Nightline (ABC) - 2001-11-29
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[0:01] Hey, go Ducks.
[0:02] >> Go Beavers. Our Civil War preview
[0:04] >> tomorrow on Air Northwest.
[0:07] [music]
[0:07] >> November 29th, 2001.
[0:16] >> When they ruled Afghanistan, they were
[0:18] accused of mass rape, thugery, and
[0:21] murder.
[0:22] >> It was a very brutal time in [music]
[0:25] terms of human loss. It was a very
[0:27] brutal time in terms of civil liberties.
[0:31] >> Think we're talking about the Taliban.
[0:33] >> These people, many of them, they don't
[0:34] have a cable reputation.
[0:36] >> Nope.
[0:37] >> America's newest ally.
[0:40] >> The Northern Alliance [music] is
[0:42] behaving much better than we had feared.
[0:46] However, it is behaving much worse than
[0:49] we [music] would like.
[0:50] >> Tonight, strange bedfellows, America and
[0:53] the Northern Alliance.
[0:57] >> [music]
[0:59] >> from ABC News.
[1:04] [music] This is Night Line.
[1:07] Reporting from Washington, Ted CP. In
[1:10] Afghanistan today, war is creating
[1:13] realities on the ground. In bond
[1:16] Germany, 38 Afghan delegates
[1:18] representing a variety of interests are
[1:20] trying with the help of the UN and a
[1:22] covy of international observers to shape
[1:25] some political realities that will
[1:27] survive. It won't be easy. Alliances are
[1:31] rarely a matter of choice. Most of the
[1:33] time they're dictated by circumstance.
[1:35] After the Second World War, for example,
[1:37] the United States found itself seeking
[1:40] the help and council of German
[1:41] intelligence officers who once worked
[1:43] for the Nazis because the new greater
[1:46] threat was perceived to be Soviet
[1:48] communism. As we told you last night,
[1:50] during the early 1980s, Washington
[1:53] turned a blind eye to the excesses of
[1:55] Saddam Hussein because Iran was then
[1:58] s