Word: taloqan
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...smoke. Above the peaks and ridges of northern Afghanistan last week, the plumes billowed thick and black in long, ragged lines-calling cards of the B-52 bombers that each dropped 25,000 lbs. of ordnance on Taliban positions. For Northern Alliance fighters scanning the sky from the Taloqan front in the far north to Jabal Saraj, near Kabul, those massive clouds of smoke, dust and debris could mean only one thing: the long-awaited American command to take the fight to the Taliban had at last arrived. "Finally the U.S. is doing something useful," said Mamor Hassan, a commander...
...freed from years of oppression if the U.S.-led military campaign brings down the Taliban regime. Osema's ordeal shows that even in the Taliban-free northern swath of the country, women suffer severe discrimination. "Peace will be good for the Afghan people," says Hajira, a refugee from Taloqan city, who lives in a canvas tent with her seven children. "But it is too late for women my age. Maybe for my daughters' daughters, life will be better...
...Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Paul Quinn-Judge/the Kabul front, Hannah Beech/the Taloqan front, Helen Gibson/London, Terry McCarthy/Peshawar, Tim McGirk/Quetta, Ghulam Hasnain/Spin Boldak, Michael Fathers/Tashkent, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, each of them loaded with Taliban fighters. They were moving toward the Northern Alliance's positions?not to fight but to find shelter. "The closer they are to us," said Khademudin, commander of the village, "the more secure they feel." On Friday at the Taloqan front, 150 miles farther north, where exhausted, poorly equipped Northern Alliance fighters took heavy casualties when they lost their city last year, one local commander sipped tea, munched cashew nuts and complained about the Americans. "They have not bombed the front line yet," he said. "Please, can you tell...
...Northern Alliance commanders bitterly blame Islamabad?or rather, Washington's determination to keep Musharraf on board?for the fact that they haven't been given the green light. On Saturday U.S. bombs hit targets in Taloqan, far to the north. "The Taliban is kaput," said a soldier up there, with a Soviet-era RPG launcher slung over his soldier. But it's not; the Taliban's front lines outside Kabul still haven't been attacked. In fact, its position there has been reinforced; an extra 500 men and 20 tanks arrived toward the end of last week. The mood among...