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...Alliance near Bangi. "Some raised their hands, but others had guns, and they killed several of our soldiers," said General Pir Mohammed Khaksar, a front-line Alliance commander from Taloqan. There were also reports that three Arabs had pretended to surrender to Alliance troops in the town of Dasht-i-Archi in the north of Kunduz province. When Alliance soldiers approached them to take their weapons, the Arabs detonated the bombs strapped to their bodies, killing themselves and five Alliance soldiers. Like other Alliance generals, Khaksar has now ordered his men not to take any chances with the so-called...
...What are Afghan women really like beneath the burka? Talk to three from Dasht-i-Qaleh, a tiny, impoverished village long held by the Northern Alliance. Though the Taliban's restrictions against women have no force here, nearly all the women wear the burka. Long-standing cultural tradition exercises its own police power. And though these women have agreed to speak to TIME correspondent Hannah Beech, they will do so only through a female interpreter. They worry that their husbands might object if they learned that a man was present at the interview. During the conversation, a man does briefly...
...conversation turns to the routine brutalization of women in Afghanistan. Banaz says that four years ago her sister was raped by a soldier of the Northern Alliance, but only the women in the family know about it. Women in Dasht-i-Qaleh call rape "lying down" because it is so common that lying down quietly is the best way for a woman to cope. In a society that permits men several wives, the second or third wives, who tend to be younger and prettier, are vulnerable to rape by other males in the family. Banaz says this happened...
During the afternoon the Taliban returned fire sporadically, shooting rockets from its bunkered positions at the Alliance soldiers coming up from Dasht-i-Qaleh to the front line. These lines haven't moved in more than a year, and today the attack begins slowly. Hassan shouts into his radio, "Where are the soldiers? I ordered them to attack. Advance now." On the radio he gives out bombing coordinates, and two U.S. fighter jets appear overhead. Three hundred yards to the left of Hassan's position is another command post, where one of Hassan's officers says the American team...
...week acknowledged that the U.S. has air-dropped guns and horse feed to Alliance forces. Meanwhile, U.S. Green Berets slipped into rebel-held territory and worked to prepare the Alliance's factions for a coordinated assault on Mazar. "Obviously, we needed help," said General Muhibullah, a senior commander in Dasht-i-Qaleh. "It was very effective for us when the U.S. advisers came to Mazar...