2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 12, 2002 NATION/WORLD 0 Soldi'oers prep for last Afghan push NEWS IN BRIEF r'ATVTTV7 Ac ,. ,... A _ - "'..y- I GARD.)E, Afghanistan (AP) - Tanks and trucks theimpact of the bombs. troops from the 10th Mountain Division and the 101st rarar nn m rwTCAfr~o++. U r~ a T --11r0--- it carrie~ti,uvu uu ore u.N.-aiut -Atgian ighters to the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan yesterday to reinforce American troops closing in on al-Qaida and Taliban holdouts. In preparation for a final push, high-flying U.S. B-1 bombers pounded remaining enemy positions on a ridgeline known to U.S. troops as "the whale" in the frigid Shah-e-Kot mountains. U.S. special forces were seen moving nearby as clouds of dark smoke rose from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, speaking on the steps of the Pentagon, said he hoped allied forces would finish "mopping up" the area by week's end. Afghan commander Mohammed Ismail Khan estimated that three-fourths of the enemy force, once said to number about 1,000 fighters, had been killed. As ground fighting subsided, hundreds of U.S. Airborne Division rotated back to Bagram air base north of Kabul. Several Chinook helicopters set down yesterday at the base, in the shadow of the towering Hindu Kush mountain range, disgorging muddy, weary soldiers from the front lines. Rumsfeld said there were still more than 800 U.S. soldiers operating in the 60-square-mile Shah-e-Kot Valley. GAZA STRIP, Gaza Strip Gunbattle kills 17 Palestinians in camp Israeli tanks and troops stormed into a Gaza Strip refugee camp late yesterday and waged a fierce gunbattle that killed at least 17 Palestinians, overshadowing Israel's decision to end Yasser Arafat's confinement. The raid, which raged past midnight, was one of several major Israeli army operations that left 23 Palestinians dead in a day of fighting that came as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Israel would no longer confine Arafat at his West Bank town headquarters in Ramallah. Early this morning, Israel sent tanks rumbling into Ramallah after rounding up more than 1,000 Palestinian men for interrogation yesterday in two raids in search of militants elsewhere in the West Bank. Most of the casualties came as 20 Israeli tanks supported by helicopter gun- ships roared into northern Gaza late yesterday, exchanging heavy fire with Pales- tinian security forces and gunnien on the edge of the Jebaliya refugee camp. The Israeli army said the raid came shortly after Palestinian militants fired mortar rounds at a Jewish settlement. It said nobody was injured by the shells. The tanks and helicopters fired heavy machine guns, while troops seized sever- al "buildings on the edge of Jebaliya and took up positions on the rooftops, wit- nesses said. WASHINGTON CIA: Missile threat now greater than ever 6 Leave a Lasting The biggest U.S. risk from nuclear, biological or chemical weapons is from ter- rorists more likely to use a truck than a missile, a CIA official says. The missile threat, though, is greater than ever. "The probability that a missile with a weapon of mass destruction will be used against U.S. forces or interests is higher today than during most of the Cold War, and it will continue to grow as the capabilities of potential adversaries mature," Robert Walpole told a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee panel yesterday. But there is an even greater threat that such a weapon will be delivered without benefit of a missile "because non-missile delivery means are less costly, easier to acquire, more reliable and accurate," he said. Such weapons also "can be used without attribution," he said, referring to the fact that a missile can be traced back to the country that launched it. "The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have demonstrated that our enemies can strike American soil directly without having to put the time and money into a ballistic missile with a return address," said Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), chairman of the committee's international security and proliferation panel. 10 F HEY MICHIGAN WOLVERINES, MAKE YOUR CLIMB TO THE TOP AWHOLE LOT SHORTER. START YOUR CAREER OFF AT A HIGHER LEVEL. Dynamic, cutting edge, revolutionizing the industry .. Were Quicken Loans, powered by Intuit, maker of Quicken and Turbo Tax', the nation's leading online mortgage lenderYoull learn from the best in the business and experience unlimited growth opportunity, all in a great, casual environment. 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We are not goingto' let it become a failed state again," Blair said. Cheney said he had come to Britain because "the president want- ed me to check in first with the prime minister." HARARE, Zimbabwe Police take action in Zimbabwean election Police fired tear gas to disperse voters yesterday at the close of a chaotic, court- ordered third day of polling in the most competitive presidential election in Zim- babwe's history. Police also fired guns into the air at a polling station in the Harare neighbor- hood of Glen Norah to disperse 600 peo- ple waiting to vote yesterday night. When told to go home, they began chanting "Change, change, we want to vote!" At another polling station in the capi- tal, the presiding officer, escorted by police, marked a distance 100 yards from the entrance and announced the voting line ended there. Voters refused to budge and began arguing with police and officials. "Since independence I've never seen such a thing and I wonder why they've done so." said F. Ncube, a 50-year-old factory worker. WASHINGTON Arctic wiliffe may lead to drilling jobs Pitching the president's energy agenda, Interior Secretary Gale Norton told a farm group in Arkansas last week that oil drilling in an Arctic wildlife refuge would produce more than 700,000 jobs. She also cited the number at stops in Missouri and Indiana - and has used it in recent months on talk shows, in speeches and in newspaper op-ed arti- cles. But some independent economists call the figure highly suspect, based on a 12-year-old study using assumptions that may or may not be valid. A separate study for the Energy Department esti- mates about a third as many jobs. Envi- ronmentalists say a more accurate number - though disputed as well - would be about 50,000. 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