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Four journalists killed in Afghanistan as bombing enters seventh week
US special forces are intensifying their search for the alleged planner of the terror attacks on America, Osama bin Laden, but four journalists have been killed on the road from the eastern town of Jalalabad to Kabul.
Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero told a European Union foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels that the deaths are confirmed.
They were Julio Fuentes of Spain's El Mundo, Maria Grazia Cutuli of Italy, and members of Reuters newsagency, Australian television cameraman, Harry Burton and Afghan-born Azizullah Haidari .
More from Jonathan Harley.
ANCRThe deaths came as the air strikes, entered their seventh week and US warplanes continue to pound Taliban positions around the besieged city of Kunduz, the Islamic militia's last holdout in northern Afghanistan.
As many as 30,000 fighters, are defending the city, including Arab, Chechen and Pakistani forces from bin Laden's al-Qaeda network of Islamic militants.
Alliance commanders have told the Taliban to surrender or die, but the militia are refusing to give up.
US officials say special forces troops are closing in bin Laden and the leaders of his al-Qaeda terror network as their Taliban protectors are either killed or surrender.
There are still conflicting reports about what happened, but it appears that one car in a spread out convoy of about half a dozen vehicles was stopped.The journalists inside were dragged out by armed men, shots were heard, and the other cars retreated to Jalalabad.Witnesses report seeing the bodies of three foreigners and one Afghan beside the road. It's not clear who made the ambush, but reports suggest they were not Taliban. Jonathan Harley, Kabul.
20/11/01 11:26:34 | ABC Radio Australia News
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