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'Taliban using human shields, says Afghan army general.' The Guardian, Feb 17, 2010.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/17/taliban-human-shields]
 
'Taliban using human shields, says Afghan army general.' The Guardian, Feb 17, 2010.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/17/taliban-human-shields]
 
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'Civilians say Taliban use of human shields shows weakness, cruelty.' Dec. 12, 2018. [https://afghanistan.asia-news.com/en_GB/articles/cnmi_st/features/2018/12/12/feature-02]<br>  
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'Civilians say Taliban use of human shields shows weakness, cruelty.' Dec. 12, 2018. [https://afghanistan.asia-news.com/en_GB/articles/cnmi_st/features/2018/12/12/feature-02]</blockquote></ref>
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Among the allies for example, Biden rattled [[U.K.]] With his Afghanistan policy.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/world/europe/britain-afghanistan-johnson-biden.html Biden Rattles U.K. With His Afghanistan Policy], Mark Landner, NYT, Aug 18, 2021.
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''Britain was the second-largest supplier of troops to Afghanistan, and the United States’ rapid withdrawal from the country has left some embittered.
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LONDON — In Britain, the chaotic departure from Afghanistan has drawn comparisons not to helicopters flying out of Saigon but to an earlier debacle: the 1956 Suez crisis, in which a humiliated Britain was forced to pull out of Egypt, having failed to dislodge its nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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The problem is, Britain had very little to say about the timing or tactics of the most recent withdrawal, even though it suffered the second-most casualties in the Afghanistan war after the United States. That has left British officials embarrassed and embittered at President Biden. Some say he behaved more like his predecessor, Donald J. Trump, than an ally who promised a new era of American partnership.''</ref>
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The <blockquote>chaotic departure from Afghanistan has drawn comparisons not to helicopters flying out of Saigon but to an earlier debacle: the 1956 Suez crisis, in which a humiliated Britain was forced to pull out of Egypt, having failed to dislodge its nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser.</blockquote>
    
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