Mazar-e-Sharif uprising quelled

MAZAR-E-SHARIF (AFGHANISTAN), NOV. 27. Northern Alliance fighters helped by U.S. special forces claimed on Tuesday to have quelled an uprising by captured Taliban soldiers after a third day of fierce fighting around a fortress prison.

Trucks carrying 200 Alliance fighters and an anti- aircraft gun arrived at the fortress in the morning. Desert camouflage-clad U.S. special forces and soldiers who appeared to be British moved in and out of the fort By the evening, the Northern Alliance said it had wiped out the Taliban resistance inside the fortress.

Five U.S. soldiers were seriously wounded on Monday when a U.S. JDAM smart bomb called in by special forces went astray, exploding near the Americans.

- AP

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