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  • The fort of hell

    12/01/2001 3:32:45 PM PST · by Pokey78 · 33 replies · 442+ views
    The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 12/02/2001 | Matthew Campbell
    It had been called a massacre in which none survived. But yesterday 84 Taliban fighters emerged alive from the bloodiest battle of the war. Matthew Campbell, in Qala-i-Janghi fort, reports how captivity turned to carnage Dazed and exhausted, they emerged from the bunker in which nobody was meant to have survived. Yesterday, inside the fort where the most savage battle of the war had taken place, more than 80 Taliban fighters straggled out into the daylight, hands in the air, some walking, some half-dead.It seemed inconceivable that anybody could have lived through the carnage that had erupted a week ago ...