FRIDAY,JAN.18,2002
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Powell visits Afghan leaders
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Secretary of State Colin Powell, the most senior U.S. official to visit Afghanistan in 25 years, promised Thursday the United States would help rebuild the country and wipe out the "contamination" of terrorism.
Powell told Hamid Karzai, the interim Afghan leader, the United States would make a substantial financial commitment at next week's international aid donors conference in Tokyo and that U.S. forces would be relentless in pursuing the remnants of al-Qaida and the Taliban.
"This country needs everything," Powell said on NBC's "Today" show. "It needs a banking system. It needs a health-care system. It needs a sanitation system. It needs a phone system. It needs road construction. Everything you can imagine."
Prime Minister Karzai, obviously buoyed by Powell's visit, emphasized Afghanistan's deep needs during a joint news conference at the presidential palace.
"The Afghan people have been asking for a staying commitment, a staying partnership, from the United States to Afghanistan in order to make the region safe, in order to make Afghanistan stand back on its own feet and continue to fight against terrorism or the return of terrorism in any form to this country," Karzai said.
Powell assured Karzai that Washington would be steadfast.
"We don't want to leave any contamination behind," Powell said of continuing military efforts to purge Afghanistan of terrorists. "That is in the interests of the Afghan people and certainly the mission we came here to perform."
Powell became the first secretary of state to visit Afghanistan since Henry Kissinger in 1976.
In Washington, the U.S. government released photos and video excerpts of five suspected al-Qaida members delivering what Attorney General John Ashcroft described as "martyrdom messages from suicide terrorists." Ashcroft called upon people worldwide to help "identify, locate and incapacitate terrorists who are suspected of planning additional attacks against innocent civilians."
The United States holds bin Laden and al-Qaida responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. Washington opened its military campaign in Afghanistan to rout the extremist Taliban regime which was sheltering bin Laden and his organization.
In a continuing sign of lawlessness outside Kabul, two trucks belonging to the United Nations' World Food Program were hijacked by gunmen in northern Afghanistan, the U.N. said Thursday, in the latest report of banditry hampering aid operations in the
country.
U. S. troops on Thursday were helping Afghan forces in a disarmament campaign in one of the country's most potentially volatile regions, where weapons are plentiful and law enforcement is minimal.
The joint U.S.-Afghan force was collecting weapons house to house in the southern town of Spinboldak, near the border with Pakistan in Kandahar province, once the heartland of the Taliban. Marine demolitions teams exploded old warheads for surface-to-air missiles discovered at a Taliban air-defense site, Marine officials said at a daily briefing in Kandahar, where the United States has its largest base in Afghanistan.
Despite intense U.S. airstrikes on suspected al-Qaida hideouts in Afghanistan, how many of its members remain at large is unclear. Many may have fled into Pakistan and gone into hiding in the rugged territory.
FBI releases suspect in terrorist attacks
The Associated Press
Shouting "nothing tops freedom," an Egyptian student forgave the FBI on Thursday for throwing him in jail after an aviation radio was found in his hotel room near the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
Abdallah Higazy, 30, was released late Wednesday after a month in detention because another hotel guest — a private pilot — told officials the radio was his.
"To be absolutely honest, I don't blame the FBI for thinking it was mine." Higazy said.
He offered to take two agents who interrogated him to dinner so everyone could "bury the hatchet."
However, his lawyer, Robert Dunn, said he wanted to know how investigators came to believe the handheld radio was found in a safe in Higazy's room at the Millennium Hilton Hotel when it actually belonged to someone staying one floor below his client.
Higazy, the son of an Egyptian diplomat and a former serviceman in the Egyptian Air Corps, had been charged with lying to investigators looking into the attack on the trade center.
This week, prosecutors said a hotel employee said he found the radio on a table in Higazy's room on the 51st floor.
The hotel was evacuated Sept. 11.
The Associated Press
A federal agency with top engineering technology will help with the enormous task of studying the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, officials said Thursday.
The initial investigation, which has been criticized for being too small in scope,was coordinated by a nonprofit civil engineering group funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Now, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which has examined building collapses worldwide following fires, earthquakes and other disasters, will conduct its own study to supplement the group's work.
Despite the widely accepted notion that no skyscraper could have withstood a fuel-laden jet slicing into its core, federal officials and victims' families have wanted answers to exactly why the 110-story twin towers fell.
The 23-member team already investigating the collapse expects to issue a report in April.
However, it likely will make recommendations for further research rather than provide answers, said John Durrant, executive director of the Structural Engineering Institute at the American Society of Civil Engineers, the sponsor of the inquiry.
Marines mourn 7 lost when plane crashed last week
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — With grim faces, Marines gathered yesterday to honor seven comrades who died when their refueling plane crashed last week in Pakistan.
In dress uniforms and camouflage fatigues, the troops stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego passed quietly into the base movie theater for a solemn service with relatives of the crash victims.
"The price of liberty and justice is often paid for with the lives of our nation's youth," Rear Adm. Louis V. Iasiello, the head chaplain of the Marine Corps, told the more than 1,500 people in attendance.
His words were followed by a rendition of "Amazing Grace," readings from the Bible, and remarks by officers from refueling squadron VMGR-352, also known as the Raiders.
On the grass outside the theater, the Marine Corps laid seven pairs of empty black combat boots, M-16 rifles, and helmets to honor their fallen colleagues. On the stage inside were framed photos of the Marines, each adorned with a set of military dog tags and a bouquet of flowers.
"All the things we take for granted, these guys aren't going to do again," base spokesman Maj. T.V. Johnson said.
The Jan. 9 crash on a mountainside in southwestern Pakistan was the largest loss of life for American troops in the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
"We honor you and we swear by the love we have in our hearts for you, we will happily pick up your torch and we will never forget you," Capt. Kent Kroeker said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. An all-volunteer crew left the base last week to take the place of the lost Marines.
Those killed in the crash included radio operator Sgt. Jeannette L. Winters, 25, of Gary, Ind., the first woman killed since the war in Afghanistan began in October.
began in October.
The others were Capt. Daniel G. McCollum,
29, of Irmo, S.C.; Gunnery Sgt. Stephen L.
Bryson, 36, of Montgomery, Ala.; Staff Sgt. Scott
N. Germosen, 37, of New York; Sgt. Nathan P.
Hays, 21, of Wilbur, Wash.; Lance Cpl. Bryan P.
Bertrand, 23, of Coos Bay, Ore; and Capt.
Matthew Bancroft, 29, of Redding, Calif.
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