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Choudary and Yahya belong to the extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, and though they speak for only a tiny fraction of Britain's 2 million Muslims, their views received grim publicity last week with the news that three British-born Muslims had been killed in Kabul--allegedly in a U.S. bombing raid on a Taliban compound--after volunteering for the jihad...
...organized in numerous brigades, each with its own artillery and armored vehicles. "An offensive of this size is going to be a first for all these commanders," says a Western military specialist. "And it's not at all clear how they'll do." The Alliance forces stationed north of Kabul possess 100 tanks and other armored vehicles, but they may not be deployed in ways that inflict maximum damage. Afghans tend to split their armor into small portions to use as mobile artillery or infantry support. But, says a Western analyst, "that's not how you break lines...
...That's why the Alliance needs American advisers, and why it may wait for more carpet bombs to fall before it tries to take Kabul. The U.S. hopes the fall of Mazar will set off a string of rebel victories in the north, demoralize Taliban forces in the rest of the country and inspire wholesale desertions. Now that a major city has fallen, says Sirrs, "the momentum will start to turn against the Taliban." But those who don't defect will melt into their surroundings, lie low and wait to pounce. "The Taliban is unlike anything we've ever seen...
...Alliance has its own elite corps deployed near Kabul. Visiting Western journalists often portray the Alliance's militia of part-time, agrarian soldiers as representative of the rebel force as a whole. But that picture is misleading. A zarbati, or strike unit, of some 1,200 uniformed, well-trained fighters is massed north of the capital. The best of the bunch, the Guards Brigade, was created by the late mujahedin commander Ahmed Shah Massoud--even in death the spiritual leader of the Northern Alliance--and comprises several infantry assault battalions backed up by Russian T-55 and T-62 tanks...
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