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AFGHANISTAN I'll never forget being in Kabul that day in September 1996 when the Taliban arrived in the Afghan capital. Not only was it my birthday, but within a few hours I would witness the Islamists hanging Afghanistan's former communist leader, President Najibullah, from a traffic control box. Looking back, it was obviously a sign of things to come, and after the US-led military intervention in 2001, the world might have been forgiven for thinking that it had seen the last of the "T-men", as a correspondent friend used to call Mullah Omar's followers. But as Borhan Younus reports from the south of Afghanistan, the Taliban is back with a vengeance - and just in time for the deployment of British troops.
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