31.   Pakistan is supporting the United States in the confrontation over bin Laden, but has a hostile relationship with the northern alliance.

32.   Pakistan supported the Taliban until recently, and men like Gul have few words of praise for any northern alliance leader.

33.   Previous fighting in northern Afghanistan was carried out by the northern alliance, a coalition mostly of minority Tajiks, Uzbeks and Shiite Muslims.

34.   Previously, peacekeepers had said they believed disgruntled and unpaid northern alliance soldiers or common criminals were behind some of the attacks.

35.   Pashtuns in Jalalabad rejected Burhanuddin Rabbani, a Tajik who heads the northern alliance, even though he is recognized as Afghan president by the United Nations.

36.   Pashtuns say they support Karzai but question his effectiveness in a regime dominated by the northern alliance.

37.   Peacekeepers have said they believed disgruntled and unpaid northern alliance soldiers or common criminals were behind some of the attacks.

38.   Rabbani also said the northern alliance would not seek retribution against the Taliban or their foreign allies as long as they surrendered and handed over their weapons.

39.   Raised in Kabul, he was the leading spokesman for Massood until the northern alliance military chief was assassinated.

40.   Policemen, like northern alliance soldiers, complain that they have not been paid in months and that making ends meet is tough.