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More Graphics Tora Bora Nukes Pipeline Taliban Revolt Last Bastions Women & Islam No Refuge Taliban on the Run Afghan Caves Mood of the Nation Mazar-I-Sharif Terrorist Timeline Al-Qaeda Suspects Flu/Anthrax Sharing Secrets Al-Qaeda's World Ground War 11.4.01 Bush Team Grades Bioterror Threats War in Winter Workplace Safety Afghan Targets Anthrax Pathogen A Ground War An Uneasy Ally Targets Hit Search & Destroy Firepower & Food Frozen Assets Safety Guide Mideast Leaders Agents of Death Afghanistan Military Buildup Terrorist Cells Our Weapons Deadly Paths Twin Terrors CNN.com Latest news: War Against Terror
...bombing by B-52s rumbled for a second successive day in Afghanistan, Thursday, heralding an approaching moment of truth for the opposition Northern Alliance. The heavy bombers, not used since the first days of bombing, have joined an American air armada pounding frontlines north of Kabul and all around Mazar-i-Sharif, as part of a U.S. effort to soften Taliban defenses for a ground offensive by the Alliance on both fronts. The bombing may continue for days yet, but when it ends, it will be up to the anti-Taliban armies of the north to go in and recapture...
More Graphics Tora Bora Nukes Pipeline Taliban Revolt Last Bastions Women & Islam No Refuge Taliban on the Run Afghan Caves Mood of the Nation Mazar-I-Sharif Terrorist Timeline Al-Qaeda Suspects Flu/Anthrax Sharing Secrets Al-Qaeda's World Ground War 11.4.01 Bush Team Grades Bioterror Threats War in Winter Workplace Safety Afghan Targets Anthrax Pathogen A Ground War An Uneasy Ally Targets Hit Search & Destroy Firepower & Food Frozen Assets Safety Guide Mideast Leaders Agents of Death Afghanistan Military Buildup Terrorist Cells Our Weapons Deadly Paths Twin Terrors CNN.com Latest news: War Against Terror
...broad-based government and potentially rally many uncommitted Pashtuns - the largest ethnic group - behind the Taliban. Also, Pakistan is deeply suspicious of the Northern Alliance and was supporting the Taliban's war against the Alliance before September 11. Instead, the U.S. had encouraged the Alliance to move on Mazar-i-Sharif, a strategically important city in the opposition group's northern heartland that fell to the Taliban...
...offensive next spring. But with little to show for its Pakistan-backed efforts to lure Taliban defectors and forge an anti-Taliban Pashtun coalition in the south, the U.S. has moved to shorten the Alliance's timeline on both fronts. Realistically, however, the stronger push will come at Mazar-i-Sharif, where the opposition forces have a far better chance of prevailing than they do in Kabul, right now. (And, of course, even though Pakistan hasn't managed to deliver a Taliban breakaway, the political problems of having the Alliance capture the capital in the absence of agreement...