Northern alliance claims prisoner uprising halted

Wednesday, November 28, 2001

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- Dozens of shattered bodies lay in the dusty courtyard of a mud-walled Afghan fortress prison Tuesday as the northern alliance claimed to have ended a three-day uprising by Taliban prisoners with the help of American airstrikes and U.S. special forces.

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