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...their rebel conquerors and Taliban turncoats. Pakistani volunteers who made it to the border claimed their former comrades beat and fleeced them. Mahsud Khan, 25, told TIME that Taliban troops robbed him at gunpoint as they fled the Alliance advance. "A few minutes earlier, we were in the same trench," he said. "We went there to help them, and they looted...
...Taliban has three command posts in the trench line that winds along the ridge. Early on, a tank shell scores a direct hit on the post on the right flank, but the center and the left prove harder to crack. "Shoot at the ones straight ahead. I can't see the ones on the left," Hassan tells Bashir, his tank commander, over the radio. The T-55 fires again. Twenty minutes into the attack, the shelling tempo increases; there is an explosion every couple of seconds. At 3:55 the Alliance troops on the right flank say the Taliban...
...left flank. "They are like dogs. They never give up. They must be Arabs," says Hassan. He orders his tanks to aim at the artillery piece, but it keeps shooting back, each shell getting closer to Hassan's position. The closest round lands 25 yds. from the trench before some soldiers--and the handful of journalists observing them--withdraw...
...action may be shifting south. Late last week both sides mobilized in preparation for a trench battle for control of the air base at Bagram?the front north of Kabul. "We will advance to the gates of Kabul within two weeks," predicts a senior rebel officer. Sources told TIME that the Alliance, which is outnumbered 2 to 1 by Taliban forces around Kabul, has asked for close air support from American attack helicopters. So far, the Pentagon has demurred, but AH-64 Apache choppers are already suspected to be in the region, with...
...their rebel conquerors and Taliban turncoats. Pakistani volunteers who made it to the border claimed their former comrades beat and fleeced them. Mahsud Khan, 25, told Time that Taliban troops robbed him at gunpoint as they fled the Alliance advance. "A few minutes earlier, we were in the same trench," he said. "We went there to help them, and they looted...