No US Serviceman Killed in Afghan Revolt: Pentagon

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No US Serviceman Killed in Afghan Revolt: Pentagon

The Pentagon said Sunday that no US serviceman was killed when hundreds of surrendering foreign Taliban forces staged a revolt at a prison near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

The Pentagon said Sunday that no US serviceman was killed when hundreds of surrendering foreign Taliban forces staged a revolt at a prison near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

"Central Command personnel said all its personnel were accounted for," Pentagon spokesman Ken McClellan said.

The U.S. Central Command, headquartered in Florida, controls U.S. troops in the Gulf region and is responsible for ongoing U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.

Pentagon officials also confirmed that U.S. warplanes provide support for the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance forces in quelling the revolt.

The U.S. Defense Department was responding to earlier reports that an American adviser to the anti-Taliban forces was killed in a shoot-out during the revolt.

Non-Afghan POWs Killed in Prison Riot

Hundreds of non-Afghan Taliban soldiers captured in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz have been killed in a prison riot, said reports.

Yahsaw, a spokesman for northern alliance commander Mohammed Mohaqik, was quoted as saying that the foreign Taliban fighters staged a prison riot at the fortress outside the northern town of Mazar-e-Sharif, where they had been held after they surrendered a day earlier.

They battled all night with guards, the spokesman said.