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Taliban Hopes Northern Alliance Infighting will Plunge Kabul into Anarchy

Aired November 13, 2001 - 06:29   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Despite the Taliban forces withdrawal from Kabul, the fighting is far from over.

CNN's Kamal Hyder reports from Kandahar and tells us how the Taliban are committed to a guerrilla war.

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KAMAL HYDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The people in Kandahar woke up to the news that Kabul had fallen. There was a feeling here that the Taliban would put up a fight for Kabul, but the withdrawal from Kabul indicating a deliberate Taliban strategy to withdrawal from the city and to leave the city to the Northern Alliance, which is bitterly divided. And of course, an apprehension here that with the Taliban leaving there would be infighting amongst the Northern Alliance vying for power.

At the same time, after the fall of Herat, yesterday, to the west, we had news this morning in Kandahar that the province of Neemroze has also fallen and that Farah may follow. However, the Taliban forces are dedicated to going into a guerrilla campaign, as mentioned by their Supreme Leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, that they will not fight a conventional war. And a bit of apprehension developing here amid state security in Kandahar for infiltrators, checking for infiltrators, that the city might plunge into anarchy as Taliban forces withdrawal from the city.

Kamal Hyder, CNN, Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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