Taliban Captures Mazar-e-Sharif, Massoud's Forces Repel Attack

(9 Jun 1997) 53998
Afghanistan - Taliban Captures Mazar-e-Sharif
APTV
Mazar-e-Sharif - 24 May 1997
(Toko material)
Forces allied to the Taliban religious army have captured the stronghold of the northern warlord, Rashid Dostum, in Afghanistan. The capture of Mazar-e-Sharif leaves only a few pockets of resistance by the former government that was ousted from Kabul in September. It unites nearly all of Afghanistan under one authority for the first time since the Soviet army withdrew in 1989. Tanks flying the white flag of the Taliban religious army rolled into Mazar-e-Sharif on Saturday -- stronghold of the northern warlord, Rashid Dostum. They met virtually no resistance. On the lead tank was General Malik Pahlawan, who until the past few days was General Dostum's second-in-command. His defection to the Taliban on Monday marked the beginning of the northern warlord's downfall.
Tank rolling into town with General Malik's forces
Various vehicles rolling into town
Troops cheering
Troops waving
Commander Gargari jumping out of jeep
Troops wave weapons in the air
Group shot with Commander and soldiers
UPSOUND: Afghan soldiers (Dari)
Journalist asks question: '' Where is General Dostum?''; soldiers Answer: ''Where is General Dostum.. He has run away.''.
Malik's men disarm a soldier they think is from General Dostum's forces
Fight
Malik's men fire at General Dostum's largest picture near the mosque
Soldiers rip down poster
Soldiers stamp on poster and rip it up.
Soldiers put up new poster
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Afghanistan - Taliban Captures Mazar-e-Sharif
APTV
Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan - 26 May 1997
(video as incoming)
Pakistan has sent its ambassador to the Taliban's newly captured northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif for talks with the new Taliban administrator - Abdul Razzaq.
Taliban truck loaded up with missiles driving down street
Taliban soldiers and Razzaq's troops outside General Malik Pahlawan's headquarters
Taliban soldiers patrolling street outside
Rocket launcher in street
Abdul Razzaq coming out
Back shot of Abdul Razzaq going to mosque
Front shot of Abdul Razzaq (white turban walking on the right of screen)
People outside mosque
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Afghanistan - Massoud's Forces Repel Attack
WTN
Afghanistan - 8-9 June 1997
audio as incoming)
There's been heavy fighting in northern Afghanistan, where the Taliban militia have again clashed with forces resisting its campaign to unite the country under Islamic fundamentalist rule. The Taliban offensive is bogged down in the north against troops loyal to former government military commander Ahmed Shah Massood, his ally Sayyad Jaffar Naderi, and Uzbek fighters led by General Abdul Malik. Masood's forces again appear to have repelled a Taliban attack near near the city of Jebul Siraj. A strategic outpost on the Salang Highway, on the only road linking northern and southern Afghanistan, Jebul Siraj was seized two weeks ago by Masood's forces.
Several Taliban attempts to retake the city have been repelled by Massood's troops, who have taken dozens of prisoners now kept at a POW camp at the village of Bazarak in the Pyandzh Gorge.
9 JUNE, OUTSKIRTS OF JUBAL SIRAJ (defence line of the second division of Masood's troops), AFGHANISTAN:
CU soldier carrying round on shoulder;
CA gunmen by gun;
MS launch of rocket from truck;
MS soldiers installing mortar;
MS officer with walkie-talkie PAN to soldier firing mortar;
CU Masood's soldiers on tank;
MS more mortar firing;
WS explosion on city outskirt;
CU more rockets launched;
8 JUNE, BAZARAK, PYANDZH GORGE, AFGHANISTAN:
MS Taliban POWs on march;

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