Word: taliban
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...dangers of land mines and unexploded bombs. But until last week, 500 girls still managed to study science, history, math and French in those crumbling classrooms despite a 4 1/2-year civil war raging around them. No longer. The war is just about over, and Kabul's new rulers, the Taliban, have firm notions about the peace: it will be piously, even pitilessly, Muslim. In that scheme there's no place for young women learning French. "I cry seeing the classrooms locked," says the school's caretaker. "A mullah accompanied by several armed Taliban came and demanded the keys. They told...
...band of onetime seminarians and clerics who formed an army just two years ago, the Taliban now control 75% of a country torn by war, first during the 1979-89 Soviet occupation and then as various groups fought for control of the country. The Taliban were hailed as peace-bearing heroes when they captured the capital two weeks ago. In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. The shunning of women was impossible to ignore. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Fearing the growing power of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban leaders, three militia chiefs in the nation's northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from...
Nelson points to the recent seizure of Kabul by fundamentalist forces to illustrate his fears of Islamic violence; in fact, the victory of the Taliban brings the country closer to the resolution of the civil war to which the U.S. has abandoned Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal. Nelson also points to Algeria and Turkey as countries which have embraced Islamic fundamentalism and threaten "freedom." As the defender of freedom, Nelson should have pointed out that in both countries, Islamic fundamentalists came to power legitimately through the democratic process. In Algeria, the military's suppression of democratic electoral results which awarded...
EXECUTED. NAJIBULLAH, 49, former Soviet-backed President of Afghanistan who had spent more than four years in refuge at a U.N. compound; in Kabul. Najibullah, a ruthless security chief who ruled from 1986 until 1992, was found hanged after the Taliban rebels captured Kabul. Afghanistan will now be ruled by strict Islamic...