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One
of the former ministers of Islamic government of Afghanistan, which now heads
the large subdivision of Taliban in the north of the country, spoke on the Arab
television channel Al-Jazeera and in the categorical form, he refuted all
reports about the new approach of the armed formations of Northern alliance on
the positions of Afghan mujahideen. He stated that all offensive operations of
enemy, which were realized earlier, were repelled. Moreover, the subdivisions of
Afghan troops counterattacked Northern alliance and inflicted serious damage on
it. The representative of Afghan command reported that the detachments Of
Dostum, Fahim Khan, etc sustained the heaviest losses in manpower and material.
Afghan
commander stated that after defeat near Kandahar, when were destroyed 2 combat
helicopters of Americans and 25 commandoes, the military command of USA searches
for soldiers in the entire world for the fight against us. Americans are not
soldiers. They are suffering from AID and addicted to narcotics and they can do
nothing, stated Afghan commander in the interview for Al-Jazeera TV broadcasting.
Earlier,
American Mass-Media with reference to the Pentagon reported that soldiers of the
elite detachment of Alpha and Rangers were simply stupefied by the resistance of
Taliban, and were forced to roll up the first part of ground operation earlier
than the fixed period.
The
ground operation of USA in Afghanistan «proved to be successful from the point
of view of reconnaissance, since we acquired much valuable information, stated
source in the Pentagon - but our soldiers were unpleasantly astonished by that
resistance, which they encountered». «The speed, with which Taliban unrolled
counterattack, was truly shocking. They battled as mad, but we did not expect
this. Our reconnaissance brought us here», he said. In turn, the head of the US
Defence Secretary,
Donald Rumsfeld was forced to recognize that Taliban in reality are more
powerful and more terrible enemy than they expected first. In the interview to
the periodical of USA «News and World Report, he stated: «these are very rigid
people, who made war their profession, and they are not going anything to change».
Meanwhile,
the bombardments of Afghanistan continue. As a result of the sequential missile
and bomb attack by Air force of USA on the Afghan capital were killed 20 people.
Reporter of was able to photograph the consequences of attack. In the house,
where fell one of the bombs were killed 7 children and their fathers. Mother
miraculously remained alive. One additional bomb hit the bus moving from Kabul,
whose passengers were also killed, reports Reuters.
Attacks
on the peaceful blocks of Kabul continued on entire Sunday. Not less than 16
peaceful inhabitants perished as a result of actions of American military pilots,
who dropped bomb on the Afghan village, but not on the position of Taliban. This
was reported by Al-Jazeera. The aircraft of the Navy of USA F-18 Hornet, which
participated in the operation, it fired out rocket on the village Of Ghanikhil,
which is under the control of Northern alliance.
War
in central Asia causes ever-larger protests in the entire world, including in
USA itself, where more than thousand people passed in a march in New York with
the call to end the American bombardments of Afghanistan. According to
participants in the procession, American actions rather will lead to increase in
the terrorism of the world, but will not eradicate it. One of the demonstrators,
whose girl was killed in the building of World Trade Center, stated that he
actually desires vengeance - but vengeance for the policy, conducted by USA,
according to another, stewardess by profession, no intensive measures will
ensure safety to people, until the U.S. Government uses terror and military
actions with respect to other peoples in the world.
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