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...pakuls, the distinctive woolen hats of the Afghan mujahedin. The Americans and British quickly convened a conference with the Alliance leaders. "I want satcom [satellite communications] and JDAMS [guided munitions]," said the American commander. "Tell them there will be six or seven buildings in a line in the southwest half. If they can hit that, then that would kill a whole lot of these motherf...
...General Rashid Dostum. They had been taken to the fortress outside Mazar-i-Sharif for questioning to determine whether they had links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. On Sunday, the Taliban prisoners overpowered their guards and seized weapons from the fort's armory, taking over the southwest corner and exchanging fire with Northern Alliance soldiers both inside and outside the compound. Two Americans were trapped inside; one of them, CIA officer Spann, was quickly killed, witnesses told TIME's Perry...
...Taliban still control the southwest corner of the fort, while the Northern Alliance has surrounded their position with tanks, cannon and heavy machine guns. The Taliban, meanwhile, have gained access to the armory within the fort and are returning fire with the weapons cached there...
...reason. Part of the American forces and the British forces are coordinating air strikes. There's a group of six who are coordinating the air strikes. Those are the guys I was with. And then there are another six or seven who are fighting the Taliban on the southwest side of the fort. The Taliban are holed off in a pocket on the southwest side. The bomb spotters are on the southeast side, on the roof of a two-story building...
...Were they kept close to the armory? I don't know where they were kept. I think they were kept in the basement. Then they stormed out of the basement and stormed the southwest part of the fort where there were six or seven jeeps full of ammunition. That was, in fact, what the Americans were trying to hit. To destroy their supplies [and] provide one almighty explosion that would kill a lot of them...