2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 4, 2002 NATION/WORLD *I U.S. air raids try to pin renegades NEWS a BRIEFi HEDINES__FROM__AOUND____E _______ " '4 SURMAD, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. bombers pounded al-Qaida and Taliban positions in the eastern mountains of Afghanistan yesterday after yesterday's 1,500-strong coali- tion ground attack failed to dislodge the well-armed renegades. No major ground action was reported yesterday. However, U.S. Chinook heli- copters ferried in supplies to American and other troops still in the hills, a local commander said, signaling preparations for a new round of ground fighting. Afghan troops warned the operation to dislodge the regrouping Taliban and al-Qaida forces from their hide-outs in the mountain caves here in Paktia province was far from over. "You can't do everything in one oper- ation," said Raza Khan, an Afghan fighter recovering from Saturday's bat- tle at the hospital in the provincial capi- tal, Gardez. "This is Afghanistan. This is a guerrilla war." Leaflets dropped by U.S. aircraft on the arid plains of the province urged res- idents to cooperate: "Hand over Taliban and al-Qaida or you will be destroyed. Come forward with information about Taliban and al-Qaida," read the leaflets, written in Afghanistan's two most com- mon languages, Pashtu and Dari. One American soldier and three Afghan fighters were killed Saturday on the first day of the ground operation, the Pentagon said. Six Americans were injured and airlifted out, a doctor at Gardez hospital said. The assault, which began with bombing raids late Friday, was believed to be the largest joint U.S.- Afghan military operation of the 5- month-old terrorism war. Pro-U.S. Afghan troops approached the hide- outs from three directions to isolate the renegades and prevent them from escaping. Yesterday's operations were mostly limited to airstrikes as B-52s and other warplanes repeatedly pounded targets in the Shah-e-Kot mountains 20 miles east of Surmad and the Kharwar range to the west in Logar province. The bombardments sent thick, black plumes of smoke above the snowcapped peaks and shook the ground in Surmad, where a constant stream of bombers streaked overhead. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba War detainees continue hunger strike * Scores of captives from the Afghan war refused meals yesterday in a protest that has lasted five days, but the U.S. military said only 13 of them had kept to the hunger strike since its start. The military revealed the new tally after officials finished a cell-by-cell count of those who had refused food since the start of the protest on Wednesday. The announcement coincided with a visit yesterday by FBI Director Robert Mueller, who arrived in the afternoon and was whisked away for a tour of the detention compound known as Camp X-ray. "He wanted to visit our people on the ground there and to touch base with other agency representatives," said FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weierman. Mueller didn't comment to reporters on his agency's role, but Weierman said FBI officials have been among investigators interviewing detainees. Meanwhile, 91 of the 300 detainees at Guantanamo Bay refused breakfast and 81 declined lunch yesterday, military officials said. "We have 13 individuals who have not eaten at all since this hunger strike start- ed," said Marine Capt. Joe Kloppel, a spokesman for the detention mission at this U.S. outpost in southeastern Cuba. "Others have had at least one meal since this whole thing started." MODESTO, Calif. Condit may see trouble in primary election * AP PHOTO Afghans check leaflets dropped by U.S. planes as thousands of white strips of paper lay scattered across the plains of Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province. Israel leaders vow to step up amttacks JERUSALEM (AP) - Taking aim from a hilltop, a sniper killed 10 soldiers and civilians at a checkpoint yester- day in the deadliest of a two-day string of Palestinian attacks that killed 21 Israelis. Israel sent tanks and helicopters on retaliatory raids that hit several Palestinian Authority security targets, killing four Palestinian policemen, while Prime Minis- ter Ariel Sharon and his Cabinet weighed additional military action. Following the weekend bloodletting, Sharon huddled with senior government ministers and security officials and his office. The group issued a statement just before midnight saying that the inner security Cabinet had approved military plans for ongoing attacks on Palestinian tar- gets. "Ministers approved an operational program presented by the army to apply constant military pressure on the Palestin- ian Authority and the Palestinian terror organizations," the statement said. "Its object is to halt Palestinian terror." It gave no further details. Recent days have seen some of the worst carnage in months, and bitter comments by both sides pointed to fur- ther confrontations. "There is no alternative but to put an end to (Palestinian leader Yasser) Arafat's rule," Israeli Cabinet Minister Dan Naveh said in remarks that are-expressed with increasing frequency in Israel. Speaking during an official visit to Mexico, Israeli Presi- dent Moshe Katsav also denounced Arafat and called on kils 499 AHMADABAD, India (AP) - Muslims in the western state of Gujarat were still too frightened to leave their homes or return to those they fled, fearing more attacks from Hindus after five days of mob vio- lence that claimed another 14 lives yesterday. As the death toll rose to 499, the violence spread beyond the borders AP PHOTO of Gujarat. eer Police said a Muslim vendor was stabbed to death yesterday while followers of both faiths threw rocks vement at each other in Aligarh, a city with s," Kat- a history of Muslim-Hindu violence in the central state of Uttar Pradesh. olence," Some 2,000 paramilitary troops were sent to the city. ked to A curfew was imposed to prevent ity for further clashes. 12-hour Muslims began the wave of vio- )rning, lence that has gripped Gujarat since last Wednesday, when a group of pushed them attacked a trainload of Hindu ank last nationalists and set it on fire. for ear- The 58 deaths provoked a retalia- tory rampage by Hindus. The 10-month saga of the missing intern and the embattled congressman reach- es a turning point Tuesday as voters decide what the next chapter holds for Rep. Gary Condit. It's the toughest race Condit has faced in a 30-year career that has carried him from City Hall in Ceres, a farming town in the middle of the state, to the state Capitol and on to Congress. And some voters can't wait for the turmoil to be over. A year ago, no one could have expected that Condit would even face opposition in tomorrow's primary election. Then Modesto native Chandra Levy, 24, vanished from Washington in May and Condit's political fortunes changed. Washington police sources have said Condit admitted he had an affair with Levy, although in media interviews he has refused to reveal the exact nature of their relationship. Law enforcement officials have said he is not a suspect in her disappearance. 0 Bystanders watch an Ultra-orthodox Jew from a volunti group collect dried blood and other human remains. Palestinians to question his leadership. "The Palestinian people should ask which achie their president brought to them in the last 18 month say said in Mexico City. "He must, he should do something to stop the vio he added. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militia lin Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibil three of the four lethal attacks carried out in a 1 period from Saturday night to yesterday mo including the checkpoint shooting. Militants had vowed to strike after Israeli forces' into two Palestinian refugee camps in the West B Thursday in search of militants believed responsiblei lier violence. PASADENA, Md. Innocent man shot in face by FBI agent A 20-year-old man riding in a car with his girlfriend was mistakenly shot in the face by an FBI agent who was seeking a bank robber. Joseph Schultz was in serious but sta- ble condition yesterday at a Baltimore hospital. He suffered a gunshot wound to the cheek, said Charles Ravenell of the Anne Arundel County police. Schultz has no connection to the bank robbery, FBI officials said. Schultz and his girlfriend, 16-year-old Krissy Harkum, were pulled over in Pasadena late Friday, authorities said. FBI agents were attempting to serve an arrest warrant based on the descrip- tion of a bank robber, The Washington Post reported yesterday. Harkum's father, Joseph Harkum, said the agent ordered the two to put their hands up, and then fired, hitting Schultz once. NEW YORK Internet loses novelty appeal for Americans As Americans gain online experi- ence, the nature of their Internet usage is shifting from quantity to quality. A study released yesterday found that as the Internet becomes less of a novel- ty, veterans spend less time online and e-mail their friends and family less often. But they use their online time to do more tasks and are more likely than newcomers to share worries or seek advice. "People get more serious;' said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which conduct- ed the study. "It's a story about how the Internet is working its way into every- day rhythms of life." Suggesting people are becoming less dazzled by the Internet, 12 percent of people who e-mail relatives did so every day in March 2001, compared with 21 percent a year earlier. WASHINGTON Congress investigates nursing home care In a videotaped deathbed interview, Helen Love sat with a metal band pinned to her skull and described a beating she said was delivered by a caretaker at her Sacramento, Calif., nursing home after she soiled herself. Love died two days later from the trau- ma. The nursing home workerevent1ly pleaded no contest in the 1998 attack and served just a year in prison. An 18-month congressional investiga- tion has concluded that many physical and sexual abuse cases in nursing homes are not treated the same way as similar crimes elsewhere. The Senate Special Committee on Aging was to present its findings at a hearing today. 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