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Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the fatal attack on an intelligence officer in the Tor Tank district of Helmand, but denied involvement in the attack on a schoolteacher in the provincial capital. Both incidents took place on the night of May 13. The schoolteacher... has escaped with injuries.
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Taliban militants kidnapped 23 South Korean Christian aid workers July 19. Two male hostages since have been killed and the kidnappers have threatened to kill more, if 21 Taliban fighters are not released from prison.
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Videotapes are circulating the globe which show the burning of two bodies of alleged Taliban fighters. The US Army's Criminal Investigation Division is trying to determine if the soliders in the tape are American, as the reporter contends and the Washington Post reports. The Guardian reports that Major Matthew Mclaughlin, a spokesman for US Central Command in Florida, said: "It certainly appears to be what it purports to be." The tape was broadcast from Australia, a US ally. From USA Today:
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In her book, The Punishment of Virtue, Sarah Chayes details Mullah Naqib's on-again, off-again collaboration with the Taliban, and his rivalry with Gul Agha Shirzai. Naqib was a major player in the region, and his absence has already been felt.
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Although the Taliban called for a negotiated end to the civil war, they continued to mount new offensives. In September 2001, the leader of the Northern Alliance, Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, died from wounds suffered in a suicide bombing, allegedly carried out by al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization with close ties to the Taliban.
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Atmar said 147 students and teachers have been killed in Taliban attacks since mid-March, compared with 46 in the previous year. The 147 include 58 students and teachers killed in a single bombing and gunfire attack in Baghlan province in November.
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