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...Mazar-i-Sharif is the strategic linchpin of Northern Afghanistan. Military strategists consider the capture of the city essential - both to prove the battle-worthiness of the Northern Alliance and also for the ultimate defeat of the Taliban. The capture of the city has also been deemed a necessary victory before the onset of Ramadan and winter...
...TIME.com: What's the latest from the battle for Mazar-i-Sharif...
...Alex Perry: We've learned from sources with two key Northern Alliance commanders, generals Rashid Dostum and Mohammed Atta, that contrary to expectations, Northern Alliance forces have moved unopposed through the Shol Ghar pass south of Mazar-i-Sharif. They now claim to be four miles south of the city, and are promising to capture it tomorrow (Thursday). The reason for their rapid advance, they say, is that the Taliban forces defending the city have abandoned Mazar, heading west to Herat and east to Kunduz...
...Even if the Northern Alliance manages to cast aside doubts over its fighting ability and seizes Mazar-i-Sharif before the onset of winter impedes the prospects for ground warfare, the U.S. will have to do more of the heavy lifting itself in the campaign to defeat the Taliban. With Washington having been given the nod by Moscow, U.S. personnel are currently scouting airfields in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, not only as logistical bases for long-term resupply efforts in an expanded Northern Alliance-controlled slice of northern Afghanistan, but also as potential staging areas for a more substantial commitment...
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