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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
At Kandahar, tribal leaders opposed to the regime agreed to allow Taliban forces to leave the city but said thousands of Arabs, Chechens and Pakistani supporters of Bin Laden were staying to fight.
Thousands more were standing their ground in Konduz in the face of a Northern Alliance offensive expected today. They threatened to massacre civilians if the Alliance attacked.
This is especially chilling and denotes the difference between the Taliban's ideas about caring for the civilian population and the coalition's.
Trying to minimize civilian casualties in a war against people who use them as shield's is incredibly hard. How do you negotiate with people who would murder their own countrymen to protect themselves?
[ 11-18-2001: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]