| Fleeing Taliban plundered Afghanistan's national bank and made off with millions of dollars in cash during their retreat from Kabul. Staff at Bank Millie Afghan said its Taliban governor, Haji Mullah Mohammad Ahmadi, showed up with a posse of gunmen on the night of November 12, got out the key to the underground strongroom and made off with $5.3 million and 22 million Pakistani rupees ($360,000). |