{"id":634,"date":"2002-01-08T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-09T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=634"},"modified":"2002-01-08T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-09T00:22:00","slug":"first-internet-mention-of-taliban-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/08\/20\/22\/first-internet-mention-of-taliban-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"First Internet Mention of Taliban (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing Google post from 1995 with <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?selm=1995Feb4.152233.29252%40blaze.trentu.ca\">first press dispatch talking about the Taliban<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?selm=1995Feb4.152233.29252%40blaze.trentu.ca\">A GROUP OF AFGHAN RELIGIOUS STUDENTS, KNOWN AS TALIBAN,<br \/>\nHAVE EMERGED AS A NEW FORCE DURING FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN.  THE<br \/>\nSTUDENTS HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF SEVERAL SOUTHERN PROVINCES IN THE<br \/>\nPAST SIX MONTHS, AND ARE ADVANCING TOWARD THE CAPITAL, KABUL.<br \/>\nFOLLOWING A TRIP TO JALALABAD, JENNIFER GRIFFIN REPORTS FOR V-O-A<br \/>\nLEADERS IN NEIGHBORING PROVINCES ARE PREPARING FOR THE STUDENTS&#8217;<br \/>\nADVANCE.<\/p>\n<p>THE TALIBAN ARE AFGHAN STUDENTS TRAINED IN RELIGIOUS<br \/>\nSCHOOLS AND REFUGEE CAMPS IN PAKISTAN.  THEY ARE THE NEWEST ARMED<br \/>\nGROUP IN THE AFGHAN CIVIL WAR.  THE STUDENTS SAY THEY HAVE<br \/>\nADVANCED TO WITHIN 30-KILOMETERS OF KABUL, WHERE OPPOSING<br \/>\nFACTIONS CONTINUE TO TRADE ARTILLERY FIRE AND ROCKETS DAILY.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing Google post from 1995 with first press dispatch talking about the Taliban: A GROUP OF AFGHAN RELIGIOUS STUDENTS, KNOWN AS TALIBAN, HAVE EMERGED AS A NEW FORCE DURING FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN. THE STUDENTS&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}