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Konduz has fallen
Konduz has fallen. Northern alliance troops entered Kunduz on Sunday and Taliban and foreign defenders were surrendering by the thousands. The alliance said it hoped the takeover of the city, which was under siege for 12 days, would be complete by nightfall. The former Taliban defense minister, Mullah Faizil, was overseeing surrender operations inside the city. Foreign fighters are to be handed over to UN. The United Nations has no representative in Afghanistan and it is expected that the foreign fighters would remain in jail for some time. The Taliban and al-Qaeda held out at Kunduz to provide safe passage to some top leaders to disappear into Tajikistan or Uzbekistan, Frontier Post reports. Taliban forces which have refused to surrender were in retreat toward Chardara, to the west, with Alliance troops in pursuit.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-11-25 |
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