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Reserve fighters under northern warlord Gen. Rashid Dostum form ranks as they get ready to move out from the northern Afghan town Mazar-i-Sharif to the front lines near Kabul Wednesday October 23, 1996. Taliban forces in tanks and on foot dug in north of Kabul on Friday, while a new fighting front appeared to be opening up southwest of the capital. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Oleg Nikishin)