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Time for Plan B. The first major ground battle, near Mazar-i-Sharif, took place last Monday, when hundreds of Northern Alliance troops serving under two commanders, Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and Tajik general Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta, swept toward the city and the 20,000 entrenched Taliban troops protecting it. The Alliance forces advanced to within 12 miles of Mazar, but a fierce Taliban counterattack led to savage street battles; Alliance forces managed to hold their front line but failed to advance much further. It's unlikely that the Alliance will march on Mazar anytime soon. The Taliban...
...Time for Plan B. The first major ground battle, near Mazar-i-Sharif, took place last Monday, when hundreds of Northern Alliance troops serving under two commanders, Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and Tajik general Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta, swept toward the city and the 20,000 entrenched Taliban troops protecting it. The Alliance forces advanced to within 12 miles of Mazar, but a fierce Taliban counterattack led to savage street battles; Alliance forces managed to hold their front line but failed to advance much further. It's unlikely that the Alliance will march on Mazar anytime soon. The Taliban...
...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 interests of Iran, Russia and Pakistan. The Taliban's demise, however, will depend strongly on whether Pashtun groups can be persuaded to switch sides. And despite Pakistan's efforts to rally them this week, many of these groups...
...think he's as thick as thieves with his pal Vladimir Putin, but hopefully someone at the White House is reading the English edition of Pravda. The erstwhile communist mouthpiece reports that Russia's generals want to send troops back into Afghanistan, in the hope of backing up their Tajik allies against U.S.-backed Uzbeks in the battle for supremacy among rival factions of the Northern Alliance. Russia wants to restore the Tajik-led government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. "Pakistan is against such development of the events, as well the U.S.A., due to the efforts of which...
...Even then, the battle plan is far from simple: Washington may want the Northern Alliance to march on Kabul, but the U.S. does not want the opposition group to actually capture it. That's because the alliance is composed primarily of fighters from the Uzbek, Tajik and Hazari minorities and would be unable to create a stable government without the consent of the Pashtun, the largest of Afghanistan's ethnic groups. The Taliban's membership is exclusively Pashtun, but it is far from representative of all Pasthun, and Washington had hoped that the bombing campaign would create significant defections from...