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Date Posted: 16:55:54 12/03/01 Mon
{Caveat: Following federal action at WKII and the Jumping Bull residence in
the 1970s, several news articles were planted by authorities in order to stir
up national emotion against the AIM, highlight the "we're on it" image of the
FBI and Nixon administration..
... Native News Online has no way of verifying the accuracy of news reports
from even major news papers. It is well to keep in mind that media control
was one of the Naval War College's plans in the event of national panic in
wake of Y2K, ergo this is not a policy restricted to the 70s. Most of us
have read news articles later contradicted by other articles..foreign news
sources which print information that differs from US.
See: http://209.114.70.195/hosted/ishgooda/peltier/cointelpro/
Truth is out there..somewhere..maybe..Ish}
"in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
Donald Rumsfeld quoting Winston Churchill, Sept 2001
{kind of like surrounding a precious stone with thieves?}
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Hundreds of Taliban defectors massacred at Kunduz
Last Updated: Sat Nov 17 20:23:45 2001
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/11/17/defect_massacre011117
KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN - Hundreds of defecting Taliban fighters have been massacred near the northern city of Kunduz, the Northern Alliance said Saturday..
An Alliance commander near the last northern city held by Taliban forces told CBC Radio that 300 Afghan Taliban supporters and their families were gunned down on Friday.
The fighters were caught by Arab and Pakistani Taliban troops as they tried to cross the front lines into Northern Alliance-controlled territory.
The unconfirmed report says they were all killed on the spot.
The Northern Alliance has been trying to cultivate and capitalize on the split within the Taliban between its Afghan members and the more extreme foreigners involved, many of them Arabs and Pakistanis.
Earlier this week, Northern Alliance commanders offered safe passage to local Taliban fighters if they were to surrender. The offer did not apply to foreigners.
Alliance commanders say negotiations are under way to convince several Afghan Taliban commanders inside Kunduz to switch sides.
An assault on the city, originally promised for Saturday, has been delayed. The Northern Alliance said it wants to give the negotiations more time.
They also accused the Taliban of using terror to stop the defections.
At least six Afghan commanders have been hanged by the Taliban, accused of being ready to convert.
Written by CBC News Online staff
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COALITION FORCES SCOUR CAVES FOR BIN LADEN
While the Taliban has been confined to two Afghan strongholds at opposite ends of the country, coalition forces are focusing their efforts on finding Osama bin Laden. FULL STORY:
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/11/18/binladen_hunt011118
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Konduz elders: Governor, commander offer surrender to U.N.
(CNN) -- The Taliban commander of Afghanistan's northern zone and the governor of Konduz agreed to surrender control of the northern Afghan city to the United Nations after meeting with a group of Afghan tribal elders, the elders said Sunday.
The six tribal elders negotiated the surrender of Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah and Haji Omar Khan, Konduz's pro-Taliban governor, after meeting in Konduz. The elders then traveled to Peshawar, Pakistan, and briefed reporters Sunday on the outcome of the meeting. U.S. airstrikes continued to bombard the area.
Dadullah and Khan agreed to surrender their heavy weapons and all foreign fighters to the United Nations and said they were willing to let the international body appoint a neutral caretaker and governor for Konduz. The United Nations has not responded to the offer. (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/18/ret.konduz.surrounded/index.html
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, told reporters Sunday the Taliban still control the southern city of Kandahar and several surrounding areas, including Qalat, Tarin Kowt and Helmand.
But sources inside Afghanistan told CNN that the Taliban are losing public support and that some civilians have been trying to disarm Taliban soldiers..
Zaeef also had a message for the world, saying that America wants to "destroy" Afghanistan and that the international community should step in to "prevent this cruel action." (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/18/ret.afghan.government/index.html
Latest developments
• U.S. officials said Sunday they believe Osama bin Laden remains in Afghanistan and that "the noose is tightening" around him and other leaders of the al Qaeda organization. Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice also said they do not believe bin Laden has been able to acquire nuclear weapons.
• Northern Alliance Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah met Sunday morning with U.S. ambassador to the Afghan opposition Jim Dobbins in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Abdullah pledged his support for a United Nations plan to formulate an interim government, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters.
• U.S. authorities have discovered a letter written by one of the suspected September 11 hijackers, telling his girlfriend he did his duty and that "everyone will be happy," according to the German magazine Der Spiegel. The letter was written by Ziad Samir Jarrah, whom U.S. authorities have named as one of the suspected hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania. (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/18/inv.hijack.letter/index.html
• Eight accused terrorists arrested last week were sent to prison Sunday by a judge in Spain who accused them of belonging to Osama bin Laden's network, and possibly having a role in the September 11 attacks, Spain's state news agency EFE reported. (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/18/inv.spain.suspects/index.html
• In Shindand, Afghanistan, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of Herat, villagers were burying the bodies of four Northern Alliance fighters believed to have been killed four months ago while fighting with the Taliban. The bodies had their hands tied behind them and were each shot in the head and torso. The ears of all the bodies also were cut off.
• Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef denied an earlier report that he had told The Associated Press that suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden had left Afghanistan. He told CNN he did not know where the al Qaeda leader was. The Pentagon said it was skeptical of the report. (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/17/ret.taliban.binladen/
• Delivering the weekly U.S. presidential radio address, first lady Laura Bush fired the first salvo in what she called the "worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children" by the Taliban and the terrorists believed to be operating from Afghanistan's remote areas. (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/17/bush.radio/index.html
• Ousted Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani arrived Saturday in Kabul, returning for the first time since he was thrown out when triumphant Taliban militia swept into the capital city five years ago. "I have not come here to extend my government, but I have come for peace and to prepare the ground for peace and to invite all Afghans and even outsiders who are working towards peace," he said at a news conference. (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/17/rabbani.return/index.html
• U.S. officials said Friday they have "credible reports" suggesting that Mohammed Atef -- one of al Qaeda's top aides to Osama bin Laden -- was killed in an airstrike south of Kabul. (Full story)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/17/ret.atef.reports/index.html
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