The Taliban enforced a strict Muslim code of behavior.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

JOHN WALKER, AMERICAN Taliban FIGHTER: The Taliban have separate branches in the army.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2001] Reference

The Taliban - or people indistinguishable from the Taliban - is back in control of huge portions of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Loathe Clinton and the Democrats] Reference

Support for the Taliban is a very different matter, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Window into Amnesty International’s Worldview] Reference

The first victim of the Taliban is always THE TRUTH ...... mk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ridge condemned for trying to profit from terror alert assertions] Reference

The guy who thinks the Taliban is a good working model for American society?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » New Diavlog] Reference

Joining the Taliban is a much higher-risk proposition than enlisting in the ANA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Soldiering] Reference

Right now, the Taliban is assasinating teachers, especially those willing to teach girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Crazy People in the News] Reference

To give some perspective on how serious this standoff could be, the Arabic word Taliban means student.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2007] Reference

Their sponsorship of the Taliban is another, but their part in nuclear proliferation may be the darkest yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [View from the Northern Border] Reference

Nearly 60 percent say the Taliban is the biggest threat to Afghanistan, but only 8 percent say U.S. forces are.    From Wordnik.com.  [What The Thunder Said | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

Many Jerusalemites and Israelis were outraged, blaming Lupolianski for what they called the Taliban-style outfits.    From Wordnik.com.  [JTA - Recent News] Reference

One of the things I realized early on about the Taliban is a lot of their “religious” thuggery was really about nationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Occupation is Hard] Reference

She says the Taliban is already recruiting new fighters from among the thousands of Afghan refugees returning home from Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Military Remains Optimistic About Afghanistan] Reference

Americans joke in English, Taliban joke in Pashto.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

U.S. expects long-term Taliban resistance in Marjah.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Afghan poppy harvest is next challenge for U.S. Marines] Reference

Others say the Taliban is melting away rather than fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Military Remains Optimistic About Afghanistan] Reference

Three months later, it is partially back in Taliban control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Azeem Ibrahim: Negotiations With the Taliban Point to the Need to Leave Afghanistan] Reference

The Taliban is coming back and Al Queida is returning to it pre-9/11 levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Word: 2 Candidates, 2 Visions for Iraq - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

The Taliban is weaker today because they harbored terrorists who attacked us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come On Get It Right: Part II | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

The description of women's lives under the Taliban is memorably horrible, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our calculator blew up] Reference

She says for some villagers, the Taliban is less of a concern than the Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Military Remains Optimistic About Afghanistan] Reference

Taliban fighters identified - is it the word Taliban tattooed on their foreheads?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Obama and British leader Cameron say critical to get Afghanistan war right this year] Reference

And how are Taliban fighters identified - is it the word Taliban tattooed on their foreheads?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Obama and British leader Cameron say critical to get Afghanistan war right this year] Reference

"We are happy about being able to feel secure again" now that the Taliban is gone, Javeed says.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Afghan villagers go home again] Reference

The Taliban is the resistance in Afghanistan and we must support it, critically, but unreservedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

We are seen by too many Afghans simply as foreign occupiers: and for them, even the Taliban is preferable to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

We have a lexicographical problem: "The Taliban" is an umbrella term for, as Kilcullen notes, a variety of groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t Start The Talking I Could Talk All Night | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

On the other hand, helping the Taliban gives Iran influence in Taliban controlled areas of Afhganistan and Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Afganistan: Is Iran Supporting the Taliban?] Reference

The simple question becomes whether these factions can unite to form a viable government, if and when the Taliban is deposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet the Allies | PopPolitics.com] Reference

Lambert said the coalition's surveillance indicates that the Taliban is starting to increase its presence in the Arghandab district.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. forces on Taliban's heels] Reference

I ask them as to why their leader, whom they recently ousted and earned for themselves the name Taliban, why did he go to Thimpu in H. W.    From Wordnik.com.  [TamilNet Newswire] Reference