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It was unclear whether they came from Pakistan. The assailants then headed toward the Afghan checkpoint just east of Shkin, 135 miles south of Kabul, and opened fire, wounding four Afghan soldiers. Americans sent four armored Humvees with at least 16 U.S. soldiers to the scene and called in two Harrier attack jets, Lefforge said. The attackers fled, apparently split- ting into two groups. One of the planes fired a 30 mm cannon and dropped a 1,000-pound laser-guided bomb that crashed into the house. "Coalition forces never intentionally target civilian locations," Lefforge said. "The bomb missed the intended target and landed on the house." Whether "it was a technical mal- function or bad coordinates or anything like that, we just simply don't know yet," Lefforge said. American troops arriving at the bomb site found one injured survivor and took him and the four wounded Afghan soldiers to a U.S. base near the eastern town of Khost. No U.S. sol- diers were injured. "To the families of the Afghan citi- zens accidentally killed in a bombing in Afghanistan ... we send our sincere con- dolences," Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon briefing yester- day. "We sincerely regret the incident." Mohammed Ali Jalali, the governor of eastern Paktika province where Shkin is located, condemned the killings and said he discussed the inci- dent with U.S. officials. "They were neither al-Qaida nor Tal- iban," Jalali told The Associated Press by telephone. "They were only inno- cent civilians." The last time American forces caused major civilian casualties was July 1, when 48 civilians were killed and 117 more were wounded by fire from an Air Force AC-130 gunship that attacked several villages in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, according to Afghan officials. WAR Continued from Page 1A The medical system was overrun with civilian casualties in Basra and Baghdad, cities where some of the fiercest fighting has occurred. Doctors said 35 bodies and as many as 300 wounded Iraqis were brought to the al- Kindi hospital in the capital Tuesday. Saddam's whereabouts remained a mystery, especially so since a bomb- ing Monday night on a building where U.S. intelligence officials believed he and at least one of his sons were meeting. U.S. special operations forces scoured the site , looking for remains or other evi- dence that the four bombs may have killed the Iraqi leader. Russia's For- eign Ministry denied that Saddam had taken refuge in Moscow's embassy in Baghdad. There was scattered fighting in the capital, including at Baghdad Universi- ty, where Iraqis were cornered, the river at their backs. Fires burned in the city after dark - the Ministry of Transport and Communication was ablaze - and gunfire persisted. But Pentagon offi- cials characterized it as sporadic attacks from pockets of resistance, and said U.S. troops had been through most areas of the capital. Increasingly, American and British forces were turning their effort to humanitarian assistance in the south- ern part of the country, and their firepower on northern regions not yet under their control. Warplanes bombed Tikrit, Sad- dam's birthplace about 100 miles north of the capital, in advance of ground forces moving in. American commandos and Kurdish peshmerga fighters seized a key mountaintop in northern Iraq, eliminating an Iraqi air defense installation near the gov- ernment-held citv of Mosul. MOSCOW Boarding school fire kills 28, injures 100 A fire raged through a boarding school for the deaf in southern Rus- sia early today, killing 28 children and injuring about 100 others, Russ- ian media reported. Rescue efforts at the school in Makhachkala were slowed since each of the children had to be awakened individually because they could not hear alarms, NTV television reported. Four of the injured children were listed in serious condition. Makhachkala is located near the Caspian Sea about 950 miles south- east of Moscow. The fire came on the heels of a deadly school blaze in northern Siberia earlier this week. A two- story, old wooden school in a village in the republic of Yakutia was com- pletely destroyed in the fire Monday, which killed 22 students between the ages of 11 and 18 and injured at least 10. JERUSALEM Abbas delays naming Palestinian officials The newly appointed Palestinian prime minister delayed naming his gov- ernment yesterday because of a dispute with Yasser Arafat over who should be in charge of the region's security forces. Prime minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas' delay came as five Palestinians, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed during clashes with Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip. The two events were not South Korea's president will make his first trip to thesUnited States next month to seek a peaceful solution to the standoff with North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear programs, his office said yesterday. Roh Moo-hyun will meet President Bush on May 14 and spend five days in Washington, New York and San Francisco, Roh's office said in a statement. Washington wants to settle the nuclear crisis through multilateral channels, say- ing North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons programs threaten not just Ameri- can interests but also those of Russia, China, Japan and South Korea. But North Korea wants one-on-one talks to negotiate a nonaggression treaty. It has accused the United States of planning to invade once it is done fighting in Iraq. Roh and Bush "will hold in-depth discussions to forge a common stance on bringing about a peaceful resolution to the North Korean nuclear issue," the state- ment from Roh's office said. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said yesterday the meeting will reaffirm the nations' commitment "as full partners to bring about a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue" and to promote bilateral economic ties. The nuclear dispute flared in October when U.S. officials said North Korea admitted having a secret nuclear program in violation of a 1994 pact. BEIJING China accused of concealing spread of SARS A prominent Chinese doctor charged yesterday that the mainland government covered up details of the spread of SARS in Beijing, and an American man with the disease was declared dead in Hong Kong after being driven across the border in an ambulance. Other parts of Asia nervously invoked extra precautions to contain severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has infected around 2,700 people globally and killed at least 106. The accusations of a government cover-up from Jiang Yanyong, retired chief of surgery for a Beijing military hospital, came as news surfaced that one of Bei- jing's hospitals had shut down because of SARS. Jiang said doctors and nurses at two other hospitals told him at least seven deaths have occurred in their hospitals and that there were 106 cases of the disease in Beijing - more than five times the figure announced by authorities. The Health Ministry reports four deaths and 19 cases in Beijing. Doctors and administrators reached by telephone at the hospitals cited by Jiang refused to comment. related. The choice for the post of interior minister could determine the credibility of a new government, which Western mediators and Israel hope will crack down on Palestinian militants. Abbas favors former Gaza strong- man Mohammed Dahlan, who also is backed by international mediators and is seen as likely to try to rein in mili- tants. Arafat wants to retain his long- time aide Hani al-Hassan, who has served as interior minister for months but has made no serious move toward reforms, officials have said. HAVANA Cuba: Quick trials a defense agaist U.S. Cuba defended its speedy prosecution of 75 dissidents, saying yesterday it had to protect itself against U.S. attempts to subvert the government. It also main- tained that the cases' timing had nothing to do with war in Iraq. The United States, which has dis- missed the Cuban allegations, con- demned the crackdown. "This is symptomatic of the dictatorship of the Cuban regime," White House press sec- retary Ari Fleischer said yesterday. The known sentences for 57 of the government opponents who were tried ranged from 6 to 28 -years. The remain- ing 18 sentences were expected by week's end. None of the trials has lasted more than one day, activists said. There were no reports of acquittals. "We have been patient, we have been tolerant," Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said. "But we have been obligat- ed to apply our laws." - Compiled from Daily wire reports. ; you know you want to 10, v vie rtu ot, Q\.o ~ sou ~f eA c r ....... I The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by stu- dents at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $105. Winter term (January through April) is $110, yearlong (September through April) is $190. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be pre- paid. 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