&#39;American Taliban&#39; asks Bush for help
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John Walker Lindh, the former San Anselmo man convicted of aiding the Taliban, asked President Bush yesterday to commute his 20-year prison term.
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President George W. Bush called Hamid Karzai to demand more action against Afghanistan's world-leading drugs trade and reiterate continued US support, the Afghan president's office said.Comment
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The lawyer for an American sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his sentence after a man in a similar case was freed.
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President Bush highlighted anti-terrorism efforts of Afghanistan and Pakistan yesterday, calling the nations invaluable allies despite a surge of violence in southern Afghanistan that has provoked deep suspicions about their ability -- and appetite -- to battle extremists.
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[World News]: Lahore, Dec 15 : Pakistan has expressed its desire for the Bush administration&#39;s intervention to help Islamabad sort out all of its conflicting issues with New Delhi.
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President Bush today announced an increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan "for the foreseeable future" to help confront a resurgent Taliban, and he urged European allies to lift restrictions that currently confine some of their NATO troops to secure areas of the country.
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US and Pakistani agents were interrogating the Taliban's former defence minister Saturday in the hope that he can help them hunt down other key militant leaders, security officials said.
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The head of the Afghan National Army said Monday his country is pushing the United States to accelerate training and equipping his army so the Afghans can fight the Taliban on their own.
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The Taliban said Monday it was ready for talks with the Afghan government after President Hamid Karzai offered negotiations in a bid to end the rebels&#39; nearly six-year bloody insurgency.
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President Bush used his weekly radio  address on Saturday to urge Americans to keep opening their  wallets for South Asia tsunami victims as he prepared to get an  assessment of what further help is needed.
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U.S. presidents past and present  appealed to Americans on Monday to help victims of the Asian  tsunami as one of the biggest aid efforts in history struggled  to bring food and water to millions of desperate survivors.
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The American serving a 20-year  jail sentence for fighting with the Taliban asked the U.S.  government on Tuesday to lessen the sentence after it decided  to release a second American captured in Afghanistan.
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While visiting Afghanistan, PakistanÂs president promised to help combat the Taliban insurgency, which operates from his country.
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The United States has asked a Muslim  separatist group in the Philippines to help security forces  track down radicals with links to a regional terror group, a  U.S. embassy spokesman said on Saturday.
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CRAWFORD, Tex., May 21 -- President Bush vowed Monday to ask NATO allies to commit more troops and other resources to quell the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, calling the success of the alliance's mission there vital to the future security of both the United States and Europe.
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Afghanistan's defense minister asked on Thursday for more money and equipment to fight soaring Taliban violence as America's Pentagon chief criticized NATO allies for failing to deliver promised aid.
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A leading Nigerian oil militant group asks President George Bush to help solve their dispute with the government.