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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46816)	8/15/2004 7:05:16 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Taliban falling apart, says US KABUL: There are signs of the Taliban leadership “falling apart”, a US military spokesman said on Saturday, citing reports this week that a breakaway faction no longer recognises Mullah Mohammad Omar. Reuters reported on Monday that a dissident group named Taliban Jamiat Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Muslim Army of the Taliban) had broken away, taking with it about one-third of the Taliban’s fighting strength. “That’s a significant development which demonstrates the Taliban are falling apart a little bit on the leadership side,” Major Scott Nelson told a regular news briefing in Kabul. Nelson said the military was still assessing what impact the split was having on the Islamist militants’ strategy and operations against US-led forces in Afghanistan. “That fissure is widening - we see that. Specifically what that means we’re still looking into it,” he said. The new group was being led by Mulla Syed Mohammad Akbar Aga, a 45-year-old commander from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, Sabir Momin, who was the Taliban’s deputy operations commander in southern Afghanistan, told Reuters on Monday. The rift within the Taliban comes hard on the heels of a series of arrests of Al Qaeda members in Pakistan, suggesting success on two fronts in the US-led war on terror. There are around 18,000 US-led troops combing the south and east of Afghanistan for Taliban and Al Qaeda members. reuters