News Northern Alliance occupies Kabul; Pashtun tribes revolt against Taliban

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The anti-Taliban Northern Alliance took over the military and police headquarters in the Afghan capital of Kabul Nov. 14, a day after the Taliban fled the city

The Nov. 13 capture of Kabul by the Northern Alliance was the most important moment so far in the U.S.-led war against the Taliban and their "guest," Osama bin Laden.

Anti-Taliban forces also took control of the eastern city of Jalalabad Nov. 14

Members of the Northern Alliance took over the Taliban Defense and Interior Ministries in Kabul Nov. 14. The measures were temporary, the alliance said, and would last until a U.N.-supervised political settlement representing all Afghan ethnic groups occurred.

In southern Afghanistan, many of the country's 23 or more Pashtun groups appeared to have also risen up against the Taliban.

The Pashtuns — members of Afghanistan's largest ethnic group — served as the backbone of the Taliban's five-year rule.

A U.S. official in Washington said there was fighting in the streets of Kandahar between Pashtun tribesmen and the Taliban. The official asserted that Kandahar, the city that gave birth to the Taliban, would fall within days, if not hours. Many Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan were fleeing into the mountains southwest of Kandahar.

In the U.S., at the Pentagon, officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that they would now begin to hunt down bin Laden and the leaders of al-Qaeda.

北部同盟がカブールを制圧

アフガニスタン情勢は急展開し、14日には反タリバン勢力・北部同盟が首都カブールに進攻し、制圧した。タリバンの本拠地カンダハルでもパシュトゥン人グループが蜂起したとも伝えられ、同国のタリバン支配は実質的に崩壊した。

Shukan ST: Nov. 23, 2001

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