1.   An alliance fighter named Babakhan radioed opposition headquarters to report where the bomb had landed.

2.   At the checkpoints, alliance fighters said they were checking for possible Taliban infiltrators.

3.   Some were alliance fighters who had just entered the city, but most were former Taliban militia.

4.   Taliban and al-Qaida frontline troops facing the alliance fighters were spared the full brunt of U.S. air power while the administration debated internally over what to do.

5.   The alliance fighters are ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks, as well as Shiites, a religious minority in Afghanistan.

6.   A trickle of surrendering Taliban became a flood Saturday, and those laying down arms were greeted like brothers by northern alliance fighters besieging Kunduz.

7.   Americans there have been helping northern alliance fighters on the front lines with the Taliban, he said.

8.   An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of eight northern alliance soldiers and about six wounded alliance fighters outside the fort Tuesday.

9.   An Australian fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan and captured by northern alliance fighters has been handed over to U.S. military forces, the government said Monday.

10.   An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of at least eight northern alliance soldiers and about six wounded alliance fighters outside the fort Tuesday.