Konduz has fallen. Northern alliance troops entered Kunduz on Sunday and Taliban and foreign defenders were surrendering by the thousands. The alliance said it hoped the takeover of the city, which was under siege for 12 days, would be complete by nightfall. The former Taliban defense minister, Mullah Faizil, was overseeing surrender operations inside the city. Foreign fighters are to be handed over to UN. The United Nations has no representative in Afghanistan and it is expected that the foreign fighters would remain in jail for some time. The Taliban and al-Qaeda held out at Kunduz to provide safe passage to some top leaders to disappear into Tajikistan or Uzbekistan, Frontier Post reports. Taliban forces which have refused to surrender were in retreat toward Chardara, to the west, with Alliance troops in pursuit.
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Tribal fighters took control of the airport southeast of Kandahar, and a stream of U.S. helicopters began been landing at the airfield. Some of the helicopters were described as Chinooks bringing in armored vehicles. MSNBC reports 1500 Marines on the ground. Sydney Morning Herald reports that allied commanders are finalizing plans for more than 25,000 United States paratroopers, supported by British troops, to launch a ground offensive on Kandahar.
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FoxNews reports that President Rabanni has indicated that even though the Taliban will be outlawed as an organized force in the new Afghanistan, individual members may take part in a government of national unity.
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800 of the "surrendered" Taliban at Kalai Jangi, near the internment center at Mazar-e-Sharif, staged a revolt. One and possibly two US Special Forces were reported killed. FoxNews reported a "bloodbath" as the NA forces reestablished control. The six-hour battle between the prisoners -- mostly non-Afghans -- and Northern Alliance troops was finally quelled with the aid of tanks and US warplanes.
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Anti-Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan seized part of the road between Kandahar and Spin Boldak and were approaching Kandahar. Aided by US warplanes, the fighters pushed back a Taliban force. There were conflicting reports of the number of dead, with one tribal official saying as many as 80 Taliban died. Taliban began to withdraw from Spin Boldak toward Kandahar. Dozens of pickup trucks -- their lights extinguished -- were driving out of Spin Boldak and south into the desert.
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Three bonehead New Bedford, Mass., students were being held, charged with planning a deadly assault on their high school that they promised would be "bigger than Columbine."
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The FBI arrested six more Pakistani nationals and handed them over to the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) on violation of immigration laws. All were arrested in Queens, New York, in a raid at a Pakistani-owned construction company site.
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The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force plans to round up between three and five suspects on charges they "aided and abetted" the 19 hijackers who brought down the Twin Towers, wrecked the Pentagon and claimed nearly 4,000 innocent lives. "These are not material witnesses," one law-enforcement source said. "They facilitated the attack. They aided and abetted the hijackers."
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Mazen Al-Najjar, a Palestinian man who was held for 3 years on secret evidence was arrested for violating his visa and will be deported as a threat to national security. The Justice Department said that Al-Najjar has ties to terrorist front organizations, including a University of South Florida Islamic studies group.
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Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto asked India to use its influence with the U.S. to pressure Islamabad's military regime to restore democracy.
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Thousands of Palestinian mourners in the West Bank and Gaza vowed to support revenge attacks in Israel for the killing of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a senior leader of Hamas. His deputy, Ayman Hashaikah, and his brother, Maâmoun Hashaikah, died with him. An Israeli was killed and two others were wounded in a Palestinian mortar attack on Kfar Darom in central Gaza. Israeli tanks made an incursion into the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia and shelled a school.
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Militants killed four persons, including three security personnel, on the national highway near the Jawahar tunnel in Banihal area, forcing the temporary closure of the vital road link in Jammu-Kashmir.
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The central office of Tehreek-e-Islami Taliban has been sealed off by the administration of Karachi and police have been deployed outside the office. Police have also arrested fifteen Afghan nationals from the office.
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The Pakistani government is engaged in negotiations with the coalition forces and the International Committee of the Red Cross for safe evacuation of Pakistanis from Kunduz. These people would be tried according to laws of the country if handed over to Pakistan, or under international law if given in the custody of the United Nations.
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Egypt has asked Pakistan to hand over Egyptian Al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahri, former head of the al-Jihad movement, as soon as he crosses the borders from Afghanistan to Pakistan.
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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
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