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Show DAILY HERALD Sundiy, September 11 2004 AA7 General: Bin Laden still directing attacks Stephen Graham " THt ASSOCIATED PUSS ,' ' MOKNATTtM EMMJO M4GL Eric OboaipMb Saturday ot Bcigram Air Base north of Kabul . a new group, apparently a t and their tactics here in Afghanistan, group that was carved from o I think is reasonable to assume ' he said. "They have members in that the senior leaders are involved in Pakistan and they have been active in Afghanistan, and this recent attack is directing those operations," Olson, the most blatant example." He the operational commander of US to elaborate. tod forces in Afghanistan, said in an '," There were reports Saturday of interview The Aug. 26 car. bctnb which killed fresh fighting in the country, where more than 900 people about 10 people, mrhiding three mostly Americans, at the office of a firm pro- Afghan security forces and rebels have died in political violence this . viding bodyguards for President Hazmd Karzai also bears the haD- -' year. In the troubled southern province marks of the militant network, Obon of ZabuL Afghan officials said two said. "We've even tied it to a group that Arabs were killed and two more caphas ties to It could be a splin- tured in a firefight with U.S. and ter group of some sort," Olson told Afghan troops, and that Taliban gunmen killed two elders for supporting AP after a ceremony at the LIS. base the government. at Bagram north of Kabul to mark In neighboring Kandahar, eight the third anniversary of the Sept. 11,- - "WbatweteeathetrteDique8 The trail has gone cold mine bunt for suspected Sept 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden three years after the auda--. ckws attacks, but the aKOakJa chief and Us No. 2 are stm orchestrating strikes Eke the recent suicide car bombing of a UJS. cecurty firm m KabuL a tcpAmerk commander Saturday Mai. Gen. Eric Olson told The Ano-ciated Press the military had not to-tercepted any radio traffic or instructions fom either bm Laden cr his deputy, Ayman atZawahri But he said the involvement of we&trained ' foreign fighters in attacks near the ' Pakistani border convinced him that the fugitive leaders were pulling the ' BAGRAM, Afghanistan 2001, attacks. strings ". t de-dm-ed .' . r Taliban fighters and three Afghan soldiers were reported killed in two more incidents. Olson, a native of New York City, addressed some of the 18,000 mainly U.S. troops he cqrnmands. About 300 soldiers had gathered in a dusty tent to bear readings from the Bible and the Quran, patriotic songs and speeches reminding them of their mis- sion. Some wept as they watched videos of how the hijacked jetliners felled the World Trade Center towers in New York and devastated a wing of the U.S. Department of Defense three years ago. "We're here to prevent future ceremonies, future Sept. lis," said Maj. Andy Preston, an infantryman from Edmond, Okla., who was working at the Pentagon when it was hit. . 1 Floridians 4 I in disbelief as Ivan threatens I Vickie Chachere THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FUNTA GORDA, Fla. First Hurricane Charley rammed Florida's Gulf Coast a mtmth ago. Then Frances plowed into the Atlantic shore. Now Ivan is threatening to wallop the state again and Floridians have had enough. "I think everybody is in shock," said. Christie Brown, helping customers grab supplies at a hardware store where windows are still covered in plywood. "I lost my whole house in Charley,'' Brown said, her eyes growing moist. 1 have nothing left to lose to Ivan." Ivan lashed Jamaica Saturday with deadly force and headed for the smaller of the Cayman .. islands and western Cuba. The storm's course was erratic but it still had potential to strike the Florida Keys by late Monday and the mainland by Tuesday. Charley and Frances, which hit just last Sunday, together had been blamed for the deaths of at least SO people and about $20 billion in damage. For many, the "pproach of ; Ivan was almost too much to comprehend. "Nobody wants to talk about it," Brown said. "Everybody just says they want to get ready for the storm, but nobody wants to say its name." ? storm-shatter- , -- 9m t to prepare, not panic' "This is a time JebBush governor of Florida Some talked of sending their families away to another state, while others who never boarded up their homes m the previous two storms waited all night at home supply stores to buy to cover their windows. All over the state, gasoline lines were long as false rumors ' spread that ti governor had ordered rationing, and there was a rush for bread and milk, which have been scarce since Frances. 1 Fixed Intro Rate . pry-wo- ThrMieh January 2008 50 1 APR Prima for tht Ufa of ttt loan Home Equity Credit Linef; 1 .:: " . t '4 ,1 T k " 1 not panic," Gov. 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