Northern Alliance gives Taliban three-day deadline

The Northern Alliance has given the Taliban three days to surrender the city of Kunduz or face an all-out assault.

Alliance spokesman Attiq Ullah, speaking from the northern city of Mazar-e-sharif, said fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden - mainly Arabs, Chechens and Pakistanis - had been preventing the Taliban from giving up the besieged Northern stronghold.