Taliban prisoners captured at Kunduz launched a surprise attack with smuggled weapons at a detention facility near Mazer-e-Sharif.
Northern Alliance forces and American air strikes put down the revolt, but hundreds of the prisoners died,
Some eyewitnesses said an American was killed in the revolt, but a government spokesman publicly would not confirm
The city's (Kunduz) Taliban defenders started to surrender peacefully by the hundreds earlier this weekend, and now thousands of approximately 13,000 to 15,000 Taliban and foreign soldiers are believed to have given up.
As the forces in Kunduz began to surrender in larger numbers Saturday, many were embraced, kissed and greeted with cries of "welcome" from Northern Alliance forces surrounding the city. Hundreds of those giving up, particularly Afghans, are switching sides to fight for the Northern Alliance.
They emerged from the city on tanks, trucks and other vehicles smeared with mud — apparently camouflage against U.S. air attacks — as American soldiers with M-16's slung over their shoulders watch in some areas to make sure wanted terrorist suspects don't slip through as Taliban forces left the city.
The most senior Taliban member to defect so far indicated Saturday that rifts within the group may go beyond an apparent divide between foreigners and Afghans in Kunduz, and all the way to the top. Mullah Mohammed Khaqzar, a former Taliban deputy interior minister, told reporters he warned Taliban supreme leader Mohammed Omar that he should "tell the terrorists to leave."
"I have being saying for a long time that the foreigners [aligned with bin Laden] have to leave our country, that they have plans of their own and are destroying our country," Khaqzar said in Kabul, according to the Associated Press.
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