(22 quotes found)
“[Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because] the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan, ... until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side.”
Sergei Ivanov
“The secretary made quite clear that the relationship with the Taliban was a matter of great importance to the United States,”
Richard Boucher
“The Taliban say the detainees are well but have not allowed anyone to contact them, ... working to try to secure a swift resolution of these issues.”
“The secretary made quite clear that the relationship with the Taliban was a matter of great importance to the United States.”
“All I know is he was fighting for the Taliban and he said he was off to Kabul to defend Kabul... That's when I picked myself up from the floor,”
David Hicks
“The UAE was one of three nations in the world that recognized the Taliban.”
Claire McCaskill
“In return, the Taliban protected Mohammad's crops, his heroin labs, his drug transportation labs and his associates,”
Karen Tandy
“[They can be used to react quickly to reports about Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the area, said J. Kelly McCann, a former Marine involved in special operations.] Intelligence is so fluid right now, ... To fit somebody in place in order to go kill them, you've got to be able to respond quickly for that information to be useful. So now with the Marines on the ground you're talking about a reaction time that's under an hour in some cases, maybe minutes.”
Kelly McCann
“We suspect that the Taliban has a hundred useable tanks, which isn't that many. On the books they probably have 600, but most of those are inoperative.”
Clifford Beal
“It is important to go after the air defenses of the Taliban, and their aircraft, ... We are also targeting the command facilities of terrorist forces.”
Donald Rumsfeld
