Compiled by Selwyn Manning
The Moscow Times is reporting discussions of an Anti-Taliban Meeting that was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan - where
senior diplomats from Russia, India, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan met representatives of Afghanistan's anti-Taliban
alliance in Dushanbe on Thursday.
There they discussed the possibility of rendering military, technical and humanitarian assistance to the anti-Taliban
coalition, Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry official said.
Tajikistan shares a border with Afghanistan and its frontier is still patrolled by Russian troops.
The fate of Afghanistan's anti-Taliban alliance has received new international attention, with talk of possible
retaliation against the Taliban for hosting militant Osama bin Laden, linked by U.S. officials to Tuesday's attacks on
the United States.
Anti-Taliban soldiers fired a missile attack on Taliban strongholds on Tuesday [New Zealand time] in the wake of the
terrorist attacks on the USA. It was thought at first the explosions in Kabul were a retaliatory response by the USA in
the hours after the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.