Vic taliban biography

Roberts-Smith's Victoria Cross action occurred during his fifth tour of Afghanistan during an operation to hunt for a senior Taliban commander.
Varoujan Aintablian (born 10 October 1937), known professionally as Vic Tablian, is an Armenian-British actor, known for the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of.
The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, two decades after being removed from power by a US-led military coalition.

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Mohammad Omar Daudzai

Mohammad Umer Daudzai (Pashto: محمد عمر داودزی - born October 12, 1957) is a politician in Afghanistan, who most recently served as President Ashraf Ghani's Special Envoy for Regional Consensus Building on Peace and as Head of the High Peace Council (HPC) Secretariat for a few months. He was later appointed President Ghani's Campaign Manager for the 2019 Presidential elections. After a career with international non-governmental organizations including the United Nations Development Program in Geneva, Daudzai started work as two term Chief of Staff of Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai from 2003 to 2005 and then from 2007 to around 2010. From 2005 until 2007, President Karzai appointed him as Afghan Ambassador in Iran. He then served as the Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan,^[1] tasked with advancing efforts to reach a political solution to the war in Afghanistan. In September 2013, Daudzai was asked to serve as Afghan Minister of Interior in Kabul and ensure security for the challenging 2014 presidential elections.^[2]

Daudzai also continues to

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Who are the Taliban?

From south-western Afghanistan, the Taliban quickly extended their influence. In September 1995, they captured the province of Herat, bordering Iran.

Exactly one year later, they captured the Afghan capital, Kabul, overthrowing the regime of President Burhanuddin Rabbani - one of the founding fathers of the Afghan mujahideen that resisted the Soviet occupation. By 1998, the Taliban were in control of almost 90% of Afghanistan.

Afghans, weary of the mujahideen's excesses and infighting after the Soviets were driven out, generally welcomed the Taliban when they first appeared on the scene.

Their early popularity was largely due to their success in stamping out corruption, curbing lawlessness and making the roads and the areas under their control safe for commerce to flourish.

But the Taliban also introduced or supported punishments in line with their strict interpretation of Sharia law - such as public executions of convicted murderers and adulterers, as well as amputations for those found guilty of theft. Men were required to grow beards and women h

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Victoria Cross for Australia: Corporal B Roberts-Smith, Special Air Service Regiment, Australian Army

Benjamin 'Ben' Roberts-Smith was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1978. He joined the Australian Regular Army in 1996 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, with whom he took part in two tours of East Timor. In 2003 he was posted to the Special Air Service Regiment and he was on his first tour of Afghanistan in 2006 when he was awarded the Medal for Gallantry for his actions as a patrol scout and sniper during Operation Slipper.

Roberts-Smith’s Victoria Cross action occurred during his fifth tour of Afghanistan during an operation to hunt for a senior Taliban commander. In an assault against an enemy fortification on 11 June 2010, he exposed his position to draw fire away from members of his patrol who were pinned down. Fighting at close range, he stormed two enemy machine-gun posts and silenced them, allowing the assault team to gain the initiative. The citation for the award reads:

'For the most conspicuous gallantry