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ptinews.com - 11/6/2008
Taliban ask Obama to pull American troops out of Afghanistan
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Taliban ask Obama to pull American troops out of Afghanistan
news.yahoo.com - 11/8/2008
Insurgents to Obama: Pull troops from Iraq - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — BAGHDAD Two Iraqi insurgent groups called on President-elect Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and... abandon the war on terror , an Internet monitoring service reported Friday. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, self-styled head of the al-Qaida front ... (more) Insurgents to Obama: Pull troops from Iraq - Yahoo! News

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thespectrum.com - 11/12/2008
Taliban offers opportunities | thespectrum.com
— thespectrum.com — They use satellite phones and night vision scopes, but often move in the high mountains with cheap... plastic sandals. They will cruelly execute intruders, but defend an invited guest at the cost of their own lives. And, like the old Pashtun saying, they ... (more) Taliban offers opportunities | thespectrum.com

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jihadwatch.org - 11/5/2008
Taliban calls on Obama to withdraw troops, thereby ushering in a new "era of peace"
— jihadwatch.org — "Peace" Taliban style: that is, stoning for adulterers, amputation for thieves, execution of homosexuals and apostates, closing... of girls' schools -- the works. Of course, since Sharia is the highest law of the land according to the Afghan ... (more) Taliban calls on Obama to withdraw troops, thereby ...

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The Jawa Report:  Taliban ask Obama to pull American troops out of Afghanistan

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Taliban ask Obama to pull American troops out of Afghanistan
The Jawa Report — November 06, 2008 Taliban ask Obama to pull American troops out of Afghanistan "We are hopeful that Obama will withdraw forces from Afghanistan." From Press Trust of India Islamabad, Nov 6(PTI) Hoping that a new era of peace will dawn with the election of Barack Obama as the US President, the Taliban has asked the President-elect to change his country's policies towards it and end the war in Afghanistan. Reacting to Obama's victory in the American polls, top Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told reporters: "We want to tell the world and the West to pull out their ...

Oh, let’s not follow the money
Belmont Club — ... him to power are the very same which have worked hard to de-legitimize resistance to Islamic extremism. How can BHO can prosecute a war against al-Qaeda when many of his supporters are Leftist or pacifist is a non-trivial challenge. This is evident even to the Taliban and are they asking the new administration to give up the campaign in Afghanistan as a bad job. Why can’t we just get along and let the Taliban in peace? In the same way they were at peace before September 11, 2001. The Press Trust of India reports that the Taliban has asked President-elect Obama to pull out of ...

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