WEDNESDAY, APRIL3. 2002
WORLD
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 7A
Israeli attack kills 13 Palestinians
The Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel seized control of Bethlehem and another West Bank town yesterday in a day of wild fighting that left at least 13 Palestinians dead. Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity, where tradition says Jesus was born, and Israeli tanks and helicopters pounded the headquarters of a Palestinian security chief.
Amid what has become the fiercest Israeli offensive in 18 months of conflict, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat angrily rejected an Israeli offer to free him from confinement in his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah — provided he goes into exile. Arafat spent a fifth straight day pinned down by Israeli troops and tanks, his compound now ringed by barbed wire.
Israeli troops pressed ahead with house-to-house searches for Palestinian militants and weapons as part of what Israel calls "Operation Protective Wall" — aimed at halting terror attacks targeting Israels.
In the seventh such attack in as many days, a Palestinian man blew himself up yesterday, when security forces stopped him at a checkpoint in Baka al-Sharklyeh, a Palestinian village along the line between Israel and the West Bank. The man detonated explosives strapped around his body, killing himself but not injuring others, the military said.
In a dramatic gesture that underscored hardships caused by the Israeli incursion, Palestinians buried 15 of their dead in a hospital parking lot in Ramallah. Families of the dead had been unable to claim the bodies, which were decomposing in a hospital morgue because power cuts made refrigeration impossible. Relatives wailed and gunfire from fighting echoed as the bodies were placed in common graves carved out by a bulldozer one for 13 men, one for two women.
Ramallah residents, though, got a respite of a few hours from a curfew that has been in effect since Israeli tanks and troops moved on Friday. People poured into the shops, lugging away canisters of cooking oil and plastic bags bullying with pita bread. Canned goods were popular, as many people have no electricity and perishable food has been rotting in refrigerators.
By nightfall, most of the about 400 Palestinians trapped in the compound of West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub near Ramal-
ian had surrendered to Israeli troops, in a deal brokered by U.S. and European officials. About eight men remained inside. The sprawling compound was battered by the Israeli onslaught, with gaping holes punched in rooftops and building facades.
Holy places were not immune from violence that raged the length and breadth of the West Bank. Dozens of armed Palestinians were holed up inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, which is built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born. About 20 of the gunmen were wounded and being tended to by nuns, according to witnesses trapped in the church compound.
The armed men, some of them Palestinian policemen, forced their way into the church after running battles with Israeli troops firing from helicopter gunships and from tankmounted machine guns. At nightfall, the bodies of four gunmen lay sprawled just off Manger Square, where the church is located.
As the fighting intensified, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon proposed publicly for the first time that diplomats fly Arafat into exile. Sharon noted such a move would require Cabinet approval, but the Palestinians rejected the offer out of hand.
16 al-Qaida suspects arrested in Pakistan raid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Police raided more suspected al-Qaida hideouts, arresting 16 people in an ongoing crackdown against Osama bin Laden's terror network in Pakistan, officials said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Meanwhile, the country's major Islamic parties called on the government to end military cooperation with the United States in the war on terrorism and announced plans for nationwide protests against Israel's military offensive against the Palestinians
— a move the clerics sought to link to U.S. policies.
The latest raids occurred Monday afternoon at two houses in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, a senior police official said. Two of the 16 people arrested are Pakistani and the other 14 are foreigners, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said most of the
foreigners are Arabs — Saudis, Libyans and Syrians — but "a few" are Afghans.
All admitted they had entered Pakistan after the collapse of Taliban rule in Afghanistan last year, Lahore police chief Javed Noor said. Other police officials said they expected further raids on suspected al-Qaida hideouts in Punjab province, which includes Lahore.
Officials said none of the 16 were believed to be major figures in the terrorist network. However, one suspect told interrogators that Taliban and al-Qaida fighters were regrouping near the Afghan village of Ziruk in Paktika province, about 20 miles from the Pakistani border.
Monday's raids were done by Pakistani police, authorities said. Yesterday, FBI and Pakistani teams raided hideouts in Lahore and Faisalabad, arresting about 60 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives, including one of
bin Laden's chief lieutenants,
Abu Zubaydah.
In Washington, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Zubaydah's arrest was a "very serious blow" to the terrorist network, but Americans were still threatened by bin Laden's followers.
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf praised the raids yesterday during a news conference on his first visit to Afghanistan. Musharraf said the raids showed Pakistani authorities were capable of hunting down al-Qaida and the Taliban without cross-border "hot pursuit" operations by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Acknowledging U.S. intelligence assistance, Musharraf said it was "Pakistani law enforcement agencies and Pakistani intelligence organizations that moved against them very successfully."
Pakistan had been a strong supporter of the Afghan Taliban
and had clandestinely supported Islamic extremist groups elsewhere until Musharraf reversed that policy following the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.
Musharraf allowed U.S. forces use of Pakistani bases and airspace to pursue the military campaign that toppled the Taliban in December. Pakistani intelligence also shared information on the Taliban and al-Qaida with its partners in the U.S.-led coalition.
Yesterday, five major religious parties announced plans to resume their campaign against Musharraf, using public discontent over Israeli actions against Palestinians to raise opposition to the military-led government and its American allies.
At a joint news conference, the parties demanded an end to Pakistan's military cooperation with the United States and urged Musharraf to order U.S. troops out of the country.
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