Ramai merasa hairan kenapa Taleban berundur secara tiba-tiba dari bandar Kabul yang sudah dijahanamkan oleh bom Amerika. Pihak Pakatan Utara dinasihatkan oleh Amerika dan Pakistan agar tidak menyentuh bandar itu tetapi mereka sudah tidak sabar dan merempuhnya juga. Ini menyebabkan Pakistan menjadi resah tidak terhingga kerana itu bukan formula yang diingininya. Pakatan Utara kini sudahpun menakluk Kabul tetapi ia tidak menggembirakan sesiapa yang tahu perangainya sejak dulu. Hidup rakyat Afghanistan akan ditawan oleh syaitan yang bertopengkan manusia yang tentunya akan membawa lebih celaka kerana Islam tidak akan terpelihara dan Amerika akan menjadi raja. Undang-undang dan cara hidup Islam sudah pasti akan dihumban serta dikoyak-koyakkan. Yang terbunuh di Afghanistan ialah Islam.

Kita mungkin tidak menyukai sesuatu sedangkan ia baik untuk kita. Dan kita mungkin menyukai sesuatu sedangkan ia buruk buat kita. Tidak ada ubat yang lebih baik selain Islam. Ia mungkin pahit untuk ditelan tetapi ia akan menyembuh segala penyakit yang berselirat dalam masyarakat sehingga musuh Islam sendiri pun tergamam.

Taliban mungkin tidak berapa betul mengikut pendapat sesetengah orang tetapi kita perlu memilih yang terbetul (hampir betul) jika kita betul-betul seorang yang berugama Islam. Dan kita tidak sepatutnya cuba membetulkan sedikit yang tidak betul itu dengan membenci terus dan berperang.

Saya fikir cukuplah itu dulu untuk membuka tirai. Kempen membenci sudah lama dilakukan terhadap Taliban dan ia sengaja dibesar-besarkan oleh pihak tertentu yang geram. Saya ingin memetik beberapa tajuk berita dan fakta penting dari beberapa agensi berita seluruh dunia mengenai kejatuhan Kabul.

Kabul Fall: AP, Reuters, BBC

AFP reports that a U.S. warplane bombed the Kabul office of Al-Jazeera. More from the AP and TimesUK.

The Northern Alliance celebrates its victories by executing P.O.W.s, seizing aid trucks and massacring students. Brutal killings everywhere.

The killings here suggested that alliance soldiers might prove difficult to control as their victories build. - NYT

Robert Fisk writes that the West should not be surprised by the atrocity reports.

AP reports Kabul Residents Fear North Alliance

An Afghan woman remembers their entry into Kabul in 1992: "Are these rapists any better than the hard-liners they replace?"

Why the Taleban retreat? A Fallback Strategy - where the same tactics helped the Afghan mujahideen end 10 years of Soviet occupation in 1989.

'War in Afghanistan is not fought in cities and towns. The decisive war is fought in the mountains and caves and they are under our control. Infact, it might be tougher to root out the Taliban as a guerilla force than as a government,' - analyst

Mullah Omar flees to Pakistan? No according to BBC and AIP.

Mirror reports Pakistan anger at City Fall

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/ newsid_1653000/1653137.stm

Kabul falls to Northern Alliance:

The BBC's Rageh Omaar in Kabul:

"Kabul has fallen: but difficult questions remain"

As looting broke out in the city some Arab volunteers serving with the Taleban were summarily shot and a BBC camera crew was attacked.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/ newsid_1654000/1654256.stm

'No more retreat' Taleban troops told

The leader of the Taleban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has ordered his troops to stand and fight following the fall of the Afghan capital Kabul, it is reported.

According to the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency, Mullah Omar told his troops: "I order you to obey your commanders completely. Do not move here and there ... regroup yourselves.

"Put up resistance and fight," he said.

The Taleban leader dismissed reports that he had fled to Pakistan as untrue.

The BBC defence correspondent, Jonathan Marcus, says it is not clear if the Taleban have actually collapsed as a fighting force or whether they are still capable of mounting a determined defence of Kandahar and the south.

The United States has no obvious allies in southern Afghanistan equivalent to the Northern Alliance.

Moreover, our correspondent says the Northern Alliance may be unwilling to press on into largely Pashtun territory.

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Mullah Omar flees to Pakistan: Afghan Opp

Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has fled Afghanistan for Pakistan, RIA Novosti quoted a senior Northern Alliance official as saying Tuesday in neighbouring Tajikistan.

However, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported from Islamabad that Mullah Mohammad Omar on Tuesday ordered his troops to stand and fight after opposition forces marched into Kabul,

"I order you to obey your commanders completely. Do not move here and there ... Regroup yourselves. Put up resistance and fight," the Taliban's spiritual leader said in a radio address from his base in Kandahar about 4:30pm (1200 GMT).

AIP said Omar assured his followers in the address on Taliban wireless frequencies that he was still in his southern stronghold despite reports he had fled.

"Do not listen to the propaganda by opposition media. I am in Kandahar and have not gone anywhere. This is a fight for Islam," he said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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US plane bombs Kabul, al-Jazeera offfice targeted

KABUL: A US warplane dropped at least two bombs on the Afghan capital Kabul in the early hours of Tuesday morning, sparking a large fire in the southeast of the city, residents said.

One of the buildings targeted was the office of the Qatari-based satellite television channel, Al-Jazeera, which has broadcast video-taped messages from alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden and his deputies since the September 11 atrocities in New York and Washington.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/ story/0,1280,-1312575,00.html

Missile Destroys Al-jazeera Office

Wednesday November 14, 2001 2:30 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An office of the Arab channel Al-Jazeera, which has been criticized by the United States for its coverage of the Afghan conflict, was hit early Tuesday during an air raid. The United States said it targeted the al-Qaida network and didn't know the television channel was located there.

No one was in the two-story building housing the office when it was hit before dawn, as columns of Taliban soldiers poured south out of the capital, said Ghulal Mohammed, a guard at the office in Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood.

``It was a rocket, but everyone is OK,'' he said. He said the missile did not explode.

But an American official said two 500-pound bombs were dropped on the site, which the U.S. military believed was an office of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

The building was ``a known al-Qaida facility in central Kabul,'' said Col. Rick Thomas, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command.

``We had no indications this or any nearby facility was used by al-Jazeera,'' Thomas said. ``We had identified two locations in Kabul where al-Jazeera people worked, and this location wasn't among them.''

Al-Jazeera's managing director, Mohammed Jassim al-Ali, said the office was hit before dawn and that nobody was there at the time. He said its 10 staffers were believed to be safe but their whereabouts were unknown.

Asked if he thought Al-Jazeera's office was deliberately targeted, al-Ali said: ``They know where we are located and they know what we have in our office and we also did not get any warning.''

American officials have criticized Al-Jazeera's coverage of the bombing campaign as inflammatory propaganda.