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| Rivals Resume Fighting in Northern Afghanistan |
| 2002-10-03 |
| Heavy fighting has resumed between forces of rival commanders in northern Afghanistan, the United Nations and local officials said on Thursday. U.N. spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said rivals Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ustad Atta Mohammad had sent officials to the Pir Naqshi area in the northern province of Samangan to quell the latest clashes between their supporters. Uzbek commander Dostum and the Tajik commander Atta are nominally allies in the Northern Alliance which toppled the Taliban with U.S. help last year, but regular skirmishes have broken out between their supporters in recent months. "Stop it, godammit! You're both acting like Pashtuns!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |