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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (41726)	11/18/2001 9:36:55 AM
From: jayhawk969	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Hopefully, the response will be delivered by a Special Forces sharpshooter ! Omar's life should be given the same respect he has for the lives of others .... none ! Let him die for Allah, the world will be a much better place ! Actually I want Osama dead, I would like to see Omar in jail, too cowardly to die.

To: JustTradeEm who wrote (41726)	11/18/2001 11:24:41 AM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 50167

Likewise with the remaining Taliban holdouts, such as the ones in Kunduz and probably in Kandahar as well. "Refugees fleeing the city of Kunduz over the weekend told of terror at the hands of Taliban troops and fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden. One described a doctor shot and killed for not treating a wounded Taliban fast enough, and others said eight teen-age boys were killed for laughing at Taliban soldiers." dailynews.netscape.com U.S. Strikes Positions Near Kunduz Sunday, Nov. 18, 2001 BANGI, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. B-52s led a day of intense bombing Sunday on Taliban positions in the hills outside the last Taliban foothold in the north of Afghanistan, sending huge fireballs skyward. Refugees fleeing the city of Kunduz over the weekend told of terror at the hands of Taliban troops and fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden. One described a doctor shot and killed for not treating a wounded Taliban fast enough, and others said eight teen-age boys were killed for laughing at Taliban soldiers. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a private news agency said U.S. bombardment of Taliban positions in their home base of Kandahar in the south and outside the eastern city of Jalalabad had killed more than 70 people overnight. The reports could not be independently confirmed. The latest American bombardment of Taliban lines outside Kunduz used the largest bombs yet unleashed in the area. Flames shot into the air after they hit, and huge cracking booms rolled across the valley floor toward the northern alliance's own foxholes in opposing ridges. Avalanches of soil cascaded down the targeted hillsides. Taliban soldiers could be seen running out on the distant ridges, trying to find cover. Northern alliance forces had moved a multiple-rocket launcher and two tanks up to the road that is the eastern approach to Kunduz, but there was no sign an attack was imminent. The city's defenders include thousands of foreign fighters loyal to bin Laden who are far likelier than their Taliban comrades to fight to the death. In other urban areas, Taliban fighters last week retreated wholesale rather than face an all-out onslaught from the northern alliance. Refugees fleeing Kunduz over the past several days have said the city is under the control of Arab, Pakistani, Chechen and other foreign fighters - and a hard core of Taliban fighters from Kandahar. Northern alliance commanders were planning the attack from the city of Taloqan, 40 miles to the east. One commander said low-level Taliban foot soldiers wanted to surrender, but troops loyal to bin Laden would not allow that. ``The rank-and-file want to give up ... but the foreign fighters will not let them,'' said Gen. Dayn, sitting cross-legged atop a dank down the road from the front. ``We will capture Kunduz, and they will be killed.'' Refugees in and near Banji, a village about 30 miles east of Kunduz, gave chilling accounts of conditions inside the city. The Taliban were barring people from leaving, telling them, ``If you leave the USA will bomb all the city,'' said a refugee named Dar Zardad. He said he made it out of the city only after Taliban beat him with their rifle butts. Zardad described the killing in Kunduz of a group of boys in their late teens by Taliban from Kandahar after some of the youths laughed at them. He and others also recounted how troops shot and killed a doctor when he delayed responding to their summons to come treat wounded Taliban fighters. Refugees said people of the city were hiding indoors and closing their shops for fear of summary execution by the Taliban. Foreign fighters, using local translators, were broadcasting loudspeaker announcements saying they would be taking the offensive against northern alliance troops laying siege to the city. The reports of bombings in eastern Nangarhar province and in Kandahar came from the Afghan Islamic Press. It said the Nangarhar raid killed 30 people, and quoted a Pakistani official at the nearby Torkham border crossing as saying seven wounded were brought to Pakistan for treatment. It also said U.S. jets struck targets around Kandahar, killing 46 people, as the stalemate continued over control of the Taliban stronghold. In the capital, Kabul, U.N. envoy Francesc Vendrell was trying to help work out a plan for a new Afghan government. The former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, returned to Kabul on Saturday for the first time in five years. Rabbani has never relinquished his claim to the presidency, though he has acknowledged the international calls for a broad-based government that would include all of Afghanistan's ethnic groups. A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saturday that the United States has been pressuring the northern alliance to share power with other factions and to let the United Nations oversee assembly of a new government. U.S. officials are in the region and in direct contact with the alliance, he said. Vendrell said he had a preliminary meeting with Rabbani's acting foreign minister, Abdullah, on Sunday. He described the exchange as ``cordial'' but said no outstanding issues were resolved.