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A Pashtun Leader Turns Against Taliban: Report of Attack at Meeting of Tribal Elders
Friday, November 2, 2001
Washington Post

Until now, there had been no reports of fighting against the Taliban in the south, and few confirmed defections of local commanders.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
A prominent tribal leader is believed to have begun the first armed uprising against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan since the U.S.-led air strike campaign began.

According to his family and media reports, Hamid Karzai, an influential figure from the leading ethnic Pashtun tribe, said he fought off a Taliban attack on a meeting of tribal elders he convened in Uruzgan province, and that his forces captured 12 Taliban soldiers in the skirmish.

Karzai, who is close to Afghanistan's exiled former king Mohammed Zahir Shah, returned to Afghanistan last month to promote a national gathering aimed at forming a broad coalition government to replace the ruling Taliban, according to his brother, Qayum Karzai.
(More: San Francisco Chronicle News Source)
2001 © Washington Post.

Absolutely brainless.

We finally get rebellion in-country against the Taliban and the al Quaida, and the media goes out and spreads the comments and names of the leader’s family all over the bloody globe.

Dan (still hating reporters)