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Taliban Ringtones Are Saving Lives In Afghanistan

4:46AM December 30, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

There’s really no sense in buying ringtones anymore. That is, unless you’re living in Afghanistan and need to convince threatful Taliban checkpoint guards you’re not an insolent Coalition dog, but a Taliban sympathiser. Then your novelty ringtone might just save your life. More »


Online

NATO And Taliban Engage In Harrowing Twitter Pissing Match

7:00PM September 15, 2011 | Sam Biddle

NATO and the Taliban have never really gotten along — a decade of collapsed state power vacuum insurgency warfare will do that. But can’t we count on Twitter as a bastion of civility? Apparently not! The battling pair’s bickering online. More »


News

How An F-16 (Might Have) Avenged The Taliban’s Helicopter Killing

8:25AM August 11, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The Pentagon’s got some nice heads to stick on the proverbial pike: CENTOM’s General John Allen claims an F-16 airstrike killed the Taliban RPG gunners who blew up a SEAL-filled helicopter last week. How? The old-fashioned way: huge explosion. More »


Science

Did A New Taliban Weapon Kill A Chopper Full Of Navy SEALs?

3:20AM August 9, 2011 | David Axe - Wired

The US suffered a tremendous loss Saturday in Afganistan when the downing of a Chinook helicopter took the lives of 31 special forces troops. As Danger Room reports, it may have been an entirely new Taliban weapon that did it. More »


News

US Troops Die In Largest Loss Of Life In Afghanistan

11:40PM August 6, 2011 | Kwame Opam

The Wall Street Journal reports that a Chinook helicopter carrying 31 US special forces troops and 7 Afghan troops was shot down last night by a Taliban insurgent’s missile. The crash killed everyone on board. More »


Gaming

Now You Can Own The Taliban Chess Set

6:20AM June 22, 2011 | Jeff Neumann

Surely you can find a reason to give someone the Taliban chess set, from Canadian toy company Hedwig & Sergeant Major. Fight the “Good War” from the comfort of your own home! More »


Online

You Can Now Follow The Taliban On Twitter

4:20AM May 13, 2011 | Sam Biddle

What a world. The Taliban is now beaming out its fascistic madness 140 characters at a time, with its brand new Twitter feed. Choice propagandizing tweets include “Fifth US tank obliterated in Nawzad”, among other dubious factoids. Watch out Bieber. More »


News

Taliban Prison Breakers Interviewed

7:34AM April 26, 2011 | Brian Lam

The Daily Beast has interviewed two of the men freed in the prison break we covered earlier today. One interviewee, Mullah Asadullah Akhund, described the escape in detail, while an anonymous commander was quoted as saying, “We are poor in technology, but with the help of All Mighty Allah we embarrassed the enemy with all its technology and weapons.” More »


News

500 Taliban Prisoners Escape Through Underground Tunnel

1:35AM April 26, 2011 | Adrian Covert

In their biggest prison break since 2008, nearly 500 Afghani prisoners (mostly Taliban members) escaped through an underground tunnel, dug from the outside. Now the US military is searching high and low, hoping to corral the escapees back in. The crazy thing is that they built this long tunnel using nothing but basic tools – no machinery. More »


Taliban Orders Afghan Mobile Phone Companies to Shut Down Networks at Night

10:27PM February 26, 2008 | Addy Dugdale

Taliban rebels in Afghanistan have issued an ultimatum to the country’s mobile network operators to shut down mobile coverage at night—or else. The reason for this is not because of a desire by the medieval revivalists/”moral” “guardians”/warmongering nutcases/nasty little freedom-killing, women-bashing, beard-obsessed terrorists —call ‘em what you want—to put a stop to potential mobile naughtiness, but for military reasons.

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