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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 2001
Page
3
About 5,000 Afghans pushed toward Pakistan at the Cha man border crossing in the day’s largest influx since U S airstrikes began. Women and children led the exodus as fighting and hunger threaten more crossings. Taliban guards and Pakistani authorities supervised amid confusion and separation from families.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UNs top Afghan strategist, said any postTaliban government must be acceptable to most of Afghanistan 25 million people and not just to Taliban representatives or armed factions. He warned the humanitarian crisis is grave but not uniquely worsened by bombing and signaled a peacekeeping force may be needed, suggesting the US and Britain not contribute troops.
U S special operations conducted rapid airfield seizures in Afghanistan and a raid on a Taliban command facility near Kandahar. The missions underscored how future ground operations may unfold, signaling a shift from Gulf War style battles to targeted, high risk raids.
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