15 killed in gunfight at Kabul army base
Rory McCarthy in Islamabad
Thursday August 8, 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,770851,00.html
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"They were Arabs and Pakistanis," said Bismillah Khan, the garrison commander and a senior military figure in the Northern Alliance. He said the gunmen "came from the south of Kabul, from the direction of the mountains and villages".
Although international security assistance force troops patrol Kabul, their remit stops at the city's border. Further south, the Northern Alliance, which now dominates the Kabul government, has little influence.
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