Taliban prisoners, some of them with injuries from the frontline, file out of jail in opposition-held Khoja Bahawuddin in Northern
Afghanistan on October 31, 2001. Afghanistan’s Opposition is preparing to launch an assault on Taliban front lines north of Kabul in the next few days, a senior Northern Alliance official said. Ahmad Ziah Masood, a member of the movement’s senior council, said he saw no need for
US ground forces in Afghanistan.
— REUTERS