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	Kunduz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the governance of Sher Khan Nasher, Kunduz became one of the wealthiest Afghan provinces in the early 20th century.
		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 on the 25/26 November 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kunduz,_Afghanistan (218 words)

	Taliban Surrender in Kunduz
		The elephant represents the Kunduz stronghold of Baal in the north at 36 N., for Ai.
		The Ozarks are analogous to the mountains of Afghanistan.
		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)

	NATO-Led Peacekeepers Arrive in Kunduz, Afghanistan
		The deployment of German troops in the northern Afghan town of Kunduz is part of international efforts to improve security for aid workers, and help in reconstruction outside the capital, Kabul.
		The region is relatively free of political and ethnic tension, which plagues southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan.
		The U.N.-backed disarmament campaign also took off from the northern town of Kunduz, and is aimed at reducing the power of some of Afghanistan's notorious warlords who run these armed fighters.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2003/10-25-3.htm (277 words)

	RAWA.org: The Lure of Opium Wealth Is a Potent Force in Afghanistan
		Kunduz, Afghanistan: Like a frustrated hunter, the head of the local anti-drug squad keeps snapshots of the ones who got away.
		Kunduz, in northeastern Afghanistan, is one of the front lines in what Karzai calls a holy war on drugs.
		One Kunduz trafficker, a man in his late 20s with a wool hat resting high on his head, said an average lab had 10 barrels, a pressing machine, cotton filters and acetic anhydride, an acid, to refine opium paste into heroin powder.
	www.rawa.org /drugs-lat.htm (4455 words)

	Kunduz falls amid looting, chaos - Newsday.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.newsday.com /news/health/bal-te.kunduz27nov27,0,4434700.story (1138 words)

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		Radio-TV of Kunduz, the station's proper name, was built by the Soviet Union during its occupation of the land from 1979 to 1989, when it broadcast Russian views, news and television.
		Radio Voice of Afghanistan programme summary The station, which is based in London, was observed by BBC Monitoring on 30 November from 1330-1430 gmt on 9950 kHz and began with the usual opening announcements, programme preview and a recitation from the Koran.
		Kunduz radio station switches sides to Northern Alliance According to a report on the International Herald Tribune web site on 30 November, the former pro-Taleban radio station in Kunduz has now switched sides and is broadcasting in support of the Northern Alliance.
	www.angelfire.com /ok/worldofradio/dxld1186.txt (11265 words)

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		Afghanistan watchers believe that the situation in that country is going to worsen if the US fails to push for a quick establishment of a broad based government.
		Afghanistan is a region that is very rugged in its terrain and sparsely populated by various ethnic, religious, and tribal groups.
		This is an important issue in the history of Afghanistan because one could conclude, that despite all the economic assistance that the Soviets gave the region it also sowed the seed for further conflicts that have resulted in the present situation in Afghanistan.
	quicksitebuilder.cnet.com /applemag/greenmanark/id93.html (11269 words)

	German troops arrive in Kunduz: Expansion of Nato forces -DAWN - International; October 26, 2003
		KUNDUZ (Afghanistan), Oct 25: Twenty-seven German soldiers arrived in rural northern Afghanistan on Saturday to launch an eagerly awaited expansion of a NATO-led peacekeeping force outside the capital Kabul.
		The deployment has been welcomed by residents of the town of Kunduz, but aid workers are wondering why peacekeeping troops have arrived first in one of Afghanistan’s safest provinces when they are urgently needed in other parts of the country.
		Kunduz suffers from less of the political and ethnic tension that bedevils other parts of Afghanistan, which is perhaps why the cautious Germans chose it as their new base.
	www.dawn.com /2003/10/26/int2.htm (680 words)

	Afghan commander wants Germans to fight poppy explosion
		Ethnically-mixed Kunduz is relatively free of the factional fighting afflicting other parts of Afghanistan's north and the guerrilla campaign by resurgent Taliban in the south and southeast.
		The biggest problem, according to Daud, is the explosion in opium poppy farming, particularly in Kunduz' neighbouring provinces.
		Kunduz residents and researchers from the International Crisis Groupthink-tank report the existence of refineries, turning opium into heroin, in Badakshan province.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/031025125155.6snpi2t4.html (545 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Al-Qa'eda massacre Taliban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Details of the Kunduz massacre came as alliance forces consolidated their grip on areas of the country captured from the Taliban last week.
		There were reports that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban supreme leader, was trying to negotiate guarantees for his own safety and the safety of his fighters in their last remaining stronghold of Kandahar before surrendering.
		Military commanders are convinced that he is constantly on the move in the mountains of southern Afghanistan, despite Taliban claims that he had slipped over the border into Pakistan.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/18/wafg18.xml (970 words)

	USATODAY.com - Shopkeepers reopen stores in Kunduz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AP) — Shopkeepers heeded instructions and reopened their stores Tuesday, trying to return stability to this northern city a day after alliance forces drove out the last Taliban fighters.
		Thousands of Afghan Taliban fighters who surrendered were allowed safe passage out of Kunduz, their last stronghold in northern Afghanistan.
		As part of the weekend surrender of Kunduz, hundreds of Pakistanis, Chechens, Arabs and other non-Afghans fighting with the Taliban were brought to the Qalai Janghi fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/11/27/peace-kunduz.htm (393 words)

	JS Online: Kunduz rejoices as alliance frees city from Taliban
		Kunduz, Afghanistan - Residents celebrated in the streets Monday as Northern Alliance forces under Gen. Mohammed Daoud swept into this former Taliban stronghold, freeing the besieged northern city from control of the radical fundamentalist regime for the first time in five years.
		The green and white flag of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, the alliance's name for the country, flew atop the small police station in the center of the main intersection.
		Indications were that the two alliance leaders were vying over who would gain control of Kunduz, but it is unclear how far the dispute went.
	www.jsonline.com /news/attack/nov01/kunduz27112601.asp (999 words)

	RTE News: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is reported that all Taliban forces in the besieged northern Afghan city of Kunduz, both native and foreign, have agreed to surrender.
		Northern Alliance commander Abdul Rashid Dostum, speaking after negotiations in nearby Mazar-i-Sharif, said that the Kunduz problem would be solved "without a fight" and that the fight for the city was finished.
		The Northern Alliance gave Taliban troops in Kunduz, Afghanistan, a new deadline for surrender.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/1121/print/afghanistan.html (386 words)

	NTI: Global Security Newswire
		Mohamed Daoud, the Northern Alliance general in charge of the Kunduz offensive, said today that he is "not optimistic that foreign Taliban and some of the Taliban leaders are ready to surrender," adding that "war is essential" if they do not (Ellen Knickmeyer, AP/Miami Herald, Nov. 20).
		The Portuguese daily Diario de Noticias reports that Juma Namangani, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, has been killed in Kunduz, where he had come with hundreds of his men to aid the Taliban (Diario de Noticias, Nov. 20, UN Wire translation).
		The journalists killed were identified as Harry Burton and Azizullah Haidari of Reuters, Maria Grazia Cutuli of the Corriere della Sera and Julio Fuentes of El Mundo (Chris Tomlinson, AP/Miami Herald, Nov. 20).
	www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2001_11_20_terr.html (1791 words)

	MSF-USA: Press Release 11/28/2001
		According to local Afghan MSF staff members who had continued to work in Kunduz even after the evacuation of MSF international staff following September 11, the MSF clinic has not been able to deliver medical care to the population of Kunduz during the recent fighting.
		MSF has worked in Afghanistan continuously since 1979 and also has teams in Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan to provide assistance to refugees and support to the Afghan relief programs.
		Afghanistan: MSF Strongly Rejects Allegations That the Organization Works for the Interests of US or Any Other Government
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /pr/2001/11-28-2001_1.cfm (348 words)

	[CR in Afghanistan] news from IMPACS in Afghanistan
		Radio Zohra is the third in a network of independent women's community radio stations IMPACS and Internews have established in Afghanistan.
		In light of the upcoming national election, the station will also focus on educating women about the political and electoral process and the significance of women's participation as voters and decision-makers.
		This is the story of the opening of Radio Sahar in Herat, one of the most conservative cities of Afghanistan where women experience tougher obstacles when advocating for their rights.
	comunica.org /pipermail/cr-afghan_comunica.org/2004-April/000086.html (454 words)

	The Communication Initiative - Experiences - Radio Zohra - Kunduz, Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Radio Zohra, an independent women's community radio station in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was officially inaugurated on International Women's Day (March 8) 2004.
		In light of the upcoming national election in 2004, the station will also focus on educating women about the political and electoral process and the significance of women's participation as voters and decision-makers.
		IMPACS has been working in Afghanistan since August 2002 to support the development of women's media, community media initiatives, media legislation and elections reporting capacities.
	www.comminit.com /pds32004/sld-9879.html (394 words)

	PakDef Forums - Afghanistan related discussion - II
		The mayor of Kunduz city, which straddles a strategically important road leading north to Tajikistan and south to Kabul, had asked the Northern Alliance to delay any advance while he negotiated with the Taliban.
		KABUL: Afghanistan's ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani returned to Kabul on Saturday, five years after he was driven out by the Taliban, vowing to build a new broad-based government.
		He said militants from Afghanistan's Taliban militia -- which has lost control of most of the country after six weeks of U.S. bombing -- were undoubtedly coming in to Pakistan, despite Islamabad's attempts to seal off its Afghan frontier.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=100 (5003 words)

	Pravda.RU Bin Laden's Assistant Juma Namangani Killed In Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		One of Osama bin Laden's assistants, the notorious Uzbek terrorist Juma Namangani was killed in Afghanistan, General Abdul Rashid Dustum, an ethnic Uzbek and one of the Northern Alliance military leaders, said.
		Osama bin Laden, the international terrorist number one, is hiding in the town of Kunduz in Northern Afghanistan, the Orient Press analytical centre for the Northern Alliance reported on Saturday.
		A forward team of Russian government officials is heading for Afghanistan Friday "to establish working contacts with the leadership of Afghanistan's legitimate government." Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said the team comprises officials of the Defense Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and the Emergencies Ministry.
	newsfromrussia.com /war/2001/11/19/21283.html (1881 words)

	NTI: Global Security Newswire
		Following an announcement by U.N. Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell that Afghan factions will meet in Berlin beginning Monday to discuss their country's political future, Special Representative for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi said yesterday that fewer than 30 leaders representing four distinct Afghan constituencies will be present at the meeting.
		As Northern Alliance forces continued to surround the Taliban-controlled city of Kunduz, Brahimi yesterday said the Taliban has asked the United Nations to negotiate a surrender but that the world body "cannot, has no means, is not present on the ground and simply cannot possibly accede to this request" (CNN.com, Nov. 20).
		Annan said he is "particularly appalled" by the killing yesterday of four foreign journalists on the road from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to Kabul and called on all parties to respect human rights and international law (U.N. release II, Nov. 20).
	www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2001_11_21_terr.html (2623 words)

	On The Scene: Kunduz Freed - CBS News
		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.
		When United Fronted soldiers were taken prisoner, they were allegedly tossed in holes with hand grenades dumped on their heads.
		Kunduz was the last city in Northern Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/11/26/terror/main319135.shtml (522 words)

	Series of EmergencyNet News
		The northern alliance and Taliban troops are continuing to communicate by radio on a possible Taliban troops surrender, with the Taliban demanding a promise that the surrender be done to a United Nations representative, with an alliance promise not to kill foreign soldiers fighting for the Taliban.
		In northern Afghanistan, Taliban forces claimed on Saturday to have hanged five opposition commanders captured after a repelled attack on the Taliban-held town of Mazar-e-Sharif a demoralizing blow to opposition forces already reeling from the loss of a key leader executed by the Taliban.
		In Afghanistan, he added, the Taliban regime is apparently moving military equipment and troops into residential areas or near mosques to either prevent aerial attacks or to coax collateral damage.
	www.emergency.com /2001/enduring_freedom2.htm (15411 words)

	POST-DOC POSITION AT ZEF
		ZEF is looking for a dynamic and ambitious postdoc researcher to conduct research on social water management in the Kunduz region in North Afghanistan.
		Local communities in rural areas are strengthened in (re-) building their capacity of effectively managing their water resources while integrating all sections of the population in the process.
		The target group consists of approximately 250.000 rural people living in five irrigation areas of Kunduz and Takhar Provinces, who shall benefit as water users from the project.
	www.indiana.edu /~iascp/zefpostdoc.html (628 words)

	Pakistan's Anxiety Grows as Taliban Collapse
		There were reports that as many as 1,500 Pakistanis were with the Taliban garrison at Kunduz, and that extremists in the Taliban were threatening to execute any who tried to surrender.
		The Kunduz drama has captured the frustration and anger of many Pakistani officials who entrusted their interests in Afghanistan to the United States after Sept. 11, when the Bush administration demanded that Pakistan join in the war against terrorism.
		Hamid Gul, who was director- general of Pakistan's military intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, when the withdrawal of Soviet troops in Afghanistan gave way to a civil war and who is regarded in Pakistan as having strong sympathies for Islamic militants.
	www.hvk.org /articles/1101/169.html (1039 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "Confusion in Kunduz"
		Kunduz, Afghanistan, Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Northern Alliance forces attacked positions around the besieged Afghan city of Kunduz as their commanders gave conflicting accounts whether Taliban fighters are willing to surrender, the Associated Press and other news services reported.
		Despite all the good spin, the only good news in the past couple of weeks has been that the Taliban have been ousted from power.
		Osama is still on the loose and Afghanistan is still in a state of anarchy.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/9758.html (329 words)

	War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
		The Lure of Opium Wealth Is a Potent Force in Afghanistan
		KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN — Like a frustrated hunter, the head of the local anti-drug squad keeps snapshots of the ones who got away.
		An official of a human rights commission in eastern Afghanistan said police in Nangarhar province routinely ignore drug traffickers and other well-connected criminals, even though they take a strict stand against poppy growing.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/news/lat-5-28-05a.html (4000 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Early this afternoon, the word spread that a Taliban commander in Kunduz, in northeastern Afghanistan, had switched his allegiance to the Northern Alliance and invited its troops to enter.
		"Kunduz has been captured!" the Northern Alliance soldiers roared, and the tanks and troop carriers started their engines and rumbled toward the city, where several thousand Taliban troops who have fled from other northern towns are now cornered.
		After Kabul’s defences were deserted by the fundamentalist militia, up to 9,000 of their comrades were digging in for a final battle in the city of Kunduz and a handful of surrounding villages.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=KUNDUZ (1136 words)

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