Of course the Northern Alliance welcomed the help and intervention of the International Coalition.
Over the years the Northern Alliance has been helped by both Russia and India amongst others.
Mr Qadir was one of the most prominent Pushtun figures in the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance.
We still face that danger with Northern Alliance and different groups in the alliance.
The Northern Alliance may be trying to do the same in Pushtun-dominated areas of the country.
The rebel Northern Alliance in Afghanistan say the US strikes have crippled the Taleban's fighting ability.
Mr Haq had returned from exile to fight with the Northern Alliance and their American allies.
Today in Afghanistan the CIA is once again working with unsavouries - this time the Northern Alliance.
The only difference we can see was that the Northern Alliance didn't announce officially restrictions on women.
Still others suspect that Mr Qadir was the subject of a power struggle within the Northern Alliance.
Northern Alliance soldiers coming out of the compound Monday said they have lost between 100 and 150 fighters.
Elements of the Northern Alliance held power from 1992 to 1996, when the Taliban drove them from power.
One senior Northern Alliance official told Reuters that troops from other countries were not welcomed on Afghan soil.
Food is being delivered normally in most of the north-east, which is controlled by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.
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Northern Alliance forces face a tough challenge should they attempt to advance on Mazar-e Sharif from the south.
Mr Karzai then accused members of the Northern Alliance of killing him, but no arrest has been made.
Abdullah said he was satisfied with the level of coordination between the Northern Alliance and the United States forces.
But there was opposition to the British troops presence from the Northern Alliance.
People have been asking why the Northern Alliance hasn't been successful to date.
Only the presence of General Dil Agha, acting in the film as a Northern Alliance commander, defused the situation.
Although a Pashtun, he had been a member in the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance.
At one Northern Alliance checkpoint, the crew found themselves held up at gunpoint.
Already the Northern Alliance, the main anti-Taliban force in the country, is alarmed.
This is not a high-tech conflict and certainly part of the Northern Alliance effort has been conducted on horseback.
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They are two sides of one coin, the Taliban and the Northern Alliance.
How the Northern Alliance handles that is hard to say, but they don't want to turn the people against them.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer urged the Northern Alliance to respect human rights and efforts to establish a governing coalition.
The Tajiks, for example, including many leaders of the Northern Alliance, which helped topple the Taliban, will still need pleasing.
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Both these measures will, by the same token, damage Mr Karzai's relations with the Northern Alliance's warlords, who are mainly Tajiks and Uzbeks.
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The United States was trying to get more weapons, ammunition, food, blankets and other supplies to the Northern Alliance, Rumsfeld said.
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