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...various factions of the Northern Alliance have recaptured their traditional northern and western hometowns, and they've reportedly already divided Kabul into separate zones for each of its component ethnic militia that march separately but fight together. In the south, the Taliban appear to have been driven out of their last urban strongholds in Kandahar and Jalalabad, headed, no doubt, for the hills where they'll hope to reprise the mujahedeen guerrilla tradition. But reports suggest much of the post-Taliban south is now being carved up among various local Pashtun commanders. Fighters loyal to Arif Khan, a local tribal...
...totalitarian fundamentalists of the Taliban head for the hills under the triple assault of U.S. warplanes, Northern Alliance advances and the treachery of erstwhile allies, the stage is being set less for a democratic renaissance than for a new round of horse-trading among the hard men. And the emphasis here is definitely on men - in all the reporting you've read or watched from Afghanistan in the past six weeks, how many women's voices have you heard? Probably none, because the Northern Alliance appear to share the Taliban's enthusiasm for the idea that women are seen (barely...
...Crimson hosts last year's national champion No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth and No. 8 Minnesota this weekend. Despite the northern invasion, Hagerman is confident...
...Sunday afternoon a group of journalists went up to the Northern Alliance frontline and watched as the NA fired more tank shells and mortars at a second and third line of trenches behind the first. Just as the sun was setting the tank commander, General Bashir, judged that the Taliban had all cleared out and said he was going forward in an armored personnel carrier to examine the trench lines. About half a dozen journalists asked if they could go, Bashir said yes, and they jumped on board a Armored Personnel Carrier with him and about 6 soldiers. As there...
...Northern Alliance was shocked at the deaths, even as so many of their regular soldiers are dying as well, but there was also some criticism that journalists were pushing too far forwards. Hashmatulla Moslih, an official with the NA Foreign Ministry in Khoja Bahauddin, about 12 miles from the front line, said "it is a tragedy for everyone, it is a tragedy for us too. But these are not traditional front lines, it is not like the First World War - this is the most dangerous frontline in the world, because it is a hidden frontline. These guys [the non-Afghan...