This was on the NYT website so I will paste it for those that have not registered there

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of foreign prisoners seized guns from their anti-Taliban captors on Sunday and staged a bloody revolt in a mud-walled 19th century fort near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif.



Some 500 prisoners linked to the al Qaeda network of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden grabbed Kalashnikov rifles, machineguns and grenades from their Northern Alliance guards and battled them in the huge Qala-i-Jhangi fort of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a Reuters witness said.

Other reports said some prisoners blew themselves up with their guards, enabling other captives to seize weapons.

A Reuters correspondent saw U.S. fighter jets sweep overhead and drop at least four bombs on the southern part of the fort where the insurgent foreign prisoners were concentrated.

The firefight raged for at least four hours, when a Reuters television crew and a flak-jacketed U.S. observer inside the fort leapt over a high wall and escaped in a hail of bullets.

``There was really heavy firing all around,'' said one witness. ``The Taliban were firing into the northern side of the fortress. The Northern Alliance soldiers were quite frightened but they were firing back.''

Many were killed and wounded on both sides, witnesses said.



TV news is reporting that all the resisters have been killed and we may have taken our first casualty in the fire fight