Salt Lake Tribune | 2001-10-28 | Page 6

The Salt Lake Tribune AMERICA’S WAR ON TERRORISM Sunday,October 28, 2001 Executed Afghan Opposition Leader’s Death Unites Us, Brother Says a Sought U.S. Help have gained little ground |— and in some’ cases suffered Officials: Copter rescue was too risky BY MICHAEL ZIELENZIGER brother Joe helped bankroll Hag and tried to help him win political support for a movementto incite internal opposition to the Taliban. Ritchie said he called former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane after Hagq’s group was ambushed Afghanistan, trying to elude the Taliban fighters who had ambushed him, U.S.officials refused to authorize a helicopter attempt to rescue him, one of Abdul Haq’s top aides said Saturday. Hag was one ofmany Afghan opposition leaders who often seemed to loathe one another as much as they hated the ruling Taliban, but his death underscores how difficult it is provPde for the United States to win their confidence and help cre- ate a broad-based alternative to the Taliban. On Saturday, another opposition figure, Iranian-backed Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who = armed by the United States and Pakistan during the Af ghans’ war against the Soviet Union, said from Tehran that he was negotiating with the Taliban and some other oppo- sition commanders about uniting to fight the Americans. Although Haq was considered friendlier to the West than Islamic militants such as Hekmatyar, he “was sold out every step of the way,” complained James Ritchie, an American late Thursday night, in the hope thata U.S. military helicopter could be landed atop the hillside where mujahideen commander was hiding with 18 others. But after more than two hours of talking to U.S. officials, he said, the Pentagon decided it could not risk sending a helicopter to scatter Taliban troops and bring Haq and his FIRE&ICE, & INC. D> “SUS SESTSSe 70,000BTU input- MeSBWAYOTO group back to LY; KK) “They feltit was risky to put the helo in there. 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