The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 21, 2001 - 7A
Some
Taliban soldiers in Kunduz defecting
Los Angeles Times
TALOQAN, Afghanistan -- In the besieged
city of Kunduz, where thousands of desperate
Taliban fighters have been holding out against
U.S. bombing for more than a week, some are
cutting off their long beards, abandoning their
weapons and getting out of town.
Among the newly shaven are Qaraghafor and
Mulloismatullo, Taliban fighters in their 20s,
who headed west for their homes in Balkh
province, according to a friend, Ghulum Nabi,
25.
Nabi, a shopkeeper, fled the northern
Afghanistan city early Tuesday because of the
U.S. bombing of Taliban positions.
"They were very anxious, afraid for their lives.
They came to my shop and asked me to help
them find a car," Nabi said as he trudged east
toward Taloqan in a thin rain.
With transport scarce, his friends were afraid
to be seen in the streets of Kunduz, knowing that
they would be killed as traitors if they were
caught.
"I put them in a car and sent them home,"
Nabi said. Six other fighters with them had also
trimmed their beards and were on their way
home.
A week ago, when the town of Talogan, about
20 miles from Kunduz, fell to the anti-Taliban
Northern Alliance, every barber's shop in town
was crammed with men trimming the long
beards they were forced to wear under the rigid
rules of the Taliban.
Now trimmed beards are a desirable disguise
for some Taliban in Kunduz.
Adbul Qahir, 45, a trader who fled Kunduz
yesterday, still wore a thick black beard with
handsome curls. He said he was no Taliban sym-
pathizer. He just hadn't had a chance to trim his
mane yet.
According to Qahir, many Afghan Taliban
fighters were adopting the look of refugees.
"They're all shaving their beards and cutting
their hair. They're changing their new clothes for
old so that they look like refugees, and they're
leaving," he said. "They're passing themselves
off as simple people. If they can find a car,
they're leaving the city."
But the Arab and Pakistani mercenaries fight-
ing on the Taliban side are trapped and desperate,
with no way of melting into the tide of refugees.
In Kunduz, civilians terrified that a U.S. bomb
will go astray are taking off, some carrying small
cloth bundles but many empty-handed. Others
are afraid they will be stopped and killed as trai-
tors by the foreign Taliban fighters if they try to
flee, said Sakijon, 50, who left Kunduz yesterday.
Taliban. fighters were speeding about in pickup
trucks, racing between the city and their battle
positions.
"They're very tough, very determined," said
Qahir, a Pashtun, the dominant ethnic group
from which the Taliban has drawn much of its
support.
Bodies of four journalists identified
after belng
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) - The bodies of
four international journalists have been recovered and
were identified by colleagues yesterday, a day after
their convoy was ambushed in a narrow mountain
pass on the road to the Afghan capifal, Kabul.
The four journalists had been reported missing and
feared dead after the ainbush as they drove from the
eastern city of Jalalabad. An anti-Taliban leader in the
area said the attackers were bandits, although witness-
es said they shouted pro-Taliban sayings.
The journalists were Australian television camera-
man Harry Burton and Azizullah Haidari, an Afghan
photographer, both of the Reuters news agency; Maria
Grazia Cutuli of Italian newspaper Corriere della
Sera; and Julio Fuentes of the Spanish daily El
Mundo.
Militiamen found the bodies and brought them to a
hospital in Jalalabad, where they were identified by
colleagues.
The four were among more than a dozen interna-
tional journalists traveling in a convoy of around eight
CDC officl7ds
hot dead in Afghanistan
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performed in the Andes.
"I don't think it's ever been per-
formed in thiskcountry," she said.
"The award would help finance that
and I hope the University might con-
tribute."
Classical studies department inter-
im Chair Bruce Frier echoed Mac-
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further explore the area of classical
influence on Latin America.
"It's just not been a very popular
area," he said.
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dation, is tailored to "those who have
made major contributions to their
own disciplines, whose influence
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ly to other fields, and whose current
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awardee with "enlarged opportuni-
ties to deepen and extend humanistic
research."
"It's an indication that our (depart-
ment) members are valued as interna-
tionally recognized-figures in the
humanities," Frier said.
cars from the eastern city of Jalalabad to the capital, the cars and
Kabul. Because the road was dusty, the cars spread When they
out and often lost sight of each other. stones at th
The area recently came under the control of anti- "They sa
Taliban forces. However, some Taliban stragglers and ished? We
Arab fighters loyalto terror suspect Osama bin Laden revenge,"'
are still believed to be in the area, and there had been The gun
earlier reports of armed robberies on the road. of the men,
Near the town of Serobi, 35 miles east of Kabul, six Afghan tra
gunmen on the roadside waved the first three cars in behind with
the convoy to stop. One car sped ahead, while two The cars
stopped, said Ashiquallah, driver of the car carrying the rest oft
the Reuters reporters. He uses only one name. turn, and d
He said the gunmen, wearing long robes, beards account wa
and turbans, warned them not to go any farther driver whoc
because there was fighting ahead with the Taliban. At Haji Sher
that moment, a bus from Kabul came by and said the abad, said 1
road was safe. The cars' drivers thought the gunmen road who r
were thieves and tried to speed away, but the gunmen of the attack
stopped them. "They w
The gunmen then ordered all the journalists out of men," Sher
say one dffierence
tried to force them to climb the mountain.
refused, the gunmen beat them and threw
em, said Ashiquallah.
aid, 'What, you think the Taliban are fin-
are still in power and we will have our
Ashiquallah said.
men then shot the Italian woman and one
prompting the drivers to flee, he said. The
nslator, a man named Homuin, was left
the journalists.
sped back toward Jalalabad and to warn
the convoy. Other journalists saw the cars
ecided to turn around also. Ashiquallah's
s corroborated by another translator and
escaped in the other car.
rshah, an anti-Taliban commander in Jalal-
he spoke to residents and travelers on the
eported seeing four bodies at the location
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SHOPPING
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new employees for the Thanksgiving weekend by
personally training them during the week. But this
year, due to a managerial changeover and commu-
nication problems, the store has not spent much
time recruiting at the University.
Vibber said Eddie Bauer is hiring seasonal.
employees and preparing them for the weekend,
but because many college students return home for
the holidays and specifically ask to work seasonal
shifts, the store doesn't need to recruit employees.
In addition to accommodating the influx of
customers, Deline Postuma, manager of Love
from Michigan on Main St., said stores must
worry about the effect of the nation's recent eco-
nomic struggles on this year's holiday sales. She
said she expects the economic struggles will
have at least a 20 percent impact on the store's
profits this season.
Beebe said Abercrombie and Fitch and other
stores throughout Briarwood will offer more
sales discounts this year than in previous years
to counteract the economic problems.
"A lot of stores are doing more promotions
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that the CDC each year mounts be immunized is N
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ans to get flu shots. delivered this year,
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has advised all students be vac- November.
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through the season," said from 10:30 a.m. t
Winfield, Interim Director of Sunday through Fr
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to at least come close to address this issue.
"I think Chief Oates and the leadership of the department
last year's pro fits" ... are really ahead of the game on this issue," Rabinowitz
said.
- Steve Beebe
Abercrombie and Fitch manager
than usual just because the last year was such a
fantastic year for retail, but this year we know
it's not going to be as good, so they're doing all
they can to at least come close to last year's
profits" Beebe said.
Anna Polk, an employee at Gadzooks, said
after the economy began to slow down, the store
created a "buy more, save more" deal to encour-
age customers to spend more money.
LSA freshman Joanna Kliger. said that
although she realizes the nation's economy has
been struggling recently, she doesn't plan to
spend less money shopping this year.
"Obviously the nation's problems concern
me, but on a personal level, if I have money, I'll
spend it," Kliger said.
Oates said racial profiling is not only a priority issue for
AAPD leadership but also for its officers.
"I know it's important with the cops because they talk about
it," Oates said. "They don't want the labels (of having racial
bias); they need clear guidance. The policy provides guidance
to police officers on how to behave on traffic stops."
Oates said he looked at references in the existing policies
about racial profiling to form the policy.
"One of the leading chief associations strongly recom-
mends that each department have a single statement on this ...
a single, clear, unambiguous statement about this issue," he
said.
Oates approached union leadership before implementing
the new policy, said Ann Arbor Police Command Associa-
tion President Sgt. Andrew Zazula.
"We're not going to be in the practice of using race as a
deciding factor. We want to continue that message," he said.
"It's a serious issue to address and the department is making
a serious issue to address it."
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