I don't think this is that much of a surprise.
The Northern Alliance has already pledged 15,000 troops to help in any US
invasion.
If I remember correctly, the Northern Alliance is the same group of people
we were backing during the Soviet Invasion.
At 12:33 PM 9/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,555530,00.html
>
>Excerpts:
>
>[The US government is pressing its European allies to agree to a military
>campaign to topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and replace it with an
>interim administration under United Nations auspices.]
>
>[The Guardian has also learned that two large US Hercules transport aircraft
>landed in Tashkent, capital of the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, on
>Tuesday loaded with surveillance equipment to be installed along the
>northern Afghan border.]
>
>[The US strategy to depose the Taliban regime is based on more than military
>thinking. A further plank appears to entail supporting the campaign of the
>exiled 86-year-old monarch of Afghanistan, King Zahir Shah, to return to
>power by encouraging the guerrilla army of the Northern Alliance opposition
>to fall in behind him.]
>
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