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Afghanistan
Sayyat falls, Dostum four miles from Mazar
  • Opposition spokesman Ashraf Nadem said his forces had captured another district, Sayyat, southwest of Mazar-e-Sharif, while the Taliban denied losing the district and said three opposition attacks had failed.

  • By 9 am Afghan time Friday, forces of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam were reported to have advanced to within four miles northwest of Mazar and captured 300 of the Islamic militia's soldiers. Nearer Kabul, AFP reports that Afghan Shia Muslim faction Hezb-i-Wahdat in northeast Iran said that the US warplanes were using Bagram airfield.
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    85 Harkat-e-Jihad thugs iced in bombing
  • Harkat-e-Jehad-e-Islami, a Pakistani terrorist group based in Kashmir, said 85 of its fighters were killed by U.S. bombs while fighting alongside the Taliban near Mazar-e-Sharif.
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    Hamid Karzai still alive
  • Despite Taliban claims to the contrary, Hamid Karzai continues to deny he is dead.

    The influential Pashtun leader he said he could defeat the Taleban without outside help, but needed assistance to help the country "regain independence" from Arabs and other foreigners. "I want these foreign terrorist elements out of my country, I want it to belong to Afghans," he said.

    He also called for an end to US bombing, and asked for the kind of help provided by foreign governments during the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Karzai said he had been in Afghanistan for a month holding consultations with local tribal leaders about the calling of a Loya Jirga assembly to decide the country's future.
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    Offensive on Mazar starts Thursday
  • Afghan opposition commanders said they would launch an offensive Thursday to capture Mazar-i-Sharif. "Our troops are positioned eight km (five miles) from Mazar-i-Sharif airport to the southeast and 50 km (30 miles) to the southwest," said Ashraf Nadeem, spokesman for the Northern Alliance opposition. Trucks and cars loaded with Taliban were reported heading to the north "day and night" to oppose the offensive. Both sides reporting intense fighting in the area as the day progressed.
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    Talibs arrest 15 "spies"
  • The Taliban have arrested 15 Afghans, including a former army colonel, in eastern regions on suspicion they were spying for the United States. Those arrested face the death sentence.
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    Rabbani meets with Turks
  • President Burhanuddin Rabbani met with with Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who plans to send 90 special forces troops to Afghanistan. "We do not require any troops from friendly states," Rabbani told reporters in the Tajik capital. "The only thing we need is financial, logistical and political help."
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    Talib chief ready to come over with 1600 men
  • A Taliban chief said today he was preparing to defect, with 18 commanders and 1,600 men, to the US-backed opposition Northern Alliance. The man, who refused to be identified, said he had come to Peshawar from an eastern area of Afghanistan to consult with anti-Taliban commanders in exile and prepare a revolt against Taliban.
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    More help for Taliban from Pakland
  • More than 1,500 tribesmen and a convoy of 25 trucks with food and supplies crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan today to help the Taliban.
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    Home Front
    F16s force down plane
  • A single-engine plane was forced to land at a central Florida airport by two F-16 fighter jets today. Area schools were locked down for about 20 minutes as the plane was being escorted to the airport.
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    Detained thug had threatened to shoot any cop who entered his mosque
  • Mujahid Abdulqaadir Menepta, 51, in jail on a weapons charge, once threatened to shoot any police officer who entered the prayer area of a mosque. Menepta was arrested Oct. 11 by the FBI as a material witness in connection to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was first detained because of his friendship with Zacarias Moussaoui, who continues to be held in New York as a material witness.
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    International
    Viets say they got an anthrax letter, too
  • An official in Vietnam's Ministry of Health said Thursday that preliminary tests conducted on suspicious powder found at a BP joint venture company indicate the substance was anthrax.
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    Terror Networks
    Cops in Instanbul nab two with weapons-grade uranium
  • Police in Istanbul have seized about a kilogram of weapons-grade uranium and detained two Turks who attempted to sell the substance to undercover agents. The two men told police they had bought the uranium in Istanbul from a Russian man of Azeri origin several months ago.
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    Sri Lanka fighting escalates
  • Fighting escalated between government troops and Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka's north, leaving 16 rebels and two soldiers dead.
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    Palestinian explodes as Israelis close in
  • A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself as an anti-terrorist unit closed in on his hide-out in a West Bank village. The assailant was killed and two Israeli commandos were hurt.
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    The Alliance
    Pak orders Talibs to close consulate
  • Pakistan has ordered the Taliban to close its consulate in Karachi and its diplomats also were told not to take part in nationwide protests by hard-line Islamic groups scheduled for Friday in Karachi.
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    Jordan behind Afghan war
  • King Abdullah of Jordan threw his weight behind Washington's military campaign in Afghanistan, saying it must be waged cautiously but with ''unflinching resolve.''
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