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Even though the Northern Alliance commanders in Mazar-i-Sharif knew what was coming, they were taken by surprise. As dawn came Saturday, word spread that the besieged Taliban had broken out of its last northern refuge, Kunduz city to the east, and was advancing on Mazar, attacking security posts as it moved. General Rashid Dostum called his fellow commanders to a hasty meeting as Alliance fighters converged on the dusty square outside, readying their pickups and rocket launchers for battle. A small unit of American special forces arrived, and their commander slipped inside. A few minutes later, the Alliance...
...night tells a different story. Once the sun sets, residents scurry inside their high-walled houses as gunfire resounds across the city until dawn. Few people venture out of their neighborhoods, divided into Atta, Dostum and Mohaqiq ghettos. Two men were killed one night when a patrol of Atta's soldiers clashed with a group of Mohaqiq's men stealing a car. The same night Hazaras hijacked a taxi and beat up the driver. "It's just like it was before the Taliban were here," said the injured...
...Pakistan, too, faces an uphill battle to overcome the post-Taliban fallout, warns Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha in the daily Dawn. The government's own proxy war policies in Afghanistan and Kashmir have cultivated a generation angry, fanatical young men, many of them still armed, who will have to be reintegrated into civil society, she warns. "The U.S. may have won its war, but unless a solution is found to the aforementioned problem, the state of peace and stability in Central and South Asia, the Middle East or the world will remain doubtful...
...case of speed and overwhelming numbers. Some 15,000 police officers in riot gear swooped down at dawn on 2,000 antinuclear demonstrators who were trying to block a truck convoy carrying nuclear waste from reaching a storage center in northern Germany...
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