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To: Srexley who wrote (202053)	11/12/2001 3:54:44 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The press just needs something to yak about, to fill the 24 hours/7 days a week air time.

To: Srexley who wrote (202053)	11/12/2001 3:57:47 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Kabul besieged by Northern Alliance · Rebels attack Afghan capital · 300 Taliban surrender' · Herat falls to US-backed forces Staff and agencies Monday November 12, 2001 guardian.co.uk Opposition forces in Afghanistan today began a full scale attack on Kabul, and claimed to have captured the first two trenches on the Taliban front line defending the Afghan capital. Northern Alliance troops were advancing along the Bagram airfield just north of Kabul, the Reuters news agency reported. A bodyguard to a senior Northern Alliance commander told Reuters that 1,300 Taliban fighters in position at one village overlooking the airbase had surrendered, and many more had been killed. "We are making rapid progress," the bodyguard said. This morning the Northern Alliance claimed to have chalked up another important victory - the western city of Herat, the largest and most important city in western Afghanistan. Opposition spokesman Mohammed Abil, speaking by satellite telephone, said soldiers on the front line in Herat reported by radio that the city had fallen. A correspondent for Iranian state radio in Herat also said the city was now under Northern Alliance control. The Taliban denied that they had lost control of Herat, reporting instead that a contingent of Northern Alliance soldiers, under the command of the city's former governor, Ismail Khan, had entered the city and attempted a coup. The Taliban said the coup attempt had failed. Neither version of the story could be independently verified, but a Northern Alliance spokesman told the BBC that fighting for Herat was still under way today. This weekend saw the opposition forces oust the Taliban from the key northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and push within miles of the capital, Kabul. US forces struck Taliban targets to the north of Kabul today, aiding the Northern Alliance forces in their push towards the capital. The US has asked the alliance not to take Kabul, as they fear it would alienate the country's largest ethnic minority, the Pashtuns, whom the US want to see as part of a post-Taliban multi-ethnic government. Some senior opposition figures have said they would stop short of entering the capital, but other opposition commanders, eager to advance, moved their soldiers closer to the front line north of the city today. The fighters were in high spirits, waving at each other. "God is great!" shouted 200 fighters of the northern alliance's elite Zarbati force, who loaded their weapons and headed in trucks toward the front line. "We will have to enter Kabul," said a Northern Alliance soldier, sitting on an armoured personnel carrier in Bagram, two miles from the front. "The Taliban will take people inside the city as hostages. It will be our job to defend the people." The alliance also claimed today to have taken the town of Kunduz, the last northern hold out for the Taliban. If true, the fall of Herat and Kunduz would be yet another sign of a significant shift in the balance of power after Taliban troops abandoned strategic Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday. The Taliban claimed today that they had launched an offensive in the northern province of Badghis, looking to recapture its capital, Qala-i-Nau. The opposition now appears to have control of virtually all major cities in the northern half of Afghanistan. Herat was the second big victory for the Taliban after they first emerged in 1994 and took control of the southern city of Kandahar from feuding Islamic warlords. After gaining control of Kandahar, Taliban soldiers in tanks took control of Herat, forcing the governor, General Khan, to flee to neighbouring Iran. This morning Gen Khan was reported to have led the recapture of Herat.

To: Srexley who wrote (202053)	11/12/2001 5:33:02 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

<<The news pessimists bug me when they say "why is it taking so long?">> Same one's who were saying we couldn't win no matter how long we took. The Russians tried blah blah... Carpet bombing won't work because blah blah... The Russians never tried carpet bombing and looky here, it works. Tally bums on the run. See, President Bush is the CIC and the liberals are rooting for the other side, praying we loose and have a lot of our people killed so President Bush looks bad.