Word: talibanize
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...asked Raziq to convene a shura, or meeting, with the village elders. En route to the gathering, Shervington encounters another farmer tending to his opium harvest. "Last time you brought us shoes as gifts and it made big problems for us," Ghulam Madin tells the major. "The Taliban came and took them away. We had to promise not to take anything from the British forces. This time if we take the gifts, the Taliban will finish us for sure. Give us security first...
...Shervington grimaces. "I understand," he said. "But I need your help too. If more of you move back here we could stand against the Taliban together...
...farmer is unimpressed. "Now that you have come here, the Taliban will use my compound to fire at you. I can't tell them no, because they will say I am collaborating with you. But you will fire on my compound...
...will come down to the green zone and fight, and you will win," the farmer concedes. "But you will win only for one hour. Then you will go back to your base. The Taliban will return. You have to fight the Taliban for more than one hour, you have to push them back...
...District Commissioner Raziq hugs old friends as he arrives for the shura in the mosque courtyard where some 30 men wait under shade trees. They are happy to see him, but wary too, having been warned by the Taliban to stay away. But these are hungry times, and the promise of flour draws them anyway. Shervington tells the gathered men, "I know you are scared of the big guns up on the hill. If the Taliban come here and fire at me, I promise I will not fire back into your village. But I also need your help to defeat...