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Northern Alliance
Takes Kabul

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Washington Post

November 13, 2001: "Mohammed Gul, a Kabul resident, said by telephone that the Taliban had evacuated the streets of the city by 5:30 a.m.

The radical Islamic militia, which captured Kabul five years ago after a bitter civil war among rival warlords, appeared to have abruptly abandoned the capital rather than wage a battle to defend it.

"Everywhere in the city, there was nobody," Gul said. "The Taliban have all left."




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