Fighters aligned with former Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha, a Pashtun, battled for control of the Kandahar airport. To the north of the city, thousands of fighters loyal to another Pashtun leader, Hamid Karzai, who is still not dead, had moved to within 30 miles of the city. Ahmed Karzai said the Taliban had not engaged in battle with his brother's force. The United States continued heavy air strikes on Taliban positions in Kandahar. One refugee who left the city said Taliban were hiding in the houses of residents.
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"Abdul Hamid," the American traitor who survived the Kala-i-Jangi uprising, has been identified as by his parents as John Phillip Walker Lindh, 20, of Northern California. Marilyn Walker describes her son as a "sweet, shy, kid," who had wanted to work with poor people and perhaps go into medicine. The photo of her son that appeared on Newsweek.MSNBC.com was the first indication that she had of his whereabouts since he left a religious school, or Madrassah, in Pakistanâs Northwest Frontier Province, where he had been studying the Quran, seven months earlier. He is reportedly now in custody of US Special Forces, receiving medical treatment and hopefully "falling down" every twenty minutes or so.
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Witnesses said a coalition bombing raid in eastern Afghanistan near Tora Bora destroyed a village, though reports of civilian casualties varied. The U.S. military denied the claim, saying the bombing ``did not happen.'' While witnesses claimed 100 to 200 people were killed, the defense chief in the province, Mohammed Zeman, said he received reports that 15 to 20 civilians had died in air raids. Zeman said local anti-Taliban authorities had complained to the Americans that they were bombing in the wrong place.
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Former Afghan Information Minister and the Executive Council member of Jamiat-e-Islami, Siddique Chakari has said that Afghans would not welcome imposed leadership from abroad and deployment of UN forces in Kabul. Translated: he wants to be in charge. Jamiat is Rabanni's party.
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Former Afghan Prime Minister and Chief of Hizb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has said no dignified Jihadi leader has attended the Bonn meeting as the United States has nominated all the invitees. Jihadi leaders Maulvi Younas Khalis, Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf, Maulvi Mohammad Nabi, Maulvi Samiullah, Syed Mohseni and other leaders of same stature have not been invited. "These groups do not represent Afghans and can not decide about the future of Afghans," he said. Translated: He wants to be in charge.
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In what may be a sign all is not roses within Kandahar, Potentate-for-Life Mullah Muhammad Omar has asked the Taliban fighters and leaders not to indulge in racial and linguistic hatred. "This is the policy of the Taliban movement to assign duties to those, who meet the requirements of being good Muslims and are able to serve the nation without discrimination," Omar said. Perhaps a bit of tension between the Arabs and the local boys?
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The bodies of 124 American troops were flown home in a cargo plane on November 29, claimed a Pakistani daily. 'Pakistan Observer' reported that the troops were killed during clashes with Taliban fighters when they had landed in Helmand province to help the ex-governor of Kandahar Gul Agha's Lashkar fighters against Taliban.
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Muhammad Omer Abdul Rehman, the elder son of Egyptian puritan Omer Abdul Rehman, convicted of World Trade Centre bombing in 1993, was killed during fighting in Bamiyan before the fall of Kabul. The younger son, Ahmad Omer Abdul Rehman, was caught by the Northern Alliance forces during their takeover of Kabul and remains in detention. Both lads were pursuing the family business.
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80 Taliban prisoners, kept in a freight container in Sherberghan, near Mazar-e-Sharif, blew themselves up in an apparent mass suicide. The incident in will likely further stoke controversy over the treatment of war prisoners, particularly by men loyal to alliance commander Gen. Rashid Dostum.
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A group of 40 French troops arrived in Afghanistan, landing at the airport in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif. The group is the advanced party for a French force whose mission is to secure the airport perimeter during work to repair the runway.
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In no mood for yet another Battle in Seattle, police came out in force, hemming in a small crowd protesting the World Trade Organization and the advance of global capitalism. Officers quickly arrested anyone who stepped out of line -- or off the sidewalk -- during the midday event. Police took 13 people into custody, all on misdemeanor offenses ranging from trespassing to pedestrian interference. By 6 p.m. the demonstrations had all but dissolved.
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The deaths of perhaps as many as 400 Taliban fighters after the fall of Kunduz have already led to calls for an inquiry into the manner in which they died. The utterly predictable Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, has expressed her "particular concern" about the deaths, and Amnesty International has said there must be an investigation into the "proportionality" of the Northern Alliance response.
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Some 3,000 right-wing extremists who marched through central Berlin on Saturday for a protest against an exhibition on Nazi-era crimes by the German army were diverted away from a planned route through the capital's Jewish quarter.
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Palestinian Authority officials and military commanders are running for cover as Israel Air Force helicopter gunships can be seen in the skies over autonomous area. PA commanders are evacuating all military bases and other PA offices are being emptied of personnel as well.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told U.S. President George W. Bush that Israel no longer expects Chairman Yasser Arafat to deal with terrorism, and that "Israel will act against those who perpetuate terror and those who send them on their missions."
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US envoy Anthony Zinni made a brief visit to the site of yesterday's terror attacks in Jerusalem. "First let me express my condolences to the families that lost children here in this terrible, horrible, evil action, and also to express my heartfelt concern to those who were injured," Zinni said. Secretary of State Colin Powell said that he made it "absolutely clear" to Yasser Arafat that terrorist attacks like the ones in Jerusalem must be halted through "immediate" action against those responsible and their support infrastructure. "There can be no excuse for failure to take immediate and thorough action against the perpetrators of these vile acts," Powell said.
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The Palestinian leadership gave security forces new powers to rein in militants, including banning all armed demonstrations and any public display of arms. Right. It could happen.
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Seven people belonging to a wedding party were gunned down by suspected Muslim heroes in Jammu and Kashmir. Sixteen Muslim militants, two women and an Indian army major were killed in Kashmir. Twenty-one houses, a junior grade school and more than two dozen single-roomed tenements were also destroyed in a blaze ignited during one of the gunbattles between Indian soldiers and Islamic guerrillas. A police spokesman in Srinagar said six militants, all local Kashmiris affiliated with the militant group Hizbul Mujahedin, were gunned down during a three-hour encounter at the village of Magam.
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An Israeli man was killed and four people injured when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on passing cars near the northern Gaza settlement of Alei Sinai. Fourteen Israelis were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa. At least 60 people were wounded in the terrorist attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombings, in retaliation for Israel's slaying of a Hamas leader nine days ago.
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Security agencies in Pakistan have confirmed that some of the country's most wanted militants, including Riaz Basra, have either been killed or were trapped in Kunduz or Kandahar along with the Taliban. The agencies believe that at least 8,000 members of the militant Lashkar-e-Jhangvi organisation, which had been involved in sectarian killings in Pakistan, were operating from Afghanistan.
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Thousands of Christian villagers on Indonesia's Sulawesi island are fleeing attacks by Muslim paramilitaries armed with machine guns and rocket launchers. Hundreds of homes in settlements around Poso, a coastal town in Central Sulawesi province, have been destroyed by uniformed members of the Laskar Jihad militia group.
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Canadian immigration officers say a lack of detention space forced them to release a dozen men into the Toronto area who are suspected of having links to al-Qaida terrorists. Guess it's not very important, eh?
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A team of senior British military officers who visited US Central Command last week was asked to prepare the strategy for attacks on sites in Somalia. They have returned to London to discuss the plan with MoD ministers. The request was made as it emerged that Saddam Hussein is funding a number of terrorist training camps in Somalia used by a militant Islamic group with close ties to al-Qa'eda. According to Iraqi dissident groups based in London, Saddam has agreed to provide funding, training and equipment to the Somali Islamic group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya in return for assistance from the Somali authorities in avoiding United Nations sanctions. Mr Bush placed al-Itihaad on his list of outlawed terrorist groups after the September 11 incident.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
