A delegation of representatives of Russian ministries and departments is on its way to Kabul to establish contacts with the government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan. Iran will become the first country to reopen its embassy Kabul. Interior Minister Younus Qanooni has banned firearms in Kabul. He plans to replace NA soldiers with unarmed police force after residents turn in their weapons.
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Officials from the Northern Alliance say most of a group of UK special forces at Bagram airbase must be withdrawn. 15 of the 100 British troops who arrived on Thursday can stay for humanitarian tasks. Ismail Khan, who recaptured Herat province this week, said that the American forces who helped rout the Taliban and al-Qaeda don't need to stay.
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Taliban envoy to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef said Osama bin Laden has left Afghanistan with his children and his wives and that the Islamic militia does not know where he went. He later said that he was wrong, that bin Laden was still in Afghanistan, but that he still didn't know where he was. An Arab newspaper reported an alleged follower of bin Laden as saying the Saudi-born dissident had deployed 10 lookalikes to foil U.S. efforts at capturing him.
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About 200 Arabs and Pakistanis waged a fierce battle with NA soldiers in the hills of Paghman, 12 miles outside Kabul. Several were killed and others were arrested. The rest escaped to the mountains and were being hunted.
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The Taliban confirmed Saturday that terrorist leader Mohammed Atef was killed along with seven other al-Qaida members in a U.S. attack three days ago. Then they said he wasn't. Maybe he just smells funny...
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The US continued bombing in support of United Front operations around Konduz. Al-Qaeda Arabs are reported to have executed 150 Afghan Taliban because they wanted to surrender. The massacre was said to have followed the defection of 1,000 Afghan Talibs under Gen Mirai Nasery. Al-Qa'eda soldiers arrested more than 100 prominent Kunduz citizens and were holding them hostage to stall an alliance attack.
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The Taliban has said it is still in full control of Kandahar and has no plans to withdraw. Defenders continued to hold out against Pashtun tribal guerrillas aided by US Special Forces and resupplied by US helicopters.
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President Burhanuddin Rabbani arrived In Kabul on Saturday. The Northern Alliance is preparing to hold a Loya Jirga, a gathering of traditional Afghan leaders outside Kabul to set up a provisional administration.
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Capitol police closed two Senate office buildings to test for anthrax spores after investigators discovered a contaminated letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. The letter was found in a batch of mail that had been removed from congressional office buildings and segregated.
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German investigators have identified a new group of five people in Hamburg whom they believe provided financial and other support to some of the Sept. 11 hijackers and may have critical knowledge of the terror attacks.
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British police are questioning six men in connection with a series of "Real" IRA bombings in the UK over the past 18 months and anti-bomb disposal units are searching a disused farm near Leeds in northern England.
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One Palestinian was killed, another moderately injured and a third caught in an Israeli manhunt in the central part of the Jewish state. The three were part of a group of four Palestinians who illegally crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
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Ethnic Albanian gunmen and Macedonian security forces clashed in the northwestern region a day after a shadowy rebel group threatened a new insurgency. Rebels opened fierce machine-gun and grenade-launcher fire on a checkpoint near the village of Preljubiste.
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Pakistan stated that it would not grant political asylum to Mullah Omar or Osama bin Laden. Sources in the ISI say that Pakistan has no choice now but to "somehow come to assistance of the crumbling Taliban regime in the south so as preserve Pakistan's territorial integrity." Pakistan has arrested 83 activists of the Pakistan-based Kashmiri group Harkatul Mujahideen after they crossed into the country's tribal areas from Afghanistan. An Indian intelligence report says that about 6,000 Pakistan Army personnel fought with the Taliban even after the US began bombing Afghanistan, including Mazar-e-Sharif. Pakistan denies airlifting them out.
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More than 300 anti-war protesters rallied in front of the German parliament, while deputies discussed plans to commit some 3,900 soldiers for the anti-terror alliance.
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Saudi Arabian clerics have blamed the lack of seasonal rainfall on sinful Muslims and called on citizens to repent and offer up prayers as they begin Ramadan.
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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.
