Shortly after Allied Forces attacked Al Qaeda and The Taliban in
Afghanistan, in October, 2001 (I think) but before the Kabul Airport
was secured, I think I remember a news report of a transport aircraft
of unknown origin, departing the Kabul airport with an unknown cargo
or passenger manifest, and and unknown destination.  I don't remember
the exact date, nor do I remember the news source.  Which news sources
that ran this story, and when?

Charles48 –

The Taliban pulled out of Kabul on Oct. 13, 2001 so rapidly that it
became an open city.

I believe that the event you're describing was the Pakistani
evacuation of personnel from Kunduz in late November, 2001, when it
was obvious that all Taliban resistance was collapsing.

Slate Magazine runs a daily newspaper summary called "Today's Papers,"
which tracks and analyzes news from three major American daily
newspapers and the Wall Street Journal.  The Nov. 24, 2001 account,
"Osama, Where Art Thou?" describes the controversy over air (and
ground) evacuations of Pakistani soldiers:
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058934

The major reports were coming from both the New York Times and the
Washington Post in issues of that day.

For more than a month beforehand, the two newspapers had been
reporting the influx of fighters from Pakistan supporting the Taliban.
 They had also noted the cooperation of Pakistan's secret service,
ISI, with the Taliban.

Of course both the Washington Post and the New York Times are
available on-line.  If you'd like to read a concise day-by-day news
summary of that period, Slate can be found here:
http://slate.msn.com/

The search strategy that I followed in this case was to type in
"Today's Papers" and search back through the October-November news
summaries.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA