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Error in Map[edit]
This map shows the Panjshir valley entirely controlled by the Taliban. Even though front lines were constantly shifting, Panjshir has always been Massouds core territory, which he held firmly from 1996–2001. I suggest not to use the map in articles until the marked areas are corrected. --Sommerkom (talk) 10:28, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
- It should be deleted, if your statement is correct. But please check whether Taliban had taken the control of Panchshir for the period between massoud's death and Nato attack.--Vssun (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- I don't know about Commons deletion policies regarding incorrect maps but this map is definitely plain wrong:
- Panjshir was never controlled by the Taliban: Massoud was never eliminated on the battlefield. [...] By September 2001, the front line between Taliban and anti-Taliban forces was next to the Bagram air base. (Maley: The Afghanistan Wars, ISBN 978-0–333–80291–8, p. 231). There were no major shifts of the front lines in the four weeks between Massoud's assassination and the Western intervention. About the situation a couple of weeks later, right before the intervention: the United Front forces based in the northeast of the country and the northern reaches of the Shomali valley. (Maley,p.260) The Shomali valley—where Bagram air base is located–stretches from the North of Kabul to the Southern entrance of Panjshir.
- In addition, there are more errors in the map: The cities of Kunduz and Taloqan are shown as part of the territory controlled by the United Front. Kunduz had been under Taliban control at least since 1997, Taloqan fell September 5th 2001 (Ahmed Rashid: Taliban, ISBN 978-0-300-08902-8, S.182).
- To see the errors, just have a look at File:Afghanistan politisch 2000.png (the front lines from autumn 2000 are copied from Gilles Dorronsoro: Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present, ISBN 0-231-13626-9) or File:Guerre en Afghanistan (octobre 2001).PNG (depicting the situation one year later). Both maps show almost identical front lines, the exception being the pocket around Taloqan.
- I think the map here was just a rough guess to indicate the Northeastern pocket of Afghanistan, the author probably wasn't aware of the actual locations of cities or provinces. --Sommerkom (talk) 06:22, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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