The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 1, 2001 -7A Afghans continue to flee country WASHINGTON (AP) - If the United States attacks terrorist targets in Afghanistan, soldiers will have to deal with not only .armed resistance but also with cascades of starving, desperate and fearful refugees. Military officials must plan how the armed forces will help ease the humanitarian crisis and avoid killing civilians. Failure on either point could turn public opinion against the war on terrorism, not only in the United States but throughout the region and around the world. That's a tall order for a country ravaged by 22 years of war, five years of the harsh Taliban regime and two years of drought. Afghanistan has been the world's number one source of refugees for the past 20 years, with about 3.6 million currently in Pakistan, Iran and other countries. Thousands more Afghans have fled their homes since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the Unit- ed States, fearing retaliatory strikes against suspect Osama bin Laden and the Taliban militia that shel- ters him. Many Afghans were on the edge of starvation before the attacks and have fled to the countryside, where food is even more scarce. The Taliban also kicked out all foreign aid workers this month and threatened Afghan relief workers with execution if they contacted anyone outside the country. United Nations officials left behind only a two weeks' sup- ply of food. "What's amazing is how much damage can be done without even starting military action," said Kathleen Newland of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday appealed for $584 million to aid 7.5 million Afghans over the next six months. On Friday, President Bush directed the State Department to release $25 million to help with Afghan relief efforts. On Saturday, a convoy carrying 200 tons of wheat leftPakistan for Kabul, the Afghan capital - the first food aid since the terrorist attacks. U.S. military leaders are "very closely watching how the humanitarian crisis is developing,' Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. George Rhynedance said Satur- day. The State Department is leading U.S. govern- ment efforts to deal with the refugees, and the Defense Department is consulting with diplomatic officials and humanitarian groups "to determine the proper course if there is a defense piece to this," Rhynedance said. Afghan women ask for money yesterday in Mashhad, Iran, where international aid workers have stockpiled emergency rations for possible waves of refugees. Terrorist accounts traced, years-old plan discovered The Washington Post WASHINGTON - The 19 terrorists suspected in the Sept. 11 attacks spent about $500,000 preparing an operation that was planned and launched from overseas, beginning several years ago in Germany with support in Britain, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan, senior government officials have tentatively concluded. U.S. investigators have determined four hijackers were trained in camps in Afghanistan run by Osama bin Laden - whose al-Qaida network is believed responsible for the Sept. 11 assaults - and have developed tentative links to the terror- ist mastermind for most of the others, according to prelimi- nary conclusions reached by the Justice Department, the FBI and the CIA. Government investigators are becoming increasingly con- vinced that one or two other hijackings were in the works, officials said, and are focusing on three men in U.S. custody who received flight training. One was detained while seeking flight simulator training in Minnesota before the hijackings, and two others were arrested on a train in Texas after depart- ing a jet that was grounded after the attacks, sources said. Government officials said other people in the United States may have provided minor assistance or had knowl- edge that a terrorist operation was underway. But the FBI has found little evidence so far that the teams of hijackers received much support here, sources said. "There seems to be no U.S. mastermind," one official said. The Justice Department has cast a global dragnet over the last two weeks in a hunt for accomplices. It is narrowing its criminal investigation to a number of individuals and is beginning to formulate criminal charges that could be filed against them, sources said. But a senior Justice official declined to predict when the first indictment might be hand- ed down. "We are past the first phase, and we are beginning to sharpen and focus the investigation," one Justice official said. "You don't get smoking guns in a case like this." TERROR Continued from Page 3A that targets not just bin Laden but the Taliban. Although the Taliban has few friends outside Afghanistan, some Islamic countries have been reluctant to support military action against the regime. President Bush has warned the Tal- iban that if it does not surrender bin Laden and other alleged terrorists in Afghanistan, it will "share in their fate." The Taliban has been unmoved by the threat, though Zaeef said Sun- day that his government would be open to negotiations witl the United States if it provided evidence that bin Laden was involved in the attacks. "The position of the two countries is very different," he said in an earlier meeting with reporters Sunday. "They are thinking of direct attacks. We are thinking of negotiation." Zaeef said if the United States talked to the Taliban and produced evidence, "we will respect their negotiations and that might change things." U.S. officials have said they will not negotiate for the surrender of bin Laden, who has been indicted in con- nection with the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people. Although Zaeef, the Taliban's senior-most official outside Afghanistan; is believed to be close to the Taliban leadership, it was unclear whether his offer to negotiate repre- sented a shift in his government's poli- cy. Two Pakistani delegations have traveled to Afghanistan in the past two weeks in efforts to persuade the Tal- iban to hand over bin Laden. Both overtures were rejected by the supreme Taliban leader, Mohammad Omar. Diesel Reaction Women's Steve Madden Reaction Men's Reaction Men's 1 Steve Madden BOLLINGER. Continued from Page 1A committee,' Spectator Editor in Chief Mike Mirer told the Daily. Columbia President George Rupp is retiring at the end of the current acade- mic year. Bollinger has been rumored to be a candidate at Columbia since Harvard passed him over in favor of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. Bollinger and his wife, Jean, both hold degrees from Columbia. His daughter, Carey, is currently a student there. Sources close to Bollinger were cited in reports earlier this year, saying Columbia was one of the few presi- dential jobs that could lure him from Ann Arbor. "Bollinger would be a good fit any- where, including Columbia," said Mal- colm McKay, of the New York executive recruiting firm Russell Reynolds and Associates. McKay helped the University of Michigan Board of Regents during its 1996 pres- idential search that resulted in the selection of Bollinger. McKay also said the fact that Michi- gan currently lacks a permanent provost - the University's second-in- command under the president - would likely not affect whether Bollinger chose to pursue a position elsewhere. I Mast Shoes I PELL Continued from Page 1A "One of the good things that could come out of us win- ning our lawsuit is that there will be increased political pres- sure to do something about the really rotten education system in a lot of the areas of the country where minority students are concentrated," Pell said. The next step for the CIR will be the hearing of oral argu- ments for both University cases on Oct. 23 in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, where affirmative action supporters from Detroit and Cincinnati protested Fri- day. Detroit activist Shanta Driver, 47, who said affirmative action policy allowed her to be an undergraduate student at Harvard University, said supporters want affirmative action continued at Michigan and other schools to give minorities the opportunity of higher education. "We will not accept the re-segregation of American soci- ety," said Driver, who is a member of the local chapter of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration and Fight For Equality By Any Means Necessary. The group is also planning rallies the day the appeals process is set to begin. Pell, for his part, feels confident his fight against affirma- tive action has picked up steam. "When we started our lawsuit against the University of Michigan in 1997 more than half of Americans told pollsters that they supported colleges and universities taking race into account in admissions," Pell said. "Now, almost no one does." "I'm glad someone is out there fighting the issue," said Gregory Creswell, a medical records clerk at Harper Hospi- tal in Detroit. The dinner and speech were held as part of the sixth annu- al Sam Adams Dinner hosted by the Libertarian Party of Washtenaw County. - The Associated Press contributed to this report. SOutstanding Se rvice Best Prices WINDSOR notaprob "We ki Continued from Page 1A there, bu wait is only 20 or 30 minutes. They are about it.I just asking a few more questions now, said Engir that's all," he said. mer. LSA sophomore Veronica Cruz said Most s she had concerns about the wait in the tripd planning a trip to Windsor. drinking a "I wasn't sure how long it was going "The m to take or when we would get home. tomers ar I've heard that the wait was anywhere Wilkie sai from three to 15 hours, but I didn't "Easy a know if they were exaggerating or not," large fact she said. 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"A lot I know go there just for that think it is ridiculous that so ople who can't legally drink go there and abuse that privi- er, Wilkie said most of his are responsible. 's always one or two yahoos ate our policies, but that's a said. ar is also a popular destination for University fraternity- and sorority- sponsored events. Jason Sparks, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity member and Inter- fraternity Council Vice President for Media Relations, said that holding events in Windsor allows his fraternity to participate in group activities with- out violating U.S. laws. "We like to hold our formals in the Windsor area because it gives us more options for us to do things together as a fraternity. Most people want to party, and the lower drinking age there doesn't restrict the younger guys from hanging out with the older ones," he said. Legal gambling is also another option for Windsor's visitors. Sparks said gambling is a less popular source of recreation. 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