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...special forces and their British counterparts that much more difficult. Still, a number of reports from the frontlines suggest some significant success in deploying these forces as target spotters for U.S. aircraft. Some 20 militants of Pakistan's pro-Bin Laden Harkat al-Mujahedeen meeting in a house in Kabul were killed in a U.S. bombing raid this week after the venue was reportedly pointed out from the ground...
...Kabul: Not yet besieged Although the U.S. has begun bombing Taliban defenses along the Northern Alliance frontline some 35 miles north of the capital, no territory has changed hands just yet. The Alliance complains it is being held back by the U.S. bombing with a light hand, in deference to Pakistan's aversion (shared by many Afghans in the capital) to seeing the Northern Alliance capture the capital. But reports from the frontline suggest the Alliance itself is not exactly moving aggressively to take advantage of the U.S. air campaign by launching a ground offensive...
...plans to send peacekeeping troops to Kabul, of course, having apparently tapped Turkey for the job. And that appears to have created intense interest there in the political infighting among the Taliban's would-be successors. Ankara's Turkish Daily News carries a lively account of the sit-down in Pakistan among mostly Pashtun mujahedeen leaders hoping to forge a "southern alliance" against the Taliban (and the Northern Alliance, whom many Pashtuns distrust). The delegates urged the U.S. to halt its bombing campaign on the grounds that this was supposedly consolidating Pashtun support for the Taliban. They'd prefer...
...Russia: Race ya to Kabul...
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