changed Way of War in Afghanistan’s Skies
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A Changed Way of War in Afghanistan’s Skies “In the lexicon of close air support, his maneuver was a “show of presence” — a mid-altitude, nonlethal display intended to reassure ground troops and signal to the Taliban that the soldiers were ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-17 14:36 - 0 comments
- What the Taliban wants
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What the Taliban wants "An important message by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, has been released. ... (Afghanistan, Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, New York Review of Books) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-30 14:59 - 0 comments
- Killing Rabbani
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Killing Rabbani "The bomber had posed as a Taliban commander who wanted to talk peace, and he was invited into Rabbani's home. Rabbani's death is a blow to the very idea that reconciliation with the Taliban is possible - or even ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-21 14:03 - 0 comments
- Secret Talks: The Obama Administration and the Taliban
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Secret Talks: The Obama Administration and the Taliban "The Obama Administration has entered into direct, secret talks with senior Afghan Taliban ... (Afghanistan, Obama, Obama Administration, Taliban, New Yorker) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:21 - 0 comments
- How We Lost the War
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protracted civil warfare and a strong chance of the Taliban returning to power. "It's a recipe ... Coalition launched Operation Enduring Freedom with the aerial bombardment of key Taliban and Al Qaeda sites ... Clandestine teams of US Army Special Forces and CIA operatives were sent in to support the anti-Taliban ...
The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-09 16:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Death of an Afghan Godfather
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Death of an Afghan Godfather "Ahmed Wali Karzai embodied all the flaws of the American project in Afghanistan. He was a kind of godfather: Karzai cavorted with drug dealers, oversaw gangs of gunmen, and made deals with the very Taliban ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-14 10:09 - 0 comments
- Obama begins the long retreat from Afghanistan
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"Barack Obama has begun the long retreat from Afghanistan in a televised statement to the US, declaring success against al-Qaida and the Taliban and the withdrawal of about a third of US forces next year." Obama takes gamble on retreat from Afghanistan ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-06-23 15:41 - 0 comments
- America's strange dance with Pakistan
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America's strange dance with Pakistan "As an advisor to Ambassador Holbrooke told me: 'We see Pakistan as a flawed ally and the Afghan Taliban as our enemy. The truth is the reverse.'" ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments
- Comment: Hazara Asylum Seekers
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of the Taliban, as Afghans invariably refer to the years between 1996 and 2001 when the bearded talib, students ... by the Pashtun Taliban for their ethnicity and their adherence to the Shia creed of Islam, regarded by Sunni zealots as heretical. After coming to power, a Taliban commander had announced: “The policy of the Taliban ...
The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-05 12:57 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Comment: Ten Years After Tampa
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to break the smuggling rackets at this time, and the Taliban was driven from power in Kabul, which provided ... Taliban) ...
The Monthly - Peter Mares - 2011-09-19 11:05 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Pakistan: An army without a country
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(Blasphemy laws, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Salman Taseer, Shahbaz Bhatti, Taliban, New York Review of Books) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-23 12:06 - 0 comments
- Shahbaz Bhatti: another voice against Pakistan's extremists dies
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(Blasphemy laws, Pakistan, Political assassination, Salmaan Taseer, Shahbaz Bhatti, Taliban, Guardian) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:23 - 0 comments
- Comment: The Anzac Spirit
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a storm of gunfire to take out a Taliban machinegun post that was firing on his squad. According ... the Taliban, fundamentalist warlords and foreign troops. It’s easier to fight two enemies than three.” Her ... against the Taliban without troops?” The idea that our Diggers might not be welcome had apparently ...
The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-04-24 17:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Tale of Two Cities
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When the Taliban regime fell in November 2001, Saikal put his career on hold to help rebuild his ... for refugees returning to the country after the Taliban’s fall, as well as for foreign military and aid ... the war-ravaged provinces fleeing the resurgent Taliban. By a common estimate, a city of 400,000 just a decade ...
The Monthly - Christopher Kremmer - 2011-03-09 11:39 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Adam Henry
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he is happy to assist the Taliban to assassinate those who have co-operated (or collaborated) ... protection (to those allegedly in danger from Taliban assassination)? Is it just possible that WikiLeaks ...
Letters to the Editor - admin - 2010-12-06 10:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Angus Donohoo
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irrelevant Taliban brutality. More absurdly, he contends that because a single journalist reported ...
Letters to the Editor - admin - 2010-12-06 10:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Wired for War. P.W. Singer
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to pixels on a faraway screen, as remote-controlled drones target Taliban leaders in Afghanistan; the number ...
SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Wired for War. P.W. Singer (p2)
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to pixels on a faraway screen, as remote-controlled drones target Taliban leaders in Afghanistan; the number ...
SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
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wound in the body of the Afghan state, through which the Taliban’s viral insurgency has been able ... workers had simply run into bandits. But the Taliban quickly took responsibility for the murders, accusing ... forces’ use of heavy weapons and air strikes when fighting the Taliban. In August the UN’s Kabul mission ...
The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2011-12-23 09:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 'War' by Sebastian Junger
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in the entire theatre, now abandoned by American forces and controlled by the Taliban. During Junger’s time, ... in ambush, took fire and hunkered down as wave after wave of Taliban fighters assaulted their positions, ... 2010, Noted, SOCIETY, Afghanistan, American Military, Iraq, Literature, Taliban, Theatre, US Army) ...
The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2010-06-05 23:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment
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Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Pacific Solution, Taliban) ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-03-08 09:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Afghanistan
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But Australia cannot afford to be indifferent to a Taliban win, given how this would affect the fate of Pakistan ...
Letters to the Editor - admin - 2009-12-03 11:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment
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matters so much to Australia. One is a sense of obligation to the Afghans: those who toppled the Taliban ... to stay in Afghanistan – the one most often cited by our leaders – is that denying the Taliban control ... by the Coalition over the past eight years. The hope has faded that the Taliban can quickly be defeated ...
The Monthly - Hugh White - 2010-04-15 16:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
