2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 29, 2002 --NATION/WORLD 0 Karzai: Bin Laden is a fugitive WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States will play a leading role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, including helping the nation build its own military, President Bush said yesterday as he stood with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. Bush also announced $50 million in U.S. loan aid to help rebuild the war-battered nation. "The United States will continue to be a friend to the Afghan people," Bush said. In a joint Rose Garden appearance, Karzai thanked the United States for its help in driving the Taliban from power and wiping out Osama bin Laden's al- Qaida terror forces in his country. "We will not allow terrorism to return," he said, speaking in English. "This joint struggle against terrorism should go to the absolute end of it. ... We should bring them out of their caves, out of their hide-outs," Karzai said. As to bin Laden's whereabouts, Karzai said: "We are looking for him. He is a fugitive. If we find him, we'll catch him." Karzai had expressed interest in having U.S. forces remain in his country as part of a multina- tional peacekeeping force. Bush ruled out such a direct role, but said the Unit- ed States will support the international security force and stands ready to help if its "troops get in trouble." But more significantly, Bush said, "We're going to help Afghanistan develop her military. That is the most important part of this visit." He said that Gen. Tommy Franks, head of U.S. forces in the region, "fully understands this and is fully committed to this idea." The United States will also support programs to train Afghan police officers, Bush said. "I reaffirm to you today that the United States will continue to be a friend to the Afghan people in all the challenges that lie ahead," Bush said. "Afghanistan is a good partner. It will stay a good partner," Karzai responded. Earlier, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said he did not envision a U.S. role in the peace- keeping force. U.S Special forces aid WASHINGTON Bush will remain silent in Enron case Setting the stage for a showdown with congressional Enron investigators, President Bush said yesterday he will not identify the executives who met with him about energy policy. "It's an encroachment on the executive branch's ability to conduct business," he said. The head of the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, said he will decide this week whether to sue to force the White House to turn over documents on the meetings Vice President Dick Cheney held with energy com- panies. They included the now-collapsed Enron Corp., a Houston-based compa- ny with deep ties to Bush. Bush said that as president he reserves the right to hold private consultations about policy. Like Cheney, who predicted this matter will be resolved in court, Bush said he would resist the GAO's efforts. "In order for me to be able to get good, sound opinions, those who offer me opinions, or offer the vice president opinions, must know that every word they say is not going to be put into the public record," Bush said. "We're not going to let the ability for us to discuss matters between our- selves to become eroded." LAGOS, Nigeria. Hundreds pulled out of rubble in Nigeria Rescuers pulled hundreds of bodies from a canal yesterday after a series of explosions at a munitions depot destroyed homes and businesses in Nigeria's commercial capital, witnesses and rescue workers said. 1 Panicked residents ran and drove into the Oke Afa canal as they fled the blasts Sunday evening at the nearby Ikeja military base. They apparently didn't realize how deep the water was and drowned, witnesses said. Parts of the canal were covered with water hyacinths. Ben Nwachukwu, a businessman helping as a volunteer in the rescue effort, said he saw about 200 bodies plucked out of the water in one small section of the canal. Other workers said they were retrieving large numbers of bodies from elsewhere on the waterway. A stretch of canal between five and seven miles was being searched. Lagos State Police Commissioner Mike Okiro confirmed the events, but had no details on casualties. More than 200 bodies were pulled from the water, the independent Rhythm FM radio station reported. At least 35 corpses could be seen in the water, on the grass and in the backs of trucks being driven away. raid on Ara The Washington Post KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - With a hail of bullets and grenades, about 100 Afghan troops and 20 .U.S. Special forces stormed a hospital prison ward here early yesterday afternoon, killing six injured Arab fighters who had been barricaded inside for 50 days. The 10-hour siege, which ended in an intense, 45-minute barrage of gunfire and grenade booms, wiped out the lasteknown pocket of resistance in this southern Afghan city by mem- bers of the al-Qaida network allied with the col- lapsed Taliban militia and Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden. But other groups of Taliban and al-Qaida forces are still believed to be operating in the surrounding countryside, and U.S. special forces, working with Afghan troops, have been conducting frequent raids on their suspected -hideouts. One such raid last week in a village 60 miles north of here proved controversial. American military officials called the attack a success, claiming the forces had killed 15 fighters and captured 27. But the raid drew protests from b fighters local Afghan leaders, who claimed the dead included civilians who had been negotiating the surrender of Taliban troops. In yesterday's siege at Mirwais Hospital, five Afghan troops were wounded before and during the final assault in which the attacking forces moved from room, hurling concussion grenades and then spraying gunfire. One Afghan soldier was shot in the head and sent to the U.S. base at Kandahar Airport for treatment. There were no American casualties. Afghan and U.S. military forces said the Arabs had refused two separate orders to sur- render since early morning and instead fought back fiercely with pistols and grenades. At least one Arab blew himself up with a grenade, and by 1:45 p.m., all six were dead. "It is all over. They fought until the last drop of their blood," said Khalid Pashtun, a senior advisor to the provincial governor, as he left the hospital in a truck full of Afghan troops shortly after the assault ended. "We gave them an ultimatum and we said their lives would be spared, but they would not lis- ten. We had no other choice." AP PHOTO Afghanistan interim leader Amid Karzai stands among American flags yesterday in the Rose Garden of the White House, during his visit with Pres. Bush. P GOfES CALL 76-DAILY y. Cancun, Acapulco, Mazatlan, Www OMETC.A~com amaica, Bahamas & S.Padre Israeli troops I 11I w nnV 9_ttI 1 I t call Nnw! 1 H[3Q.7H7.;7H7 11 I l\ L diA P OVY; i Ovu-rar-aror - DEAN ROBERT J. DOLAN UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BUSINESS SCHOOL INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A DEAN'S SPEAKERS SERIES JEFFREY B. SWARTZ PRESIDENT AND CEO TIMBERLAND CO. WILL PRESENT "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: IMPACTING THE BOTTOM LINE" WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2002 4:30 PM HALE AUDITORIUM CORNER OF TAPPAN & HILL guard Jrusalem JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli secu- rity forces flooded downtown Jerusalem yesterday, taking up promi- nent positions on sidewalks and rooftops a day after the latest bomb attack. Israel's government weighed a response as it tried to determine the political affiliation of the female bomber. A Palestinian man was shot and killed on the outskirts of Tel Aviv after driving his car through a roadblock, running down and injuring an Israeli soldier and a policeman. The motive of the Palestinian motorist was not clear - Palestinian police said the man was a car thief, and Israeli police said they did not find any weapons on the man. However, Gideon Ezra, the deputy minister of internal security, said that anyone who "runs over a soldier, and then a police- man ... is a terrorist." In Jerusalem, soldiers were sta- tioned every few yards along Jaffa Street, the busy thoroughfare where the bomber killed herself and an elder- ly Israeli man Sunday. Marksmen were stationed on rooftops yesterday, and police from the anti-terrorism unit cruised up and down the street on motorcycles. About a dozen people were hurt in Sunday's bombing and more than 100 were treated for shock. American Mark Sokolow, 43, who survived the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, was among those injured. His wife Rina and their daughters Jamie and Lauren were also hurt, though none of the injuries was life-threatening. The family, from Woodmere, N.Y., was visiting a third daughter who is studying in Jerusalem. "I heard a loud whoosh, like a bang, and I kind of saw things flying around a little bit, and then I realized I was able to get up and walk around," Sokolow told Israel television from his hospital bed. On Sept. 11, Sokolow was working on the 38th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower when the first hijacked airliner slammed into the north tower. His office was evacuated and he escaped unharmed before the second plane hit the south tower. Yesterday, Palestinian security forces evacuated several buildings in West Bank towns. fearing Israeli retal- WASHINGTON Congress members push for balance House conservatives looking ahead to the November elections are trying to persuade Republican congressional leaders to produce a balanced budget, but are so far being met with skepti- cism. The campaign comes as President Bush prepares to submit a $2.1 tril- lion budget to Congress next wleek that projects an $80 billion deficit for next year. The last budget to pro- pose an annual deficit was submit- ted in February 1997 by. then-President Clinton. The conservative effort also comes just over nine months before elections in which control of the House and Senate are at stake. Some Republi- cans say they worry that another round of big spending increases - mostly for defense and homeland security - will turn off conservative and many independent voters. QUITO, Ecuador Ecuadorean plane crashes in Andes An Ecuadorean jetliner carrying 92 people, including seven children, crashed in Colombia yesterday in the fogbound mountains of the Andes, the airline said. The Boeing 727-100 from Ecuador's TAME airline originated in the capital, Quito, and was headed to the Ecuadore- an border city of Tulcan, 110 miles to the northeast. Its flight plan took it over the Colombian city of Ipiales, the airline said. It crashed near Ipiales, just over the border from Tulcan, said TAME spokeswoman Toa Quirola. "We don't have any more information at this time," she said. The mayor's office of Ipiales said the city was foggy at the time the plane went down. Diego Valle- jo, a spokesman for the Ecuadorean Red Cross, said rescue workers knew where the plane crashed but that they hadn't been able to reach the site. NEW.YORK WTC photo exhibit too popular to close A World Trade Center photography exhibit created after the Sept. I 1 attacks has been trying to shut its doors since Thanksgiving, but cannot stop the hordes of viewers, who demand it remain open. The SoHo exhibit, "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs," has become a shrine of sorts, drawing 3,500 New Yorkers and tourists each day, as people search for some way to connect emotionally with the tragedy. "People go to Ground Zero and there's nothing left to see," exhibit publicist Amy Wentz said. "So we're finding most of the people who come here now are tourists. This sort of allows them to bear witness." Michael Shulan is a co-founder of the exhibit, as well as co-owner of the Prince Street storefront that houses it rent free. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 0 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday (ring the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, startin in September, via U.S. mail are $105. 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