November 13, 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

Opposition Says Taliban Grip Loosening Fast
By Sayed Salahuddin and Peter Millership
Tuesday November 13 11:17 PM ET
KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan opposition forces consolidated their hold on the newly captured capital of Kabul on Wednesday and said new gains meant the Taliban now held less than 20 percent

Taliban hold under 20pct of Afghanistan-opposition
KABUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Four provinces in eastern Afghanistan have fallen from Taliban hands after the local population rose up in revolt, opposition Northern Alliance Interior Minister Yunis Qanuni

Post-Taliban Kabul awakes to music, uncertainty
By Sayed Salahuddin and Rosalind Russell
KABUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) - For the first time in five years the dawn call to prayers competed with the sound of music as residents of the Afghan capital, Kabul, awoke to life after the Taliban but

N. Alliance Gains Control of Kabul
By KATHY GANNON
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghans brought their radios out of hiding and played music in the streets, savoring the end of five years of harsh Taliban rule as the northern alliance marched triumphantly

'No more retreat' Taleban troops told
BBC News
The leader of the Taleban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has ordered his troops to stand and fight following the fall of the Afghan capital Kabul, it is reported.

Pakistan concern at Kabul's fall
BBC News
The Pakistani Government has said that the Northern Alliance must not be allowed to occupy Kabul. Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan told journalists that Pakistan wanted

UN Gives World's First Blueprint for Afghan Future
By Evelyn Leopold
Tuesday November 13 9:02 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations outlined the world's first political blueprint for Afghanistan, envisioning a broad-based two-year transitional government and a security force

'I kiss the Koran, put it in my pocket and then shoot them'
James Meek in Rui Aab Salam, Afghanistan
Tuesday November 13, 2001
The Guardian
The dizzying speed of the Taliban collapse has been such that the movement's most committed followers - by repute, foreigners, from countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia

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Opposition fighters march into Kabul, Taliban flee
By Sayed Salahuddin and Rosalind Russell
KABUL, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Greeted by cheering residents, opposition fighters captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Tuesday in defiance of international pressure to stay out

N. Alliance minister says not occupying Kabul
DUBAI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The Northern Alliance's interior minister said in Kabul on Tuesday his troops were not occupying the Afghan capital and that his movement wanted to set up a council

Anti-Taliban tribals march on Kandahar
QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Thousands of tribal fighters were advancing on the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan after taking the nearby airport on Tuesday, witnesses said.

Northern Alliance move toward Torkham worries Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 13 (Kyodo) Pakistan is concerned about reports that the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance is moving toward the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan after taking over Kabul

Iran says anti-Taliban forces hold Afghan border
TEHRAN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Anti-Taliban forces have taken position along Afghanistan's northwestern border with Iran and cross-border trade is expected to return to normal soon

Northern Alliance broke promise -former king's aide
By Philip Pullella
ROME, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A senior adviser to Afghanistan's exiled king, seen as a key player in the country's political future, said on Tuesday the Northern Alliance had broken their agreement

Afghan opposition leader urges U.N. intervention
By Jack Redden
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (Reuters) - One of Afghanistan's most revered tribal elders and a close associate of the former king called on Tuesday for urgent U.N. intervention to help establish a post-Taliban

Mulla Omar, Osama, other top officials safe: Taliban
Islamabad, Nov. 13, IRNA -- A Taliban official has stated that their leader Mulla Omar, Osama bin Laden and other top militia officials were alive and safe.

Analysis: The Taleban collapse
Tuesday, 13 November, 2001, 06:05 GMT
By Daniel Lak
BBC News Online's correspondent on the Pakistan-Afghan border
It took the Taleban nearly four years to capture much of northern Afghanistan and the capital Kabul - between 1994 and 1998.

Kabul falls to Northern Alliance
Tuesday, 13 November, 2001, 09:40 GMT BBC News
The Northern Alliance has made rapid progress
Northern Alliance troops have taken control of Kabul amid scenes of chaos and jubilation.
In a dramatic overnight advance, Northern Alliance units entered the Afghan capital after Taleban fighters fled towards their southern stronghold, Kandahar.

U.S. Special Forces Land at Airport Near Kabul
Tuesday November 13 4:02 AM ET
BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A team of U.S. special forces dressed in civilian clothes and carrying M-16 assault rifles landed by helicopter at Bagram airbase north of the Afghan capital

Lawyer says Taliban fled with aid workers
 Islamabad, Nov 13, IRNA - The Taliban have fled Kabul, taking with them the eight aid workers on trial for promoting Christianity, following reports that the city has fallen to the opposition Northern Alliance

Afghan women demand role in post-Taliban administration
by Fariba Nawa
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 13 (AFP) - Afghan women who were among the chief victims of the Taliban's five-year hardline rule are shouting to be heard as plans unfold for a new regime in Kabul.

Northern Alliance‘amnesty offer’ welcomed
Updated on 11/13/2001 12:17:30 PM
Frontier Post
UNITED NATIONS (Agencies): Diplomats from the United States, Russia and six other nations working to find a political solution in Afghanistan praised a general amnesty offered by northern alliance

Pakistan closes border, except to the wounded
Refugees will be sent home to Afghanistan when situation improves
By Dan Fesperman
The Baltimore Sun Foreign Staff
November 13, 200
QUETTA, Pakistan - For Afghan refugees on the run from bombing, starvation and the approaching winter, the price for legally entering Pakistan has finally been established: a leg, an eye

'We Were in Prison. Now We Are Free'
By Lois Raimondo
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 13, 2001; Page A01
TALOQAN, Afghanistan, Nov. 12 -- When the sun rose on Taloqan this morning, the streets filled with people celebrating the Taliban's departure. "We were in prison. Now we are free

Rebels' Gains Shift U.S. Focus To the South
By Bradley Graham and Vernon Loeb
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 13, 2001; Page A01
The rapid-fire gains of Northern Alliance rebels over the past week provide the United States with important new opportunities in pressing its war against terrorism in Afghanistan.

Aid Officials View Mazar-e Sharif As Vital to Humanitarian Efforts
New Land Route Could Accelerate Food Delivery to Afghans
By Susan B. Glasser and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 13, 2001; Page A23
The rebel seizure of the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif will open a vital land route that international relief agencies could use to dramatically step up delivery of food to starving Afghans