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Mr. Khan has for years advocated talking to the Taliban instead of fighting them, a position that has now become the national government's policy.

He added, "Because of you, we're now taking the fight to the Taliban instead of the Taliban bringing the fight to us".

Mr. Khan favors talking to the Taliban instead of fighting them, and has frequently attributed the chaos in the region to the presence of American troops in Afghanistan and C.I.A. drone strikes in the tribal belt.

Large rallies in Punjab and the northwest by the former cricket star Imran Khan, who has advocated talking to the Taliban instead of fighting them, have also avoided attacks.

The Marines, meanwhile, are trying to move out of Iraq and into Afghanistan, a more popular mission where they could focus on America's real enemies — al Qaeda and its allies, the Taliban — instead of trying to police a civil war.

It will allow Mullah Omar to hand over power to Mullah Naqib Ullah, a former Pashtun warlord with friendly relations with the Taliban, instead of directly to Mr. Karzai, a longtime opponent of the Taliban and a favorite of the Bush administration.

Mr Obama also has a slightly odd pronunciation of Taliban, where instead of making that second vowel a schwa, like most Americans, he makes it an unusually distinct "ee".

The Taliban hit CC instead of BCC, exposing more than 400 e-mail contacts.

Many British soldiers have been killed by roadside bombs, which critics say have taken an unacceptably high toll because the troops have had to track down the Taliban in vehicles, instead of going into combat aboard helicopters.

One is the Afghan army, which he said was taking over responsibility in preventing the rise of the extremist Taliban movement there "instead of Americans patrolling the valleys of Afghanistan".

"If the mission has changed, it is that we are looking more for Al Qaeda, instead of Taliban," said Marine Capt.