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...stepped up attacks on U.S. troops and reconstruction efforts in southern and eastern regions of the country, assassinating 13 aid workers since May. The latest, a French U.N. employee, was shot in the face and killed early last week by suspected Taliban gunmen in the southern town of Ghazni...
...some ways, Pentagon officials are even more eager to interrogate those taken alive. Defense Department officers have heard that Taliban intelligence chief Qari Ahmadullah is either in Northern Alliance custody or negotiating to surrender to rebel forces in Kandahar. Taliban sources claim he has gone home to Ghazni. He would be a potential gold mine if captured...
...southwards by the Northern Alliance. But that would be a huge mistake; the Allies might conquer the city that way, but they'd lose the Pashtuns, whose participation in any future government is essential to insure stability. A degree of peace has been reached in the eastern provinces of Ghazni, Paktia, Paktika and Logar, where Taliban commanders relinquished power to local Pashtun chieftains. But these Pashtuns would rise against any attempt by the Northern Alliance to push south from Kabul. They wouldn't necessarily unite as a Pashtun army, but every Pashtun tribe - and they're all armed...
...been ordered or was a result of panic. Said Jawed Hussein, 21, a Pakistani captured by the Alliance: "Everybody was running to save his own skin." Or driving. Abandoning tanks and heavy weapons, they stole an estimated 800 cars for their getaway. Destinations varied: some headed toward Maidanshahr, Ghazni and the southwest; others, south toward Logar province; and still others, east toward Jalalabad and the al-Qaeda stronghold of Tora Bora in Nangarhar province...
...which opposes a Northern Ireland cease-fire, were the main suspects in recent attacks in Birmingham and West London. PAKISTAN A Miracle Rescue for Afghan Aid Workers Eight aid workers arrested by the Taliban in August on charges of promoting Christianity were freed last week after the city of Ghazni fell to Northern Alliance troops. Taliban forces took the two Americans, two Australians and four Germans with them in the retreat from Kabul. Abandoned in Ghazni, the workers were picked up by Northern Alliance supporters, who allowed U.S. troops to move in with helicopters and whisk them to Pakistan. Georg...