Opposition spokesman Ashraf Nadem said his forces had captured another district, Sayyat, southwest of Mazar-e-Sharif, while the Taliban denied losing the district and said three opposition attacks had failed.
By 9 am Afghan time Friday, forces of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam were reported to have advanced to within four miles northwest of Mazar and captured 300 of the Islamic militia's soldiers. Nearer Kabul, AFP reports that Afghan Shia Muslim faction Hezb-i-Wahdat in northeast Iran said that the US warplanes were using Bagram airfield.
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Harkat-e-Jehad-e-Islami, a Pakistani terrorist group based in Kashmir, said 85 of its fighters were killed by U.S. bombs while fighting alongside the Taliban near Mazar-e-Sharif.
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Despite Taliban claims to the contrary, Hamid Karzai continues to deny he is dead.
The influential Pashtun leader he said he could defeat the Taleban without outside help, but needed assistance to help the country "regain independence" from Arabs and other foreigners. "I want these foreign terrorist elements out of my country, I want it to belong to Afghans," he said.
He also called for an end to US bombing, and asked for the kind of help provided by foreign governments during the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Karzai said he had been in Afghanistan for a month holding consultations with local tribal leaders about the calling of a Loya Jirga assembly to decide the country's future.
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Afghan opposition commanders said they would launch an offensive Thursday to capture Mazar-i-Sharif. "Our troops are positioned eight km (five miles) from Mazar-i-Sharif airport to the southeast and 50 km (30 miles) to the southwest," said Ashraf Nadeem, spokesman for the Northern Alliance opposition. Trucks and cars loaded with Taliban were reported heading to the north "day and night" to oppose the offensive. Both sides reporting intense fighting in the area as the day progressed.
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The Taliban have arrested 15 Afghans, including a former army colonel, in eastern regions on suspicion they were spying for the United States. Those arrested face the death sentence.
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President Burhanuddin Rabbani met with with Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who plans to send 90 special forces troops to Afghanistan. "We do not require any troops from friendly states," Rabbani told reporters in the Tajik capital. "The only thing we need is financial, logistical and political help."
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A Taliban chief said today he was preparing to defect, with 18 commanders and 1,600 men, to the US-backed opposition Northern Alliance. The man, who refused to be identified, said he had come to Peshawar from an eastern area of Afghanistan to consult with anti-Taliban commanders in exile and prepare a revolt against Taliban.
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A single-engine plane was forced to land at a central Florida airport by two F-16 fighter jets today. Area schools were locked down for about 20 minutes as the plane was being escorted to the airport.
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Mujahid Abdulqaadir Menepta, 51, in jail on a weapons charge, once threatened to shoot any police officer who entered the prayer area of a mosque. Menepta was arrested Oct. 11 by the FBI as a material witness in connection to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was first detained because of his friendship with Zacarias Moussaoui, who continues to be held in New York as a material witness.
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An official in Vietnam's Ministry of Health said Thursday that preliminary tests conducted on suspicious powder found at a BP joint venture company indicate the substance was anthrax.
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Police in Istanbul have seized about a kilogram of weapons-grade uranium and detained two Turks who attempted to sell the substance to undercover agents. The two men told police they had bought the uranium in Istanbul from a Russian man of Azeri origin several months ago.
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A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself as an anti-terrorist unit closed in on his hide-out in a West Bank village. The assailant was killed and two Israeli commandos were hurt.
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Pakistan has ordered the Taliban to close its consulate in Karachi and its diplomats also were told not to take part in nationwide protests by hard-line Islamic groups scheduled for Friday in Karachi.
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King Abdullah of Jordan threw his weight behind Washington's military campaign in Afghanistan, saying it must be waged cautiously but with ''unflinching resolve.''
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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.
