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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (11064)	11/27/2001 4:36:28 PM
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Allies direct the death rites of trapped Taliban fighters. " Last night a small group of up to 40 volunteers were still holed up in a house in the corner of the castle's rambling compound. They signalled their presence with firework-like bursts of gunfire, just to remind their enemies crouching on the shadowy ramparts above them that they were not yet dead. After spending years killing their fellow Muslims, the Taliban's Arab and Pakistani fighters have finally got the jihad they were looking for. The foreign volunteers - who surrendered on Saturday only to overpower their guards the following day - know they have hours to live. Authoritative sources in Mazar-i-Sharif revealed yesterday that eight British SAS soldiers were coordinating the mission to wipe out Taliban resistance inside the castle. They arrived on Sunday afternoon, soon after the fighters took control of the building. "They pulled up in two long-range desert patrol vehicles. They were clearly British and not American," the source said. "They have been leading the firing at the Taliban's positions. You can tell they are special forces because their firing is more disciplined: they use single shots rather than bursts." Full story >>> guardian.co.uk