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The Urdu teacher was dying. Tied to a chair, the Taliban militants who took over her school in a remote northern outpost of Pakistan cut her hair. Then they set her on fire.

"We are not scared of you," she screamed at her murderers as the flames caught her clothing. "We will defeat you!"

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