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Afghanistan: Taliban Troops Surrendering Outside Kondoz
Saturday, November 24, 2001
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Kondoz, Afghanistan -- RFE/RL
Hundreds of Taliban fighters are evacuating the militia's northern Afghan stronghold of Kondoz.

Footage on CNN shows Afghan Taliban soldiers in a convoy of vehicles, including a tank, streaming out of Kondoz today and surrendering to Northern Alliance forces. The Taliban soldiers were seen shaking hands with Alliance troops.

The French news agency AFP quotes a Northern Alliance spokesman as saying some 1,000 Taliban soldiers in Kondoz have so far surrendered. Another 600 foreign fighters from Kondoz reportedly surrendered overnight. Interfax also reports mass surrenders by hundreds of Taliban fighters on the outskirts of Kondoz. The figures cannot be confirmed.

The Northern Alliance had earlier suspended an assault on Kondoz to give the trapped Taliban more time to give themselves up. But the Alliance had vowed to resume an all-out assault if no deal was struck by later today.
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