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...sheltering al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. As U.S. Marines went into combat for the first time and a Russian Emergencies Ministry team flew into the capital, the cia confirmed that one of its agents was among those killed during a three-day revolt by Taliban prisoners at a compound near Mazar-i-Sharif. Human-rights groups called for an inquiry into the 500 or so deaths, some of them caused by U.S. air strikes, at the Qala-i-Jangi fort. The incident formed the backdrop to talks in Bonn at which key Afghan parties agreed in principle...
Parlika, 57, headed the Afghan Red Crescent before the mujahedin took over Kabul in 1992. She has emerged as the leader of a small but growing underground women's movement. She had initially planned on Tuesday to lead a march of unveiled women to the U.N. compound in Kabul to demand that women be included in any future government, but the police told her they could not guarantee security--even in post-Taliban Kabul...
...British troops positioned themselves along the parapets to the east of the Taliban compound. "Did you see the show last night?" one asked TIME, grinning. "We watched for two hours. Really something." Around 100 Alliance soldiers scaled the southwest tower and lay down along the walls, firing on the Taliban below. Others manned the western tower. Before long, wounded and dead Alliance soldiers were being ferried through the gates. A U.S. soldier ran back to greet an SAS comrade who had felt the full force of Monday's air strike. "How's your hearing today?" he bellowed. Pause. "I said...
...Soon after, about a dozen U.S. Special Forces and British Special Air Service troops arrived to coordinate Northern Alliance fire and U.S. air strikes to provide cover for those remaining inside the fort. Six of the Special Forces soldiers took up position in the northeast corner of the compound to act as spotters for the air strikes, while the rest exchanged fire with the Taliban from outside the compound. The remaining trapped American managed to escape over the dirt walls of the fort overnight, while the soldiers who had come to his assistance remained in position...
...Outside the compound, the American retrieval mission quickly turned into one of rescue, as the 10th Mountain forces drove their seven light vehicles into the fort to evacuate the stricken U.S. and British troops. Northern Alliance commanders were spitting with rage. "Call it off!" shouted one general as Alliance soldiers streamed out of the fort. "Call it off! You've hit the wrong people!" Perry can confirm that at least three Afghan soldiers were killed and four injured by the stray bomb; one Northern Alliance commander put the numbers far higher, at 30 killed and 50 wounded...