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To: greenspirit who wrote (202036)	11/12/2001 1:32:20 PM
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KABUL (Reuters) - Dozens of Taliban vehicles were leaving the Afghan capital, Kabul, in haste on Monday evening on the main highway leading westwards and then south towards the militia's stronghold of Kandahar, a Reuters reporter and witnesses said. The vehicles included some armoured personnel carriers. Cars carrying Taliban members with their belongings wrapped in sheets were also seem leaving the city. To the north of the city, opposition Northern Alliance fighters had advanced several kilometres forward, sweeping over the first trenches of the Taliban front lines. ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Some Taliban Seen Leaving Kabul; Lights Go Out KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Several vehicles of Taliban fighters packed with their belongings were seen leaving Kabul late Monday and at government ministries across the city the number of Taliban guards had decreased sharply. In a convoy of five vehicles, about 15 or 20 Taliban carrying their belongings wrapped in sheets were seen leaving the city as darkness fell, said a Reuters reporter. For the first time the intelligence department was in darkness. A spotlight at its door that is lit from darkness to dawn had been switched off. The house of the chief justice was also in darkness and his guard had disappeared from his kiosk outside the house, the reporter said. To the north of the city, opposition Northern Alliance fighters had advanced several kilometers forward, sweeping through the first trenches of the Taliban front lines. reuters.com