A Cockburn Classic

RE earnest at tallynet.com
Sat Sep 15 12:33:40 PDT 2001


I haven't been able to find out much about social policies of the Northern Alliance, but it does appear that they at least allow women to work. Here's a link to an article on Masood, the NA leader who just died. http://www.afgha.com/article.php?sid=7849&mode=thread&order=0 Randy Earnest

Ken Hanly wrote:
>You can be sure that now the US will be
> happy to finance the factions in the Northern Alliance and use them as
> proxies or even install them as puppets. I am not sure that all these
> factional groups were Islamic fundamentalist engaged in Jihad. Some were
> probably just local strong men.
>



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