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...NORTHERN LIGHTS...
...ranged against the Taliban inside Afghanistan would be a lot more effective if they weren't ranged against each other, as well. The Pakistan-backed elements in the south who hope to bring down the Taliban by coaxing moderate elements to switch sides are mistrustful and hostile towards the Northern Alliance, while the Alliance refuses to consider having even moderate Taliban elements in a future government. And the prospect of the Taliban's defeat may even be exacerbating sharp differences between the agendas of the rival Uzbek, Tajik and Hazari components of the Northern Alliance, and between the competing regional...
...America began the week with the news that a successful commando raid at Kandahar had opened a new phase of the war. More Special Forces operations were expected to strike at the Taliban's command capability, while the Northern Alliance was encouraged to recapture the northern city of Mazari al-Sharif and lay siege to Kabul. By week's end, however, U.S. officials were considerably more downbeat, trying to lower public expectations and prepare Americans for a long and potentially messy war. The Taliban was proving more tenacious than expected, U.S. commanders said. And what they didn...
...campaign continues to disrupt Taliban logistics and destroy some of its heavier weapons, but this has not yet tipped the balance in favor of its domestic foes. There has been little real movement in the frontline positions of the Taliban and Northern Alliance forces at Mazari al-Sharif and north of Kabul despite the three-week air campaign. This looks like long war, then, in which the U.S. and Britain may be forced to take greater risks on the ground, even as some alliance partners grow skittish about the onset of winter snows and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan...
...Behind the lines: The limits of the air campaign and the Northern Alliance have made the job of the U.S. special forces and their British counterparts that much more difficult. Still, a number of reports from the frontlines suggest some significant success in deploying these forces as target spotters for U.S. aircraft. Some 20 militants of Pakistan's pro-Bin Laden Harkat al-Mujahedeen meeting in a house in Kabul were killed in a U.S. bombing raid this week after the venue was reportedly pointed out from the ground...