Taliban

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Commandant Gen. James F. Amos is accused of ordering an investigator into the Taliban desecration cases to “crush” the defendants. (Associated Press)

** FILE ** No one was seriously hurt in the Taliban's Sept. 13, 2011, attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, but a State Department inspector general's report cited "unnecessary risk to staff" because of a lack of resources. (Associated Press)

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This photo was taken on Thursday, June 20, 2013, shows the Taliban flag visible through a gap in a wall of the new office of the Afghan Taliban in Doha, Qatar, after the opening of the office several days ago. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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** FILE ** This file image provided by IntelCenter on Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010, shows a frame grab from a video released by the Taliban containing footage of a man believed to be a U.S. soldier, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, left. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File)

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Pakistani Christians pray for the recovery of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot Tuesday by a Taliban gunman for speaking out in support of education for women, at the Sacred Heart Cathedral Church in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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** FILE ** Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud (right) holds a rocket launcher with his comrades in Sararogha in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan, along the Afghanistan border, in October 2009. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud)

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** FILE ** Members of U.S. Marine Scout-Sniper team look for a Taliban position in a nearby tree-line, during an exchange of fire with Taliban militants, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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** FILE ** Taliban fighters hold their weapons on July 31, 2011, in Jalalabad, east of Kabul Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this May 11, 2009, file photo, soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

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Five-year-old footage of Mullah Mohammed Omar (center) rallying his Taliban troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was found in the BBC's vaults and aired in 2009. (Associated Press/BBC TV) ** FILE **

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD TOMKINS/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A soldier looks over the wreckage of a supply convoy Taliban insurgents attacked in Afghanistan's Kunar province. The province is a main infiltration route for Taliban insurgents heading to and from Afghanistan's central regions.