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To: Selectric II who wrote (9520)	11/9/2001 12:20:09 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The diplomatic efforts are having a significant effect imho. news.bbc.co.uk news.bbc.co.uk Pakistan used to supply the Taliban. Musharraf has stopped that. The Northern Allience have Russia supplying the Ground forces with armaments, no doubt the USA assisting with many items, and they have the USA for an Air Force. Some changes LOL

To: Selectric II who wrote (9520)	11/9/2001 12:34:53 PM
From: k.ramesh	Respond to of 281500

Opp Forces capture key northern afghan city - Independent.uk news.independent.co.uk Northern Alliance overruns Mazar-i-Sharif 'in 30 minutes' AP 09 November 2001 Anti-Taliban opposition forces claimed this afternoon that they had broken through Taliban defences around Mazar-i-Sharif and entered the key northern Afghan city. Opposition spokesman Ashraf Nadeem said the Taliban appeared to have abandoned the city. "We are moving through one neighborhood at a time," he said. Opposition forces broke through Taliban defences at the Pul–e–Imam Bukhri bridge on the southern edge of the city, Mr Nadeem said. He said the opposition also took the city's airport and entered the city. He said Taliban troops appeared to be retreating east toward Samangan province. If the city has been taken from the Taliban, it would be a major victory in the US–led campaign against the Afghan ruling militia and open up vital supply lines to the opposition from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek warlord who controlled Mazar–i–Sharif until the Taliban captured the city three years ago, told CNN–Turk television in Turkey that the alliance overran the city in 30 minutes. He said he was speaking by satellite telephone from a hill overlooking the city. Mr Dostum claimed northern alliance forces killed 500 Taliban fighters and took hundreds of others prisoner during the past four days of fighting. He said the alliance suffered 28 killed and more than 30 wounded. There was no immediate Taliban comment on the reports the city has been taken. Three factions of the northern alliance were moving on the city, where the 200,000–strong population is largely made up of ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks, the same minorities as many in the opposition coalition. Ghulam Reza Zada, a spokesman for the Shiite Muslim faction involved in the opposition advance, also said opposition forces were entering the city but did not know whether all Taliban fighters had withdrawn. At the Pentagon, Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, a spokesman for Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, said the Pentagon had no independent knowledge of the reported breakthrough but said it would be a welcome development if true.