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...deal. AFGHANISTAN Forces of Good President Hamid Karzai outlined plans for a 70,000 strong national army paid for by Britain and the U.S. The announcement came as the forces of rival warlords Amanullah Khan, a Pashtun, and Ismail Khan, a Tajik, pounded each other's positions near Shindand airbase in western Afghanistan. Karzai admitted he will not be able to exercise authority much beyond Kabul until the army is fully formed. INDONESIA Tightening Net Police arrested Ali Ghufron, a.k.a. Mukhlas, the suspected mastermind behind the Bali bombing and a senior commander of the radical group Jemaah Islamiah. At least...
...slow strangulation is to dig in at a few strongholds -- Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat, Faizabad, Ghazni, Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif -- and await a change in the military or political equation that could give them an advantage. Most of the remaining 50,000 Soviet troops are garrisoned in Kabul and Shindand, the huge air base in western Afghanistan, as well as in Herat and a few other cities along the main roads to the Soviet border. As many as 100,000 Afghan troops - are deployed in the same areas and at dozens of smaller outposts...
...ringed by 130-mm artillery emplacements. The troops were arrayed around the country in a kind of wheel formation. At its center was an elite airborne division with a main base just outside Kabul, and two mobile units, one stationed due east at Jalalabad and one due west at Shindand. One of the four armored divisions, equipped with heavy T-72 tanks and BMP and BMD armored personnel carriers, was also dug in near Kabul; the three others were fanned out at Kandahar in the south, Herat in the northwest and Kunduz in the northeast. American intelligence experts were puzzled...
Soviet air superiority in the fighting was complete. The airfields at Kabul, Bagram and Shindand bristled with MiG-21s as well as ultrasophisticated MiG-23s; high altitude MiG-25 reconnaissance planes were also spotted overflying combat zones, though they were believed to be based at fields in the U.S.S.R. The Soviet airfields and some base headquarters were guarded by surface-to-air missiles -an obvious precaution in case of foreign attack, but hardly a necessary defense against the insurgents...
According to Western intelligence estimates, they controlled the five main population centers, the three big airfields at Bagram, Shindand and Kandahar, and all the important intersections of the paved "beltway" linking Kabul and other main Afghan cities...
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