A NORTHERN ALLIANCE SOLDIER KEEPS GUARD BY MOONLIGHT IN NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN, 2001-10-30 (photo)

A Northern Alliance soldier keeps guard by moonlight on a hilltop of the Ikhonem Hill at the front line close to the Tajikistan border in northern Afghanistan, October 30, 2001. Uniformed U.S. soldiers were in northern Afghanistan to help coordinate U.S. air strikes and attacks by opposition forces on the ruling Taliban, an opposition spokesman said on Tuesday. It was the first time the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance had confirmed the presence of armed and uniformed American troops in the less than 10 percent of Afghanistan it controls. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko VF/