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...next and growing increasingly frustrated with mixed signals from Washington. Last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he hoped the Alliance would be able to capture Mazar-i-Sharif, but the support that might have increased the odds in favor of Dostum and Atta never materialized. Yusto Khalili, Northern Alliance commander and member of Afghanistan's war council, south of Dostum at Yakawland, said, "We do not know how long the war will continue. It all depends on American help and the world community. If they give us more help, then the war will finish sooner. Nobody is helping...
...when it sends its own ground troops into Afghanistan. Last Friday, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem told reporters that the U.S. "will utilize all of our forces and all of the types of warfare that we have to bring to bear." He characterized the relationship between American and Northern Alliance forces as one of mutual support. But then he added: "We are not going to adapt our game plan to theirs, necessarily." Washington isn't buying the notion of a new, improved Northern Alliance...
...bombing campaign is proving frustrating for leaders of the Northern Alliance, the coalition of groups opposed to the Taliban regime. A spokesman last week complained that U.S air strikes, carried out by one or two aircraft at a time, were not sufficient to dislodge the Taliban from their entrenched mountain positions. As the opposition pounded Taliban lines north of Kabul, more than 1,000 tribal elders, former mujahedin and other Afghan exiles assembled in Peshawar, Pakistan to discuss the post-Taliban era. The assembly agreed to invite the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, to play a moderating role and call...
...drum up support for a multiethnic government among his own people, the Pashtun of the south, but was captured as he tried to escape on horseback under cover of U.S. air strikes. Haq had feared that the bombing campaign would jeopardize his efforts to win support from Pashtuns - the Northern Alliance is mainly supported by ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks - and moderates among the Taliban. The continuing U.S air raids misfired again on Friday, when they hit Red Cross warehouses in Kabul for the second time - it had happened before, on Oct. 16 - destroying supplies of food, tents, tarpaulins and blankets...
...NORTHERN IRELAND I.R.A. Disarms The Irish Republican Army rescued Northern Ireland?s battered peace process by announcing that it was putting some of its store of arms "beyond use." The move enabled Gerry Adams, leader of the I.R.A.?s political wing, Sinn Fein, to gloss over an admission that a Sinn Fein...