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To: arno who wrote (1219)	9/17/2001 11:40:51 AM
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To: arno who wrote (1219)	9/17/2001 11:59:44 AM
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Another supporter 'defined'? Sunday September 16 5:28 PM ET Taliban's Afghan Foes Offer Support for U.S. Action LONDON (Reuters) - Afghan guerrillas fighting the ruling Taliban movement pledged on Sunday to support any U.S. strike against camps run by Osama bin Laden, Washington's chief suspect in last week's terror attacks in the United States. ``We want the destruction of the terrorist camps, as well as the Taliban establishment, which have provided the facilities for the terrorist activities in Afghanistan,'' Abdullah Abdullah, a senior figure in the opposition Northern Alliance, told CNN. ``If the United States is about to show a reaction against terrorists and their collaborators, they should consult us and see... how much effective our support and our cooperation would be,'' he said in an interview. The alliance's former military leader Ahmad Shah Masood, who had obstructed the Taliban's drive to control all Afghanistan, was buried on Sunday, the day after his death from wounds inflicted by a suicide bomber on September 9. ``We lost one of our heroes just yesterday as a result of a terrorist act, an attempt against him, which was connected to Osama bin Laden,'' Abdullah said. ``So we are fighting the enemy of the world, I mean Osama bin Laden.'' The Northern Alliance has fought a rearguard action against the Taliban since the hardline Islamic movement took Kabul in 1996, but now holds only a sliver of territory in the northeast. Abdullah, who had been a spokesman for Masood, said any strategy to tackle bin Laden's Taliban protectors should start with Pakistan, which he accused of arming and supporting them. ``If the United States of America is able to stop the flow of support, arms and ammunition to the Taliban from Pakistan, I think this is half the job,'' he declared. Pakistan is one of only three countries which recognize the Taliban government, but denies giving it military backing. The Taliban has said bin Laden lacks the means to organize attacks on the scale of Tuesday's assaults in which hijackers crashed passenger jets into New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon near Washington, killing up to 5,000 people. Bin Laden has denied any part in the assaults, saying that would have violated a pledge he gave to his ``host'' in Afghanistan, the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Omar. ``I am residing in Afghanistan. I have taken an oath of allegiance to (Omar) which does not allow me to do such things from Afghanistan,'' he said in a statement on Sunday. dailynews.yahoo.com.