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| Afghanistan |
| 700 more Talibs jump ship |
| 2001-10-17 |
An Afghan official told IRNA Wednesday that another 700 Taliban forces defected and surrendered themselves to the United Islamic Front (UIF) forces in Mazar-i-Sharif, in the mountainous northern parts of Afghanistan. Deputy head of Iran's Zahedan Bureau of the UIF, Eshaq Danesh, said that the newly defected Taliban forces surrendered themselves to the North Coalition forces situated near Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday, October 16. Danesh added that the North Alliance forces are currently engaged in a full scale war with the remainder of the Taliban forces some two kilometers to the south of Mazar Sharif. He also announced that to resist against an upcoming U.S. land invasion, the Taliban forces have impressed some three thousand of the indigenous inhabitants of the Kandahar, Ghazni, and Hilmand provinces of Afghanistan and armed them with machine guns. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |