21.   In the two days of fighting, Afghan forces are carrying out most of the fighting on the ground.

22.   Instead, they said he attended Taliban-run camps at which he got standard military training to prepare him to fight anti-Taliban Afghan forces.

23.   None of the soldiers interviewed Sunday had worked with or seen the US-allied Afghan forces in Shah-e-Kot.

24.   On Sunday, the Afghan forces loyal to Khan and the American Special Forces returned to examine the site.

25.   One U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed when the Afghan force he was leading was ambushed in a mortar attack late Friday night.

26.   Peacekeepers and Afghan forces saw three men running away, he said.

27.   Rumsfeld indicated that the United States was willing to pay some costs of raising an Afghan force.

28.   Rumsfeld said the French are offering to help the Americans train an Afghan force and the Bush administration is seeking money from Congress for that.

29.   Security responsibilities should be taken over by these new Afghan forces as quickly as possible, but they will not be fully ready before late next year.