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...Robertson was one of the first Western reporters to reach Kandahar after the Taliban surrendered the city. His report to TIME...
...drive from the border to Kandahar, we saw scattered shell holes on the highway and the occasional tractor, truck and jeep apparently destroyed by air strikes...
...closer we got to Kandahar, the more damage was visible: armored personnel carriers, tanks, antiaircraft guns--all destroyed. Jeeps by the side of the road had either crashed or been smashed apart. Bodies were lying beside the road; even more were off in the field by a wall. We were told that they were Arabs fighting on the side of the Taliban against the tribal forces trying to wrest control of the airport. No more...
There are said to be 200 Arab fighters at Kandahar airport surrounded by anti-Taliban forces. I'm told they are in the terminal building. But the anti-Taliban troops won't call in air strikes because they don't want to destroy the terminal building. They want something left for themselves...
...parts, each controlled by anti-Taliban forces who are bitter rivals. About 30% of the city is run by Mullah Naqib Ullah; 70% is controlled by Ghul Agha Sherzai, an ally of Hamid Karzai's, the newly anointed Prime Minister of the post-Taliban regime. We entered Kandahar under Sherzai's protection and had three pickups full of his fighters escorting us by the time we arrived in the city...