"Several hundred Pakistani fighters are also believed to have sought
refuge in Kunduz, including relatives of some powerful clerics, this
intelligence official said. Saving them could improve President
Musharraf'S strained relations with his country's hard-line religious
parties, which have opposed his assistance to the United States.
Northern Alliance commanders and numerous refugees from Kunduz said
in recent days that at least two airplanes landed at Kunduz airport,
presumably to take away some of those who had retreated to the city. The
commanders speculated that the planes were from Pakistani intelligence,
but officials in Islamabad emphatically denied knowledge of the flights."
Is there anyone in the world who imagines that airplanes could fly into and out of this besieged "terrorist" stronghold without the explicit and deliberate approval of the highest US command authorities?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64