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The getaway: questions surround a secret Pakistani airlift.
In Afghanistan last November, the Northern Alliance, supported by American Special Forces troops and emboldened by the highly accurate American bombing, forced thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters to retreat inside the northern hill town of Kunduz. Trapped with them were Pakistani Army officers, intelligence advisers, and volunteers who were fighting alongside the Taliban. (Pakistan had been the Taliban's staunchest military and economic supporter in its long-running war against the Northern Alliance.) Many of the fighters had fled earlier defeats at Mazar-i-Sharif, to the west; Taloqan, to the east; and Pul-i-Khumri, to the south. The road to Kabul, a potential ...
- Northern alliance general expects Taliban fighters in Kunduz to surrender this...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Brown, Drew November 20, 2001 700+ words
...000 Afghan Taliban troops have...defected to the northern alliance in recent days...striking frontline Taliban positions. Zubair, the northern alliance Foreign Ministry...exchange between northern alliance and Taliban positions was...
- Northern Alliance fighters take Kabul as Taliban flee.(Main News)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin November 14, 2001 700+ words
...out following an exodus of the ruling Taliban. Northern Alliance fighters moving into the city shot dead...of blistering US air strikes on the Taliban, the Northern Alliance broke through Taliban front lines outside Kabul on Monday...
- Northern alliance forces quash remaining Taliban at Mazar-e-Sharif...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Brown, Drew November 28, 2001 700+ words
...Wednesday the northern alliance forces began...surrendered Taliban fighters...There, northern alliance officials...sort Afghan Taliban prisoners...grenade as northern alliance guards were searching Taliban fighters...
- Northern Alliance rebels take key Taliban city.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Battenfeld, Joe Crittenden, Jules November 10, 2001 700+ words
...an unconfirmed Northern Alliance report. Pentagon...reports of the Taliban retreat but said...rebel offensive. Northern Alliance opposition leaders...they had routed Taliban troops from Mazar...friendly to the Northern Alliance." Powell said...hopes that if the ...
- Six Thousand Taliban Fighters Surrender to Northern Alliance.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News November 28, 2001 700+ words
...redoubt of the Taliban in Afghanistan...unlikely the northern alliance was in position...day after northern alliance forces routed the last Taliban pockets of...Despite the northern alliance victory over the Taliban in northern...
- Northern alliance forces clash with Taliban on outskirts of Kandahar.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Raghavan, Sudarsan Tamayo, Juan O. Merzer, Martin November 29, 2001 700+ words
...the opposition northern alliance said that bin...his protector, Taliban leader Mullah...suggested that northern alliance and possibly other...were engaging the Taliban on the fringes...and joined the northern alliance last week...destroyed the Taliban military," ...
- NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER THROWS TALKS IN TURMOIL MEANWHILE, TALIBAN SURROUNDED...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) December 1, 2001 700+ words
...been harbored by the Taliban and is believed to...there. The opposition Northern Alliance has taken control of...Qaida network. With Taliban resolve in Kandahar...at charting a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan...titular head of the Northern Alliance and the ...
- After Taliban, Afghans fear Northern Alliance yet again.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 20, 2002 700+ words
...backed Northern Alliance rebels replaced the Taliban as the masters...required by the Taliban because they...to marry a Northern Alliance soldier...the same Northern Alliance commanders...before the Taliban are here...
