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Afghanistan
Dr. Abdulla Abdulla, the NA foreign minister on FoxNews
  • There will be no place in the interim government for any Taliban.
  • He blamed the assassination of Ahmed Shah Masood on Osama bin Laden to defuse support for the US within Afghanistan in anticipation of the 9-11 attacks.
  • The general amnesty for the Taliban applies only to local troops. It does not apply to foreigners -- al-Qaeda Arabs, Chechens, etc., and Pakistani jihadis.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Northern Alliance mops up in Konduz
  • Northern Alliance forces of Gen. Dawood Khan are mopping up in Konduz. With the surrender complete, die-hards and holdouts are fair game and seldom appear to be allowed quarter.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    US advisor killed in Mazar shootout
  • A US adviser was killed in the shootout in Mazar-i-Sharif during the revolt by "surrendering" foreign Taliban and al-Qaeda. FoxNews reported the man was a CIA contractor. Five U.S. military were injured in friendly fire, but no U.S. military personnel were killed in the second day of the fighting.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Kabul's gonna have a newspaper
  • The first newspaper to be published in Kabul since the Taliban fled the city was due on the streets on Monday sporting a picture no one would have dared publish during the Islamic regime's five-year rule -- women without their veils.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Hat sellers selling out in Taloquan
  • News from the fashion front: Taloqan hat-sellers have practically sold out of the pakoul caps favored by Northern Alliance troops in the past few days as Taliban queued up in droves to buy them. Turbans, especially black ones, appear to be out this year.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Delegation goes to Kandahar to chat with Mullah Omar
  • Afghan commanders and tribal elders belonging to six Pashtun-populated provinces have decided to send a delegation with a message to Kandahar for the Taliban to surrender and hand over power. The decision was taken at a tribal Jirga. The Taliban vowed to fight U.S. forces to the death and said Mullah Mohammad Omar was still in of Kandahar. The two Marine Expeditionary Units just outside Kandahar hope that's so. According to the Pakistani periodical Khabrain, Mullah Omar said that he had received orders for starting his Holy War against America from the Prophet Muhammad directly, who appeared to him in dreams. Marine helicopter gunships attacked an armored column near the Marines' new base. The Cobras destroyed up to 15 tanks and BMP armored personnel carriers moving in column.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Parties circle warily in Bonn
  • Interested parties are dancing the diplomatic equivalent of the minuet as they prepare for the opening of talks in Bonn.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Tribal forces take Spin Boldak
  • Afghan tribal forces captured the border town of Spin Boldak from the Taliban, according to Hamid Karzai, who is still not dead.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Paks step up efforts to mend fences
  • Pakistan has stepped up efforts to mend fences with the Northern Alliance. A Pakistani delegation is being sent to Dubai to meet acting President Burhanuddin Rabbani. Islamabad had also made contacts with Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostam in Mazar-i-Sharif.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Russian transports arrive in Kabul with groceries
  • 12 Russian transport planes have arrived in Kabul, bringing staff and supplies for a humanitarian mission.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Fifth Column
    Cornell prof confuses burkas and bikinis...
  • "The burka and the bikini represent opposite ends of the political spectrum but each can exert a noose-like grip on the psyche and physical health of girls and women." -- Cornell University historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg, writing with Jacquelyn Jackson in The Boston Globe. Where do they find these people?
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Chomsky sez US has no proof against Binny
  • News from out in Left field: Speaking in Lahore, Pakistan, Noam Chomsky said America wanted Osama bin Laden dead and not alive because it did not have any proof to get him convicted in a court of law. He stated that even bombing Taliban soldiers was a crime, an illegal act and sheer exercise of power.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Home Front
    Guy mugs nun in Philadelphia
  • Yep. Things are back to normal in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Police in Philadelphia are looking for a guy who mugged a nun.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Oil and gas industry on alert after FBI warning
  • The oil and gas industry is on alert after an FBI warning that Osama bin Laden may have ordered retaliatory strikes against North American natural gas facilities in event of his capture or death, expected any time now.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    International
    Arab League convenes to discuss Muslim image
  • The 22-member Arab League inaugurated a two-day conference to discuss ways to deal with the world's "eagerness" to equate Islam with terrorism. The conference is expected to produce an action plan for defending Islam to be submitted for Arab leaders' approval when they meet in Beirut in March 2002.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Terror Networks
    Four cops killed in Kashmir suicide attack
  • Four policemen were killed and three seriously injured when a suicide squad attacked a police post in Kashmir. The policemen were asleep when the guerillas opened fire with rifle grenades and then sprayed the position with gunfire.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Fugitive admits he's behind family planning anthrax hoaxes
  • Fugitive Clayton Waagner said he is the sender of a series of anthrax threats to family planning clinics, and said he plans to begin killing 42 clinic workers he has identified, according to a fellow anti-abortion militant who says Waagner held him at gunpoint.
  • War planes and attack helicopters attacked a compound of Muslim rebels belonging to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front holed up with hostages in the southern Philippines.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Paks investigate jihadi backgrounds
  • Intelligence agencies in Pakistan are investigating the backgrounds of hundreds of Pakistanis killed in Afghanistan since the US bombing began on October 7 to determine their group affiliations and to see if they include the dozens of sectarian terrorists wanted by the government of Pakistan.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Saudi defense minister sez for Afghan Arabs to come home
  • Saudi defense minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, called for Arabs and other Muslims who have been fighting in Afghanistan on the side of the Taliban to be allowed to return home.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Tunisian arrested in France in Masood investigation
  • A Tunisian national was detained in France and 11 other people in Belgium as part of an investigation into the slaying of Ahmed Shah Masood. Northern Alliance Minister of Defense Fahim arrested Rasool Sayyaf, leader of the wahhabi militia allied to Northern Alliance, after furnishing proof that Sayyaf had helped kill Ahmad Shah Massoud.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Nepal declares state of emergency
  • Nepal declared a state of emergency after weekend attacks by rebels killed at least 76 soldiers and police. King Gyanendra's decree suspends civil liberties and allows the government to send soldiers after the rebels for the first time since the Maoists launched their insurgency in 1996.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Four Pak al-Qaeda detained in Israel
  • Four Pakistani nationals, suspected of having links with Al-Qaeda, were detained in Israel after they entered the country's territorial waters by a ship.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Hamas gunny goes "boom," two wounded
  • A Hamas suicide bomber lightly wounded two Israeli soldiers when he blew himself up hours before U.S. envoys were due to arrive in the Middle East on a new mission to end 14 months of violence.
    When they accomplish that, maybe they'll introduce some much-needed amendments to the Law of Gravity.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    The Alliance
    Bush offers Sammy a knuckle sandwich
  • President Bush "urged" Saddam Hussein to allow UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq. Asked what would happen if Saddam refused, Bush replied: "He'll find out."
    Ummm... That might be a hint.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Yemenis begin rounding up suspects
  • With occasional glances skyward, Yemeni security police have begun to pick up suspects for interrogation in what the interior ministry calls an "ongoing operation." At least one known member of Al Qaeda is among those arrested.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/26/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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    Two weeks of WOT
    Mon 2001-11-26
      Delegation goes to Kandahar to chat with Mullah Omar
    Sun 2001-11-25
      Konduz has fallen
    Sat 2001-11-24
      Malays nab Nur Misuari
    Fri 2001-11-23
      Binny's moved to Tora Bora
    Thu 2001-11-22
      Konduz commander sez he's ready to surrender
    Wed 2001-11-21
      Taliban has until Thursday to surrender Konduz
    Tue 2001-11-20
      MNLF abandons peace agreement
    Mon 2001-11-19
      Paks no longer recognize Taliban government
    Sun 2001-11-18
      Talibs ask for UN intervention at Konduz
    Sat 2001-11-17
      Rabbani arrives in Kabul
    Fri 2001-11-16
      Konduz talks collapse
    Thu 2001-11-15
      Konduz deciding whether to surrender
    Wed 2001-11-14
      Pashtun force enters southern Afghanistan from Quetta
    Tue 2001-11-13
      Jalalabad falls
    Mon 2001-11-12
      Talibs leaving Kabul

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