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91. Taliban militants have carried out a major attack in southern Afghanistan, using multiple suicide bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. More than 20 people have been killed.

92. And the recently released WikiLeaks documents suggest that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is giving not only shelter to the Afghan Taliban but also assisting and advising the insurgents.

93. Pakistanis bristle at what they see as growing Indian influence in Afghanistan, and some contend that India funds anti-Pakistan Taliban factions responsible for terrorist bombings.

94. The Taliban imposed a reign of terror,[sentencedict.com/taliban.html] with women in particular systematically victimised.

95. It is Taliban militants who'd be suspected of carrying out the attack.

96. CNN's Nic Robertson is in Spin Boldak near the southern stronghold of the Taliban.

97. Apologists point to Stalinism and Nazism as murderous ideologies, as if their existence made Torquemada and the Taliban somehow acceptable.

98. The Taliban also fit this pattern: a potent terrorist organization that provides not only security but also such services as dispute adjudication.

99. The ajar-door policy got off to a rocky start last year when the newly appointed ISI chief, Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha, told Der Spiegel that the Taliban had a right to "freedom of opinion".

100. Suddenly, a Kiowa attack helicopter swept in low and fired a rocket toward the Taliban position, leaving a rush of air and a trail of smoke.

101. The Taliban in Afghanistan say they've obtained the government's security plan for the upcoming grand assembly of leaders, or loya jirga, in Kabul this week.

102. The local Taliban say they carried the assault on the US consulate in Peshawar.

103. Such comments are, on the face of it, nothing new for Mr Karzai, who previously invited the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, to talks in Kabul.

104. Since the last Pakistan-Afghanistan jirga held in Kabul more than a year ago, relations between the two countries have worsened and the Taliban insurgency has strengthened.

105. The Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani group, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Lashkar-e-Taiba and many smaller groups operate with impunity in Pakistan.

106. It's only propaganda and we completely deny these rumors, " Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a phone call."

107. But the Taliban have ever since been feared for their bloodthirstiness.

108. Mujahid said such efforts would fail to detect Taliban fighters, some of whom have had years to blend in.

109. For most returning Taliban, the first order of business will be the monthlong annual opium harvest (a major source of funding for the insurgents), which is just now beginning in the south.

110. Mujahid said Taliban fighters have succeeded in penetrating the ranks of Afghan security forces and would carry out similar attacks in the near future.

111. In a January 2006 report Isaf said some Roshan workers had received a threatening night letter sent by Mullah Fazai Bari on behalf of the Taliban chief, Mullah Omar.

112. So we are not seeing deals with Pashtun groups that break with the Taliban, as we did with Sunnis in Iraq breaking with the insurgency there?

113. Xinhua News: Afghanistan 23 local television quoted intelligence officials as saying that Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar was killed in Pakistan.

114. His death leaves the Taliban movement dominated by two other commanders: Qari Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan and Maulvi Nazir in South Waziristan.

115. These are the same Pashtun tribesman whose descendants are today's Taliban.

116. Which is, in short, to abort what's larboard of the Taliban.

117. An exploding opium harvest, which is providing cash for the Taliban and a reason for Pushtun farmers to keep the government away, is one reason.

118. The gloomiest pundits think Pakistan simply cannot cope: they foresee mounting social unrest and further usurpation of the functions of government by either the army or Taliban militants.

119. In Tajikistan, the French use an airfield as part of the war against the Taliban.

120. “The prison break will slow down the peace process,” said Mullah Noorul Aziz Agha, a Taliban member who recently decided to lay down his arms and work with the government.