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Afghan Opposition said to attack Mazar-i-Sharif
The Afghan opposition bombed Taliban positions in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif overnight, a diplomat for the government-in-exile told a news agency in the Tajik capital on Thursday.
The Afghan opposition bombed
Taliban positions in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif
overnight, a diplomat for the government-in-exile told a news agency in
the Tajik capital on Thursday.
Two helicopter gunships blasted targets including the
airport and other military installations in Mazar-i-Sharif, 60
kms from the Uzbek border, Mohammad Saleh Registani said.
The armed Opposition to the Taliban regime in Kabul no longer controls any airports where planes can land.
It was the second aerial attack since Opposition helicopters bombed kabul airport early Wednesday in retaliation for an assassination bid on Sunday against their commander Ahmad Shah Masood, whose fate remains unknown. Registani, military attache for the Afghan Opposition in Moscow, said that the situation on the front line remains tense, with both sides pursuing preparations for new military operations.
Fighting broke out Tuesday morning some 25 km north of Kabul as the Taliban tried to take advantage of the absence of Masood.
Opposition sources say Masood was badly wounded when two Arab men posing as journalists but linked to Saudi-born extremist Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban detonated a concealed bomb during a meeting in Opposition-controlled territory on Sunday. The veteran commander died from his injuries according to US and Russian sources, but the opposition is adamant that he is alive and recovering.
Bureau Report
The armed Opposition to the Taliban regime in Kabul no longer controls any airports where planes can land.
It was the second aerial attack since Opposition helicopters bombed kabul airport early Wednesday in retaliation for an assassination bid on Sunday against their commander Ahmad Shah Masood, whose fate remains unknown. Registani, military attache for the Afghan Opposition in Moscow, said that the situation on the front line remains tense, with both sides pursuing preparations for new military operations.
Fighting broke out Tuesday morning some 25 km north of Kabul as the Taliban tried to take advantage of the absence of Masood.
Opposition sources say Masood was badly wounded when two Arab men posing as journalists but linked to Saudi-born extremist Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban detonated a concealed bomb during a meeting in Opposition-controlled territory on Sunday. The veteran commander died from his injuries according to US and Russian sources, but the opposition is adamant that he is alive and recovering.
Bureau Report