by Tres Mali Scott

Created on: May 26, 2009   Last Updated: June 05, 2009

No, and one reason the Taliban is winning in the public's eye is because no one wants to tell what it really means to have a "Civilian Shield". I am a missionary and understand that these groups are very specific in using religion as a part of their name. The Holy Bible tells about concepts that apply to modern day situations

"Those that say they are..., but are not..." (Whatever it may be). Some of these individuals use Satanism, Witchcraft, and Sorceries to attack people in a manner that is difficult to understand.

The word Taliban is a loan word from Arabic and is Pashtu meaning "students". The Taliban or Taleban is a predominately Pashtun, fundamentalist, religious, pro-Wahhaabi, Sunni, Islamist, political movement, that governed Afghanistan from 1996-2001.The Taliban is fighting a guerrilla war against the Afghanistan government, Pakistan, allied NATO (Operation Enduring Freedom, and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Afghanistan and Pakistan are bordering countries and the Taliban operate out of both.

Human Rights Watch's (2008) report on "Troops in Contact" Airstrikes and civilian death in Afghanistan, section VII Recommendations: To Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and other opposition armed groups are: "Cease using civilians as shields, take all feasible precautions to protect civilians from the effects of attack..., stop feigning civilian status during attacks..., affirm commitments to follow international humanitarian law...

Amnesty International (2009) report on Getting Away With Murder? The Impunity of International Forces in Afghanistan, states that the, "International Military Forces In Afghanistan include: Operation Enduring Freedom , The NATO-led UN mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)". There are other agencies present as well including United Nations Convention Against Torture and Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

From TIME (2009) article on Why The Taliban Is Winning the Propaganda War? The Taliban has a wide-rangeof propaganda weapons,and spanning high and low technology. Because of the use of "high" and "low" technology, this is considered "paraterrorism".

Para-terrorismis a paranormal psychological term that include the maximum use of technologies including high-jacking satellite signals. Para-terrorism is under a branch of science and can be measured with research. Counter-para-terrorism is to take account of para-terrorism. Para-counter-terrorism is beside those taking account of {supervision or management of counter-para-terrorism}.

References:

Amnesty International (2009). "Getting Away With Murder? The Impunity of International Forces In Afghanistan.Amnesty International Publications: United Kingdom.

Human Rights Watch (2008). "Troops in Contact" Air strikes and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch: New York

TIME (2009). Why the Taliban is Winning the Propaganda War. http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=1505

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

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