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Suicide Offensive; Face to face with the Taliban's new favorite weapon in the Afghan war: human bombs.
Byline: Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau
The village was in Taliban country southwest of Kabul. The visit had been arranged through reliable Taliban sources. Our aim was to speak to volunteers who had trained to become suicide bombers; we hoped to shed light on an increasingly deadly feature of the war in Afghanistan.
At a mud-brick house, a guerrilla showed us a sack he said contained a pair of suicide vests: "If these jackets go off, anyone within 100 meters will be killed," he warned. As it happened, the bombs killed no one that day. But Taliban leaders are counting on these weapons to drive America out of Afghanistan. Once virtually unknown here, suicide bombings are becoming an ever more common tactic. In his latest propaganda video, the Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah Akhund brags of having 1,800 bombers at the ready. Others question ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) July 2, 2009 700+ words
...Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah...to serve as suicide bombers in the growing...produces these suicide bombers, which are...by [Afghan Taliban leader Mullah...Using child suicide bombers is the grim reality of the Taliban Frankenstein...
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- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International June 24, 2006 700+ words
...PPI): Taliban have prepared a group of 50 suicide bombers and sent them...volunteer Taliban presented their names for suicide bombers. But since...age. These suicide bombers have been...training. Taliban sources said...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Omar Waraich July 29, 2009 700+ words
...hundreds recruited by the Taliban and brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers at a secret indoctrination...become part of the Taliban's army of jihad inside...chosen to join the Taliban's stockpile of suicide bombers. According to the...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Asif Shahzad July 29, 2009 700+ words
...recruited by the Taliban, allegedly to be used as fighters or suicide bombers, and there could...rescued from the Taliban. "They have been...and trained as suicide bombers, but the nine...being trained as suicide bombers. "What we are...is that they are Taliban ...
- Runaway 'suicide bombers' recount their harrowing ordeal at Taliban terror...
- News wire article from: Asian News International July 31, 2009 700+ words
...abducted by the Taliban to be trained as suicide bombers have revealed...They said the Taliban had kidnapped...turned into suicide bombers. "They blind...with other Taliban for prayers...terrorists and suicide bombers and harassed...
- Runaway 'suicide bombers' recount their harrowing ordeal at Taliban terror camps
- News wire article from: The Hindustan Times July 31, 2009 700+ words
...abducted by the Taliban to be trained as suicide bombers have revealed...They said the Taliban had kidnapped...turned into suicide bombers. 'They blind...with other Taliban for prayers...terrorists and suicide bombers and harassed...
- Taliban recruits teenagers for future suicide bombers:report.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. May 31, 2009 700+ words
Taliban recruits teenagers for future suicide bombers:report London, May 31 (PTI...them from the Swat valley, Taliban went from house to house demanding...family for grooming them as suicide bombers, media reported today. Propaganda...
- AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN SHIFTS GEARS WITH SUICIDE BOMBERS.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service October 4, 2006 700+ words
...major shift in tactics by the Taliban, from fighting U.S...Northern Alliance and the Taliban 10 years ago. It was the...1989, and ended with the Taliban taking the city on Sept...expect -- not with bombs and suicide bombers," he said. On Sept. 20...
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