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| Northern Alliance says they can be in Kabul within 30 days |
| 2001-10-05 |
The Northern Alliance has told American diplomats that with sufficiently heavy airstrikes it could force the Taleban from the capital "within 30 days". The deployment of the 8,000 men, who are being held in reserve behind a line manned by some 5,000 fellow Mujahidin less than 40 miles north of the city, followed a series of meetings of General Fahim and other alliance commanders. "We are thirsty for Kabul and the blood of the Talebs," a middle-aged Mujahidin exclaimed as he supervised the unloading of hundreds of mortar rounds into a storage site at the mouth of the Panjshir Valley, which opens onto the Samali Plain. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |