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Russian Team Heads to Kabul
A high-level Russian delegation is being rushed to the Afghan capital
of Kabul to “look into the military requirements of the legitimate
government of Rabbani”.
A special Russian commando team landed in Bagram airbase Saturday
November 17 to secure the high-level Russian team
The delegation, announced over Russian State TV ‘RTR’ Saturday
November 17, means that the Russians will enter Kabul ahead of the
Islamic Peace Force planned by the UN for supervising the formation
of Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban ruling body.
DEBKAfile’s sources in Washington and Moscow report that
this fresh development was revealed hours after Russian President
Vladimir Putin returned home from his ranch summit with US President
George W. Bush, at Crawford, Texas. It may well represent one of the
two presidents’ key areas of agreements
Until the returning former president Burhanuddin Rabbani is installed,
a military council rule Kabul. Rabbani will returne Kabul Saturday.
”The situation on the fronts has radically changed and we need
a team on the spot in Kabul,” said Russian defense minister,
Sergei Ivanov, in the broadcast.
No government, including the United States, has recognized Rabbani
as post-war ruler of Afghanistan. The the futuer of Afganistan is
not yet clear.
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