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...turning of the tide raises new political dangers, most evident in the fact that the U.S. is working very hard to restrain the Alliance from actually capturing Kabul. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday the U.S. could not stop the Alliance seizing the capital because it did not have sufficient troops on the ground to do that - but there was no question of the desirability of keeping them out. Foreign observers agree that the one thing Kabul residents fear more than the totalitarian Taliban is the return of the Northern Alliance - tens of thousands of civilians died there...
...President Bush himself has personally pleaded with the Alliance not to advance on Kabul, and Alliance spokesmen insist that they'll stay out of the capital. Some spokesmen, that is. Local commanders have been quoted as saying quite the opposite, and the truth is that the Alliance remains deeply divided within its own ranks. Many of its Tajik elements on the Kabul front support the return to power of President Barnharuddin Rabbani, ousted by the Taliban in 1996 - a scenario repugnant not only to the Pashtuns and their Pakistani backers, but even to other factions of the Northern Alliance...
...Afghan war is a chess game, then even Kabul is not the king - while ceding control of the capital signals the end of Taliban control of the country, the movement is not yet destroyed. For that to happen, anti-Taliban forces would have to capture Kandahar, too. Washington had feared that if Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance before a viable anti-Taliban coalition had support in the south, the retreating Taliban might find considerable support for fighting on. Much now depends on efforts by the U.S. and other international powers to broker an agreement on a post-Taliban regime...
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...Along the way to the house there had been a couple of massive flashes and ground shaking crumps, followed by lazy bursts of anti-aircraft guns. Also a more prosaic sight - the headlights of light trucks heading out of Kabul, on full beam. "Taliban," Khademudin said. "They head for the front whenever there is a bombing raid. They feel safer there. The cars were about a kilometer away...