Olga Petrova and Duncan Pitcairn
At least half Kunduz, the Taliban's last major city in northern Afghanistan, is now under control of the Northern Alliance. Taliban prisoners who had surrendered Saturday in Mazar-e-Sharif rioted, and Alliance troops and U.S. airstrikes quelled the rebellion by killing at least 300 soldiers. [more]
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(Reuters, Dec 18)
"Federal prison officers in Brooklyn physically and verbally abused immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, slamming them against the wall and painfully twisting their arms and hands, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday." [more]
(STAFF, DEBKAfile, Dec 14)
"Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead." [more]
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