The Taliban sought UN intervention to negotiate the surrender of over 20,000 fighters, mostly Arabs and Pakistanis, surrounded by Northern Alliance forces in Kunduz province but the world body has turned it down. The Taliban has offered to surrender to commander Mahidullah if the alliance guaranteed the safety of non-Afghans fighting with the Taliban and if the surrender were witnessed by United Nations representatives.
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More than 150 Pakistanis of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), who had crossed over to Afghanistan to join with the Taliban in jihad, have been killed while hundreds are still missing. Four Albanians and two Turks were arrested along with 17 Pakistanis when they sneaked into Pakistani tribal territory from Afghanistan overnight. US and Pakistani officials have detained two retired Pakistani naval officials for suspected contacts with Al Qaeda. Four Yemeni women, probably wives of al-Qaeda members, were arrested when they entered Pakistan near the Chaman border in Balochistan province.
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Mullah Mohammed Omar was still in control of Kandahar but shuffled administrative posts. Omar is holding talks with the Norzai tribe in Kandahar to divide rule with the tribal leaders. 80 to 100 leaders met in Quetta to give the Taliban an ultimatum: surrender within a week or face an attack by Pashtun tribesmen from six southern Afghan provinces. The tribal leaders have been coordinating their efforts with Afghanistan's exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah. Some high-ranking Taliban officials in Kandahar have agreed with supporters of the former king to join a national reconciliation government. Late Sunday, PakNews reported that the Taliban have evacuated most of the city but one group has defied Taliban's order to retreat. Taliban leadership including supreme commander Mullah Omar were reported to have left Kandahar. Tribal leaders offered Mullah Omar the opportunity to surrender himself and accept political asylum in Pakistan. No word on his response. The Taliban were reported pulling out toward the Iran border.
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The Taliban said Osama bin Laden had left the territory they controlled and they did not know where he was. Interior Minister Younis Qanooni said bin Laden is still in Kandahar province in Maruf, some 130 kilometers east of Kandahar, where he has training camps and underground bunkers.
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A U.N. envoy was trying to persuade the Northern Alliance to meet soon with rival tribes to plan a broad-based government, as the Taliban held on to their shrinking pockets of the country. Afghan and foreign forces lined up against the Taliban squabbled over the country's future and whether international peacekeepers should be deployed. Diplomats and military planners are mapping out a peacekeeping strategy that entails deploying a Turkish-led multinational force to police Kabul and dispatching British and French troops to take control of two key airfields. Golly. That's never happened before.
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A top-level Russian delegation left for Kabul today. Representatives of embassies in Tajikistan of India, Iran, the US, Russia, China and Kazakhstan intend to fly to Kabul on Wednesday to meet with president Burhanuddin Rabbani. Former Afghan President Sibghatullah Al-Mojaddedi said he planned to return to Afghanistan soon to help to shape a government.
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The Taliban pulled out of the western province of Farah, leaving the main city in near anarchy, with looting and fighting among various groups in which several people had been killed.
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Three to four thousand dancing, chanting anti-capitalism demonstrators pushed forward to within yards of the Ottawa conference center where world financial leaders met to discuss a sluggish global economy. "Spank the Bank," "Drop debt, not bombs" and "IMF -- Insensitive Murdering Fascists" were some of the slogans in the crowd, some of whom cheered loudly when a few protesters poured gasoline on a pair of U.S. flags and set them alight.
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Organizers of a "Stop the War Coalition" in London said about 50,000 demonstrators including politicians and leaders from Britain's Muslim community, marched through central London to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan. Police put the figure closer to 10,000.
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5,000 people gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Athens and its consulate in Salonica, where demonstrations commemorating the anniversary of a student uprising quickly turned into violent protests against the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
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The largest criminal investigation in American history has exposed the rough outlines of at least a half-dozen centers of terrorist support operating underground before the Sept. 11 suicide attacks. The pockets of terrorist support exist in Boston, New Jersey, suburban Washington, Texas, southern California, and the Upper Midwest, particularly Detroit. The suspected terrorists appear to be aligned with several groups, including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and the Palestinian Hamas.
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US special envoy to Sudan John Danforth said he was giving the parties in the Sudanese civil war two months to show interest in peace "expressed in actions" before ending his mission. "We have put forward four tasks for both the government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), and I think it will be clear when I come back whether there is sufficient interest (in peace), not expressed in words but expressed in actions," Danforth said.
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In one room in an al-Qaeda Kabul safe house lay business cards marked "4-U Enterprises--Amr H. Hamed" with an address in British Columbia, Canada. A British newspaper has identified Hamed as a suspect in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. Embassies in Africa. He is reported to have died in retaliatory U.S. missile strikes on Afghanistan that same year. 4-U Enterprises was incorporated in 1998 and appears to be a shell company operating through a rented post office box at a British Columbia convenience store. Hamed and Essam Marzouk, an Egyptian and Islamic Jihad member linked to bin Laden, are listed as directors. Marzouk left Canada in 1998 and was extradited later to Egypt, where he is serving a 15-year jail sentence for terrorism activities.
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The son of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Egyptian Muslim cleric jailed in the United States for conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, has been reportedly captured or killed in Afghanistan while pursuing the family business.
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Police said militants attacked an Indian army camp in Jammu and Kashmir, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 30. Three civilians also died and four were hurt in the ensuing gun battle.
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An Italian priest taken hostage a month ago by Moro Islamic Liberation Front gunmen on southern Mindanao island was rescued. The gang had demanded a ransom of 15 million pesos ($288,000) for Pierantoni's release.
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Malaysia's Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said that the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) was in danger of becoming irrelevant and needed to re-examine its international role. The US-led attacks on Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden meant "Muslims, Islam, and a Muslim nation have become victims," he 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.
