November 14, 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

 

Alliance Envoy Says Kandahar Falls to Opposition
Wednesday November 14 9:46 AM ET
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Northern Alliance ambassador in Tajikistan Said Ibrohim Hikmat told reporters that the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar fell into the hands of the opposition

Taliban Fighters Say Kandahar Has Not Fallen
By Michael Christie
Wednesday November 14 2:38 PM ET
CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban soldiers, some wounded, trickled across the Pakistan border Wednesday, saying the fundamentalist Islamic group were still firmly in charge

Exiled King Urges Afghans to Unite
Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:22 PM EST
ROME (AP) -- Afghanistan's exiled king urged Afghans on Wednesday to unite and freely choose their own destiny now that the Taliban rulers have fled Kabul.

Rebel Gains in Afghanistan Open Way for Food Aid
Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:19 PM EST
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The rapidly changing situation in Afghanistan is opening the way for aid to be moved into previously isolated areas where needs are most urgent, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

Taleban in retreat across Afghanistan
BBC News
Wednesday, 14 November, 2001, 14:02 GMT
Opposition forces in Afghanistan have been making further rapid advances against the Taleban, one day after the Northern Alliance marched into the capital, Kabul. Fighting has reportedly broken

Afghan Aid Worker Detainees Free -U.S. Officials
By Elaine Monaghan
Wednesday November 14 7:36 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eight Western aid workers held for months under threat of possible execution by the Taliban on charges of trying to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity were freed

UN Council Endorses Blueprint on Afghan Policy
By Evelyn Leopold
Wednesday November 14 7:51 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council approved on Wednesday a blueprint for the international community to follow to fill the void in Afghanistan after the unexpected flight of the Taliban.

Taleban leader remains defiant
Thursday, 15 November, 2001, 02:41 GMT BBC News
Much of Kabul is half-destroyed
Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has rejected any cooperation in a future broad-based government for Afghanistan.

U.S. Bombs Building Where Al Qaeda Gathered
Wednesday November 14 9:08 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States bombed a building in Afghanistan where members of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network were gathered, killing a number of people

Is this the end of the Taliban?
Local warlords desert a movement that never won a real popular base
Luke Harding in Islamabad, Julian Borger in New York and Owen Bowcott
Wednesday November 14, 2001
The Guardian
The Taliban's extinction within their own southern heartland seemed imminent last night after local Pashtun tribal leaders began their long awaited revolt and started attacking Taliban positions

Musharraf shocked by 'occupation'
Angry general flies home to face critics
Luke Harding in Islamabad
Wednesday November 14, 2001
The Guardian
Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, last night expressed his dismay that the Northern Alliance had been allowed to seize Kabul and said a UN peacekeeping force should

India welcomes fall of Kabul
Wednesday, 14 November, 2001, 12:15 GMT
India has backed the Northern Alliance
India has welcomed the capture of the Afghan capital, Kabul, by the Northern Alliance, but says the war against terrorism is far from over.

Political Confusion as Alliance Controls Kabul
By Sayed Salahuddin and Rosalind Russell
Wednesday November 14 3:03 PM ET
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Amid political confusion, Afghanistan's Northern Alliance stamped its control on Kabul on Wednesday as defecting tribal leaders and relentless U.S.

A victory, but not yet a complete victory
Tim Ripley
Thursday, 15th November 2001
The Scotsman
HUNTING down Osama bin Laden is the top priority for allied military forces in Afghanistan, rather than humanitarian aid or so-called "nation building" operations in the war-devastated central Asian country

The Significance of Taking Kabul
By Leela Jacinto ABCNEWS.com
Wednesday November 14 02:39 AM EST
Taking the Afghan capital is tantamount to taking the heart and soul of Afghanistan.
Embraced by the magnificent Hindu Kush mountain range, blessed by a river and gurgling streams, the capital of Afghanistan has been known to turn conquerors into poets and beasts - and shades in between.

Rabbani eyes Afghan comeback
Wednesday, 14 November, 2001, 13:26 GMT
Rabbani was nominated president for one year in 1992
Burhanuddin Rabbani, the political leader and nominal head of the Northern Alliance, is the closest thing Afghanistan has to an involved, accepted leader.
The UN recognises him as the president

Alliance troops prepare for fight to death with last Taliban resistance
By David Rennie in Teloqan, northern Afghanistan
Daily Telegraph (UK)  14/11/2001
THOUSANDS of Northern Alliance troops marched yesterday against the last pocket of Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan for a fight to the death with several thousand foreign and Arab soldiers

Northern Alliance will not tolerate
Pakistani 'interference' in Afghanistan, says diplomat
War on terrorism: The future
By Kim Sengupta
The Independent (UK)
14 November 2001
The Northern Alliance bitterly accused Pakistan of fomenting the Afghan civil war and insisted that General Pervez Musharraf's regime could have no say in the future of the country.

Stronghold of Taliban close to collapse
Ewen MacAskill
Wednesday November 14, 2001
The Guardian (UK)
Taliban rule in Afghanistan was in its death throes last night as its stronghold, Kandahar, was on the brink of falling. Having taken Kabul early yesterday morning, alliance fighters pushed on to complete

Analysis: Trying for peace in Afghanistan
Wednesday, 14 November, 2001, 15:23 GMT
A complicated task lies ahead of Mr Brahimi
By the BBC's Daniel Lak
The United Nations is redoubling its efforts to set up a broad-based government in Kabul as an alternative to both the Taleban and the Northern Alliance.

Multi-nation Muslim troops for Kabul
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
THE TIMES OF INDIA
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
WASHINGTON: The United States is rushing to cobble together a multi-national security force from Muslim countries like Turkey, Bangladesh and Indonesia to takeover Kabul following

Musharraf shocked by 'occupation'
Angry general flies home to face critics
Luke Harding in Islamabad
Wednesday November 14, 2001
The Guardian (UK)
Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, last night expressed his dismay that the Northern Alliance had been allowed to seize Kabul and said a UN peacekeeping force should

Exiled singer returns to free airwaves
BY ADAM SHERWIN, MEDIA REPORTER
THE TIMES (UK)
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
THE exiled Afghan singer whose song became the first piece of music to be broadcast in Kabul for five years described the “proudest day of my life” yesterday. When opposition forces took over