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	<title>War in Context &#187; Taliban</title>
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		<title>Video: U.S. considers prisoner tranfers for Taliban peace deal</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/video-u-s-considers-prisoner-tranfers-for-taliban-peace-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/video-u-s-considers-prisoner-tranfers-for-taliban-peace-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<title>Video: Is Pakistan backing the Taliban?</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/03/video-is-pakistan-backing-the-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/03/video-is-pakistan-backing-the-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<title>Taliban make formal declaration of victory</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/16/taliban-make-formal-declaration-of-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/16/taliban-make-formal-declaration-of-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports: Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban’s one-eyed leader, seems to have taken a page from George W. Bush’s playbook. Just as the former president declared “mission accomplished” in Iraq years before the war there ended, the Taliban made their own victory declaration this weekend, even though roughly 130,000 coalition troops were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dial 1 to speak to the Taliban</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/05/dial-1-to-speak-to-the-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/05/dial-1-to-speak-to-the-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=29207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economist&#8216;s Asia blog considers the prospects for peace in Afghanistan now that the Taliban has an official address &#8212; a political office in Qatar. Peace with the Taliban has three main actors and a large unsupporting cast. The opening of a Taliban office in Qatar suggests a change of direction from one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban leaders held at Guantánamo Bay to be released in peace talks deal</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/03/taliban-leaders-held-at-guantanamo-bay-to-be-released-in-peace-talks-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/03/taliban-leaders-held-at-guantanamo-bay-to-be-released-in-peace-talks-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports: The US has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in return for the Afghan insurgents&#8217; agreement to open a political office for peace negotiations in Qatar, the Guardian has learned. According to sources familiar with the talks in the US and in Afghanistan, the handful of Taliban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani death squads go after informants to U.S. drone program</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/31/pakistani-death-squads-go-after-informants-to-u-s-drone-program/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/31/pakistani-death-squads-go-after-informants-to-u-s-drone-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times reports: The death squad shows up in uniform: black masks and tunics with the name of the group, Khorasan Mujahedin, scrawled across the back in Urdu. Pulling up in caravans of Toyota Corolla hatchbacks, dozens of them seal off mud-hut villages near the Afghan border, and then scour markets and homes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration considers censoring Twitter</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/20/obama-administration-considers-censoring-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/20/obama-administration-considers-censoring-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=28303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How dangerous can 140 characters be? Apparently if those 140 characters are being fired onto the web through the Twitter account of al Shabib, Somalia&#8217;s militant jihadist movement, then the national security of the United States could be in jeopardy. The New York Times reports: American officials say they may have the legal authority to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret U.S., Taliban talks reach turning point</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/18/secret-u-s-taliban-talks-reach-turning-point/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/18/secret-u-s-taliban-talks-reach-turning-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=28252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports: After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is to end the Afghan war. As part of the accelerating, high-stakes diplomacy, Reuters has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Afghans have come to hate Americans</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/04/why-afghans-have-come-to-hate-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/04/why-afghans-have-come-to-hate-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. and Afghan government officials are struggling to reach a strategic long-term agreement &#8212; the sticking point is Afghan opposition to night raids which have surged under the Obama administration and now happen as often as 40 times a night. NATO officials say they have modified how night raids are conducted in response to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Afghan strategy in disarray</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/04/u-s-afghan-strategy-in-disarray/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/04/u-s-afghan-strategy-in-disarray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=27378</guid>
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		<title>Pakistan to boycott meeting on Afghanistan after NATO strike kills troops</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/01/pakistan-to-boycott-meeting-on-afghanistan-after-nato-strike-kills-troops/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/12/01/pakistan-to-boycott-meeting-on-afghanistan-after-nato-strike-kills-troops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=27208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports: Pakistan stepped up its protests over a NATO airstrike that killed 24 of its soldiers, deciding to boycott an international conference on Afghanistan to be held in Germany next week. The decision to pull out from the Dec. 5 summit in Bonn was agreed at a meeting of the federal Cabinet yesterday, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Night raids and death squads in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/11/29/night-raids-and-death-squads-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/11/29/night-raids-and-death-squads-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[extrajudicial killing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=27077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the difference between the death squads being operated by the Haqqani network and the night raids by US Special Operations forces? Chances are that the Haqqanis know the names of a much higher percentage of their victims. That isn&#8217;t the only difference, but it&#8217;s significant. As far as the U.S. and its allies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban target mobile phone masts to prevent tipoffs from Afghan civilians</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/11/11/taliban-target-mobile-phone-masts-to-prevent-tipoffs-from-afghan-civilians/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/11/11/taliban-target-mobile-phone-masts-to-prevent-tipoffs-from-afghan-civilians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=25846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports: Afghanistan&#8217;s communications infrastructure has become the latest casualty of the intensified war between Nato and the Taliban, with mobile phone companies reporting crippling attacks on their network of transmission masts. The onslaught came in the wake of a decree by Hamid Karzai ordering phone companies to defy insurgent demands to shut down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. turned a blind eye to torture in Afghan prisons</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/31/u-s-turned-a-blind-eye-to-torture-in-afghan-prisons/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/31/u-s-turned-a-blind-eye-to-torture-in-afghan-prisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=25289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports: Across the street from U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, shrouded from view by concrete walls, the Afghan intelligence agency runs a detention facility for up to 40 terrorism suspects that is known as Department 124. So much torture took place inside, one detainee told the United Nations, that it has earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attacks on Americans in Kabul get Haqqani network&#8217;s message across</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/31/attacks-on-americans-in-kabul-get-haqqani-networks-message-across/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/31/attacks-on-americans-in-kabul-get-haqqani-networks-message-across/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rod Nordland reports: Every bomb, they say, has a return address. When car bombs blew up in West Beirut, or explosions cut down worshipers in Sadr City mosques, survivors generally knew who was to blame, and more or less why — even when no one claimed responsibility. So, too, with the suicide car bomb that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German general says NATO Afghan mission has &#8216;failed&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/09/german-general-says-nato-afghan-mission-has-failed/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/09/german-general-says-nato-afghan-mission-has-failed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=24007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Der Spiegel reports: It was 10 years ago that the United States, together with its NATO allies, marched into Afghanistan to put an end to Taliban rule and begin the hunt for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. A decade later, the terrorist leader is dead. But, says Harald Kujat, former general inspector of the German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9/11: the tapping point</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/07/911-the-tapping-point/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/10/07/911-the-tapping-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=23855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Rose writes: One morning in June 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks on the United States, I happened to be interviewing a senior official from the British Secret Intelligence Service, M.I.6. His current focus was the war on drugs, not international terrorism, but he shared a piece of information that united the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-Taliban talks were making headway</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/08/29/us-taliban-talks-were-making-headway/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/08/29/us-taliban-talks-were-making-headway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=22117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports: Direct U.S. talks with the Taliban had evolved to a substantive negotiation before Afghan officials, nervous that the secret and independent talks would undercut President Hamid Karzai, scuttled them, Afghan and U.S. officials told The Associated Press. Featured prominently in the talks was the whereabouts and eventual release of U.S. Army [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In valley where SEALs died, U.S. raids boost Taliban support</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/08/08/in-valley-where-seals-died-u-s-raids-boost-taliban-support/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/08/08/in-valley-where-seals-died-u-s-raids-boost-taliban-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=21239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[McClatchy reports: The 30 U.S. soldiers, many of them Navy SEALs, who died Saturday in the U.S. military&#8217;s single biggest loss of the Afghan war, were operating in a Taliban-controlled valley where frequent U.S.-led night raids have won the insurgents popular support, area residents said Sunday. The raids occur &#8220;every night. We are very much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/07/27/suicide-bomber-kills-kandahar-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2011/07/27/suicide-bomber-kills-kandahar-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports: In a further strike against the authorities in war-torn southern Afghanistan, the mayor of Kandahar was killed in his office on Wednesday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban, officials said. The killing heightened concerns that the tenuous security gains in the violent south are unraveling despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban: A law unto themselves</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/06/21/taliban-a-law-unto-themselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Cockburn writes: It was one of history&#8217;s greatest prison escapes in terms of the ingenuity and perseverance of those involved. It happened at 10pm on 25 April this year in southern Afghanistan. After five months of tunnelling, Taliban diggers finally broke through the concrete floor of a cell in the centre of Sarposa prison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US talking to the Taliban</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/06/20/us-talking-to-the-taliban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Weiss writes: One of the highlights of the Netroots convention that ended yesterday was a panel on getting out of Afghanistan that included the threat by two House Democrats to work with antiwar Republicans to undermine the Obama war program in coming weeks. Below I&#8217;m going to provide some of the back-and-forth from that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karzai says US in talks with Taliban</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/06/18/karzai-says-us-in-talks-with-taliban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera reports: The president of Afghanistan has said his government and the US are negotiating with Taliban fighters to bring peace to the country. While officials at the US embassy in Kabul could not be immediately reached for comment, Hamid Karzai&#8217;s remarks were the first official confirmation of US involvement in the negotiations. &#8220;Peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2011/06/08/inside-al-qaeda-and-the-taliban-beyond-bin-laden-and-911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gareth Porter on the new book by recently murdered Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad.]]></description>
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