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Politics : War
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (4138)9/21/2001 8:08:56 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (1) of 23908
 
The Northern Alliance suffered a major blow last week when two suicide assassins posing as Arab journalists fatally wounded military commander General Ahmad Shah Masood.

The next day hijackers seized four aircraft in the United States and flew three of them in suicide attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon (news - web sites) in Washington.

Bin Laden has been linked to both plots.

Uzbek leader General Dostum, meanwhile, had concentrated a huge force in the north, his aides said. The Alliance's military attach said the aim of the offensive was to seize Mazar-i-Sharif.

Dostum rose through the ranks of the Afghan army after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and switched sides several times as the country's government changed.

In 1998, Dostum had to flee Afghanistan after Taliban forces took over territories in the north populated by ethnic Uzbeks. Earlier this year he joined the Northern Alliance

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