"the Northern Alliance has its own grim history of violence and abuse of power" http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/25/united_front/
Analysis: Afghanistan's Northern Alliance http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1552000/1552994.stm
background on the Northern Alliance http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/northern_alliance.htm