WEDNESDAY, NOV.28, 2001
WAR ON TERRORISM
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN • 5A
Taliban revolt under control
Many dead, injured after prison uprising quelled by airstrikes
The Associated Press
MAZAR-E-SHARIF. Afghanistan — Dozens of shattered bodies lie in the dusty courtyard of a mud-walled Afghan fortress prison yesterday as the Northern Alliance claimed to have ended a three-day uprising by Taliban prisoners with the help of American airstrikes and U.S. special forces.
U. S. military officials said 30 to 40 men still were holding out in the sprawling Qalai Janghi complex. "It is not yet fully under control," Gen. Tommy Franks, who heads the war effort in Afghanistan, told reporters in Florida.
Northern Alliance troops turned back journalists trying to enter the complex outside the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif on last night, making it impossible to confirm whether fighting
had ended.
But representatives of the international Red Cross said late yesterday they were working to arrange for burials today — an indication the battle had abated.
"The situation is completely under control. All of them were killed," said Alim Razim, political adviser to Gen. Rashid Dostum, the Northern Alliance commander responsible for Qalai Janghi.
The postscript from three days of fighting was grisly; the remains of soldiers from both sides lay around the prison, where non-Afghans who fought alongside the Taliban had been locked up since Sunday.
one television report showed some 60 bodies, believed to be Taliban, scattered across a courtyard. In another spot, a body believed to be that of a Pakistani Talib lay in a ditch, and villagers said he had been strangled with a rope. One man, laughing, picked up the body by its robe and kicked it in the head. Another villager posed over the dead man, holding a knife.
the fighting began Sunday when hundreds of Pakistanis, Chechens, Arabs and other non-Afghans fighting alongside the Taliban were brought to the fortress as part of the weekend surrender of Kunduz, the Islamic militia's last stronghold in the north. Once inside, the men stormed the armory and rose up against their Alliance captors.
Five U.S. soldiers were seriously wounded in the battle Monday when a U.S. bomb went astray, exploding near the Americans. The five were evacuated. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in Washington. Their names were not released.
U. S. officials were also trying to learn what happened to a CIA operative who was feared killed in the uprising. It wasn't clear whether he had been captured, killed or injured. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday in Washington.
Marines land to flush out Taliban
The Associated Press
SOUTHERN AFGHANI STAN — An American flag flew over an Afghan airstrip yesterday as more and more U.S. Marines set up camp in their desert foothold near the Taliban's last bastion.
With the size of the force building, the Marines spent much of yesterday securing their base. Humvees loaded with anti-tank weapons and heavy machine guns rolled out on patrol. In the sands and dunes around the compound. Marines could be seen in the distance at their outposts and mortar rounds could be heard as troops fired rounds to check the range of potential targets.
In Tampa, Fla., the commander of the U.S. war effort, Gen. Tommy Franks, said that by the time the deployment was complete, between 800 and 1,100
Marines would be at the base, located 70 to 80 miles from Kandahar, the last city held by the Taliban.
The military would not say yesterday how many troops had been brought in so far from six ships in the northern Arabian Sea.
Officials in Washington said the Marines — who began arriving Sunday — would help prevent the escape of Afghanistan's Tuliban militia and members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network holed up in Kandahar, to the east.
The officials in Washington added the Marines would make quick strikes when they could and would help identify targets for U.S. bombings.
Franks said the base was intended "to give us a capability to be an awfully lot closer to the
core objectives we seek”—destruction of the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among the Marines' missions, he said, would be to search out the fleeing Taliban.
While the troops' presence does in fact provide pressure against Kandahar, they were not deployed for an assault on the city, Franks said. The Marines could be stationed at the base for more than 30 days, he said
Capt. Stewart Upton, public affairs officer for the marine task force in Afghanistan, stressed that the mission was not to invade or occupy.
"We are here to rid the people of Afghanistan of the terrorists and to provide them with the peaceful way of life," he said.
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