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Young America’s Foundation Program Officer, Yale alumnus, and former army captain Flagg Youngblood had this to say: “That Yale gave admission and a scholarship to a member of the Taliban proves academia’s thorough commitment to moral relativism and detachment from reason. That Yale, in the same breath, would force ROTC cadets 70 miles off campus, while welcoming terrorists, demonstrates the school’s incessant loyalty to anti-Americanism.”
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The Taliban emerged as a reformist force -- honest, fierce and devoutly Islamic. Most had gone as refugees to Pakistan, where they studied in the religious schools. The Taliban are widely alleged to be the creation of Pakistan's military intelligence. Experts say that explains the Taliban's swift military successes.
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Despite inhumane treatment by Taliban forces, a female reporter for the Sunday Express, Yvonne Ridley, who was captured by the Taliban for entering the country without visa and passport, later converted to Islam. Subsequently, she has become a supporter of feminism in Islam and anti-war campaigns.[51]
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Taliban forces had been building up around Khak-e Sefid for some days, a Western security analyst said. The rebels in Farah have been receiving arms through a Taliban leader based close to the Iranian border, he said on condition of anonymity.
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At night, NATO forces confined to a base near Kandahar fire their guns into the sky, while the Taliban, bunkered in a village just a few kilometers away, watch - and wait. The two sides no longer engage each other. But as Taliban commander Qari Hazrat tells Shahzad, this is all part of the plan. (Dec 12, '06)
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This has two purposes for the Taliban. First, it keeps Western forces from firing on them, as they know that Coalition troops will try to protect civilians where possible. Secondly as just as importantly from a strategic point of view, any women and children killed in the battle will almost certainly be blamed on the Western forces by the Western media. It allows the Taliban to continue their propaganda blitz against the West, one in which the media has unwittingly (in most cases) found themselves a pawn to the Islamists.
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