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Posted on Oct 14, 2006
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The Nation’s Christian Parenti goes inside Taliban communities and fighting groups in this excellent article and video, which document “the mounting frustration in Afghanistan with government corruption, military occupation and a seemingly endless war.”

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... [T]he Taliban are back, coming out at night to burn schools, assassinate liberal imams, launch rocket attacks on government buildings and plant mines to kill NATO soldiers…

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By el cuervo, October 16, 2006 at 7:45 pm Link to this comment
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Abdifatah Suleiman, it is good to hear your voice here, but tell me how you think a starving woman fights back under the Taliban?

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By Spinoza, October 14, 2006 at 8:21 pm Link to this comment
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Afghanistan will be as much a disaster as Iraq and maybe even more of a blood bath. I don’t know why someone hasn’t killed Bush and company yet.

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By david, October 14, 2006 at 6:30 pm Link to this comment
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Beware when the BLack Watch arrive if you hear bag pipes at night run !
by day the van dous build

lay down your arms Canada is on a peace mission

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By abdifatah suleiman, October 14, 2006 at 12:51 pm Link to this comment
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not suprise, if you look at it, what Do American/Brtish Forces fight for? and what are the Taliban fight for? in nature law the attacker will only hit you at first then you fight back, so they are fighing back, the attackers can not keep attacking because no moral for it, and the taliban has moral because they are defending their land, so they will be victiours,

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