A U.N. envoy was trying to persuade the Northern Alliance to meet soon with rival tribes to plan a broad-based government, as the Taliban held on to their shrinking pockets of the country. Afghan and foreign forces lined up against the Taliban squabbled over the country's future and whether international peacekeepers should be deployed. Diplomats and military planners are mapping out a peacekeeping strategy that entails deploying a Turkish-led multinational force to police Kabul and dispatching British and French troops to take control of two key airfields.
Golly. That's never happened before. |