By GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country as U.S. jets persisted in their bombing. ``They must have not heard. There's no negotiations,'' the president said.
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By Peter Baker Washington Post Foreign Service
About 4,000 troops defected en masse from the Taliban militia in northern Afghanistan in a significant blow to the ruling regime as it tries to stave off both U.S. airstrikes from abroad and guerrilla fighters at home. The reported defection would be the largest since the United States began its aerial assault on Afghanistan Oct. 7 and would play into the allied strategy of peeling off maverick local warlords to diminish Taliban power. It also could help rebel commanders choke off Taliban forces in the northern part of the country.
The troops were led to the other side by their commander, Kaze Abdul Hai, in Sar-e Pol, about 65 miles southwest of the strategic city of Mazar-e Sharif, over which Taliban and rebel forces have been battling for control, opposition officials said. Predominantly ethnic Uzbek militias in that part of Afghanistan have often switched loyalties during the civil war that has raged since the Soviet Union withdrew its failed invasion force in 1989.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
