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To: maceng2 who wrote (9494)	11/13/2001 10:06:48 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Taliban say leader and bin Laden are safe ananova.com The Taliban say leader Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are alive and well after the fall of Kabul. Taliban forces are said to be heading for their southern stronghold of Kandahar. There are unconfirmed reports that bin Laden and Omar have crossed over to Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. RIA Novosti quotes Mukhitdin Mekhti, the Northern Alliance envoy in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, as saying that bin Laden has fled Afghanistan and is hiding in Pakistan. The Urdu language Inquilab newspaper quotes Taliban sources as saying that the Saudi renegade, his two sons, and Mullah Omar, have fled, anticipating the fall of Kabul. The report says bin Laden has ordered his al-Qaida fighters to make a tactical retreat to the mountains to counter the offensive by the opposition Northern Alliance. An official said Omar had told the Taliban to prepare to wage guerrilla war. "Some of the Taliban commanders were surprised and taken aback when Mullah Omar ordered withdrawing from Kabul and preparing for a protracted guerrilla war," he said. The Taliban official confirmed that in the last few days they had lost 40% of the areas under their control before the US military campaign started in Afghanistan. Earlier, reports from Kandahar indicated the Taliban are abandoning their stronghold in southern Afghanistan. A Kandahar resident said many Taliban figures appeared to have left the city, except for uniformed militia police.

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