Northern Alliance forces captured the forward two lines of Taliban trenches on the front line to the north of Kabul as opposition troops advanced along the Bagram airfield. 1,300 Taliban fighters in position at one village overlooking the airbase surrendered, and many more were killed.
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Frontier Post reports that adherents of exiled King Zahir Shah are attempting to form a Pashtun "Southern Alliance" to oust the Taliban from the southern half of the country.
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Taliban Supreme Court judges have indefinitely postponed the trial of eight foreign aid workers, fearing their anger over the U.S. airstrikes would prevent them from making a fair ruling.
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The NA reported they have taken Herat and Konduz. It now controls nine provinces: Balkh, Faryab, Baghlan, Bamiyan, Takhar, Badghis, Samangan, Jauzjan and Sar-e-Pol.
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Three journalists were killed when NA inspection of Taliban lines troops turned into an ambush. Hours after the Taliban ranks had fled or deserted at Mazar, a force of 1,200 Pakistani and Arab fighters made a final stand at a military base two miles outside the city. Most died, although some were captured.
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Late Monday, dozens of Taliban vehicles were leaving Kabul in haste on the main highway leading westwards and then south toward Kandahar. Cars and battered Japanese pickups packed with Taliban with their belongings wrapped in sheets were seen leaving the city. In Islamabad, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the sole foreign envoy of the Taliban, denied the militia was withdrawing from Kabul. ``This news is false and baseless that the Taliban are leaving Kabul,'' the Taliban ambassador stated. ``We have decided to defend Kabul.''
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President Bush is directing the United Front not to take Kabul, saying he wants the city to become a base for power-sharing among different tribes in the new Afghanistan.
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In Boulder, Colorado, an exhibit of ceramic doinkers was stolen and replaced by an American flag. The library was criticized earlier this month when Library Director Marcelee Gralapp declined to hang a 10- by 15-foot flag in the lobby, saying some people might find it offensive.
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Fox News is showing the crash of an American Airlines Airbus A300 in a residential neighborhood in Queens, New York City. At least a dozen homes were damaged or destroyed. 246 passengers, 9 crew killed. Mechanical mulfunction is suspected.
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President Bush turns his attention to preparations for a crucial summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a weekend of diplomacy and tough words on the war on terrorism at the United Nations.
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The top Russian military commander in Chechnya that most federal troops will be withdrawn from the breakaway republic by next spring. Gen. Gennady Troshev said that only units stationed in Chechnya on a permanent basis will remain.
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An explosion rocked a market on the outskirts of Vladikavkaz, the capital city of the North Caucasian republic of North Ossetia, killing six and injuring dozens. The Ossetian leadership claims the perpetrators of the terrorist attack want to destabilize the situation in the republic in view of the forthcoming elections in Ossetia.
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European authorities say they have uncovered evidence of planning for chemical attacks by North African terrorist groups loosely affiliated with Al Qaeda.
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A man with suspected links to the Red Brigades terrorists was arrested in connection with a bomb attack this year at a Rome building housing an institute promoting U.S.-Italian ties. Cheeze. Are they still around?
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The head of a money-transfer service that the United States accuses of diverting money to al-Qaida surrendered to Canadian police. Liban Hussein, 31, was taken into custody under an extradition warrant by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Hussein and his brother, Mohamed, operate Barakaat North American Inc. out of offices in Ottawa and Massachusetts. Last week, the U.S. Treasury said the company's assets should be frozen for allegedly financing terrorism.
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Dozens of Israeli soldiers entered Tell village west of Nablus after the army told Palestinian officials there that it planned to search and arrest militants. Soldiers surrounded the home of Hamas member Mohammed Hassan Reihan where "we heard an explosion followed by extensive shooting by the army," a witness said.
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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.
