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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D.Austin who wrote (192462)	10/16/2001 10:02:04 AM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769667

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, speaking at the Pentagon, suggested Monday that U.S. air strikes could next start targeting Taliban front-line positions facing Afghan opposition fighters in the northeast. "I suspect that in the period ahead that's not going to be a very safe place to be" for Taliban fighters, Rumsfeld said. Taking advantage of the massive assaults, opposition forces on the ground claimed Monday to have advanced within miles of Mazar-e-Sharif. In the Tajikistan capital Dushanbe, a spokesman for the opposition northern alliance said opposition troops were approaching Mazar-e-Sharif from the northeast and northwest and that some units were as close as 4 miles away. The claim by Abdul Vadud, the military attache of the opposition-controlled Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe, could not be confirmed. Mazar-e-Sharif is the largest city in northern Afghanistan and is dominated by ethnic minority Uzbeks. The fundamentalist Taliban, who are Sunni Muslims, captured the city in 1998 and have since ruled it with an iron hand. Taking the city would enable the opposition to consolidate its grip on the small area it controls in the north, since the town controls routes running east to west and linking pockets of the northern alliance's strength. -- From your link. Clear the skies and send in Puff. Just a matter of time, now.