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Langton says the Taliban "have largely recovered from their initial defeat," and are proving a savvy enemy for coalition forces. Taliban fighters have become encouraged by the domestic opposition some NATO nations face as they deploy in former Taliban strongholds previously patrolled by U.S. forces, he says. "They are very adept at reading these signals and seeing where the weaknesses lie."
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As U.S.-led coalition troops report scores of Taliban were killed in Herat Province, local Afghans in Herat's Shindand district are accusing U.S. forces of having killed civilians. Some 130 suspected militants were reported killed by U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces over the past few days in Afghanistan.
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Away from the glare of the media, in the most remote and dangerous parts of Afghanistan, U.S. marines are on a mission to hunt down the Taliban. But in many places their security sweeps are proving counterproductive. More and more villagers are alleging they have been abused by marines.
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An August 27, 1997 cable in which U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Thomas Simons comments on Pakistan's claim that its total aid to the Taliban through the end of 1996 had been only 20 million rupees (approximately one-half million dollars). Simons notes that this amount "did not include access to Pak wheat and POL (Note 1), or the trucks and buses full of adolescent mujahid crossing the frontier shouting 'Allahu Akbar,' and going into the line with a day or two of weapons training." "That," Simons' noted, "was Pakistan's real aid." (Document 4)
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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have spoken out as well against Taliban mistreatment of women. The chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee, said that Afghan women today are treated as “subhumans, fit only for household slavery.” California Representative Ed Royce, a member of the International Relations Committee, said the Taliban has “institutionalized widespread and systematic gender apartheid.”
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U.S.-led forces drive back Taliban rebels after some of the fiercest fighting since they were overthrown. Between 70 and 100 Taliban fighters were killed during a week of clashes in Afghanistan's southeastern Zabul province.
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