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To: maceng2 who wrote (11947)	11/29/2001 1:15:19 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

Taliban gunmen still hiding in carnage fort (Note by pb: Time to send in some robots imho) Two workers collecting bodies at the prison fort where Northern Alliance forces crushed a Taliban rebellion have been shot by survivors. Red Cross officials say there was still Taliban resistance in underground bunkers. The charity has now pulled its workers out of the fort area and Northern Alliance commanders have taken control. The two wounded men - one of who was shot in the leg and the other in the hand - were transported to the military hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif. The two workers, from the local health ministry, were gathering bodies from a section of the fort, "There was still Taliban resistance below ground in the bunker system inside the fort," said Red Cross official Simon Brooks. Hundreds of foreigners fighting with the Taliban launched a fierce revolt on Sunday at the sprawling Qalai Janghi fortress where they had been imprisoned following the fall of Kunduz, the Taliban's last stronghold in northern Afghanistan. After three days of ferocious battles that included US air strikes and British and American special forces backing up anti-Taliban fighters, the alliance claimed to have killed all the rebel prisoners. A CIA agent was killed and five other Americans injured in the battle. ananova.com