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...last Friday when Dostum's forces overran the towns of Tashkurghan and Hairatan and zeroed in on Kunduz, one of the last Taliban strongholds in northern Afghanistan. A senior Alliance official told TIME that the Alliance now controls the northwest and has advanced as far south as Pul-i-Khumri?100 miles away from the capital, Kabul. The official said Taliban soldiers stranded in Kunduz and further east in Taloqan have been cut off from fresh supplies. On Saturday the Alliance launched an assault near Taloqan, hoping to seize the heavily defended city and then coordinate its forces with those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Way of War | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...last Friday when Dostum's forces overran the towns of Tashkurghan and Hairatan and zeroed in on Kunduz, one of the last Taliban strongholds in northern Afghanistan. A senior Alliance official told Time that the Alliance now controls the northwest and has advanced as far south as Pul-i-Khumri--100 miles away from the capital, Kabul. The official said Taliban soldiers stranded in Kunduz and further east in Taloqan have been cut off from fresh supplies. On Saturday the Alliance launched an assault near Taloqan, hoping to seize the heavily defended city and then coordinate its forces with those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Way of War | 11/11/2001 | See Source »

Jacob's Stone of Scone. The lost tribes, say they, were captured and exiled by Sargon, King of Assyria, about 721 B.C. Assyrian records tell of a race called the "Khumri." These, according to the theory, were the Ten Tribes, who became the Greeks' Cimmerioi and the Romans' Cimbri, gave their name to such places as the Crimea, Cumberland and Cambria, and were also the Cymry (pronounced Kum-ree), who originally settled in Wales. Other branches are supposed to have become the Scythians, or Scuthae, who populated Scotland, and the Sacae, or Saxons (i.e., Isaac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: C-Day at the Pyramid | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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