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Alliance closing in on Kandahar airport
CHAMAN (Pakistan), DEC. 2. Heavy fighting raged today between Opposition Northern Alliance forces and the Taliban some 3 km. from the airport outside the militia's southern stronghold of Kandahar, sources said.
The city came under heavy daytime aerial bombardment as the Pashtun tribal forces loyal to the former Kandahar Governor, Mr. Gul Agha, closed in on the key provincial airport, witnesses and Opposition supporters said.
Prisoners surrender
In the north, 82 remaining Taliban prisoners, who had been holed up in a section of the prison fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, surrendered days after a failed uprising against their Alliance captors in which hundreds were killed. Alliance soldiers forced them out by pumping water into their basement hiding place, said Dr. Arif Salimi, head of the local health office.
Scribe handed over
The Taliban handed over a Canadian freelance reporter, Mr. Ken Hechtman, who went missing earlier this week, at the Pakistani border today. A Taliban security chief in Spinboldak said the reporter had been rescued by the militia from unidentified kidnappers.
- AFP, PTI, AP
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