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| Afghanistan |
| Talibs no longer able to mount counteroffensive |
| 2001-10-13 |
Six days of U.S. strikes on positions of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban have robbed their fighters of the ability to launch a counter-offensive, opposition Northern Alliance foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday. "In the last one week there have not been any counter-offensives from the Taliban. That is significant," he told a news conference. "They have lost their capacity to launch counter-offensives." He said the U.S. strikes had for the first time hit the frontline between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance in the northeastern Taloqan district. "That was the first bombing in Taloqan and ... was the first bombing of the front line," he said. Asked about casualties among foreigners fighting for the Taliban, many of them Arabs, he said that the bases of "foreign friends of the Taliban" had been hit. "The number of (casualties) should be hundreds not dozens." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |