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A secret embassy cable has reportedly revealed that the US Government is planning to overthrow the Taliban regime.
According to The Guardian, the Americans will replace it with a United Nations-backed administration.
It is claimed the US is organising for the 86-year-old exiled Afghanistan monarch to return to power and it is pressing its European allies to agree to a military campaign to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Diplomatic cables from the Washington embassy of a key Nato ally report that the US is keen to hear allied views on "post-Taliban Afghanistan after the liberation of the country", the paper said.
The embassy cable reveals that the US administration is bent on force to overthrow the Taliban because of the support it has given terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden.
The Guardian reported that two US Hercules transport aircraft landed in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, on Tuesday loaded with surveillance equipment to be installed along the Afghan border.
It also said that Washington is funding and organising for the exiled monarch of Afghanistan, King Zahir Shah, to return to power and call for a revolution.
He is expected to encourage the guerilla army of the Northern Alliance opposition to fall in behind him.
"The King plans to call on all the Afghan tribes to rise up against the Taliban," the diplomatic cable reported.
The Guardian said the US plans to overthrow the Taliban were revealed when a senior European politician in Washington was told by the US administration that it wanted to hear his views on how Afghanistan should be run after the Taliban was defeated.
Story filed: 05:10 Friday 21st September 2001 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_404080.html
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