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The fighting is continuing between police and the Taliban.

Mullah Mir

They deliberately wanted to incite that much anger from the Taliban, so that the Taliban could attack them, smoke them out.

Stephen Dupont

You see the shells coming in from opposition forces as well as the Taliban. The poor can only retreat, and not take care of the crops.

Ahmad Shah Massood

In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.

Ayaz Amir

We know that he has been killed, but do not know whether it was because of personal hostility or because he once had joined the Taliban.

Lutfullah Mashal

These Taliban are coming from Pakistan. They get training for suicide attacks in Pakistan and then come to Afghanistan. We ask the Pakistani government to secure its border.

Assadullah Khalid

We have no proofs of Iran's support to Taliban.

Karim Rahimi

They deliberately wanted to incite that much anger from the Taliban so the Taliban could attack them. ... That's the only way they can find them.

Stephen Dupont

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

Jack Straw

It's very distressing. If I sit back and try to analyze it, you know, it is quite possible that the Taliban consider that they still have an effective government and they can still have a trial in Kandahar.

John Mercer

Coalition ground and air forces are on the ground... they are bombing the Taliban.

Yousuf Stanizai

He is neither Christian nor right, ... He is the Christian Taliban... He is Mala Robertson. He is no better than those who called for the assassination of Bush... We serve a God who was assassinated for doing good.

Fred Carter

The other is that maybe they are going to be pawns for some leverage in political negotiations. I still have hope that the Taliban have kept them safe for over 100 days now and they will continue to do so.

John Mercer

Coalition ground and air forces are on the ground ... they are bombing the Taliban.

Yousuf Stanizai

Everybody should be proud today. The Taliban can do nothing to stop this election.

Abdul Malik

We have not had a single civilian casualty, ... It went very well, beyond our expectations. After all their boasting, it's a big failure for the Taliban.

Lutfullah Mashal

He has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.

Brian Nelson

The Taliban has weaponry hidden all over the country.

Hollis Crawford

The UAE was one of three nations in the world that recognized the Taliban.

Claire Mccaskill

A stable democratic government in Afghanistan is the larger strategic objective. The intention is to ensure that Afghanistan does not become in any way a haven supporting radicalism and terrorism, as it had in the Taliban time. Helping Afghanistan to consolidate would be in India's interest.

C. Uday Bhaskar

There is no evidence to prove the involvement of hostile fire in helicopter crash. We have no evidence to support the claim of Taliban.

James Yonts

She visited the prison this morning and was told by the guard that between 6:30 last night and midnight, they were taken away with little notice, put in a van, and they said they were taking them to Kandahar, ... I visited the Taliban embassy this morning and, while they did not come out and say 'yes they're in Kandahar,' they led me to believe that's where they were.

John Mercer

We suspect that the Taliban has a hundred useable tanks, which isn't that many. On the books they probably have 600, but most of those are inoperative.

Clifford Beal

I'm telling you from now, if they use troops ... they send ground troops, I'm telling you that would be a big disaster for the peace in the country, and that they would push the whole nation into Taliban hands.

Abdul Haq

The Taliban have very smartly survived through these peace agreements.

Rahimullah Yusufzai

He was a soldier in the Taliban, he did it for religious reasons, he did it as a Muslim, and history overcame him.

James Brosnahan

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

Amanullah Khan

They're already diverting attention and perhaps some resources from the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban on Pakistan's western border. So the U.S. has a very big interest in this.

Robert Oakley

We need reconciliation. There were hundreds of ordinary people in the ranks of the Taliban. If we give them a chance, they will work for the future of the country rather than fighting against it.

Karim Rahimi

Any one who will kill the person responsible for blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in Denmark would be rewarded 100 kilogram of gold by the Taliban.

Mullah Dadullah

You can tell the Kentucky Taliban they can't pass enough laws to shut us up.

Margie Phelps

The government should not become the church and the church should not become the state, ... We've seen the consequences of that. Just look at the Taliban.

Jim Towey

This (report of a high-level Taliban defection) was a complete lie. (It's) part of the propaganda against the Islamic community in Afghanistan.

Abdul Salam

They're good, but ... the Taliban do still exist and they are capable of doing harm.

Peter Rodman

There are two main threats around the polls: warlords who want to dominate the elections through any means necessary and ... the increasingly active Taliban, who have pledged to disrupt the election process itself.

Nisha Varia

All I know is he was fighting for the Taliban and he said he was off to Kabul to defend Kabul... That's when I picked myself up from the floor.

David Hicks

These Taliban candidates were decision-makers in the regime. They were involved in policy that resulted in serious human rights violations. I hope people will not vote for them. We have to keep them out of the parliament.

Ahmad Nader Nadery