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...took three days of fighting by Northern Alliance soldiers, backed by U.S. special forces and British SAS troops and American warplanes to quell the uprising. A number of Northern Alliance troops were killed, and five Americans were wounded by a stray bomb dropped by a U.S. plane. Western officials say that as ugly as the bloodbath may have been, the Taliban prisoners brought it upon themselves by putting their captors in mortal danger. But the U.N.'s Robinson and the Red Cross want to examine whether the military response to the revolt was "proportionate" to the threat it represented. Such...
...Northern Alliance. But on Sunday, the prisoners decided to rebel, grabbing weapons from an armory at the local fort. At least two Americans were trapped in the fort when it happened and at least one is dead. American and British forces have now joined in trying to quell the attack. Perry is on the scene and provided these details via satellite phone to TIME Newsdesk editor John Flowers as the fighting raged...
...supporters of Osama bin Laden last week, infuriating the Palestinian public and leading to the ransacking of several Palestinian Authority buildings and police stations. Arafat, determined to avoid the embarrassment and loss of political capital that resulted from his support of Saddam Hussein in 1991, was determined to quell the sentiments of the protesters, who vehemently disagreed with his perspective. Hamas and other radical groups have pledged to ignore any cease-fire directives given by Arafat or his authorities, and have acted against Israel despite Arafat’s public exhortations to the contrary...
...call for a holy war against the U.S. was not endorsed by leaders of the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference. Meeting in Qatar, the o.i.c. condemned the attacks on America but urged that U.S. reprisals exclude action against other states. British Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to quell speculation that Iraq would be a target of a wider campaign, saying there was no evidence linking Iraq to the Sept. 11 attacks. A letter to the United Nations from U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte had warned that America reserved the right to act against other states, but U.S. officials said...
...police fired on anti-American protesters in the Gaza strip on Oct. 9, Chairman Yassir Arafat permanently cast his lot against Osama bin Laden—and therefore with the U.S.—in the current conflict. We are deeply concerned by the use of deadly force to quell the protests and deplore the PA’s attempt to suppress news reports of the events. But we hope that its opposition to the horrific Sept. 11 attack on innocent civilians will convince the PA that it must combat terrorism, in all its forms, to achieve a lasting peace...