Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility and said the target was Khan.

A Taliban spokesman declined to talk in detail about Karzai's offer and only said the militants would make a decision soon.

" Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, stating, " We fired rockets at the scene of the celebration.

A captured Taliban spokesman, Muhammad Hanif, told Afghan authorities in January 2007, that Omar was being protected by the Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) in Quetta, Pakistan.

While the Kandahar Shura of the Taliban debated issues, in the end its spokesman declared, " we abide by the Amir's view even if he alone takes this view.

Another Taliban spokesman later said that Osama Bin Laden planned the attack, and reiterated that Cheney was the intended target.

A base spokesman said a building was slightly damaged during attacks by rockets, small arms, and grenades ; a Taliban spokesman claimed 20 armed men wearing suicide vests attacked the base with four detonating explosives at the entrances, but the military spokesman said they failed " to breach the perimeter " and were " unable to detonate their suicide vests.

According to a White House spokesman, the Commando Solo missions gave the Afghan people “ full knowledge about what is happening in Afghanistan from a source other than a repressive Taliban regime .” The 193d remained in the region until ground psychological warfare operations stations were safely established.

* People's Republic of China Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said that claims made by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal of connections between China and the Taliban were false.

* Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman Riaz Mohammed Khan said his country would keep open diplomatic ties with the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan.

* Afghanistan: Afghan President Hamid Karzai's spokesman comments that the issue of Taliban crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan will be discussed during Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's visit to Kabul.

Sabjullah Mujaheed, a Taliban spokesman, said later that they had been killed because they were missionaries and spies for the United States.

Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid claimed Taliban responsibility for the attack and lauded the militants that killed " dozens of the foreign and local top-level officials ".

A Taliban spokesman said that the January 26, 2004 suicide bomber that killed Cpl.

Prior to this he served as spokesman and secretary to Mullah Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban.

The BBC was told by a Taliban spokesman that Muttawakil " does not represent our will ".

After Hawash was formally charged, McGeady, acting as spokesman for Hawash's family, said " People who know Mike believe the idea that Mike would have fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan is completely absurd and that he ultimately will be cleared " and “ We hope that once a jury hears what happened, they ’ ll realize that a mistake was made .”

" On 20 July 2011 phone text messages from accounts used by Taliban spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahid and Qari Mohammad Yousuf announced Omar's death.

* Video and audio recordings of the four sessions Heather Mercer spoke at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe in November 2008, including a detailed recounting of her 2001 captivity by the Taliban and her recent missionary activities among the Kurds in Northern Iraq.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

His son Salahuddin Rabbani was chosen in April 2012 to lead efforts to forge peace in Afghanistan with the Taliban.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

Rabbani was head of Afghanistan ’ s High Peace Council, which had been formed in 2010 to initiate peace talks with the Taliban and other groups in the insurgency, until his death.

Deoband Ulama in India have repeatedly mentioned that the Taliban government in Afghanistan was Un-Islamic.

The Bonn agreement for the post Taliban governance of Afghanistan was debated and signed in the former seat of government of Western Germany.

Most factions of the Taliban, Iraqi insurgency, Colombia's FARC, and the Communist Party of India ( Maoist ) are said to be engaged in some form of guerrilla warfare — as was, until recently, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ).

It was later admitted that the diplomats were killed by the Taliban, and their bodies were returned to Iran.

Dostum was defeated by the Taliban in 1998 with the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif.

Resentment was increasingly gathering against Taliban rule from the bottom of Afghan society including the Pashtun areas.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

In December 2001, after the Taliban government was toppled and the new Afghan government under Hamid Karzai was formed, the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) was established by the UN Security Council to help assist the Karzai administration and provide basic security to the Afghan people.

In January 2010, the Kabul office of New Ansari Exchange, Afghanistan's largest hawala money transfer business, was shuttered following a raid by the Sensitive Investigative Unit, the country's national anti-political corruption vetted and trained by the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), allegedly because this company could be involved in laundering profits from the illicit opium trade and moving the cash earned by Taliban through extortion and drug trafficking.

It was later reported that, while in Afghanistan, Harry had called in United States Air Force air strikes, helped Gurkha troops repel an attack from Taliban insurgents, and performed patrol duty in hostile areas.

On 10 September, within days of arriving in Afghanistan it was reported that the Taliban threatened Captain Wales ' life.

The use of the term Islamism was at first " a marker for scholars more likely to sympathize " with new Islamic movements ; however, as the term gained popularity it became more specifically associated with political groups such as the Taliban or the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, as well as with highly publicized acts of violence.

He even attacked the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, but was repulsed.

Ismail Khan was forced to flee to Iran with 8, 000 men and the Taliban took over Herat.

Two years later, while organising opposition to the Taliban in Faryab area, he was betrayed and captured by Abdul Majid Rouzi who had defected to the Taliban along with Abdul Malik Pahlawan, then one of Dostum's deputies.

A spokesperson for the Eda Haredit is quoted as saying: “ We always knew those women were crazy ... Now we have been vindicated, and those women will have to stop their insane behavior .” Keren, dubbed the “ Taliban mother ” by the Israeli press, was convicted by the Jerusalem District Court in 2009 on three counts of abuse of a minor or helpless person and 25 counts of assault in aggravated circumstances, and sentenced to four years in prison.

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Cartwright, Commanding Officer of The Black Watch battalion was reported saying that this operation established a firm foothold in what was the last remaining Taliban area controlled in the southern Helmand province.

* War on Terrorism: Arab television airs an audio tape allegedly from al Qaeda official Abdel Rahman al-Najdi saying Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Omar are alive.

Moran voted against authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 and did not support the troop increase for the Afghanistan War proposed by President Barack Obama in 2009, saying first that he appreciated Obama's " careful consideration regarding the U. S .' s engagement in Afghanistan ", but later defining the issues on which he and the President disagreed :" Our security concern is Al-Qaeda, not the Taliban.

And if you don't do something about it ,' that 70 percent or so will start saying, ' Come on, we'd rather have the Taliban ,'" adding, " We're at a tipping point " and " next year could be much better.

After his return to Canada, Dion angrily criticized Guergis ' action, saying that she put him at risk of possibly being attacked by the Taliban.

Shariatmadari rejects the labels " conservative " and " fundamentalist ", saying " They make us sound like the Taliban.