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	Kunduz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kunduz (قندوز) is a city in Afghanistan; the name has also sometimes been rendered as Kûnduz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz.
		Kunduz is located at 36.73°N, 68.86°E, at an elevation of 397 meters above sea level.
		Kunduz was the last major city held by the Taliban before its fall to US-backed Northern Alliance forces in early December 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kunduz (207 words)

	Gulfnews: Alliance forces enter Kunduz
		Northern Alliance forces advancing from the east and west had begun entering the besieged city of Kunduz on Sunday and the last redoubt of the Taliban in the north could fall in a day, officials said.
		Tajik commander Mohammad Daoud said the town of Khanabad, the eastern gateway to Kunduz, had fallen to the alliance and forces under his command who were racing to the city 20 km (12 miles) away.
		The fall of Kunduz would allow Northern Alliance forces and U.S. warplanes to concentrate on prising the radical militia out of its last strongholds in and around the southern city of Kandahar.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/01/11/26/33697.html (509 words)

	nbc13.com - News - Northern Alliance: Taliban To Surrender Kunduz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kunduz is the Taliban's last stronghold in the north.
		While Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar are believed to be in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. official said some of their deputies and lieutenants appear to be trapped in the north.
		A Taliban spokesman in Kunduz told the Afghan Islamic Press that dozens of people were killed during the raids.
	www.nbc13.com /news/1089778/detail.html (673 words)

	Taliban Surrender in Kunduz
		Over a thousand Taliban and foreign troops streamed out of Kunduz in convoys of pickup trucks and surrendered to the Northern Alliance in one of the first waves of surrenders that are expected for the next two days.
		The elephant represents the Kunduz stronghold of Baal in the north at 36 N., for Ai.
		Kunduz is at 36 N. The earthquake was the judgment of the land, Ecumenical Babylon, related to the capture of Kunduz, where many foreign fighters are surrounded.
	www.biblenews1.com /history1/20011124.htm (1622 words)

	Kunduz falls amid looting, chaos - baltimoresun.com
		KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - The cabinets at Kunduz Public Hospital were smashed and looted, trash and filth were everywhere, wide puddles of blood pooled on the floor, a Taliban fighter lay dead on a rug and another lay dying, and Dr. Mohammed Usman was furious.
		Kunduz fell, finally, to the Northern Alliance yesterday, but only after an ambush and battle at the main crossroads delayed the advance until about 9 a.m.
		Kunduz is predominantly Pashtun, an ethnic group that has been supportive of the Taliban, and areas around the city were subject to American bombardment, but there was no open hostility toward the new rulers among those who were out on the streets yesterday.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/custom/attack/bal-te.kunduz27nov27,0,5581242.story (1213 words)

	USATODAY.com - Northern Alliance captures Kunduz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AP) — Stomping on the faces of captured Taliban and shooting others as they lay wounded, opposition forces rampaged through Kunduz on Monday, staking claim to the Taliban's last northern stronghold.
		Kunduz's fall followed a two-week siege of this grimy market city of 100,000 people where thousands seen as the hard core of Taliban and allied foreign Islamic militia had holed up.
		Kunduz's Taliban leaders had limited movement from the city without permission, whipped residents on the streets at the slightest provocation and abused the city's minorities in favor of the Pashtun majority, he said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/11/25/kunduz.htm (809 words)

	washingtonpost.com
		In Kunduz, the Taliban fighters appeared to be encircled, and preparing for battle.
		In Kunduz, the Taliban fled their military compounds as U.S. planes continued to pummel targets there, according to refugees who arrived here on foot from Kunduz, hauling their possessions in sacks on their back.
		Kunduz has become almost unliveable, they said, because Taliban fighters are raiding all the town's shops and demanding that residents feed and house them.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/world/Kunduz1118.html (1144 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Kunduz - a poisoned chalice
		The ten-day siege of Kunduz, which once boasted 300,000 inhabitants, appears to be racing towards a bloodthirsty climax, with alliance commanders threatening to execute all of the estimated 2,000 foreign Taleban supporters holed up the city's schools and mosques.
		Kunduz has emerged as a poisoned chalice, both for the Northern Alliance and for the US and UN.
		Kunduz is, first and foremost, a Pashtun city marooned in a sea of ethnic minorities with strong motives for seeking revenge against its citizens, many of them seen as collaborators with both the Taleban and the al-Qaeda fighters.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/b4145704de7a81a8c1256b100046b463 (796 words)

	Taliban Agree To Surrender Kunduz - Bush Wants Wider War
		With President Bush telling his troops that Osama bin Laden and his fighters were their main target, the Taliban commander in Kunduz said all its defenders, both Taliban fighters and bin Laden loyalists, would give themselves up.
		Kunduz Taliban commander Mullah Faizal told reporters in the nearby town of Mazar-i-Sharif all fighters in the city, Afghans and foreigners alike, were under his control and would give themselves up.
		Surrender in Kunduz would leave the Taliban only in control of their southern bastion of Kandahar, home of their supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, and nearby provinces.
	www.rense.com /general17/wider.htm (893 words)

	AV Press: Kunduz falls; Marines land near Kandahar
		The fall of Kunduz, which came two days before talks were to begin in Germany on forming a broad-based government, leaves the Islamic militia with only a small share of Afghanistan still under its control, mostly around Kandahar.
		As a surrender accord for Kunduz was being brokered last week, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he hoped the foreign fighters would be killed or captured, not allowed to go free.
		The capture of Kunduz was reported hours after alliance troops gained a small foothold inside the besieged city, then overran a town on its eastern flank.
	www.avpress.com /n/sp/attack/sty383.hts (1148 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Northern Alliance takes Kunduz
		Speaking to the BBC earlier, another alliance commander, General Daoud, said most of the Taleban fighters in Kunduz had chosen to lay down their weapons and surrender peacefully in the last few days, but an unspecified number had been killed.
		Kunduz residents said that during the past three nights there was intense air activity at the airport.
		The fall of Kunduz frees up Northern Alliance and United States forces to concentrate their attacks on the main Taleban strongholds in and around the southern city of Kandahar.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1674000/1674765.stm (543 words)

	TIME.com: Kunduz Reveals the Fluidity of Afghan Battle Lines -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even with the Taliban's surrender of Kunduz supposedly a done deal, the fighting for the last holdout town in northern Afghanistan was fierce on Thursday.
		And like those who retreated from Mazar-i-Sharif, many Afghan Taliban fighters in Kunduz may be quite willing to leave the foreigners to their fate, if not to turn their guns on the "tourists" who have reportedly killed hundreds of Afghan Taliban.
		A bloodbath at Kunduz, where some 30,000 mostly Pashtun civilians are reportedly trapped, may sour the atmosphere for Monday's talks.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,185544,00.html (1249 words)

	Gulfnews: Talks on Kunduz surrender continue
		The northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan witnessed one of the severest bombardments by U.S.-led forces yesterday killing hundreds of civilians and Taliban fighters as talks between the Taliban military commanders and Northern Alliance forces for a negotiated solution failed to make any headway.
		A number of Kandahari Pashtuns and Pakistani tribesmen part of Sufi Mohammad's Jihadi lashkar are trapped in Kunduz after the Taliban withdrawal from Mazar and other parts of northern Afghanistan.
		In telephone conversations with pro-Taliban residents in Kunduz and from other reports reaching Peshawar, it was clear that the homes of civilians in the lush green Khanabad district of the province had been turned to rubble due to carpet bombing and ground attacks by forces loyal to Northern Alliance.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/01/11/21/33195.html (448 words)

	Struck to Visit German Troops in Kunduz \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 30.01.2004
		Struck will see for himself this weekend if the deployment is a brave attempt at setting an example for other nations to assist in the rebuilding of Afghanistan or if the dangers and the immensity of the task will doom the ambitious mission to failure.
		Kunduz dominates a vast and remote part of Afghanistan, a long way from any rapid assistance.
		Struck has defended the decision, saying that although things are calm in Kunduz at the moment, the presence of the Bundeswehr may well be welcomed if their mandate was forced to change from reconstruction to protection.
	www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1432_A_1100660_1_A,00.html (1036 words)

	Worldandnation: N. Alliance closing in on Kunduz
		If the advance continues and alliance forces take Kunduz, the Taliban will be left with only one major city, their southern base of Kandahar.
		An estimated 15,000 Taliban fighters are besieged in Kunduz, and estimates of how many of them were recruited from Pakistan, the Persian Gulf, Chechnya and other areas outside Afghanistan range as high as 6,000.
		East of Kunduz, much of the village of Saka was still under Taliban control Friday, but alliance troops were trying to push the Taliban fighters out.
	www.sptimes.com /News/112401/Worldandnation/N_Alliance_closing_in.shtml (1415 words)

	Kunduz is set to fall, Northern Alliance says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An American official in Washington said some of the fighters in the besieged city -- the Taliban's last major garrison in the north -- may be deputies and lieutenants to Osama bin Laden and to the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar.
		Dostum said his fighters were moving toward Kunduz from the west to enforce the surrender deal.
		A Taliban spokesman in Kunduz told the Afghan Islamic Press that dozens of people were killed by American bombs yesterday.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /attack/48034_main24.shtml (1243 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Opposition/Terrorists 'In Standoff' At Kunduz, Kandahar
		DefenseLINK News: Opposition/Terrorists 'In Standoff' At Kunduz, Kandahar
		He remarked that opposition forces "are working with Afghan counterparts" to obtain the surrender of Taliban and Al Qaeda troops trapped in Kunduz, east of Mazar-e Sharif in the north, and at the Taliban stronghold city of Kandahar in the south.
		Some air strikes could be temporarily suspended at the request of opposition forces, Stufflebeem said, to facilitate their efforts to obtain the surrender of Taliban and Al Qaeda troops.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Nov2001/n11202001_200111204.html (486 words)

	Tough Talk - NW-1101WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
		One is that the battle for Kunduz could be the fiercest yet.
		Kunduz is not just a Taliban stronghold, it’s the redoubt of Juma Namangani.
		Sitting in the gravel parking lot of the Iranian Red Cross here in Taloqan, Daoud told reporters he’d heard that two Pakistani planes had landed in Kunduz, but said he could give no details on the size of the planes or the reason for their presence in Afghanistan.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3067448 (870 words)

	Afghanistan - Vegetable Kingdom. Afghan Trees. Afghan Plants. Afghan Flowers.
		The fruit, mixed with in resin, is used for food by the Achakzais in Southern Afghanistan.
		The true pistachio is found only on the northern frontier, the nuts are imported from Badakhshan and Kunduz.
		Mushrooms and other fungi are largely used as food, especially by the Hindus of the towns, to whom they supply a substitute for meat.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AFG/afghanistan-08.html (671 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - China seeks probe into Kunduz attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The raid occurred 35km south of the northern city of Kunduz on Thursday, until now deemed a secure area.
		Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular briefing the government was also pushing for Kabul to "punish the attackers and ensure the safety of Chinese workers and other staff in Afghanistan".
		Kunduz governor Muhammad Umar blamed the raid on rebels bent on destabilising the government of interim president Hamid Karzai.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/BC0BEB59-8121-49BF-BBF0-F990A5D157CB.htm (291 words)

	Shia News \| Asia \| U.S. steps up strikes near Kunduz; Taliban offer conditional surrender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Refugees fleeing the city of Kunduz over the weekend, meanwhile, told of terror at the hands of the Wahabi Taliban troops and bin Laden loyalists.
		Refugees fleeing Kunduz over the past several days have said the city is under the control of Arab, Pakistani, Chechen and other foreign Wahabi fighters - and a hard core of Taliban fighters from Kandahar.
		Zardad described the killing in Kunduz of a group of boys in their late teens by Wahabis from Kandahar after some of the youths laughed at them.
	www.shianews.com /hi/asia/news_id/0001489.php (631 words)

	PakDef Forums - Pakistan air force seen evacuating foreign fighters from Kunduz
		As Northern Alliance troops prepared yesterday to enter Kunduz, fears that the city's fall might result in a massacre of foreign-born Taliban fighters may have been averted by a secret deal hatched between Pakistan and Northern Alliance commanders, with Washington's compliance.
		At least three Pakistani aircraft were seen landing in Kunduz in the middle of last week, and two more were sighted subsequently.
		The Pentagon, which is monitoring the situation round Kunduz in detail, has been evasive on the subject and has said it has no information about the landings.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=210 (2582 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Alliance accused of brutality in capture of Kunduz
		Victorious Northern Alliance troops swept into Kunduz in brutal style yesterday, shooting wounded prisoners and leaving them to die in the city's marketplace as they ended a two-week resistance by Taliban forces in their last stronghold in northern Afghanistan.
		Despite the scenes of violence, the alliance was jubilant as it celebrated the capture of Kunduz after a two-week siege.
		The fall of Kunduz ends the Taliban's presence in northern Afghanistan and allows American bombers to concentrate their firepower on Mullah Omar's stronghold of Kandahar.
	www.guardian.co.uk /afghanistan/story/0,1284,606660,00.html (775 words)

	History lesson from Dunkirk for Kunduz
		In November General Musharraf was pressing hard that moderate Taliban leaders should have a role in the new administration to be formed in Kabul.
		A logical inference is that those evacuated from Kunduz were not moderate but hard-core Taliban and, therefore, could not be projected in public.
		These terrorists would be encouraged by the ease with which Gen. Musharraf could con the Americans to airlift out of Kunduz the hardcore Taliban and Al Qaeda cadres and the Pakistani armymen and ISI officials, most committed to the Taliban and Al Qaeda cause.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0102/170.html (496 words)

	CBS News \| On The Scene: Kunduz Freed \| November 26, 2001 19:39:00
		Byron Pitts on reports more than 100 foreign Taliban soldiers were executed in Kunduz.
		CBS News was one of the first western news organizations allowed into Kunduz after the United Front had kept journalists out for hours — claiming it was for safety.
		Kunduz was the last city in Northern Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban.
	uttm.com /stories/2001/11/26/attack/main319135.shtml (374 words)

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