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/news-attack-afghan-kunduz-dc WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Taliban in Kunduz Reportedly Agree to Surrender Updated: Wed, Nov 21 5:47 PM EST LONDON (Reuters) - All Taliban forces in the besieged northern Afghan enclave of Kunduz have agreed to surrender, CNN reported on Wednesday. Its reporter in the nearby city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which is under Northern Alliance control, said Taliban commanders from Kunduz -- with an estimated 10,000 men under their control -- had agreed to surrender in talks with Alliance leaders in Mazar. It quoted a Kunduz Taliban commander, named as Mullah Faizal, as telling reporters allowed into the meeting room that all his forces, Afghans and foreigners alike, would surrender. "Nothing (violent) will happen (in Kunduz)," CNN quoted Faizal as saying. The talks were continuing to work out details of the surrender. Alliance commander Abdul Rashid Dostum told reporters at the talks that the Kunduz problem would be solved "without a fight" and that the battle for the city was finished, CNN said. Dostum said he was also in contact with Taliban leaders in other parts of Afghanistan, including Kandahar -- the southern stronghold still held by the movement. Kunduz is the strict Muslim militia's last redoubt in northern Afghanistan after its rout over recent days by troops from the Alliance, backed by weeks of heavy U.S. bombing. A total of 10,000 Afghan Taliban troops and Pakistani, Arab and Chechen fighters linked to the al Qaeda network of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the September 11 suicide airliner attacks on the United States, were reported to be in the city. U.S. raids on Kunduz were relatively light for a second day, with only two bombs being dropped. Taliban defectors and Alliance troops said earlier that Afghan Taliban troops wanted to give up, but foreign al Qaeda fighters, with nowhere to run, had vowed to fight to the death and were executing Afghans who wanted to surrender. The Alliance suspended its ground offensive against the city but said it would advance on Kunduz if the talks, which began in earnest on Sunday, failed. At first, the mainly Pashtun Taliban forces had offered to give themselves up, but only to a U.N. force rather than to the Northern Alliance, which consists predominantly of Uzbek, Tajik and Hazara minorities. The Northern Alliance had said it was willing to negotiate surrender terms for Afghan Taliban, but not for the unknown number of foreign fighters with them. Many civilians have fled Kunduz, an ancient city guarding routes into the central Asian republic of Tajikistan to the north. "We left because of the bombing," one refugee, Abdullah, told Reuters. "On the street next to ours, 14 members of the same family were killed when a bomb fell on their house. Only the father and a little daughter survived. So we decided to leave." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
