Mutilated Afghan girl comes to L.A. for treatment

Aisha had been given away by her Pashtun family in Oruzgan province at the age of 12 to pay a debt and married to a Taliban fighter, according to the Time article and Women for Afghan Women. She fled, but her husband tracked her down last year and cut off her nose, according to the article.

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Taliban execute Afghan woman in public: police

The Taliban staged public stonings or lashings of Afghans found to have had sex outside marriage when in power from 1996 until 2001.
However Qari Mohammad Yousuf, the main Taliban media spokesman, said the group was not behind the Qades execution.

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How the US Funds the Taliban

On October 29, 2001, while the Taliban’s rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime’s ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters sitting on the grass.

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