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...Northern Alliance have been preparing for an offensive; their people are hungry and spoiling for a fight. Baba Qool, a refugee from the village of Hazarbagh who is in a camp under the troops' protection, lost his wife, three sons and two daughters when the Taliban--with Pakistani, Uzbek and Uighur Chinese troops in its force--raided the village last year. One old woman was rolled in a mattress, doused with gasoline and set on fire. The Northern Alliance's commanders thought their chance for revenge would soon come; the American bombers, they hoped, would target the Taliban forces massed...
...cracks are already showing in the latest venture. The leadership of the Northern Alliance is committed to it, but the group's various factions are not of one mind. "It's just a ragbag of different forces," a senior British official says of the alliance. He says its Uzbek faction rejects the group's new military commander, General Mohammed Fahim, successor to the charismatic Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated Sept. 9. The Uzbeks do support a loya jirga, as do some other commanders, like Yousnou Kanuni from the Jamiat faction. But others, like Abdul Rasul Sayyaf of the Ittehad...
...Northern Alliance have been preparing for an offensive; their people are hungry and spoiling for a fight. Baba Qool, a refugee from the village of Hazarbagh who is in a camp under the troops' protection, lost his wife, three sons and two daughters when the Taliban?with Pakistani, Uzbek and Uighur Chinese troops in its force?raided the village last year. One old woman was rolled in a mattress, doused with gasoline and set on fire. The Northern Alliance's commanders thought their chance for revenge would soon come; the American bombers, they hoped, would target the Taliban forces massed...
...These days, Uzbekistan is an independent country, though still essentially a one-party state. Its strongman President Islam Karimov reluctantly signed a military cooperation agreement with Moscow last year but refuses to allow Russian troops on Uzbek territory. Now, in a precarious balancing act, it has embraced a new ally: late last week the U.S. and Uzbekistan announced they had signed an agreement giving the U.S. "extended" use of Khanabad, the biggest air base in Central Asia and once the main staging post for the Soviet Union's push into Afghanistan...
...including crack Mountain Division platoons, as well as an unspecified number of British special forces. There are regular incoming flights of heavy U.S. cargo carriers each day, and Apache attack helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes patrol the skies. The base is sealed with tight security?an outer ring of Uzbek police, an inner ring of military police, plus U.S. security patrols. According to officials who have visited the facility, many of the aircraft lie protected in underground bunkers...