[link|http://www.nando.net/special_reports/terrorism/impact/story/127981p-1347682c.html|Way to alienate what few influnetial friends you've got]

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (October 10, 2001 10:48 a.m. EDT) - Taliban loyalists have beaten Afghan employees of the United Nations and confiscated a number of U.N. vehicles, a U.N. spokeswoman said Wednesday.

"Staff have been beaten in Kabul, Kandahar and in Jalalabad," spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker said in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. "A significant number not yet specified of vehicles have been taken by the Taliban in Kandahar," the headquarters of the religious militia...

The United Nations withdrew its international staff from Afghanistan two days after the Sept. 11 attacks because of fears of American military action. Hundreds of Afghan employees remained behind in the country, trying to continue delivering food and other humanitarian aid.

After a 1998 U.S. missile attack on Afghanistan, angry protesters in Kabul killed one U.N. international staffer injured another. The 1998 missile strikes were in response to the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, also blamed on bin Laden.

On Monday, four security guards at a U.N.-affiliated mine-clearing operation were killed during an American air raid on the capital.