Islamabad - The anti-Taliban Northern Alliance said yesterday it was preparing its long-awaited assault on the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif as US aircraft continued to bomb targets across Afghanistan.
The US is deploying the full range of weapons, from the 15,000-pound "daisy cutter" - the world's biggest conventional bomb, with a blast close to that of a tactical nuclear weapon - to small laser-guided bombs, as it steps up strikes before winter and the start of Ramadan on November 17th.
Alliance forces, who were reported to be closing on Mazar, would attack the city from the south-east and south-west, a spokesman, Mr Ashraf Nadeem, said.
