The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 30, 2001- 7 Ground troops strive to root out Taliban, al-Qaida Taliban military reportedly e-Sharif, "fractured" with little abilit same div ac r Kabul, th to coordinate or communicate groups ar to protect WASHINGTON (AP) - The American In neig commander of the war in Afghanistan is 1,000 m assembling a mix of ground forces and air been sta power to fit the most difficult and dangerous announce phase of the military campaign: rooting out said his Taliban and al-Qaida terrorist leaders from action an caves, tunnels and other fortified hide-outs. were relea No decision has been made to commit U.S. Penta& ground troops to the mission, but Gen. Franks i Tommy Franks has made clear he will move attack pla forces closer to the key targets in case opposi- airfields tion forces cannot finish the job. repaired < About 1,000 Marines are now established at A seni a remote airfield in southern Afghanistan, and the gove nearly 100 regular Army troops from the 10th Franks co Mountain Division have moved into northern craft at an areas. lic, which In addition to about two dozen 10th Moun- Tajikistan tain soldiers posted at an airfield near Mazar- Franks RAMADAN Continued from Page 1 "Ramadan as a holiday is the same this year as it was last, but there is definitely more media attention now," said Wasseem Abaza, an LSA junior. "Hopefully events like tonight's dinner will help to teach people about Muslims and help them to understand us." "I came to meet with everyone and to bring some of my non-Muslim friends," said Razi Haque, an Engineering sopho- more. "I think the point of tonight was two-fold: to unite Mus- lims during the holy month and to teach our non-Muslim friends about our religion and our culture." Kristine Abouzahr, an Ann Arbor resident, who has been visiting local schools to teach students about Islam and Ramadan, said this year's Ramadan has been slightly more stressful than last year's holiday. "American Muslims have had a high profile in the media lately," Abouzahr said. "As a result of this added attention, Ramadan has been a bit more stressful. I feel like more people are watching what we do." Eamann Alazem, whose husband led the evening prayer, said she hopes people who participate in campus Ramadan activities will gain a greater appreciation of Islam. there are as many as 75 from the vision at Bagram airport north of e Afghan capital, officials said. Both re acting as a "rapid reaction force" U.S. interests. ghboring Uzbekistan, where about embers of the 10th Mountain have tioned for weeks, U.S. officials d that a soldier died yesterday. They death was not the result of enemy d was being investigated. No details ased, including the soldier's name. gon officials said yesterday that s considering sending additional anes to the region, while at least two in northern Afghanistan are being for possible U.S. use. or defense official said yesterday that rnment of Kyrgyzstan has given onditional approval to base U.S. air- air base in that former Soviet repub- lies to the north of Afghanistan and . must provide details, such as the numbers and kinds of aircraft, and the expect- ed length of their deployment, before Kyrgyzs- tan will give final approval. The official said Franks has not decided those details and has yet to make a formal request. Most of the U.S. planes attacking targets in Afghanistan are flying from aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea or from land bases in the Per- sian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. Some Air Force special operations helicopters are based in Uzbekistan. Small numbers of U.S. forces are in Pakistan. With only small pockets of Taliban resis- tance remaining in northern Afghanistan, the focus is on Kandahar, the southern city that gave birth to the Taliban militia movement. Franks wants to tighten the squeeze on Kanda- har with selective U.S. bombing and growing pressure from anti-Taliban forces. The chief leadership target there is Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban supreme leader. U.S. special operations forces are working with opposition commanders in the south in an effort to improve the coordination of their attacks, which so far have made little progress against the Taliban in Kandahar, officials said yesterday. Rear Adm. John Stuffiebeem said the Tal- iban military is now "fractured," with little capability to coordinate or communicate. While some are fleeing or laying down their arms, others are digging in for a long fight, he said. The southern opposition groups are in active negotiations with the Taliban for con- trol of the city, he said. If Kandahar falls, as appears likely, Franks will have further limited the territory on which his No. 1 prey - alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden -- can hide. Franks will have more options for intensifying the search in the cave complexes near Jalalabad, in east- ern Afghanistan, where some believe bin Laden is holed up. At this point Franks is hoping that $25 mil- lion in reward money offered by the U.S. gov- ernment for information leading to the capture of bin Laden and his top lieutenants :nable Afghan opposition forces to finish .-Qaida. If not, U.S. ground forces might to go after them. anks, commander of U.S. Central Com- L told The New York Times in an inter- published yesterday that he was ruling o option to achieve the goal established resident Bush - to get bin Laden and iate the al-Qaida network. That might re sending Army forces to set up an ating base like the one the Marines ished about 70 miles southwest of Kan- , he said. other option is to move the Marines their current base to one closer to Kan- r, one official said. >anwhile, U.S. strike aircraft and >ers continued to hit cave and tunnel >lexes in the vicinity of Jalalabad, as as Taliban and al-Qaida targets near lahar. Other planes are dropping leaflets >roadcasting radio messages encourag- 3fghans to help in the hunt, Stufflebeem afraid that they won't let me back into the U.S.," Khateeb said. "I feel sad that the government couldn't find a better solution. I don't know what they could do better, but the idea itself is increasing hatred towards Arabs." The event was sponsored by the ACLU and the ADC. "I think this sparked the interest of many non-Muslims. We hold these events in part to gather and break the fast, but also to teach others about our faith and customs," said Alazem, an education senior at Eastern Michigan University. Cameron Holden, an LSA senior, was brought to the dinner -called an iftar -by one of her Muslim friends. "I came because my friend invited me and because I am interested in learning more about Ramadan," Holden said. Rawan Yaqub is an LSA freshman from Saudi Arabia. "Ramadan is a little different for me this year because I am not with my family," said Yaqub. "So I came tonight to be with other Muslims during Ramadan. "Last year, in Saudi Arabia, my family and I would wake up at 5 a.m. for the daily suhoor, an early morning meal. I have noticed Muslims do not do that here. Another difference I have noticed is that during the month of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia, stores stay open later. They don't do that here." Traditionally, Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown throughout the month, which continues for two more weeks. The Ramadan Dinner was sponsored by the Muslim Stu- dents' Association, Islamic Education Society, Arab Students' Association, Egyptian Students' Association, Pakistani Stu- dents' Association, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Persian Students' Association. FBI Continued from Page 1 geting of Middle Eastern men. "It's a form of ethnic profiling. It's been deemed by the Supreme Court unconstitutional to target people by their race, gender or ethnicity. When we are all going through the same dif- ficult times, it is a terrible thing that national security purposes have taken precedence at the expense of civil lib- erties," Saba said. LSA freshman Mohammad Kha- teeb, a student from Jordan, said that although he did not receive a letter he is still concerned. "As an international student, I'm WEIGHT LOSS Continued from Page 1 ering the factors of gender, age and race, the results showed that American adults generally maintained a constant weight. The study showed that roughly 51 percent of adult men in the average ranges of body mass index -- weighing 175 pounds at a height of 5'10" - in 1986 weighed the same amount in 1999. Twenty-seven per- cent had gained a significant amount of weight, while 21 percent lost a significant amount. The results for women were similar. Fifty-five per- cent of women in the average BMI - weighing 150 pounds at a height of 5'5"- stayed within their origi- nal weight group. Twenty-eight percent of women surveyed gained weight, while 17 percent lost weight. Overall, women were more likely to lose weight during the course of the study than men. "For the majority of adults I know, this study seems to be wrong. Most adults become discouraged to stay thin as they grow older when their metabolisms slow down," Masciasz said. "Our analysis confirms anecdotal accounts that there is substantial weight mobility x the yo-yo diet effect x over the adult life course," Stafford said. Differences in healthy BMIs among races were also included in the report. For blacks, it is more dangerous to be underweight than it is for whites. ISR has not yet looked into the causes of this and Stafford said that more biomedical and socio-behavioral research is still needed. Researchers also found that the U.S. population is slowly becoming more overweight. "It's no surprise that our country is experiencing a weight drift. The culture in America fosters the tenden- cy to be obese. People's lives are getting more fast- paced and hectic," said Kate Grogh, an LSA freshman. 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