American bombardment kills 94 villagers, facilitates the advance of Afghani opposition towards Kabul

The Taliban movement has launched a counter attack against the northern opposition forces- the northern alliance- to the north of Kabul where the alliance forces are preparing to start advancing towards the capital at the direct support from the American forces.

Meantime, the Afghani capital Kabul was exposed to more American raids and to intensive bombardment that targeted Taliban positions in the confrontation front with the opposition forces.

A spokesman for the Afghani opposition forces said that the American jets on Tuesday intensively bombarded the front lines with Taliban to the north of Afghanistan in the framework of co-ordination with the opposition forces.

One of the main military leaders in the opposition forces Muhammad Atta said that the bombardment was intensive and came following a land and an air attack at Mitshanda village, 70 Km to the south of Mazar Sharif. He stressed that more than 20 fighters from Taliban were killed in the battles and that the Northern Alliance forces are ready to move towards the capital Kabul to besiege it in order to increase pressure on Taliban. Later news reports said that the American bombardment resulted in killing 94 citizens from the said village.

The US jets also on Tuesday bombarded Kabul for three times and the bombardment was intercepted by the Taliban's anti air craft means for the first time since the Movement announced the deployment of more weapons. Qandahar was also violently bombarded on Tuesday.

The spokesman for the ministry of information in Taliban stressed that American bombardment at Harrat hit a mosque and this result in killing 15 civilians and wounding other 25 who were performing their prayers at the mosque. The Afghani news agency said that 5 civilians were killed in Harrat during an American bombardment which hit one of the oil transporting trucks.

Meantime, British military sources were quoting as expecting the deployment of some 1000 soldiers to take part in military operations in response to an American request. The British forces will include parachutists, royal naval trooper's commandos and members from Jorkas unit, who are fighters, specialized in mountainous military operations. However, the British defense minister has stressed that the final form of the British forces participation has not been decided yet and all possibilities are being discussed.