Word: taloqan
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, each of them loaded with Taliban fighters. They were moving toward the Northern Alliance's positions--not to fight but to find shelter. "The closer they are to us," said Khademudin, commander of the village, "the more secure they feel." On Friday at the Taloqan front, 150 miles farther north, where exhausted, poorly equipped Northern Alliance fighters took heavy casualties when they lost their city last year, one local commander sipped tea, munched cashew nuts and complained about the Americans. "They have not bombed the front line yet," he said. "Please, can you tell...