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Opposition forces near capital city
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Opposition forces broke through Taliban front lines yesterday and pushed to the gates of the capital, Kabul, after a string of stunning victories in northern Afghanistan. The ruling Islamic militia deployed tanks at entrances to the city, fearing an all-out assault.
Shouting "God is great," anti-Taliban troops rolled within-12 miles of Kabul on trucks carrying the green, white and black Afghan flag and displaying pictures of their slain commander, Ahmed Shah Massoud.
The anti-Taliban forces, a coalition of factions and ethnic groups, capped their four-day dash across the north by overrunning western Afghanistan's biggest city, Herat.
Commanders said they were pushing toward Kunduz, the last Taliban-held city in the north.
The Taliban said its lines had collapsed around Kabul but said it would fight for the capital.
"It is true that the opposition breached our front line near Kabul, but we have erected another one and are strengthening our position," said Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to neighboring Pakistan.
Haron Amin, a Washington-based envoy for the Northern Alliance, said yesterday that the anti-Taliban forces would try to surround Kabul to prevent the Taliban from reinforcing or resupplying its troops inside.
At the United Nations, the United States, Russia and six nations that border Afghanistan pledged "to establish a broad-based Afghan administration on an urgent basis."
"We have no intention of going into Kabul," Amin said.
The United Nations must first come up with a plan for dividing power in Afghanistan after the Taliban falls, he said.
The aim is to put together a transitional leadership that is broadly acceptable, possibly including Taliban defectors. The
United Nations might take interim control of the capital, and Muslim and non-Muslim nations are likely to join with Turkey in providing peacekeepers, U.S. officials said.
Likely participants with Turkey in a combined peacekeeping force from Muslim and non-Muslim countries include Indonesia, Bangladesh and Jordan, U.S. officials said.
The Taliban losses followed an intensive bombing campaign by the United States, and some of the militia's commanders switched sides once the opposition forces gained momentum.
The Taliban admitted their lines had collapsed around Kabul — where the front had been stalemated for years — but said they would fight for the capital.
President Bush launched the air campaign on Oct. 7 after the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
"We have decided to defend Kabul," the Taliban ambassador to neighboring Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said in Islamabad.
"It is true that the opposition breached our front line near Kabul, but we have erected another one and are strengthening our position."
The opposition claimed Taliban forces were fleeing Kabul. However, according to reporters in the city, there was no sign of any mass exodus, though a few senior Taliban officials appeared to have left.
Gen. Rashid Dostum, a northern alliance commander, said an opposition force of up to 300 fighters was ready to enter Kabul on Tuesday to "maintain order."
Dostum, speaking from the newly captured northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, told Turkey's private NTV television that the main body of opposition forces would hold off from entering the capital
Bush remembers veterans, soldiers
The Associated Press
Actor Ron Silver methodically read the names of each country that lost citizens in the Sept. 11 attacks.
He said the attacks deepened the nation's debt to soldiers who fought abroad and police and firefighters who served at home.
The speech. Bush's first Veterans Day address as president, constituted his only public remarks on the final day of his two-day U.N. visit.
He met privately with the presidents of South Africa, Argentina and Colombia before attending a U.N. ceremony at the site of the collapsed twin towers in lower Manhattan.
NEW YORK — President Bush, touring the World Trade Center's smoking rubble two months after the suicide hijackings, called on Americans to remember "the terrible harm that an enemy can inflict," as they reflected anew on the sacrifices of their military.
An honor guard carried each country's flag and planted it in attack.
At the Veterans Day breakfast, Bush said the attacks rekindled respect for police and firefighters.
"Whenever an American hears the word police or fire, we think differently." Bush said. "We think differently about those who go to work every single day to protect us and save us and comfort us."
"The great purpose of our great land ... is to rid the world of evil and terror," Bush said at the breakfast as he thumped the lectern.
stanchions set in front of the dignitaries.
"I can hear you." Bush told hundreds of weary rescue workers in one of the more memorable moments of his presidency. "The rest of the world heys you, and the people who knocked these building down will hear all of us soon."
It was Bush's first visit to Ground Zero since Sept. 14, when he wadded into the ruins with a bullhorn in one hand and an American flag in the other.
U.N. works to create a new Afghanistan
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Foreign ministers from eight key countries agreed yesterday to accelerate efforts to form an alternative government in Afghanistan.
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The committee included the United States, Russia and Afghanistan's six neighbors — Iran, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — has been trying for years to end the civil war in Afghanistan.
The committee met during a weeklong General Assembly as opposition fighters claimed to
Lakhdar Brahimi, top U.N. envoy for Afghanistan, said he hoped to get a representation of the Afghan population together to create an interim arrangement within days, if possible.
have advanced toward the Afghani capital, Kabul.
U. N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the ministers stressed the need for speed and aligning political aspects with the military ground development.
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France and Britain are drafting a new Security Council resolution to hasten the process, and it is expected to be adopted later this week.