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...case of speed and overwhelming numbers. Some 15,000 police officers in riot gear swooped down at dawn on 2,000 antinuclear demonstrators who were trying to block a truck convoy carrying nuclear waste from reaching a storage center in northern Germany...
...German convoy reached the nuclear storage facility at Gorleben last week after a 1,400-km journey mostly by rail from La Hague in northern France, where German nuclear waste had been sent for reprocessing. The train carried six 100-ton, cast-iron casks designed to transport nuclear material safely. Each cask contained 28 canisters of nuclear waste at temperatures of around 400?C. They will remain in an interim storage facility for between 20 and 30 years, so that the waste can cool down to a more manageable 200?C, when it can be permanently stored in a mine...
...Following the rescue operation, American and British forces pulled out of the area, while the Taliban and Northern Alliance continued the exchange of heavy weapons fire which had carried on throughout the night. Although American aircraft still circled overhead, air strikes against the Taliban-held area of the fort ceased last night, reports Perry. It was difficult to tell how long the Taliban would continue to hold out. "We're being told to get out of here," Perry said at the end of his dispatch...
UPDATE: U.S. forces have successfully rescued one American trapped inside a fort by rebelling Taliban prisoners in Mazar-i-Sharif, Northern Afghanistan. TIME's Alex Perry, who is on the scene, reported the details by satellite phone Monday morning local time. The American was apparently injured although it's unknown how badly. There was no information on the fate of a second American, believed to have been affiliated with the CIA, who was reportedly killed inside the fort by the Taliban...
...Taliban still control the southwest corner of the fort, while the Northern Alliance has surrounded their position with tanks, cannon and heavy machine guns. The Taliban, meanwhile, have gained access to the armory within the fort and are returning fire with the weapons cached there...