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	DefendAmerica News - Afghanistan Update
		ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Coalition soldiers conducting a local patrol in support of Operation Mountain Viper in the vicinity of the firebase at Deh Chopan, in Zabul province, were engaged by an attempted ambush yesterday.
		Paktika Province, Afghanistan - A coalition soldier was wounded during a fire fight in the vicinity of the coalition firebase at Shkin, in Paktika province yesterday.
		Bari Kowt, Kunar Province - A coalition soldier was wounded during a fire fight in the vicinity of the coalition firebase at Bari Kowt, in Kunar province yesterday.
	www.defendamerica.mil /afghanistan/update/oct2003/au100603.html (5419 words)

	Konduz offers to surrender
		KONDUZ, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Taliban leaders in Konduz have agreed to surrender control of the besieged city in northern Afghanistan to the United Nations, tribal elders said Sunday.
		The move came as U.S. airstrikes continued to bombard Taliban positions around the city and follow a meeting in Konduz between the six elders, the Taliban commander of Afghanistan's northern zone, Mullah Dadullah, and the pro-Taliban Konduz governor Haji Omar Khan.
		The Konduz mayor had expressed his concern over civilian casualties, asking the Northern Alliance not to launch a full-scale offensive on the city but to try to persuade more Taliban to defect.
	www.bouwman.com /911/Operation/Konduz.html (451 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Konduz Province Governor Mohammad Omar said on 10 June that the attack on the Chinese workers was carried out by people coming from Baghlan Province, which is located directly south of Konduz Province, Peshawar-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.
		Lieutenant General Mohammad Daud, a regional military commander in Konduz Province, said on 13 June that 10 people have been arrested in connection with the attack on Chinese construction workers in the province, "China Daily" reported on 14 June.
		A Reuters correspondent in the southern province of Kandahar reported today that schoolchildren as young as 13 are being registered as if they are 18 years old.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2004/06/18.asp (3730 words)

	RFE/RL Afghanistan Report
		One PRT is commanded by the United Kingdom in Mazar-e Sharif, Balkh Province, and one by New Zealand in Bamiyan, Bamiyan Province.
		Konduz is an important narcotics zone in a country that tops the world in production of poppy cultivation (see "RFE/RL Afghanistan Report," 20 February, 29 May, and 5 June 2003).
		Although Konduz has been largely peaceful since the Taliban regime was forced from power in late 2001, the area remains one of the prime drug-producing regions in Afghanistan, the world's largest opium producer.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/10/38-301003.htm (4744 words)

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		Abdul Majid, the head of security in Balkh Province who previously headed security in Konduz Province, told Radio Afghanistan the explosions were the first in Konduz since the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan was established in December 2001.
		Local authorities of northern Afghanistan's Konduz Province have issued a decree banning the distribution and showing of videotapes, Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran reported on 19 February.
		It is not clear if the decree by Konduz Province authorities is based on the 21 January Supreme Court ruling or was decided locally.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/02/6-SWA/swa-200203.asp?po=y (1882 words)

	Tajik
		Refugees who fled to the Konduz and Takhar provinces were initially concentrated in the northern part of Konduz province in several areas, including the town of Imam Sahib.
		Shakalili stated that although the Tajik refugees in Konduz and Takhar provinces had not yet been officially recognized by the UNHCR as refugees, he himself was confident that the population comprises refugees.
		Balkh province is not under the jurisdiction of the Kabul national government; it is run by General Dustom, and the local administration is responsible for the security of the refugees in Sakhi camp.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1996/Tajik.htm (17605 words)

	One Battle Ends, Another Begins - NW-1101WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
		Now the big question in Konduz is, “where are the Taliban?” There were supposed to be as many as 15,000 Afghan and foreign fighters in the town, but no one seemed to know where they all had gone.
		Ironically, the fall of Konduz was marred when U.S. planes bombed forces belonging to their ally, Aamer Latif, in a fortress just north of the center of town.
		As soon as the war was won, the warlords and the government turned on each other, tearing the country apart for six years, and leaving the way open for the Taliban to seize control of most of the country.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3067413/site/newsweek (1181 words)

	Globalvision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the northern province of Konduz, the security situation was said to be much the same if not worse, resulting in a blockade of humanitarian efforts.
		The delivery of food to the western province of Ghowr has posed a major challenge to WFP in the past weeks as truck drivers were reluctant to travel there due to insecurity and remoteness, Davies explained.
		In the neighbouring province of Badghis, the situation was somewhat calmer according to the British-based NGO Ockenden International.
	www.gvnews.net /demo/html/WorldReacts/alert484.html (1755 words)

	Konduz outcome may have repercussions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ISLAMABAD, 23 Nov 2001 (IRIN) - Events in Afghanistan's northern Konduz Province, where Taliban forces are surrounded by the Northern Alliance, are being watched closely in Pakistan, where there is concern that a massacre of its nationals fighting alongside Taliban forces could trigger a reciprocal wave of violence in the country.
		In a press conference in the capital, Islamabad, on Thursday, he called on the warring factions to respect international laws, so that the task of national reconciliation was not delayed or complicated.
		He added that the issue of the Taliban strongholds in Konduz Province and the southern city of Kandahar, had been discussed with the Pakistan president, Gen Pervez Musharraf.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=15963 (542 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Profile Article
		KONDUZ, AFGHANISTAN - Bi Bi Fhatima students line up in there countries traditional cerimonial uniforms waiting for there invited guests to arrive for the schools re-opening ceremony.
		The CMOC is responsible for coordinating civil-military operations in the Konduz region.
		This school stands as the largest female education institution in the province of Konduz.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/feb2003/a020603e.html (689 words)

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		Citing the expected takeover of a PRT in Konduz Province by Germany, the statement warned that, rather than fulfilling traditional peacekeeping functions, PRTs continue to implement reconstruction projects in areas where professional assistance organizations are free to work.
		Citizens in the Balkh Province are disappointed with the work of the PRT in their province, Hindukosh news agency reported on 15 October.
		The PRT in the Balkh capital of Mazar-e Sharif that is run by the United Kingdom has a budget of $5 million, which cannot meet the expectations of the people there, according to the report.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/dailyreport/2003/10/16.asp (466 words)

	WELCOME TO CURRENT EVENTS
		Konduz surrounded; Taliban urged to defect November 19, 2001 Posted: 12:17 a.m.
		The troops ringing the city, the last remaining Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan, are poorly armed and may not be able to launch a full-scale assault against Konduz, according to reports.
		Dadullah and Khan are willing to surrender their heavy weapons and all non-Afghan fighters to the United Nations, the elders said, and they are willing to let the international body appoint a neutral caretaker and neutral governor for Konduz.
	www.angelfire.com /pa5/apdwax/CURRENT1.HTML (2241 words)

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		From Badakshan in the north-east to the provinces bordering Central Asia, and as far west as Badghais, the pests have caused - or threaten - damage that both national and foreign agencies have found hard to quantify and harder still to combat.
		Samangan regional military commander Ahmad Khan even organised a squad of 5,000 volunteers in an attempt to destroy the locust nymphs, though his men - working without pesticide sprays - were reduced to using shovels to destroy the eggs before they hatched.
		In Konduz, to the north of the country, local agriculture affairs director al-Haj Mohammed Ibrahim complains that his province is getting less assistance now than in the past.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/arr/arr_200205_6_4_eng.txt (813 words)

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		According to ISAF, the mission of the PRT in Konduz is to facilitate ISAF's efforts to assist the Afghan Transitional Administration (ATA) in extending its rule and influence as well as to aid the development of a stable and secure environment in its area of operation.
		When NATO was preparing to assume command of the PRT in Konduz, Robertson was knocking on the doors of NATO members and nonmembers alike for two helicopters to enable the German team's deployment.
		Zabul Province has been the scene of a number of attacks blamed on neo-Taliban insurgents in recent months, and some of the province's districts have been controlled for short periods by the opposition.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/01/3-230104.htm (4780 words)

	Kunduz province - TheBestLinks.com - Konduz province, Afghanistan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Badakhshan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kunduz province - TheBestLinks.com - Konduz province, Afghanistan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Badakhshan,...
		Konduz province, Kunduz province, Afghanistan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a...
		The Kunduz province is a province around the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, with an area of 7,827 km square, and a population of about 583,000.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Konduz_province.html (124 words)

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		With the Alliance poised to launch a massive attack on Konduz tonight, a senior Taleban emissary raced to Islamabad to beg the United Nations to accept the surrender of between 15,000 and 20,000 Taleban fighters trapped in the province.
		He said: “We have to separate and distinguish between Afghan Taleban, the local Taleban and the international terrorists who are in Konduz province.
		The general said that he believed that almost all the surviving Taleban troops in northern Afghanistan were trapped in Konduz province, which covers an area the size of Dorset, and within Konduz city.
	www.thefiringline.com /forums/showpost.php?p=765834&postcount=1 (855 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		The only NATO-led Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan is based in the provincial capital of Konduz, some 35 kilometers from the scene of the attack on the Chinese workers.
		Six coalition troops from Slovakia, Poland, and Latvia killed in an explosion at a munitions depot on 8 June (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 8 June 2004) died as a result of a mortar attack, not an accident, during a weapons-disposal operation as suggested in initial reports, dpa reported on 9 June.
		PAP quoted a military spokesman saying authorities initially believed the tragedy was the result of a mistake while the team was defusing explosives in Wasit Province.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/06/6-SWA/swa-100604.asp?po=y (1437 words)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He also denied the opposition claims that it had taken the Faryab province and said the Taliban forces were regrouping in different parts even of Samangan, Jauzjan and Sar-e-Pol.
		No independent confirmation of these claims was available but observers said the clock was fast ticking on the Taliban as massive and incessant pounding of their positions has been making it increasingly hard for them to retain control in northern Afghanistan.
		Almost all the northern provinces are inhabited by ethnic Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara Afghans who have a long history of animosity toward the Pashtoons, the majority ethnic group that the Taliban militia consists of.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/11/12/20011112spa01.html (378 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		From Badakshan in the northeast to the provinces bordering Central Asia, and as far west as Badghais, the pests have caused, or threaten to cause, damage that both national and foreign agencies have found hard to quantify and harder still to combat.
		Samangan regional military commander Ahmad Khan even organized a squad of 5,000 volunteers in an attempt to destroy the locust nymphs, though his men - working without pesticide sprays - were reduced to using shovels to destroy the eggs before they hatched.
		The FAO has provided 1,300 pesticide hand pumps capable of clearing 25 hectares of land each, more than 32,000 hectares in total, to be used in eradication programs until the last crops come in August.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/may2002/2002-05-30-02.asp (826 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		And right now the situation in Konduz is almost very complicated, and some of the groups have communicated us, and they've tried to come and surrender to Baghlan Province.
		And as soon as I got closer to the Baghlan Province, everybody communicated with me and they tried to catch the Taliban who were the real Taliban, who were inside the Baghlan Province.
		The U.S. wants to be sure that the al Qaeda fighters, who particularly are trapped in the city of Konduz do not slip through and get out to other countries where they could resume their activities under Osama bin Laden.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0111/24/smn.32.html (1054 words)

	America Will Take No Prisoners
		Donald Rumsfeld also ruled out suggestions that thousands of al-Qaeda mercenaries trapped in the northern city of Konduz might be allowed to negotiate safe passage to a third country, and said that America would do all in its power to stop Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taleban leader, fleeing Afghanistan.
		Mr Rumsfeld was responding to attempts by opposition forces to negotiate a peaceful end to the siege of Konduz.
		On the fate of Taleban fighters in Konduz, government sources declined to comment publicly, but ministers voiced strong misgivings about the suggestion that al-Qaeda members should be allowed to escape.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines01/1120-03.htm (844 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. planes bomb Taliban positions in northern Afghanistan - November 17, 2001
		Many opposition fighters slept through the start of the airstrikes, and the Northern Alliance did not appear to be preparing a military attack to follow the allied bombing.
		The Northern Alliance controls several villages on the eastern edge of the Konduz province.
		The Taliban troops in Konduz are the last holdouts in northern Afghanistan.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/17/ret.afghan.attacks (551 words)

	CNN.com - Satinder Bindra: Negotiating with the Taliban - November 20, 2001
		KONDUZ, Afghanistan (CNN) -- U.S. airstrikes resumed Tuesday morning in the Konduz province, the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan, despite bad weather.
		Northern Alliance commanders are meeting the trapped Taliban in Konduz.
		So far, they say they've managed to get 1,000 fighters to defect, but most of these Taliban fighters are described as local Taliban fighters.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/20/ret.bindra.otsc (287 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		And on the ground, the Taliban are continuing to fight the Northern Alliance to maintain control of Konduz, the last Taliban stronghold in the north.
		That's right, we were on the Northern Alliance's front lines here in the eastern outskirts of northern Afghanistan's Konduz province.
		The Konduz province is the last remaining Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan and for some eight hours today we watched one B- 52 after another drop bombs on Taliban front line positions in Konduz.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0111/17/smn.13.html (283 words)

	NATO/IMS:Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee visited ISAF - 21-24 April 2004
		On the second day, he visited the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) at Konduz and was briefed by its Commander, Colonel Reinhard Kuhn, on the progress of the Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) process, and a possible way ahead for PRT expansion.
		He then had in-depth discussions with General Daoud, Commander of the Afghan 7th Corps, after which he met with the Governor of the Province of Konduz, Mr.
		Latif congratulated NATO on the work undertaken by the Konduz PRT and it’s direct impact on the people of the province.
	www.nato.int /ims/news/2004/n040421e.htm (294 words)

	CNN.com - Taliban to give up hold-out city in north - November 22, 2001
		But even while Northern Alliance commander Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum and Gen. Mullah Faizal, the Taliban assistant defense minister in Konduz, met in Mazar-e Sharif, chaotic fighting broke out in eastern Konduz province when Northern Alliance forces began a push west.
		In Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, coalition military jets were heard and four loud explosions were seen in a village to the southeast, an indication of bombing in the area.
		Although investigators have not found any suspicious letter or package in her home, they are operating on the premise that the mail may once again be the source.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/US/11/22/gen.war.against.terror (905 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		In fact, the Northern Alliance troops, they went into Konduz expecting, three days ago, that some sort of arrangement had been worked out with the Taliban forces where, essentially, they would give up and switch to the other side.
		They went into Konduz and they were essentially ambushed, and they retreated in panic.
		And certainly it seems that those Taliban and al Qaeda elements that are still in Konduz are going to put up quite some resistance.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0111/15/lt.14.html (629 words)

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