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| Alliance sez 40 commanders, 800 men surrender |
| 2001-10-10 |
The anti-Taliban Northern Alliance claimed on Wednesday that 40 Taliban commanders and about 800 Taliban soldiers had surrendered in northeastern Afghanistan, media reports said Wednesday. Northern Alliance spokesman, Mohammed Ashraf Nadeem, was quoted by AFP as saying, "Forty Taliban commanders surrendered to the United Front (Northern Alliance) along with their weapons because they were not happy with the ruling Taliban." Northern Alliance foreign affairs spokesman Abdullah Abdullah was quoted by the French agency as calling it "a major, significant military development that will have a critical impact on the Taliban forces, especially in northern part of the country. In a television interview, Abdullah predicted that the Taliban regime would fall within a few weeks. However, the ruling Taliban militia dismissed the Northern Alliance claims. "This is a mockery, it's something funny," said the Taliban's Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef said at a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |