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Tal⋅i⋅ban

  [tal-uh-ban]
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–noun
a Muslim fundamentalist group in Afghanistan.
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al-Qaeda Timeline
IntelCenter Reference Book All Attacks & Messages 1992-2007
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Walking The Precipice
Witness To The Rise of The Taliban In Afghanistan by Barbara Bick
www.jennibick.com/Afghanistan
Tal·i·ban   (tāl'ə-bān')   
n.  A fundamentalist Muslim group that controlled much of Afghanistan from 1995 until U.S. military intervention in 2001.

[Pashto tālibān, pl. of tālib, student, from Arabic ṭālib, from ṭalaba, to seek.]
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Taliban 
Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan, Pashto pl. of Arabic tālib "student;" so called because it originated among students in Pakistani religious schools. Group formed c.1993. Often incorrectly treated as singular in English.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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