FoxNews reports the Northern Alliance claims its forces are in Kandahar. Bismillah Khan said his forces had "entered into Kandahar," and later reported fighting just on the city's edge. Khan was speaking from Kabul and said his information was based on radio communications with his commanders at the scene. The Defense Department thinks they may be referring to the province, rather than the city, and worries they may clash with Pashtuns in the same area. The Taliban have hanged a man in Kandahar as a US spy. The Afghan Islamic Press reported from Kandahar that the Taliban arrested a man found with a satellite telephone and hanged him today at an intersection known as Martyr's Crossing. The man, who was not identified, was accused of pointing out bombing targets to the Americans.
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A woman was killed when a 1200-pound bundle of humanitarian supplies dropped by parachute crushed her house in northern Afghanistan. Damn. I hate it when that happens.
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The CIA confirmed that an employee -- Johnny ``Mike'' Spann, 32, of Winfield, Ala. -- died in action at the Mazar-e-Sharif prison riot. Die-hards from a rebellion shot two workers collecting bodies at the site, two days after Northern Alliance forces claimed to have crushed the insurrection. The wounded workers -- one shot in the leg and the other in the hand -- were transported to the military hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif.
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The Northern Alliance rejected the U.N. idea of an international force to help police the country and guard international aid distribution. The issue of security is one of two items being discussed among four Afghan factions; the other is Afghanistan's political future. The United States and the international community say a security solution is key before distributing billions of dollars in humanitarian and economic aid being pledged for the war-torn country. "We don't feel a need for an outside force. There is security in place," said Younus Qanooni, head of the Northern Alliance delegation, referring to the alliance's own forces.
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A group of Muslim students has been caught in bald-faced lying in an attempt to get Orange Coast College professor Ken Hearlson fired and a PeeCee sympathy trip for themselves. However, there's a tape. Jonathan Last, in the Weekly Standard, points the finger.
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An explosion ripped through a bus on a main highway in northern Israel, and Israeli media reported at least three people were killed. In PA-controlled Jenin, residents are in the streets firing weapons into the air and dancing following the news.
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Thirteen terrorists were among 17 people killed in Jammu and Kashmir where police averted a major tragedy with the detection of two powerful explosive devices. Six of the terrorists were Pakistanis and one was an unidentified "foreign mercenary."
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Pakistani President Musharraf is expected "in the next week or two" to impose strict new rules on the madrassas, which have nurtured young holy warriors for recruitment into Afghanistan's Taliban. A new law establishes a 20-member Religious and Sectarian Harmony Commission to oversee the religious schools and to write a code of ethics guarding against inflammatory statements by clerics.
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The anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of a U.S. biological warfare program, the magazine of environment pressure group Greenpeace Germany reported.
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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.
