2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 28, 2001 NATION/WORLD Ousted: KOENIGSWINTER, Germany (AP) - Talks among four Afghan factions on how to share power once the Taliban are defeated got off to an optimistic start yesterday, with a U.S. official saying all sides favor giving Afghanistan's former king a role as a unifying figure, The U.j. government's Central Asia envoy, James E Dobbins, said the sides indicated in informal discussions that former King Mohammad Zaher Shah should have a leading role, likely sym- bolic, in an emerging Afghan adminis- tration. He cautioned that discussions were only beginning. "I think the one element which was common to every group I met with, all four of them, was a common vision of how the king would fit into this," Dob- bins said. "Everybody sees the ex-king as a rallying point and hopes that he will be ready and able to play that role as they elaborate a new structure." None of the factions favor a return of the monarchy, and northern alliance leader Burhanuddin Rabbani, who has played down the importance of any meeting outside Afghanistan, strongly opposes the king as head of state. Still, Dobbins said the northern alliance has indicated it would accept the king in a symbolic role, and that they have direct contacts with Rome, where the king, now 87, has been living ing cou in exile since 1973. With billions in aid and regional sta- bility at stake, the factions are under intense pressure from the United States and Afghanistan's neighbors, all exert- ing influence from the corridors, to reach a consensus on an interim admin- istration and security force within five days. In the first measurable progress, the four factions representing the northern alliance, exiles backing the former king and two smaller exile groups agreed their goal was to establish an interim administration that would lead to a national council of tribal leaders, or loya jirga, U.N. spokesman Ahmand Fawzi said. The loya jirga could con- vene by the Afghan New Year in March. The national council would then approve a transitional administration that would govern for up to two years, leading way to a second loya jirga, which would approve a constitution that will guarantee rights for all Afghans, women included, with the goal of elec- tions, Fawzi said. The groups held bilateral talks yester- day afternoon, but postponed a planned full session with U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi last night so they could contin- ue individual consultations, Fawzi said. Dobbins said the agreement on the ld unify Mghans NEWS IN BRIEF z- "All four leaders spoke of this meeting as the beginning of a new era for Afghanistan, one that promises dignity and peace to its people," - Ahmand Fawzi United Nations spokesman agenda "is not insignificant" and that prospect for a consensus on forming an interim administration were good. Offi- cials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said agreenent on a security force would be much more difficult. The delegations received a strong endorsement from the Pashtun ethnic group, the largest in Afghanistan, with a phone call broadcast throughout the conference room from Pashtun leader Hamdi Karzai in Afghanistan, Fawzi said. While the Pashtuns have no dele- gation of their own at the talks, each faction includes Pashtun delegates. Fawzi read excerpts from the call: "We have been made extremely poor and vulnerable, but we are a strong peo- ple who would like to assert our will and a sense of self-determination so that we really can live in an environment of brotherhood acid mutual respect.", "This meeting is the path toward sal- vation." Underlying the unifying mood among the 25 Afghan delegates gath- ered around a large conference table at the Petersberg hotel, Fawzi said the four delegation leaders used the same words to describe "their thirst for peace." "All four leaders spoke of this meet- ing as the beginning of a new era for Afghanistan, one that promises dignity and peace to its people," Fawzi said. While the international community supports their efforts, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told them plainly that it was up to them to bring an end to the Afghan people's suffering. "The responsibility is yours. No one can relieve you of it and no one wants to;' Fischer said in remarks opening the talks. "The international community is prepared to make this great effort." UNITED NATIONS Taliban members' assets ordered frozen The United Nations yesterday ordered a global freeze on assets held by every member of the former Taliban government in Afghanistan, vastly expanding the list of individuals and organizations whose holdings are blocked after the Sept. lter- rorist attacks. The new list names 152 Taliban officials, beginning with Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, and ending with senior officials in government ministries from the education department to zoning. It also includes accounts of Afghan-related businesses, including one held at a Citibank in New Delhi, India. The list, which incorporates many of the names made public by the Bush adniin- istration as part of its anti-terrorism campaign, was adopted by the Security Council committee enforcing binding U.N. resolutions requiring all nations to comply with the freeze order. The Bush administration has been trying to get countries to respond to the lists it has made public so far. A Saudi charity appears on the new Security Council list as well as the entire al- Barakaat financial network, a Somali-based money transferring network with oper- ations in north America that President Bush has said was used by al-Qaida. AUSTIN, Texas University of Texas done fighting Hopwood After years of appeals, the University of Texas said yesterday that it is finished fighting its landmark court battle over affirmative action. The decision effectively ends the case named for Cheryl Hopwood and three other whites who sued the university's law school in 1992, saying they were denied admission because of a policy that gave preferential treatment to less-qualified His- panic and black applicants. The lawsuit wound up before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in 1996 rejected the university's contention that it should be allowed to consider race in admissions. The so-called Hopwood ruling didn't block the school from using race as a factor in admissions, but prompted public colleges and universities in Texas to drop affir- mative action policies. The ruling was allowed to stand in 1996 by the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear another challenge by the university in June. The school could have appealed the 5th Circuit's decision ordering it to pay legal fees, but university President Larry Faulkner said that wouldn't happen. Alliance claims prison revolt quelled MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan (AP) - Dozens of shattered bodies lay in the dusty court- yard of a mud-walled Afghan fortress prison yes- terday after a three-day uprising by Taliban prisoners.. The northern alliance claimed to have put down the revolt with the help of American airstrikes and special forces, but U.S. military officials said 30 to 40 men still were holding out in the sprawling Qalai Janghi complex. "It is not yet fully under control," Gen. Tommy Franks, who heads the war effort in Afghanistan, told reporters in Florida. Northern alliance troops turned back journalists trying to enter the complex outside the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif last night, making it impos- sible to confirm whether fighting had ended. But representatives of the international Red Cross said late last night that they were working to arrange for burials today - an indication the battle had abated. "The situation is completely under control. All of them were killed," said Alim Razim, political adviser to Gen. Rashid Dostum, the northern alliance commander responsible for Qalai Janghi. The postscript from three days of fighting was grisly; the remains of soldiers from both sides lay around the prison, where non-Afghans who fought alongside the Taliban had been locked up since Sunday. One television report showed some 60 bodies, believed to be Taliban, scattered across a court- yard. In another spot, a body believed to be that of a Pakistani Talib lay in a ditch, and villagers said he had been strangled with a rope. One man, laughing, picked up the body by its robe and kicked it in the head. Another villager posed over the dead man, holding a knife. The hundreds of captives at Qalai Janghi - which means "Fortress of War" - held out for days, despite heavy U.S. airstrikes and thousands of northern alliance fighters from around the region coming to reinforce local troops. U.S. spe- cial forces and other troops believed to be British also participated in the battle and coordinated airstrikes. By last night, Razim said his troops had seized the last mortar the prisoners had been using. The fighting began Sunday when hundreds of Pakistanis, Chechens, Arabs and other non- Afghans fighting alongside the Taliban were brought to the fortress as part of the weekend sur- render of Kunduz, the Islamic militia's last strong- hold in the north. Once inside, the men stormed the armory and rose up against their alliance cap- tors. / t /1 IC f~g Idf Adl ' / / ii .~%$ .4'' 4,; .:k> >o rf a , s;7 ' : Five U.S. soldiers were seriously wounded in the battle Monday when a U.S. bomb went astray, exploding near the Americans. They arrived yes- terday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Frankfurt, Germany, spokeswoman Marie Shaw said. She declined to give details of their condi- tion. Five were evacuated, Gen. Richard Myers, chair- man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in Wash- ington. Their identities were not released. U.S. officials were also trying to learn what hap- pened to a CIA operative who was feared killed in the uprising. It wasn't clear whether he had been captured, killed or injured, Defense Secretary Don- ald H. Rumsfeld said Monday in Washington. Early yesterday, the aerial bombardment on the fortress sent up showers of sparks visible from Mazar-e-Sharif, nine miles away, and appeared to trigger further explosions of ammunition inside the compound. As dawn broke, a loud explosion rat- tled windows in the city. Even after the heavy strikes, some prisoners held out throughout much of the day, lobbing mortar shells that landed inside and outside the fortress' turreted walls, kicking up clouds of dust. Clouds of black smoke rose from inside the fortress and tank fire could also be heard mixed in with bursts of machine-gun fire. 2 Israelis illed in spate of violence AFULA, Israel (AP) - Two Pales- tinians sprayed a bus station and open- air market with gunfire yesterday, killing two Israelis and wounding 14 others before being shot to death. Two U.S. envoys witnessed the immediate aftermath of the attack from the air, flying over Afula in a helicopter tour narrated by Israel's prime minister. Later, a Palestinian attacker in Gaza fired at a car and killed an Israeli woman, the military said. Three other Israelis, including a baby, were wound- ed. Israeli soldiers shot and killed the gunman, Palestinan security and Israeli military sources said. An Israeli army spokesman said the attacker fired at the convoy and threw grenades. In a faxed message to The Associated Press, the militant Hamas organization took responsibility. One of the American mediators, retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, said the bloodshed underscored the need for a truce after 14 months of fighting. "A cease-fire is what we need to get to something more comprehen- sive and lasting," he said. Two Palestinian groups - Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Brigades linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement - claimed responsi- bility for what they said was a joint attack to avenge the targeted killings of Palestinians. The Palestinian Cabinet issued a statement condemning the two attacks "and all operations targeting Israeli civilians." The gunmen were from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, about 10 miles south of Afula. They slipped into Israel, reportedly in a stolen car with Israeli plates, despite a strict security closure of the West Bank and of Jenin in particular. Only a few hours earlier Isreli trops hd withdrawn ZAMBOANGA, Philippines Hostages released by Muslim rebels Muslim rebels released dozens of hostages today in exchange for safe passage through Philippine military forces that have besieged them for more than 24 hours. They had released 21 hostages earli- er. Then, after enduring a series of assaults by war planes, helicopter gun- ships and infantry, and wading through all-night negotiations, about 250 heav- ily armed rebels loyal to renegade Muslim region Gov. Nur Misuari began boarding trucks that were to take them to safety. They left behind the hostages, esti- mated earlier at 40 to 60 people, and government negotiators took custody of them at around 1:30 p.m. today. Government negotiator Abraham Iribani said the rebels would be allowed to leave the southern city of Zamboanga and go to neighboring Zamboanga del Sur province. BOSTON Accomplice charged for massacre plot A 17-year-old girl who authorities say agreed to take part in a Columbine- style massacre at her school but spilled the secret by warning her favorite teacher that the woman was in danger was charged yesterday with conspiracy to commit murder. Amy Lee Bowman, who pleaded innocent, is the fourth teen-ager charged in what authorities say was a plan to smuggle guns under black trenchcoats into the school and emerge from a bathroom shooting to kill. Three other students - brothers Eric McKeehan, 17, and Michael McKeehan, 15; and Steven Jones, 15 - were charged earlier in the plot to kill "thugs, preps and faculty" at New Bedford High School. They pleaded innocent Monday to conspiracy to commit murder, possession of ammu- nition and other charges. MEMPHIS, Tenn. Harivard molecular biologist still mising Harvard molecular biologist Don Wiley was last seen leaving a banquet in Memphis just before midnight on Nov. 15. His rental car was found a few hours later, abandoned on a Mis- sissippi River bridge with the keys in the ignition and the tank full of gas. His family does not believe he com- mitted suicide and police say there is no evidence that the 57-year-old mar- ried father of four with no known financial or domestic problems was kidnapped or killed. But the disappearance in this time of war and anthrax attacks has attracted the attention of the FBI. Wiley is an expert on how the human immune sys- tem fights off infections and had recently investigated such dangerous viruses as AIDS, Ebola, herpes and influenza. Investigators are reviewing all possi- bilities to what might have happened. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. 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