In western Afghanistan, forces under the command of Ismail Khan have reached 20 kilometers from Herat. The advance came after seven senior Taliban commanders and 100 of their men switched sides.
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Arab militants, including supporters of the Iranian-backed terrorist organisation Hezbollah, have made their way to Afghanistan, where they volunteering for service in the Taleban army. A leader of the Hezbollah, known as Commander Jamal, was quoted by one Karachi daily as saying; "all Jihad forces have agreed to cooperate with each other against US and its allies."
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A U.S. warplane has killed 13 Saudi Arabians in a raid on Taliban positions, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported. An al Qaeda spokesman said the men were travelling in two military vehicles on their way to join Taliban forces near Mazar-i-Sharif.
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Taliban have granted Afghan citizenship to Osama Bin Laden and his companions. Others who have been granted the nationality include, the Chief of defunct Islamic Jihad, Aimen Al-Zahawri, Islamic Jihad's Leader, Sheikh Asim Abdul Rehman, Operational Commander of Al-Qaeda, Saif-ul-Adil Abu Hafz, and Deputy Operational Commander Muhammad Atef. For what it's worth...
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A reporter for The Guardian, reporting from Peshawar, in Pakistan, says that key Afghan opposition commanders are on the verge of abandoning the fight against the Taliban because their confidence in US military strategy has collapsed. No pleasing some people, is there?
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The Northern Alliance reports it has taken Mazar-e-Sharif. "We are moving through one neighborhood at a time,'' Ashraf Nadeem, spokesman for the Northern Alliance, said. He said troops also have seized the city's airport. Nadeen said that Taliban troops appeared to be retreating east. Most of the city's 200,000 resident had already fled, he said.
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U.S. warplanes continued to strike Taliban positions around Kabul. The Taliban soldiers fought back with anti-aircraft fire after several days of holding their fire. An opposition commander said the enemy had reinforced the front line with about 2,000 troops, mostly Arab and Pakistani volunteers, and have also brought in ammunition, tanks and other vehicles. Hundreds of troops of the Alliance, backed by tanks, massed at the front line just north of the city and commanders said they expected to advance within hours.
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Fazlur Rehman Khalil, the leader of the Pakistan-based militant outfit Harkat-ul Mujahideen, has crossed over to Afghanistan to join Taliban's fight against the USA, amid reports that 85 militants of another Pakistani jehadi outfit were killed in the ongoing US bombing. Khalil was reported to have crossed over to Afghanistan early this week from Mian Mandi, a commercial town of Pakistan's north-western Mohammad Agency near the Afghan border, Pakistan daily The Nation said on Thursday. He was reportedly accompanied by a number of guards and colleagues, it said.
Meanwhile, Kamal Azfar, a spokesman of the Harkat Jihad-i Islami, said 85 members of the group who fought along with the Taliban on the front lines against the Northern Alliance in the key Afghan town of Mazar-i-Sharif, were killed in the US air strikes. A number of others were reported to have been wounded. A large number of Pakistanis along with Arab associates of Osama Bin Laden held the front lines of the Taliban in the north. Harkat Jihad i-Islami, like Harkat-ul Mujahideen was part of the United Jihad Council (UJC), headed by the Kashmir militant group Hizbul Mujahideen. UJC is a conglomerate of 14 jehad groups.
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In New Delhi, around 25,000 activists of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), or CPI (ML), demonstrated against the US. Coined as the "anti-war and anti-WTO" rally, the CPI (ML) members burned an effigy of Bush and beat it with sticks, chanting: "Down with the worldâs terrorist number one, down, down," "Down with the worldâs imperialist number one" and "Hands off Afghanistan."
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Utterly predictable leftist Howard Zinn, writing the The Progressive, helps the war effort along by saying that "If the deaths of civilians are inevitable in bombing, it may not be deliberate, but it is not an accident, and the bombers cannot be considered innocent. They are committing murder as surely as are the terrorists."
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In an act of breath-taking stupidity, the September 11th Fund, which has raised $337 million, provided a $171,000 grant last month to the Legal Aid Society for "emergency civil legal assistance." The legal group has complained about the treatment of the suspects being detained as security risks in the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. None of the grant money is going for the defense of three detained Arabs whom the Legal Aid Society is representing, a spokeswoman said.
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A homemade bomb exploded inside a Protestant church in Jakarta as worshippers were gathering, but there were no reports of casualties. Two suspects were arrested and found with three other bombs.
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The Netherlands is to send between 1,200 and 1,400 troops to help the US-led campaign, and two Japanese destroyers and a supply ship are expected to arrive in the Indian Ocean in two weeks.
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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.
