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...These are among the thousand that surrendered yesterday, correct? Yeah 800. They're all here. There's wild rumors that this must have been a plan, in fact, to surrender and then try and take the fort from the inside. That's NA speculation...
...this is all happening inside the fort? Yeah, it's all inside the fort...
...reason they're here is that earlier when the Taliban grabbed some guns and started fighting, there were two Americans inside the fort: one of whom was disarmed and killed - he was called Mike - and another one was also in trouble; he was out of ammunition, he had managed to sort of hold off the Taliban with his pistol but he was out of ammunition when the main body of American and British people arrived. There's no word on his fate yet. But the Americans were mounting a rescue operation...
...know about that. And then this morning some more journalists came. There was a guy from London and a woman. They were interviewing Taliban prisoners when the Taliban suddenly just pounced on them. They beat the British guy quite badly, but he was rescued and taken out of the fort. But that's when the Taliban grabbed guns off the Northern Alliance, overpowered them, killed at least twenty and the Northern Alliance lost control of the fort and had to withdraw...
...those two Americans. They happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Absolutely. There were also some Red Cross workers in there. They told me that an American broke into their meeting, said they had to get out of here, out of the fort, because the situation was out of control...