対米全面テロ

タリバン兵士４０００人、北部同盟に寝返った。


London, Oct. 15, IRNA
Four thousand Taliban troops are giving themselves up to a Northern Alliance commander, claims an opposition representative.
Soldiers under the command of Kori Khaidullo are allegedly surrendering to General Mukhammad, according to the Press Association news agency here Monday.
The Afghan Embassy in Tajikistan says the surrender has taken place near the village of Sangchorak, north east of the capital Kabul, in Saripul province.
Meanwhile, the press service of the Russian Border Guards in Tajikistan says its soldiers watched a three-hour tank battle overnight between Taliban and northern alliance forces in Aykhanym province, about three miles from the Tajik border.
The Interfax-Military News Agency, citing a source close to the Northern Alliance commander Mohammed Fahim, reports Northern Alliance units are shelling a Taliban group near Taloquan in Takhar province.

It says the anti-Taliban opposition are seizing several sections

of a road leading from the Sherhan-Bandar river port on the

Tajik-Uzbek border to Kunduz.

The Taliban contingent there has about 3,500 men and is armed with

14 tanks, 100 field artillery guns, air defence systems and

rocket-launchers, the news agency says.

The Tajik border guards are sending reinforcements to the border,

says Lt Gen Saidanvar Kamolov. The troops are equipped with armoured

personnel carriers, tanks and multiple rocket-launchers, reported

the PA news agency.