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

To: lorne who wrote (11118)	11/28/2001 6:39:16 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 27666

A tank roared in. It fired four rounds. Then there was silence in the fort Luke Harding in Mazar-i-Sharif on the last stand of the Taliban Luke Harding in Mazar-i-Sharif Wednesday November 28, 2001 The Guardian The spectacular revolt of Taliban prisoners in the fort in Mazar-i-Sharif finally ended last night when troops used a tank to kill the remaining hardliners who had improbably survived repeated American air strikes on their basement hideout. Early yesterday, US planes blasted the mini-citadel inside the fort where the Taliban's foreign fighters had been holed up for the past two days. Incredibly, some survived. At 8am they even launched a counterattack, shooting dead several soldiers who had been sniping at them from ramparts. Government troops blasted the Taliban with mortars, rockets and withering gunfire. By mid-afternoon, only three of the 400-odd foreign prisoners who had originally stormed the castle on Sunday were still alive. They refused all offers of surrender, shouting: "You are American people. We won't surrender to you." Full story >>> guardian.co.uk