Word: kabul
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...Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from Tora Bora Anthrax: Where the Investigation Stands TIME/CNN POLL: Americans Standing By Bush's War More Stories...
...thunder of carpet bombing by B-52s rumbled for a second successive day in Afghanistan, Thursday, heralding an approaching moment of truth for the opposition Northern Alliance. The heavy bombers, not used since the first days of bombing, have joined an American air armada pounding frontlines north of Kabul and all around Mazar-i-Sharif, as part of a U.S. effort to soften Taliban defenses for a ground offensive by the Alliance on both fronts. The bombing may continue for days yet, but when it ends, it will be up to the anti-Taliban armies of the north...
...Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from Tora Bora Anthrax: Where the Investigation Stands TIME/CNN POLL: Americans Standing By Bush's War More Stories...
...Holding the Alliance back on the Kabul front may once have been part of the U.S. strategy, on the grounds that allowing such an ethnically-narrow force to capture the capital would complicate efforts to forge a broad-based government and potentially rally many uncommitted Pashtuns - the largest ethnic group - behind the Taliban. Also, Pakistan is deeply suspicious of the Northern Alliance and was supporting the Taliban's war against the Alliance before September 11. Instead, the U.S. had encouraged the Alliance to move on Mazar-i-Sharif, a strategically important city in the opposition group's northern heartland that...
...forge an anti-Taliban Pashtun coalition in the south, the U.S. has moved to shorten the Alliance's timeline on both fronts. Realistically, however, the stronger push will come at Mazar-i-Sharif, where the opposition forces have a far better chance of prevailing than they do in Kabul, right now. (And, of course, even though Pakistan hasn't managed to deliver a Taliban breakaway, the political problems of having the Alliance capture the capital in the absence of agreement on a broad transitional government persist...