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To: gao seng who wrote (202510)11/14/2001 12:24:54 AM
From: gao seng  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Anti-Taliban forces make further advances

14 November, 2001 03:42 GMT



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KABUL (Reuters) - Four provinces in eastern Afghanistan have fallen from Taliban hands after the local population rose up in revolt, opposition Northern Alliance Interior Minister Yunis Qanuni told Reuters.

"Now the Taliban have less than 20 percent of the territory of Afghanistan," Qanuni told Reuters on Wednesday.

He said the four eastern provinces of Laghman, Logar, Kunar and Nangahar, which are populated mainly by the majority ethnic Pashtuns who make up the Taliban, had been lost by the fundamentalist militia.

But he stopped short of saying his Northern Alliance fighters held the areas, including the eastern city of Jalalabad -- a Taliban stronghold that controls the road from Kabul to the border with Pakistan.

"We are also receiving reports of uprisings in Kandahar," he said, referring to the southern powerbase of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

reuters.co.uk



To: gao seng who wrote (202510)11/14/2001 12:27:42 AM
From: calgal  Respond to of 769670
 
Joy in the Streets After Taliban Flee Kabul

Tuesday, November 13, 2001


KABUL, Afghanistan — Freshly shaven residents of the Afghan capital of Kabul blared music in the streets Tuesday, flouting the Spartan rules that an unwelcome Taliban, now departed, had so stringently imposed.

foxnews.com



To: gao seng who wrote (202510)11/14/2001 12:27:54 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
It's simply remarkable the kind of statesmen-like leadership he has shown gathering world support to destroy terrorist.

And on top of that, I believe he just agreed to the largest nuclear disarmement in the history of the world today!