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...attack on Chagatai ridge begins at 3:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, when General Moammar Hassan of the Northern Alliance shouts into his radio, "Advance forwards. We are ready to start the war now." Twenty yards to the left of the command bunker where he stands, a T-55 tank opens up with its main gun, and the assault is on. Northern Alliance artillery shells and 82-mm mortars whiz overhead as a 50-cal. gun pops individual rounds at Taliban front lines, 1,000 yds. away across a small dip in the rolling brown hills...
...three hours on Saturday afternoon, U.S. fighter bombers have been hitting Taliban targets along the ridgeline. That morning General Hassan, the commander of the assault, told TIME that a team of U.S. special forces had come in the night before to coordinate the bombing. The Alliance brought in 21 tanks at midnight to add firepower, and they have been unloading on Taliban lines since midmorning. The morale of the Northern Alliance troops is high after the sudden fall of Mazar-i-Sharif the night before, and they jokingly predict that with U.S. help they will take Taloqan by Sunday...
...Said Hassan Mokhles, an Egyptian wanted for his alleged role in a 1997 attack on tourists in Luxor, Egypt, was arrested leaving Brazil through Uruguay in 1999. He is said to have trained in an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan...
...Saturday the Northern Alliance took the first line of trenches on Chaghatai ridge after prolonged shelling and US aerial bombardment. The general in command, Moammar Hassan, told us late Saturday night that most of the Taliban had fled, and there was just one hill left to take. Saturday night to Sunday morning there was quite a lot of shelling in the area, mostly outgoing...
...catch up with the APC once they fell off. Their bodies - and one body of an NA soldier who was also killed - were recovered the next morning by NA troops. They had been shot multiple times and their bodies had been stripped of their belongings. According to General Hassan his troops found 13 Taliban bodies when they went to get the journalists' bodies - these Taliban "were Chechen, Punjabi [Pakistani] and Arabs...