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Reply With QuoteThe Taliban was never on the State Department's FTO list as a terrorist organization.
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Full story is available here.US does not consider Taliban terrorists
When the US State Department issued its annual Country Reports on Terrorism last Friday, it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and groups it considers foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hizbullah. Conspiciously absent from the lists, however, was the Taliban.
In an article entitled "Terrorism's Dubious 'A' List," the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) reports that the religious extremist organization has never been listed as a terrorist group by the US, Britain, the EU, Canada, Australia, or any of the coalition partners, despite the fact that during its six year rule in Afghanistan, it provided save haven for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and currently is staging terrorist attacks against coalition forces and waging a national campaign of intimidation and fear.
The new report did designate the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region as a terrorist "haven," however.[/b]
The Taliban was never on the State Department's FTO list as a terrorist organization.
Maybe it's like some kind of name-calling tactic? you know, like "Pfft, the Taliban couldn't terrorise a flea, I'm not scared of them" so as to demoralise them and get them to give up?
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Awards: They harboured Bin Laden.
They're more oppressive than Saddam Hussein.
They use terrorist tactics.
But for some strange reason, they aren't terrorists.
If a family harbours a terrorist, it's been argued on here that the family must die. If a terrorist is standing in a crowd of people, it's been argued on here that the crowd will be a 'necessary casualty'.
But wait, the Taliban have already been taken care of. My mistake.
So what?
Serial killers, North Korea, pirates off the coast of Somalia, etc. are all not terrorists, and yet the United States government opposes all of these, and in many cases has used force against them. The official classification of the Taliban does not change the fact that they are undesirable.
"Who shall assign limits to the achievements of free minds and free hands under the protection of this glorious Union? No treason to mankind since the organization of society would be equal in atrocity to that of him who would lift his hand to destroy it...to enlarge its limits is to extend the dominions of peace over additional territories and increasing millions. The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government."
-- James K. Polk, Inagural Address
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It's hard for the Taliban to be a country that harbors terrorists when they don't, you know, have a country.
1:36 AM [Jet] what size feet does she have?
1:36 AM [Jet] stop me if i'm getting weird
You're bring facts into this. You should know better then to do that around this place.It's hard for the Taliban to be a country that harbors terrorists when they don't, you know, have a country.
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Awards: Exactly. This, I think, is what it comes down to.It's hard for the Taliban to be a country that harbors terrorists when they don't, you know, have a country.
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"Well, what about the Taliban?"
"Well look at the list."
"What about it?"
"Well, we've crossed Afghanistan off, still waiting on Iraq, and we've got Iran for the finale."
"So what?"
"Well, the Taliban were the leaders of Afghanistan, and we defeated it and them, and if we put them on the list, we'll be seen to be admitting failure."
Not that you've said anything of the sort, Knox. It's an example of a conversation I can imagine taking place when this little list was concocted.
Then I don't see quite what your argument is. You're not saying that Operation Enduring Freedom was a failure, are you?
1:36 AM [Jet] what size feet does she have?
1:36 AM [Jet] stop me if i'm getting weird
You should know by now that Tri considers money, Jews, and the US, in that order, to be the source of all evil in the world.Then I don't see quite what your argument is. You're not saying that Operation Enduring Freedom was a failure, are you?
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And the Pope isn't Catholic
Im sorry..i just like using that expression
You should know by now that Tri considers money, Jews, and the US, in that order, to be the source of all evil in the world.<div class='quotemain'>
Then I don't see quite what your argument is. You're not saying that Operation Enduring Freedom was a failure, are you?
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And feels the need to be a broken record about it.
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