The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 28, 2001 - 7A Fear causes Taliban to increase security measures KALAI BALLA, Afghanistan (AP) - In the vil- lage of Taqob, outside Kabul, two teen-age girls at a Taliban checkpoint lift the shrouds of every woman who flees the city and every woman who arrives, peer- ing into their faces. They search for insurgents, for- eigners, spies. Of all the signs of panic among the radical Islamic Taliban, this new step to search women is perhaps the most ironic: They are now afraid of chadri - the head-to-toe shrouds all Afghan women are compelled to wear on the streets. For the people of Kabul, the most surprising thing now is that the Taliban is suddenly scared. It is afraid of U.S. bomb strikes, afraid of an attack on Kabul by opposition Northern Alliance forces and afraid of a popular uprising in support of its enemies. Kabul is a city on the brink, according to accounts from those who fled in recent days, from traders who travel between the capital and the north, and from local staff at humanitarian aid agencies. The Taliban has set up checkpoints on the main roads, strengthened its military positions north of the city and deployed anti-aircraft guns in the mountains around Kabul. The dreaded Ministry for the Enforcement of Virtue and Suppression of Vice, Afghanistan's religious police, has unleashed a terror campaign in recent weeks, witnesses say, targeting young men seen as pos- sible sources of insurgency or unrest. They are being beaten, locked into cargo containers used as cells or taken away to Policharki prison, the city's most notori- ous jail. Those who have escaped describe a medieval world where intellectuals are reviled; where religious police hit women and girls in the streets with large sticks, like stray cattle; and where young men are being ordered to fight a jihad to prove their Muslim credentials. The Virtue and Vice police are arresting young men for wearing their beards too short and for "Titanic" haircuts - worn long in the front in the style of Leonardo Di Caprio. People have been arrested over their hair choices long before the Taliban was singled out for condemna- tion in the Bush administration's war on terror, said Shuraj, 18, whose name means "brave," but the scale of the present terror campaign is unlike anything he has seen. "It all started after the Americans said they would bomb," he said, casting the arrests as a crackdown by the predominately Pushtun Taliban against other ethnic minorities. Shuraj is an ethnic Tajik who fled Kabul a week ago with about 100 members of his extended family. He says he has been beaten twice in recent weeks by Vice and Virtue police who burst into the school where he teaches English. "They said, 'Why are you teaching now? It's time to pray,' " he recalled. Five years of Taliban rule has stripped the country of educated people, he says. "There is no one left to be English teachers," said Shuraj, who works as a phar- macist because he is not allowed to study at a universi- ty. The reason, he says, is discrimination against ethnic Tajiks. Those from the Hazara minority, Tajiks, Uzbeks and others face the most systematic persecution by the Tal- iban, but even fellow Pushtuns feel beleaguered, said Mohammad Anif, 67. "It's a lie that the Taliban is good for Pushtun people only. There are about 100 Pushtun families here. The Taliban is against all the people of Afghanistan," said Anif, who lives in a refugee camp at Anaka village in the Panjshir Valley. He fled to the opposition-con- trolled area of northern Afghanistan three years ago. For men of Shuraj's age, the darkest terror is Kabul's Policharki prison. "Everyone is afraid of Policharki jail, even a child," said Shuraj. "When people hear the name, they tremble." Anyone who can afford the journey is getting out of Kabul, but the poorest cannot escape. Photos of hijacking suspects released Justice Department identifies the hijackers The FBI released the photos of 19 men accused of commandeering the passenger planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New-York, the Pentagon, and rural Pennsylvania on Sept. 11. Investigators hope that by releasing the photos, some Americans may recognize the suspects and contact authorities. Listed is the date of birth used for identification, possible nationality and last known address or addresses. Many of the hijackers had multiple aliases. Cbelieved to be a pilot American Airlines Flight 11: Boston to Los Angeles Crashed into north tower of the World Trade Center AP PHOTO An Afghan refugee collects wheat donated by USAID yesterday in Jalozal refugee camp in Pakistan. More than two million Afghan refugees currently live in Pakistan. Americans begin e- " leaving Indonesia The Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI released photos yesterday of the 19 sus- pected suicide hijackers with a plea for citizens to help with identities of some that are still in doubt. Director Robert Mueller said some attackers had been linked to Osama bin Laden's network. Separately, more arrests were made of Middle Eastern men who obtained bogus licenses to haul hazardous mate- rials. The FBI said those men were not connected to the hijackers, who crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks that left nearly 7,000 dead, the FBI said there were links between the hijackers and accused terrorist Osama bin Laden, called the primary suspect in the plot. The FBI isn't certain about the iden- tities of all the hijackers. "It is our hope that the release of these photos will prompt others who may have seen the hijackers to contact the FBI with any information they may have that would be helpful to the investi- gation," said Attorney General John Ashcroft. The release of the photos, which come- from passports, driver's licenses and other documents identified with the hijackers, marked a change for authorities, who until now have kept them under wraps so that potential wit- nesses and others shown the photos get a fresh look at the men. FBI Director Mueller said the FBI believes the names and photographs match those on the manifests of the hijacked planes. But questions remain about whether those are the true names of the hijackers. "What we are currently doing is determining whether, when these indi- viduals came to the United States, these were their real names or they changed their names for use with false identification in the United States," said Mueller. He said there was evidence that one or more of the hiiackers had had con- tacts with al-Qaida, the network associ- ated bin Laden. He declined to be more specific. Some of the names have slightly dif- ferent spellings and others have addi- tional names added, compared with the list released by the FBI on Sept. 14. At least four of the identities released , Sept. 14 have been challenged by peo- ple with the same or similar names. Saudi Arabia Embassy officials, for example, have said that a Saudi electri- cal engineer named Abdulaziz Alomari _ the same name as one of the alleged hijackers on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon _ had his passport and other papers stolen in 1996 in Denver when he was a student, and reported the theft to police there at the time. The FBI director said there was some evidence that "one or more" of the hijackers was related. Amid fears that terrorists could strike with chemical or biological weapons, investigators continued to scour the country for individuals who unlawfully obtained licenses to drive trucks hauling hazardous materials. Twenty Middle Eastern men have been charged with obtaining bogus licenses; 18 were arrested Wednesday and Thursday and two were still at large, officials said. Mueller said the 20, charged in a license scam uncovered in Pennsylva- nia, have not been linked to the Sept. 11 attacks but investigators are looking for people who have obtained licenses "under suspicious circumstances." "We're under a heightened state of alert," said Mueller. Meanwhile, in Detroit, a federal grand jury indicted three men, includ- ing two arrested at a Detroit house and a third whose alias appeared on docu- ments found in a raid as agents searched for a man on the FBI's watch list. Waleed M. Wail M. Alshehri* Alshehri* Satam M.A. Al Suqami Mohamed Abdulaziz Atta* Alomari* Several Saudi national Daytona Beach, Orlando and Hollywood, Fla. 91168 NA Hollywood, Fla. and Newton, Mass. 91/68 Egyptian national Coral Springs and Hollywood, Fla.; Hamburg, Germany Two dates Saudi naional Hollywood, Fta. 6/28/76 Saudi national United Arab Emir. United Airlines Flight 175: Boston to Los Angeles Crashed into south tower of the World Trade Center - -- :>, : JAKARTA, Indonesia - Con- cerned by mounting threats against Americans in Indonesia, the U.S. Embassy here said yesterday that it will begin withdrawing "nonemer- gency" employees and family mem- bers who wish to leave the country. In a strongly worded warning, the embassy urged other Americans to consider leaving and advised those who remain in Indonesia to "exercise maximum caution." Outside the U.S. Embassy, more than 1,000 demonstrators burned American and Israeli flags and an effigy of President Bush yesterday to protest the expected U.S. military action in Afghanistan. Some chant- ed, "Go to hell, America." In recent days, several Islamic fun- damentalist groups have threatened to kill Americans if the United States retaliates against Afghanistan for the Sept. I I attacks on New York and near Washington. One radical newspaper published a death threat this week against U.S. Ambassador Robert Gelbard. On Thursday, the ambassador criticized Indonesian authorities for not taking action against extremists . "They have not been prepared to act, to warn or to arrest people who break the law when there are threats against the lives of Americans," Gelbard told reporters. Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri condemned the Sept. 11 attacks last week when she visited Washington and met with Bush. But Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population, is divided in its loyalties. Marwan Fayez Rashid AI-Shehhi* Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad Mohand Hamza Alshehri Alghamdi Ahmed Alghamdi 5/918 NA Hollywood, Fta. NA NA NA NA Deray Beach, Fta. Delray Beach, Fla NA NA Delray Beach, Fta. NA NA NA U American Airlines Flight 77: Washington Dulles Airport to Los Angeles Crashed into the Pentagon I -w- - I C.P. Cavafy Professorship Inaugural Address KhnalidaMajed Almhdhar Malted NawaT Alhazmi Salem Hani Alhazmi Hanjour NA Saudi national San Diego and New York NA Saudi national NA NA Saudi national Fort Lee and Wayne, N.J.; San Diego NA Saudi national Fort Lee and Wayne, N.J. United Airlines Flight 93: Newark, N.J., to San Francisco Crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania -Ii i NA NA Phoenix and San Diego SOURCE: Justice Department ModErq as Opposid to What? Fri, Sept 28 * 5:00 p.m. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre 91i North University (LocArED IN THE MICHIGAN LEAGUE) Vassitios Lambropoulos C.. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek Studies Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature Ziad Samir Jarrah* Ahmad Ibrahim Ahmed A. Al Haznawi Ainami Saeed Alghamdi 10/11/80 Saudi national Delray Beach. Fla. NA NA NA NA DelrayBeach, FEta NA NA NA Delray Beach, Eta. Bin Laden shown in terrorist training tape The Washington Post NEW YORK - A masked man in a loose-fitting black robe rolls once in the red dirt and leaps upright. Feet apart, he aims a pistol and fires once, twice, three times - into a life-size moving video image of former president Bill Clinton. "Victory is from God, conquest is near," says the narrator. The mock assassination of an American president occurs halfway through the recruitment tape for al- Qaida, the terrorist organization. Shot at training bases in Afghanistan, and drawing on powerful and horrific news images of soldiers beating and killing Muslim women and children, the two-hour video offers a win- dow into the worldview of the man who has led his fol- lowers into a war with the United States. That man, Osama bin Laden, appears throughout young Arabic men in the manner of a well-done army recruitment tape. The film uses freeze frames of dying Arab children, zoom shots of the USS Cole before and after the explosion, and grainy footage of Americans lying dead in the wreckage of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. A plaintive voice narrates much of the video, backed by snatches of poetry and ecstatic religious singing. The tape was apparently made in June or July and circulated throughout Arabic-speaking countries and Central Asia. The tape, which has been obtained by a number of news organizations around the world, includes footage of the ongoing intifada in Israel, the war in Chechnya, and the destruction of the two colos- sal Buddha statues in Bamian, Afghanistan, this year; all are portrayed as heroic Muslim struggles against Jews and "crusaders.:" "It's very professional, with terrific production val- ues,"said Richard Bulliet, a professor of Islamic social history at Columbia University, who obtained the tape from CNN and analyzed it for The Washington Post. The film opens with a Holocaust-like montage of horrors perpetrated on Muslims. Dead boys, eyes vacant, stare up. Children scream, dirt is tossed on a coffin, a woman's face is soaked with blood. And, repeatedly, footage shows Israeli soldiers hitting children and shooting at civilians. An Israeli soldier is shown putting a dead baby into a garbage bag after a wartime attack on a Lebanese village. The film refers to Jews as "dogs" and "pigs." The faces of Clinton and members of the Saudi royal fami- ly are often superimposed. The message, Bulliet notes, is simple: The Jews are killing your men, women and children, backed by complicit Arab rulers and the United States. The film moves methodically to a call for a higra, or Muslim migration, to Afghanistan. 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