Forces under Northern Alliance Gen Dawood attacked Konduz from the east, while those under Gen Dostum moved in from the west. Inside the city, al-Qaeda fanatics were preparing to kill Taleban defectors. Increasing numbers of refugees claim that Pakistani transport planes have been landing at the cityâs airfield, bringing American dollars for the trapped Taleban commanders and evacuating young Pakistani and Punjabi fighters. "We have chased Taliban from the hills dominating Khanabad, about 20 kilometers east of Kunduz," Sadreddine, a Northern Alliance commander stated.
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Northern Alliance troops faced a setback near Maidan Shahr in Wardak Province when heavy fire forced them to call off an offensive aimed at dislodging two warlords and several hundred pro-Taliban soldiers refusing to surrender. The clashes cut the main road linking north and south Afghanistan. No traffic has gone through because of the fighting. Northern Alliance commanders and local residents said that further to the west of Maidan Shahr, Hazara fighters who had been battling the Taliban had now switched sides.
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Fazal-e-Raziq , a suspected bin Laden aide who was arrested by Pakistani security officials in Peshawar earlier this week, has been shifted to Rawalpindi for interrogation. Raziq is suspected of having close links with Osama bin Laden. He is being questioned by a joint Pakistani-US FBI team.
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Osama bin Laden left Jalalabad with a convoy of more than 100 trucks and armored vehicles the night the city fell. They were bound for the al-Qa'eda base at Tora Bora in the nearby White Mountains.
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U.S. writer Gore Vidal has denounced Washington for waging what he called ``a perpetual war for perpetual peace'' and said American aggression was only nurturing fresh hatreds. In a scathing attack on U.S. foreign policy, Vidal told Reuters that the United States would have been better served trying to buy peace with Osama bin Laden rather than send in the bombers to try and kill him.
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Somalia's only internet company and a key telecoms business have been forced to close because the United States suspects them of terrorist links. The two firms, Somalia Internet Company and al-Barakaat, both appear on a US list of organisations accused of funnelling money to the al-Qaeda network. Both companies have stated they are not linked to terrorists.
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A Libyan man arrested for suspected links to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network was extradited from Germany to Italy for trial. Lased Ben Henin, 32, was arrested in October near his Munich apartment in raids coordinated with Italian authorities. Two Tunisians were arrested in Italy in the same operation.
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Assailants firing at close range killed a traffic police officer and wounded another in the Basque region of Spain in an attack blamed on the separatist group ETA.
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Police and soldiers in the Philippines arrested two Jordanians and an Iraqi in raids on suspicion of links with international terrorists. Bomb making materials, and altered and fake passports were seized from the three men. The unidentified Jordanians were arrested in Manila. The Iraqi was arrested in his home in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao province, about 540 miles southeast of Manila. An army spokesman identified the Iraqi as Mohammad Sabri Selamah. Selamah, married to a Filipino Muslim woman, has taught since 1998 at the Islamic Koranic Memorization Center in the village of Simuay near a camp of the Muslim secessionist rebel group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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Maoist guerrillas attacked police stations and government installations in Nepal, two days after pulling out of a four-month cease-fire following unsuccessful peace talks. No deaths or injuries were reported. Police said the rebels rampaged in at least 15 towns across the Himalayan kingdom, firing guns and stealing weapons from at least one police station.
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An Indian army officer and two Muslim girls were among 11 people killed in clashes in occupied Kashmir. The officer died in a two-hour encounter with Mujahideen late on Wednesday at Watsar village, near Handwara township, 85 kilometres north of Srinagar.
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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.
