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Between September 1 and the afternoon ofSeptember 18, 2006 more than 30,000 stories on Google News contained the word \u201cTaliban,\u201d according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. That\u2019s more than a 1,000% increase over the number of stories (1,410) that featured that term in the first 18 days of August 2006. The number of stories mentioning \u201cAfghanistan\u201d jumped from 4,710 to more than 75,000. And the story is not just that the Taliban are back in the news. It\u2019s that their forces are fighting with new ferocity. The phrase \u201cresurgent Taliban\u201d yielded 1,680 stories on Google News September 1-18 compared with only 6 stories for the same period last month.Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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