WEDNESDAY,SEPT.26,2001
WORLD
Finding allies in Afghanistan a tough job for United States
The Associated Press
QUETTA, Pakistan — To figure out who is on Washington's side in Afghanistan is a bewildering task. There's a man who once declared a war of his own on America, and another who played host to Osama bin Laden when he first came to Afghanistan.
The shifting forces in a country steeped in tribal rivalries now boil down to the Taliban militia and the northern alliance — currently the United States' only identifiable friend in Afghanistan.
The northern alliance, which has resisted the Taliban since it
seized power exactly five years ago tomorrow, is headed by a scholar and poet named Burhanuddin Rabbani. Rabbani is still recognized as Afghanistan's president by the United States and other Western powers, and holds Afghanistan's U.N. seat.
Rabbani, in his 60s, studied at Egypt's pre-eminent Islamic university, Al Azhar, and his followers call him "teacher."
Then there's his deputy prime minister, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. He heads Islamic Unity, the only opposition party whose membership is largely Pashtun. 60 percent of Afghanistan's 21 million
people—and most of the roughly 30,000 Taliban fighters — are Pashtuns.
Sayyaf and the Taliban have shared similar views. Like Osama bin Laden, the Taliban's guest and prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on America, Sayyaf has loudly protested the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the site of Islam's holiest shrines. He has even offered to wage war to remove the Americans.
During the nine-year Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Sayyaaf's party received millions in Saudi aid, but the money was cut off when he backed Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
Mideast peace talks set for today
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — High-level Israeli-Palestinian truce talks were set for today, following several delays and intense U.S. pressure, officials said.
The announcement raised hopes the talks could pave the way for a gradual end to the year of violence that has shattered peace hopes and killed more than 800 people, four-fifths of them Palestinians.
Israel would not confirm the time and place of the meeting between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, but Palestinian officials said it
would be at Gaza airport this morning.
In his first interview on Palestinian TV since fighting erupted, Peres said yesterday that "the meeting was prepared properly, in my view, and it is being held in an atmosphere of agreement between the two sides."
The Bush administration believes that quelling Israeli-Palestinian violence is essential to gain support in the Islamic world for a united offensive against terrorism in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Although Palestinian-Iraeli violence has dropped in recent
days, there has been no guarantee the meeting would not be scuttled at the last minute, or that it would succeed in cementing a ceasefire.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 7A
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has demanded 48 hours without Palestinian attacks before any talks can take place.
Yesterday, Palestinians fired two mortar shells at Israeli positions, the army said. Mortar attacks led Sharon to call off a meeting earlier this week. An Israeli woman was shot and killed Monday in the West Bank.
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