'Taliban Expands Control of Nuristan', Al Jazeera, 11 November 2009
EXCERPT: "Taliban fighters are expanding their control of Afghanistan's Nuristan province, an area they claim to have recaptured from US troops. A video obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera purports to show Taliban fighters in the Kamdesh district. Their leaders say they have appointed some local officials and reopened schools. Sections of the footage also show Taliban fighters brandishing what appeared to be US weapons. The fighters said they had seized the arms cache from two military outposts in eastern Nuristan, abandoned by US forces last month. Angela Eggman, a Nato spokeswoman, said it was not clear from the video where or when the weapons were obtained. 'Before departing the base, the units removed all sensitive items and accounted for them,' she said. But General Mohammad Qassim Jangulbagh, Nuristan's provincial police chief, disagreed, saying: 'The Americans left ammunition at the base.'"
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