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To: BubbaFred who wrote (41751)	11/18/2001 5:02:10 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

A special Russian commando team landed in Bagram airbase on Saturday, the intelligence service reports. The Russian commandos landed shortly after British troops took up positions at Bagram airbase. Now this is about oil lines and economic interests...UNOCAL proposed oil ine makes a loto f concern for Russian. The Russian commandos will be followed by a high-level Russian delegation, which is being rushed to the Afghan capital of Kabul to “look into the military requirements of the legitimate government of Rabbani,” reports DEBKA-Net-Weekly. The delegation, announced over Russian State TV RTR, means the Russians will enter Kabul ahead of the Islamic Peace Force planned by the U.N. for supervising the formation of Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban ruling body. The 17-member official team will be led by Russia’s special envoy Alexander Oblov and comprise diplomats, high army officers and relief officials. It is scheduled to meet General Fahim, the Northern Alliance defence minister, who is reported to have set up a military council to rule Kabul in the interim, until the returning former president Burhanuddin Rabbani is installed. Rabbani, ousted by the Taliban five years ago, has also returned to Kabul. Sources in Washington and Moscow report the fresh development was revealed hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin returned home from his ranch summit with President Bush, at Crawford, Texas. It may well represent one of the two key areas of agreement between the presidents. Bush may have made the gesture of allowing Russia to re-enter Kabul in a manner that would wipe out the ignominy the Red Army’s rout in Afghanistan 12 years ago. “The situation on the fronts has radically changed and we need a team on the spot in Kabul,” said Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov in the broadcast. No other government, including the United States has recognised Rabbani as post-war ruler of Afghanistan. The US position vis a vis Moscow’s stance on this question is not yet clear. In the meantime, manoeuvres advance for influence in shaping the future regime amid rivalries among Northern Alliance coalition factions, each bidding for a stake in the future government and control of the areas of the country abandoned by Taliban forces. It is also being reported that in the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif Russian soldiers fought along with the Northern Alliance and were the main factor of success.