Taliban commander Mullah Sazil Muslimyar said he was ready to surrender, but was negotiating how. "Tomorrow we will launch an attack from four sides if they do not surrender,'' United Front Gen. Daoud Khan said. Sky News broadcast television pictures it said showed hundreds of Taliban fighters surrendering. The broadcast from the edge of Kunduz showed hundreds of men in turbans, some of them armed, appearing to prepare for the surrender of the Taliban to the opposition Northern Alliance. Uzbek television reported that the Northern Alliance has announced the capture of the city. The television said the announcement was made by General Rashid Dostum. More than 10,000 Taliban fighters had surrendered. The Taliban denied the surrender, the Al-Jazeera satellite television channel reported. "The office of Mullah Omar strongly denied that and the Taliban army chief Akhdar Othmani said the information was totally false," correspondent Mohammad al-Shuli reported from the southeastern city of Spin Boldak. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf expressed deep concern over the safety of Afghan and non-Afghan Taliban in the Kunduz area, who reportedly wish to surrender to the UN or a neutral authority.
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Troops loyal to Abdul Qadeer, the new Governor of Jalalabad, arrested former Taliban Commander Sarwar and twelve associates after a brief skirmish. Sawar was recently sent to take over Torkham checkpoint at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border after Qadeer switched his loyalties from Taliban.
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Despite the looming prospect of complete annihilation of the movement he founded in 1993, Mullah Mohammad Omar has expressed concern that "some Afghan men are wearing their turbans to the side or too far back". He declared the practice "vulgar and un-Islamic" in a rallying cry to the fast-disappearing ranks of Taliban officials and gunmen.
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Canada has announced the readiness of his country to send 1,000 troops to Afghanistan -- if nobody minds. Minister told reporters in Ottawa that they would not send their troops to a country where they are not welcomed.
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Northern Alliance troops launched an attack on Taliban positions near Maidan Shahr, near Kabul. The Alliance rained rocket, mortar and artillery fire on some 1,200 Taliban members. The Alliance had been seeking to persuade the Taliban to surrender Maidan Shahr since it captured Kabul. An unknown number of foreigners, including Pakistanis and Arabs, are fighting alongside Afghan Taliban in Maidan Shahr.
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Three more foreign journalists were killed in Afghanistan, bringing to 10 the total number of journalists killed in the war-torn country in just over a week, Iranian state radio reported.
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A 94-year-old woman from rural Connecticut died of inhalation anthrax, five days after she was admitted to a hospital. The source of her infection, distant from other recent bioterror attacks, remained a mystery.
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The Philippine military said the number of Abu Sayyaf gunmen in the southern Philippines has gone down from more than 1,200 in June to about 600 this month because of the government's relentless campaign against the extremist group.
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Nur Misuari, of the Moro National Liberation Front, has reportedly fled the island of Jolo for the Malaysian State of Sabah and was trying to reach -- where else? -- Saudi Arabia.
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Two men appeared in court charged with bomb attacks in London and Birmingham that have been blamed on Irish Republican Army dissidents. Robert Hulme, 22, and Noel Maguire, 32, are the first to be charged from a group of eight people arrested in the past week in connection with a string of attacks in Britain.
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Jordanian troops are scheduled to leave for Afghanistan âwithin the next two daysâ as part of UN peacekeeping forces, but solely for humanitarian missions.
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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.
