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The Taliban

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Urination Video Appalls The U.S. Military!

    A supposed video of marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has pushed all the copper buttons of the military -- an organization that is conducted in the height of taste, as you know -- and they have let the world know that they are downright appalled. They have called t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Taliban on Twitter Now, Occasionally in English

    ​The Twitter account @alemarahweb has dispatched over 700 messages in 140 characters or less to just over 100 followers, always following the same format: a short message in Arabic with a link to a news story, usually on the website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Guardian reports t ... More >>

  • Film

    June 22, 2010

    Captured in Afghanistan: American Soldiers Like Fish in a Barrel in Restrepo

    ​The Twitter account @alemarahweb has dispatched over 700 messages in 140 characters or less to just over 100 followers, always following the same format: a short message in Arabic with a link to a news story, usually on the website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Guardian reports t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    The Taliban Would Like You to Know That They Are Not, In Fact, at a Peace Retreat in the Maldives

    ​Sometimes, like many other people, I sit in the office and daydream of being somewhere else. And some of these times, it's simply just outside! And other times, it's in The Maldives, which if you don't know, is a really expensive, really beautiful, really secluded island retreat where people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Top 5 Million Things Banned By the Taliban

    The New YorkerCreeping beauties: Taliban get dolled up for the cameraAre we sure that Faisal Shahzad was trained by the Taliban? His skillz weren't mad (as colleague Tom Robbins points out), even if Shahzad himself is. Whether he was on a mission for the Taliban is still up in the air. If he is a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Quick Hits

    "132 Mulberry New York, NY 10013 #nyc #little_italy." twitpic by joannabethpdot. The Beastie Boys' Adam Rauch has cancer of the salivary gland, will seek treatment, is expected to recover. Get well soon, MCA. With Paterson in decline and Cuomo regnant, this guy is our best hope for an exciting 2 ... More >>

  • Film

    June 24, 2009

    Afghan Star Documents American Idol Translated to a Closed Society

    "132 Mulberry New York, NY 10013 #nyc #little_italy." twitpic by joannabethpdot. The Beastie Boys' Adam Rauch has cancer of the salivary gland, will seek treatment, is expected to recover. Get well soon, MCA. With Paterson in decline and Cuomo regnant, this guy is our best hope for an exciting 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Taliban in Lipstick: Jihadis Posed for Rather Gay "Passport Photos"

    In December 2001, just after the American invasion, Magnum Studios photographer Thomas Dworzak arrived in Afghanistan. The Taliban had banned all photography that showed people: such images, they said, were prohibited by the Koran. There was one exception to the rule: men (and only men) were allowe ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation

    In December 2001, just after the American invasion, Magnum Studios photographer Thomas Dworzak arrived in Afghanistan. The Taliban had banned all photography that showed people: such images, they said, were prohibited by the Koran. There was one exception to the rule: men (and only men) were allowe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Who needs a bailout? The New York soldiers heading to Afghan War frontlines.

    The frightening Taliban invasion of the Afghan capital Kabul, courtesy of Al Jazeera's Todd Baer. Compare the CNN and Al Jazeera stories. Bailout? If by accident of birth, you were in Kabul yesterday, you'd be dying to bail out. You would have been running for your life while crazed Taliban storm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

    The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2008

    Daily Flog: Kicking the habit but blindly drunk, hounded by Afghans, woofed at by Hillary

    The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008

    U.S. Ends Afghan Hostage Crisis

    The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    Daily Flog 8/4/08: Dumping patients, probing Mary-Kate, shooting nose-biting suspect, ratting out cops

    The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2007

    Bad Guys at Ground Zero

    The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

  • News

    February 21, 2006

    Ports: All 'Bout a Dealer Named Bout

    A Russian arms merchant funnels money, guns, and dope through the United Arab Emirates

  • News

    February 21, 2006

    Dubai's Port of No Return

    Don't jump to conclusions, but there are ties between the UAE, bin Laden, and the Taliban

  • News

    July 19, 2005

    The Roberts file

    The Supreme Court nominee: A conservative lawyer in King Dubya's court

  • Film

    November 2, 2004

    Docs Examine Culture Wars From Kansas to Kabul

    The Supreme Court nominee: A conservative lawyer in King Dubya's court

  • News

    March 30, 2004

    Will Rice Stick?

    If she brings up the Taliban, the whole damn mess could boil over

  • Film

    January 27, 2004

    Sweet Home Taliban

    Pose traumatic stress syndrome: The drag of being a young girl in Afghanistan in drag

  • News

    January 1, 2002

    The French Connection

    Paris Reporters Say Bush Threatened War Last Summer

  • Columns

    December 25, 2001

    NY Mirror

    Paris Reporters Say Bush Threatened War Last Summer

  • News

    December 18, 2001

    Nation

    Paris Reporters Say Bush Threatened War Last Summer

  • News

    December 11, 2001

    How We Lost Afghanistan

    Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

  • News

    December 4, 2001

    Taliban Family Values

    Vice Steps Out of the Closet in Afghanistan

  • News

    December 4, 2001

    A Place at the Table

    Afghan Women Debate Their Future

  • News

    November 20, 2001

    Return of the 'Good Warlord'

    Ismail Khan Seeks Power in the New Afghanistan

  • Music

    November 20, 2001

    Taliban Killed the Radio Stars

    In Afghanistan, Any Battle Over Music Is a Battle Over National Identity

  • News

    November 20, 2001

    Mujahideen Come Home

    Things Change—and Remain the Same—in Post-Taliban Jalalabad

  • News

    November 20, 2001

    Nation

    Things Change—and Remain the Same—in Post-Taliban Jalalabad

  • News

    November 13, 2001

    Nation

    Things Change—and Remain the Same—in Post-Taliban Jalalabad

  • News

    November 13, 2001

    Gotta Go

    Laili Helms, Other Taliban Reps Stop Talking

  • News

    November 13, 2001

    Northern Alliance Massacres

    U.S.-Backed Rebels Accused of Wholesale Slaughter as Taliban Retreat

  • News

    November 6, 2001

    Blood on the Tracks

    U.S. Allies in Afghanistan Left Trail of Atrocities

  • News

    November 6, 2001

    Pakistani Cops Kill Protesters

    Angry Crowd Seizes Express Train, Trades Fire With Police

  • News

    October 23, 2001

    Opium for the Masses

    Tales of the Afghan Drug Trade

  • News

    October 16, 2001

    Afghan Plan Unravels

    Northern Alliance Tells U.S. to Butt Out

  • News

    October 16, 2001

    After the Taliban

    Could a Coalition Government Withstand Afghan Rivalries?

  • News

    October 9, 2001

    Accidents Can Happen

    Dead Civilians and Other Minor Risks of War

  • News

    October 9, 2001

    Why They Hate Us

    Voices From Pakistan

  • News

    October 9, 2001

    Our Fragile Ally

    Pakistan Teeters on Edge of Civil War

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    Relying on Blind Faith

    Media Assembles Fractured Picture of War

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    Hate Crimes

    Like the Taliban, America’s Middle East Allies Tyrannize Gays and Women

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    War Report

    Like the Taliban, America’s Middle East Allies Tyrannize Gays and Women

  • News

    September 25, 2001

    Houses Divided

    Two Afghan Mosques in Flushing Worry in Attack Aftermath

  • News

    September 18, 2001

    Osama bin Laden: Our Man in Afghanistan

    The Turncoat

  • News

    September 18, 2001

    The New World Order

    Terrorist Attacks Redraw the Global Map

  • News

    June 19, 2001

    Nation

    Terrorist Attacks Redraw the Global Map

  • News

    June 12, 2001

    The Accidental Operative

    Richard Helms’s Afghani Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps

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