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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan _ Eighty-three Taliban fighters _ including one American, according to a magazine report _ emerged Saturday from an underground bunker, surrendering six days after starting a prison uprising that killed hundreds of Taliban and northern alliance fighters and claimed the life of an American CIA officer.
The fighters had spent at least three days below ground at the prison of Qala-i-jangy, some of them as many as five.
They held out as northern alliance soldiers tried to flush them out with explosives and automatic weapons fire. Officials say most of them are Arabs, Pakistanis, Chechens, Uzbeks and other foreigners believed to be ...
Source: HighBeam Research, 83 prison rioters, including one American, surrender in...