November 10, 2001

Text of the Resolution Adopted by the Washington DC Metropolitan Area's Afghan Community Concerning Recent Developments in Afghanistan

The Future of Afghanistan - US House of Rep. Hearing, Nov. 7, 2001 includes: Chairman Hyde's Opening Statement, Honorable Peter Tomsen, Mr. Stephen Philip Cohen, Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, Mr. M. Hasan Nouri, P.E., Mr. Elie Krakowski

'I dream only of having my hand again' The Sunday Times UK

AFGHANISTAN: Interview with Ahmed Rashid

Transcript of Nov. 7 Remarks By President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Afghan opposition advances after seizing key city
By Sayed Salahuddin and Rosalind Russell
Sunday November 11, 3:46 AM
KABUL/JABAL-US-SARAJ (Reuters) - The triumphant Afghan opposition said they swept Taliban forces from four more northern provinces on Saturday, a day after routing the militia in strategic Mazar-i-Sharif

Northern Alliance Offer Welcomed
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Diplomats from the United States, Russia and six other nations working to find a political solution in Afghanistan

Afghans enjoy freedom from Taleban
By Pam O'Toole
Residents of Mazar-e-Sharif have told the BBC that the city is calm, with people going about their daily business.

Afghan opposition claim new gains
BBC News 11/10/01
Opposition Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan, fresh from their success in capturing the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, are claiming further advances against the ruling Taleban.

Afghan opposition advances after seizing key city
By Sayed Salahuddin and Rosalind Russell
KABUL/JABAL-US-SARAJ (Reuters) - Afghan opposition troops patrolled the streets of northern Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday, just hours after routing fighters of the ruling Taliban militia

U.S., major powers begin talks on fall of Kabul
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (Kyodo) - The U.S. government has begun talks with major powers to prepare for Afghanistan's Kabul falling to the Northern Alliance before midwinter following its capture

U.S., major powers begin talks on fall of Kabul
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (Kyodo) - The U.S. government has begun talks with major powers to prepare for Afghanistan's Kabul falling to the Northern Alliance before midwinter following its capture

Editor says bin Laden claims he has nuclear weapons
By Andrew Marshall
ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A well-known Pakistani newspaper editor said on Saturday that in a recent interview inside Afghanistan Osama bin Laden claimed he had nuclear and chemical

Kabul Residents Eye Fate of Mazar with Hope, Fear
Saturday, November 10, 2001 9:07 AM EST
KABUL (Reuters) - Kabul residents on Saturday watched the opposition takeover of a key northern city hoping it heralded relief for themselves but fearing instead it would signal fresh bloodletting and misery.

Afghan currency surges after Taliban lose key city
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's currency surged more than 10 percent on Saturday after the Taliban lost the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif to opposition forces backed by U.S.

Jubilant Afghan Fighters Roll Tanks to Front Line
By Rosalind Russell
Saturday November 10 10:01 AM ET
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Shouting their glee at their capture of a northern city, Afghan opposition fighters rolled a dozen more tanks toward the front line facing the Taliban near Kabul

No support to Taliban, says Pakistan
Islamabad, Nov 10, IRNA -- Pakistan said on Saturday that it is not providing any support to Taliban, saying it is strictly adhering to the UN Security Council resolutions on Afghanistan.

Pakistan's former PM says Taliban have no future
Islamabad, Nov 10, IRNA -- Pakistan's former prime minister and chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Benazir Bhutto says Afghanistan ruling Taliban have no future.

NA training policemen for Kabul security
Updated on 11/10/2001 11:33:53 AM
Frontier Post
DASHTAK (Agencies): Afghanistan’s opposition alliance is training hundreds of policemen to patrol the capital if the ruling Taliban are driven out, part of an effort to prove that it can govern

Rebel General Has Made a Career of Picking Fights (and Sides)
THE COMMANDER
The New York Times November 10, 2001
By TIM WEINER
en. Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose forces were apparently taking control of Mazar-i-Sharif, an important crossroads in northern Afghanistan, last night, is the very model of a modern Uzbek warlord.

US support may undermine Afghan leaders
Updated on 11/10/2001 11:33:53 AM
Frontier Post
QUETTA (Agencies): If the United States really wants to help Afghan tribal chief Hamid Karzai and other opposition leaders forge an anti-Taliban alliance, maybe US officials ought to hold their tongues.

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Afghan Opposition Advances After Seizing Key City
By Sayed Salahuddin and Rosalind Russell
Saturday November 10 1:33 AM ET
KABUL/JABAL-US-SARAJ (Reuters) - Afghan opposition troops patrolled the streets of northern Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday, just hours after routing fighters of the ruling Taliban militia in the first major

Afghan opposition says captures Sar-i-Pol province
Saturday November 10, 12:57 PM
JABAL-US-SARAJ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The Afghan opposition Northern Alliance said on Saturday it had taken from the ruling Taliban the whole of Sar-i-Pol province to the south

Afghan Opposition Says Routs Taliban in Key Town
By Christopher Wilson and Rosalind Russell
Friday November 9 8:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON/JABAL-US-SARAJ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan opposition forces said on Friday they smashed through Taliban front lines to enter the key northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif

What makes Mazar-e Sharif so significant?
November 9, 2001 Posted: 5:45 PM EST (2245 GMT)
(CNN) --For weeks, retired generals and working journalists have referred to the "strategic" northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif. With Northern Alliance forces having at least partially captured

UN Seeks Focus on War-Devastated Afghan Children
By Irwin Arieff
Friday November 9 4:44 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy called on world governments on Friday to pay more attention to the needs of Afghanistan's children, whose lives have largely been defined by 23 years of war.

Taliban to hold future press conferences inside Afghanistan: Envoy
 Islamabad, Nov 9, IRNA -- Taliban envoy to Pakistan Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef says Taliban will hold press conferences inside Afghanistan after Pakistan stopped him from holding press briefing in Islamabad.

Ousted Afghan president meets UN envoy in Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, Nov 9 (AFP) - Deposed Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani met the head of a UN mission for Afghanistan, Francesc Vendrell, on Friday to discussed the formation

UN calls for information on cluster bomb raids in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9 (AFP) - The UN mine clearing agency called Friday on the US-led coalition to provide more information on areas where cluster bombs were being dropped in Afghanistan.

U.S. Says Unclaimed Body in Afghanistan a Pakistani
Friday, November 09, 2001 8:41 PM EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A State Department official said on Friday that Taliban reports that a man who died in Afghanistan was an American were wrong but that it was working to return

Thirty trucks will deliver food to Faizabad
Friday, November 09, 2001 6:45 PM EST
MOSCOW, Nov 09, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- An Il-76 plane belonging to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry flew out to the Kirghiz town of Osh at 23:40 pm on Friday.

Arab Fighters Spearheading Taliban Force, Allies Charge
Tim Weiner New York Times Service
Saturday, November 10, 2001
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Foreign fighters allied with Osama bin Laden and trained in Afghan camps are spearheading the Taliban's resistance to American

How to turn Taliban warlords into allies
The Daily Telegraph (UK)
By Stephen Masty, director of relief projects in Afghanistan
IF we hope to win the fourth Anglo-Afghan War, we should abandon any notion that Afghans are inhumanly fierce creatures, eager to fight to the last man. Afghans are practical, and Taliban

Afghan man tells Osaka court of Taliban brutality
The Japan Times: Nov. 10, 2001
OSAKA -- An Afghan man suing the Japanese government for not granting him refugee status testified before the Osaka District Court on Friday of the cruelty inflicted upon him

Al Qaeda Vows Jihad Until U.S. Quits Muslim States
By Isa Mubarak
DUBAI (Reuters) - Ayman Zawahri, a top lieutenant in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, said in a statement aired on Saturday that jihad, or holy war, would not stop until all "American Jewish"