November 8, 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

 

UN Afghan envoy upbeat on transitional post-Taliban government
AFP
The UN special envoy for Afghanistan said he was optimistic about the chances of setting up a transitional government if the ruling Taliban militia is overthrown.

Taliban arrest 20 opposition "spies"
AFP
The Taliban militia said it had arrested 20 Afghan men accused of spying for the United States and trying to provoke a rebellion. Taliban intelligence sources in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad told AFP

Blair rejects Musharraf plea for bombing halt
War on Terrorism: Diplomacy
By Andrew Grice Political Editor
The Independent 09 November 2001
Tony Blair rejected a plea yesterday by Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, for bombing of Afghanistan to stop during Ramadan.

Pakistan's Musharraf Says Bombing Must Stop
Musharraf Also Warns Against Reliance on N. Alliance
By Tom Heneghan - Reuters - Thursday, November 8, 2001
PARIS, Nov 8¯The U.S.-led military attacks on Afghanistan should be stopped as soon as possible because the whole world sees them as a war against innocent civilians, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday.

Pakistan, Iran agree to cooperate for future Afghan govt: FO
Tahir Rathore
Frontier Post - 11/8/2001 2:48:20 PM
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran Wednesday agreed to cooperate closely to facilitate peace process and reconciliation in terms of the future governance in Afghanistan.

Namangani takes charge of Taliban frontlines
Syed Anwar
Frontier Post - 11/8/2001 2:48:20 PM
PESHAWAR: Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has ordered Commander Joma Khan Namangani, to take charge of the Taliban's units facing the Northern Alliance forces

NA forms security force for Kabul
Frontier Post - 11/8/2001
F P ReportPESHAWAR: Northern Alliance leaders and military commanders in a high-level meeting in Gulbahar with the ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani in chair, decided to march on Kabul

Samad Hamed: Future ruler, ruse or prey?
Frontier Post - 11/8/2001 2:48:20 PM
PESHAWAR: The resurfacing of two prominent pro-Loya Jirga activists has infused a new spirit in the half-dead body of the Afghan monarchist camp, observers in Peshawar believe.

Chicago Brothers Shape U.S. Policy On Afghanistan
By Marc Kaufman and Robert E. Pierre
Washington Post - November 8, 2001
Joseph and James Ritchie, multimillionaire brothers from Chicago, were convinced that Afghan commander Abdul Haq had the charisma and connections to unite Afghanistan and overthrow

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Afghan opposition asks for money, aid, not soldiers
By Sergei Yakovlev
DUSHANBE, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance said on Thursday it wanted more money and humanitarian aid rather than more foreign soldiers on Afghan soil.

Key anti-Taleban leader calls for help
BBC 11/8/01
Afghan tribal leader Hamid Karzai has appealed for international help to rid his country of "foreign terrorists" fighting with the Taleban.

Emboldened Afghan opposition targets strategic city
By Rosalind Russell and Randall Mikkelsen
Thursday November 8, 10:06 PM
JABAL-US-SARAJ, Afghanistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan opposition forces, emboldened by intensive U.S. air strikes, said they would launch an offensive on Thursday

Pakistan group claims U.S. raid kills 85 fighters
Thursday November 8, 11:36 PM
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. bombing in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed 85 fighters of a Pakistan-based militant group allied with the ruling Taliban

Opposition Set to Advance, U.S. Jets Pound Taliban
Thursday November 8 10:06 AM ET
By Zeeshan Haider and Rosalind Russell
ISLAMABAD/RABAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan opposition commanders planned an offensive on Thursday to capture the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif from the ruling Taliban

Musharraf says he wants Afghan bombing to be brief
By Tom Heneghan
Thursday November 8, 8:50 PM
PARIS (Reuters) - The U.S. bombing of Afghanistan should be kept brief because the whole world sees it as a war against innocent civilians, Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf

Britain will listen to Megawati's call to pause Afghan strikes: envoy
Thursday November 8, 7:37 PM
JAKARTA, Nov 8 (AFP) - London will listen carefully to President Megawati Sukarnoputri's call for the US-led strikes on Afghanistan to be suspended during the Muslim holy

Blair says air strikes not enough
By Randall Mikkelsen
Thursday November 8, 9:03 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday said military operations beyond airstrikes would be needed to defeat Afghanistan's ruling Taliban

Afghan airline grounded
All 1,300 of Ariana's staff have been sacked
By Kate Clark
BBC Afghanistan correspondent
The United Nations has said the national airline of Afghanistan, Ariana, has effectively been put out of business by the air strikes.

Alliance claim key city within grasp
BBC
American warplanes have resumed their attacks on Taleban forces, striking at their front-line positions near the border with Tajikistan for the eighth time in 12 days.

Pakistan asks Taliban to close Karachi consulate
AFP 11/8/01
Pakistan has asked Afghanistan's Taliban regime to close its consulate in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, according to the Afghan Islamic Press.

Defiant Taliban fighters say undaunted by bombing
KABUL, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Singing, dancing and insisting their morale was undimmed, Taliban fighters returning from the front line this week said they had held onto their positions

Opposition fighters relax as US hits Taliban line
By Rosalind Russell
RABAT, Afghanistan, Nov 8 (Reuters) - U.S. jets bombed Taliban positions north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday, striking trenches and artillery and the militia opened fire

Food aid reaches Jalalabad
By the BBC's William Reeve in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan
Convoys of food aid are getting into Afghanistan along the road from Pakistan towards the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.

Pakistan's Musharraf says bombing must stop
By Tom Heneghan
PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led military attacks on Afghanistan should be stopped as soon as possible because the whole world sees them as a war against innocent civilians

Masood murder trial adjourned
BBC News
The trial in London of an Egyptian man accused of plotting to murder a prominent Afghan opposition leader, has been postponed to allow the prosecution more time

Bin Laden sons 'fighting with Taleban'
BBC
The sons of Osama Bin Laden are apparently working alongside Taleban fighters inside Afghanistan, according to a report by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television.

Khatami, UN envoy call for establishment of coalition Afghan govt
Tehran, Nov 6, IRNA -- President Mohammad Khatami and visiting UN envoy in Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi here Tuesday called for the establishment