| Feb 2001 | Feb 19, 2001 - By BARBARA CROSSETTE. Field commanders of the Taliban movement have been involved in the last year in the massacres of several hundred civilians in areas where fighting continues in northern Afghanistan, according to a report to be published today by Human Rights Watch. ... www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/world/rights-group-tells-of-taliban-massacres.html
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| Mar 2001 | Mar 3, 2001 - By Ahmed Rashid. The two soaring statues of Buddha, cut into limestone cliffs in Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan, have defied the ravages of numerous wars, including the Mongol, British and Russian invasions. But Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, has decreed that all statues are ... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1324918/Taliban-tanks-and-artillery-fire-on- Buddhas.html
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| May 2001 | May 22, 2001 - By Preston Mendenhall. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 22, 2001 - At the Ahmed brothers' barbershop in the capital city of the world's most radical Islamic regime, haircuts can be dangerous. The wildly popular Leonardo di Caprio cut, dubbed the “Titanic” by locals, has teen-age boys lining up ... www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071818/
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| Aug 2001 | Aug 26, 2001 - KABUL, Afghanistan — International Red Cross officials met with eight imprisoned foreign aid workers on Sunday, the first visitors the Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers have allowed since arresting the aid workers on charges of preaching Christianity. ... www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,32912,00.html
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| Sep 2001 | Sep 21, 2001 - By Jack Kelley, USA TODAY. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Their edicts — forbidding women to attend school, banning everything from makeup to kite flying — are infamous. So are their punishments, ranging from amputation to public stoning. In five years, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia has ... www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/21/taliban.htm
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| Oct 2001 | Oct 1, 2001 - President Bush has approved a secret effort to strengthen a diverse array of groups opposing the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, ... The administration's program of covert support for anti-Taliban groups has emerged as a key element of its plan to oust a regime that Washington has ... www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/world/a-nation-challenged-the-rebels-bush-approves-covert-aid-for-taliban- foes.html?pagewanted=all
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| Oct 19, 2001 - Ahmed Rashid is the author of the best-selling "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia." As a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Rashid has spent 20 years traveling with the Taliban and covering civil war in Afghanistan. ... www.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/19/rashid.cnna
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| Nov 2001 | Nov 14, 2001 - By DEXTER FILKINS. The scene was set today for Northern Alliance troops to make another triumphant entrance into a city taken from the Taliban. Then everything went wrong. Early this afternoon, the word spread that a Taliban commander in Kunduz, in northeastern Afghanistan, ... www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/world/nation-challenged-afghan-warfare-afghan-warfare-taliban-trick- throws-rebels-into.html
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| Nov 19, 2001 - By DEXTER FILKINS. Foreign soldiers fighting for the Taliban have begun killing their Afghan Taliban comrades in a desperate effort to hang on to the encircled city of Kunduz, refugees and Northern Alliance soldiers here say. Foreign Taliban soldiers, who have gathered in Kunduz for ... www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/world/nation-challenged-internecine-strife-foes-claim-taliban-are-killing- soldiers-who.html?pagewanted=all
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| Dec 2001 | Dec 3, 2001 - In the no man's land 25 miles east of Konduz lies the village of Amir Abad. Little is left of the northern Afghan village but a maze of baked-dirt tracks and yellowing walls that look as if they'd crumble in a good breeze. A deserted United Nations shack stands at one end of the ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-27160131.html
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