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Monday, November 5,2001
The Baytown Sun 5A
Attacks
Anthrax
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key Muslim ally in the anti-ter-
rorism campaign.
Rumsfeld, who later Sunday
went on to India, said the
Taliban were “using their power
in enclaves throughout the
country” and were “not making
major military moves.”
“They are pretty much in sta-
tic positions,” he said. Rumsfeld
said the Islamic militia was
using mosques as command
centers and as ammunition stor-
age sites to spare them from
American attack and “actively
lying about civilian casualties.”
Earlier Sunday, in
Uzbekistan, Rumsfeld gave an
assessment of the military cam-
paign’s success to date. “The
effort to deal with the problem
of terrorist networks is proceed-
ing,” Rumsfeld said. “It is, we
, believe, proceeding at a pace
that is showing measurable
progress.”
A key element of the U.S.
strategy has been to attack
Taliban positions facing the
northern alliance — especially
on the front north of Kabul and
on positions defending the
Taliban-held city of Mazar-e-
Sharif.
On Sunday, opposition
spokesman Nadeem Ashraf said
alliance forces launched a three-
pronged offensive south of
Mazar-e-Sharif in strategic
Kishanday district in Balkh
province, which borders
Uzbekistan. The spokesman
said the attack began after U.S.
jets softened up Taliban posi-
tions by heavy bombing.
Hours later, however, Ashraf
said one of the three opposition
columns, led by Uzbek warlord
Rashid Dostum, was making no
progress and the offensive was
faltering. He said Dostum’s
forces numbered only about 700
to 1,000 fighters and had “no
high morale.”
His assessment could not be
independently confirmed.
However, it points to ethnic
rivalries within the northern
alliance that have long ham-
U.S. citizen dies in Taliban custody
QUETTA Pakistan (AP) — A senior Taliban official said Sunday
that an American was arrested two weeks ago in southern
Afghanistan and later died in custody of natural causes.
John Bolton of California entered Afghanistan as a relief work-
er and was arrested at Spinboldak near the border with
Pakistan, Taliban official Amir Khan Muttaqi said by telephone
from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
He did not give his age or hometown.
In Washington, State Department officials had no comment
on the report. A spokeswoman said Sunday the department had
never confirmed an American was in custody there.
The Taliban claim they have arrested several Americans on r
spying charges since the U.S.-ied strikes started Oct. 7.
Muttaqi said Bolton died of natural causes in the hospital and ,
that his body has been handed over to the International
Committee of Red Cross. He did not say when he died.
In Geneva, ICRC spokesman Vincent Lusser said the group's
staff in Kandahar had been informed by the Taliban that there
was a body of an American.
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City health officials said the
tape was associated with .an
anthrax-laced letter sent to NBC
on Sept. 18 from Trenton, N.J.
The tape was sent to a lab for
tests on Oct. 23; the results
came back Saturday.
“We feel pretty confident that
it was cross-contaminated,” said
city Health Department gjokes-
woman Sandra Mullin. “This
not a new contamination.”
Trace amounts of anthrax also
were found in the mail room of
the Veterans Affairs Medical
center, based on tests completed
Saturday by the CDC.
Veterans Affairs spokesman
Phil Budahn said five mail
room employees have been on
antibiotics since Oct. 25 as a
precaution. He said the hospi-
tal’s 250 patients would be mon-
itored, but it was thought unlike-
ly that anthrax could have
spread beyond the mail room,
which closed Wednesday for
cleaning.
The medical center received
mail from Brentwood, a
Washington^ postal center that
processed,^ an anthrax-laced
envelope delivered to Senate
Majonty Leader Tom Daschle’s
office. A number of other
Washington area mailrooms
that receive mail from
Brentwood have showed traces
of contamination, all believed to
have come from the Brentwood
facility.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director
of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, said Sunday that the
source of the spores that caused
the death last week by inhala-
tion anthrax of Kathy T. Nguyen
in New York was unknown.
pered the opposition’s ability to
mount an effective challenge to
the Taliban. ■*
The other troops in the
Mazar-e-Sharif front are com-
manded by a close ally of the
northern alliance’s titular leader,
former Afghan president
Burhanuddin Rabbani, and by
Shiite Muslim warlord
Mohammed Mohaqik.
Opposition commanders
around the other major front,
north of Kabul, have said they
are preparing for a major offen-
sive toward the capital after days
of heavy U.S. airstrikes.
However, there have been few
signs that a major push toward
Kabul is in the offing.
President Bush ordered the
airstrikes Oct. 7 after the Taliban
repeatedly refused to surrender
Osama bin Laden, chief suspect
in the September terrorist
attacks that killed about 4,500
people in the United States.
Over the past week, U.S.
attacks have shifted from cities
to Taliban positions facing the
northern alliance.
However, opposition forces
are poorly armed and out-
gunned, and the approach of
winter is making resupply of its
front-line positions more diffi-
cult.
In Washington, Air Force
Gen. Richard Myers, the chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
acknowledged that the U.S. mil-
itary is “settling in for the long
haul.”
The Taliban “have a substan-
tial force left, but at this point
that’s~ exactly what we expect-
ed,” Myers said on NBC’s
“Meet the Press.”
He said a couple more teams
of special forces were placed in
Afghanistan in the last day or so
to work with opposition leaders
and better coordinate airstrikes.
Myers and Army Gen.
Tommy Franks, commander of
U.S. forces in the war, declined
to say whether it would take a
major deployment of U.S.
ground troops to topple1 the
Taliban.
Appearing on ABC’s “This
Week,” Franks was asked
whether he would rule out the
use of a large number of ground
forces. “Absolutely not,” he
replied.
In Pakistan, Rumsfeld
addressed the issue of a pause in
the bombing campaign during
the Islamic holy month
Ramadan, which begins around
Nov. 17. Bush has ruled out any
pause, despite appeals from
^Musharraf and other Muslim
allies.
“The reality is that the threat
of additional terrorist acts is
there,” Rumsfeld told reporters.
The United States will be sensi-
tive to the views in the region,
he added, but he declined to out-
line the U.SLmilitary plans.
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