AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 26 - Kunduz Captured.The FT says Northern Alliance foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has said Kunduz has fallen, with the exception of small pockets of resistance. Gen. Daoud Khan khan Historically, the ruler or monarch of a Mongol tribe. Early on a distinction was made between the title of khan and that of khakan, or “great khan.” Later the term khan was adopted by the Seljuq and Khwarezm-Shah dynasties as a title for the highest , a Northern Alliance commander attacking from the east of Kunduz, says Taliban fighters are fleeing to the west. Khan's forces took full control of the city on Nov. 27, following a reported agreement with Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum Abdul Rashid Dostum (born 1954) is a general and Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Afghan National Army. His role as the Chief of Staff, however, is often viewed as ceremonial. [1] He is the principal leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community. , his rival Northern Alliance commander, to the west of Kunduz. US officials denied widespread reports that many non-Afghan Taliban were airlifted out of Kunduz over the weekend by Pakistani aircraft. Kenton Keith Kenton Jermaine Keith (born July 14, 1980 in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.) is a running back for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2001. , the US ambassador acting as a spokesman for the international coalition against terrorism, told NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. : "I think it is very unlikely that that story is true. I can say categorically that we have no information on such a move at all". US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly insisted that any non-Afghan Taliban would be forced to surrender or be killed in Kunduz, saying they would not be allowed to escape to continue terrorist activities elsewhere. (However senior members of Congress expressed doubts over the denials, with Richard Shelby Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6 1934), sometimes known as Dick Shelby, is an American politician. He currently is the senior U.S. Senator from Alabama. Originally elected to the Senate as a Democrat, Shelby switched to the Republican Party in 1994 when it gained the , the most senior Republican on the Senate intelligence select committee, telling NBC that the reports of a Pakistani airlift were "a logical thing to believe"). |
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