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Show WARON TERRORISM TheSalt Lake Tribune Taliban order 100journalists back to Pakistan Amid scenes of confusion, rickety ecurity and violence, the Taliban on Thursday expelled about 100 fore had brought into their last stronghold ir Theorderto leaveafter thre i to-a gov liban’s grip on a 2001 November 2 AS Feds Search for Clues in Anthrax Death IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS ernment compoundwas taken as Friday, Kandaharprovince may be frail after si week of U.S. airstrikes. Butit also showed thedis y that many Afg! mans say plagued the Muslimfundamentalist movement even before the U.S. attacks beganlast month. The journalists had been told they would visit the city of Kan dahar, the Taliban's spiritual homeland and the military anchorof the four southern provinces theystill control. Instead, they were kept in Spin Boldak, a town12 milesfromthe border with Pakistan, and treated to a news conference with a spokesmanfor Tali¥an leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. “Our leadership has decidednotto allowyou to go to Kandahar,” Najibullah r Shirzu, thesenior Taliban official at the compound, fi nallysaid Thursday. Hethen gave the journalists until 3 p.m. to re- turn to Pakistan. Terror suspicions close Somali Internet firm Somalia’s only Internet companywas forcedto closeits offic Thursday, two weeksafter appearing on a U.S.list of organizations with suspected linksto terrorism. Somali Internet Co: shut downafter the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned Internet service, Etisalat, canceled its international access, said Abdulkadir Hassan Ahmed Kadleh, administrator for the Somalifirm. “T first thought it was a technical problem, but then when I called the Etisalat company in Dubai, the engineers informedusthat it was an intentional freeze down,” Kadleh said. Somali Internet Co. is among 62 organizations and people the United States believes are funneling fundsfor international terror suspect Osamabin Ladenandhis al-Qaida network. The Mogadishu-based firm, created in 1998, is jointly owned by three Somali companies — Telecom Somalia, NationLink and AlBarakaat.It has offices throughout southern Somalia. Al-Barakaat day. Crowther said she gave Lundgren some/Tylenol andtea and put herto bed. Lundgren was admitted to BY DONNA TOMMELLEO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OXFORD, Conn Federal investigators scoured th home of the nation’s fifth a fa Nov. 16. and died five days later. tality on Thursday, sifting through trash and mail in an attempt to explain howthe 94 year-old woman contracted the disease. An autopsy and Peg Crowther,closefriends whooften drove the widowto herdoc: tors’ appointments. Peg Crowther, a former nurse, kept a daily log of the elderly woman's health that mayhelptrace the onsetofthe disease. Crowtherbegantaking notes this summer when said. Lundgren’s buildings where any trace of how tion, Burrus said, so “I'm telling my members we will | Two postal workers have Anthrax is sometimes found naturally insoil Nearly two dozeninvestiga tors from the Centers for Dis: ease Control and Prevention in Atlantahave joined crews from | the FBI and state health de. | partment, at Lundgren’s mod: | est ranch homein this ru died and others have been sickened by anthrax since focus- ing on Lundgren’s mail, With the exception of a New York hospital worker whose fatal case of inhalation anthrax is appointment was Oct. 26 for a pneumoniashot. Last week, Cr members refuse to work in she did not garden, he said. early investigation was last doctor's employees union says he will recommend that his anthrax remains, because of continuing uncertainty about their safety lookedat,” state police spokes: man J. Paul Vance said Thursday. Gov. John Rowland saidthe also a mystery, recent cases for anthrax and so far 21 have been found contami. nated to at least some extent Nineteen have been decon. taminated and reopened. Medical experts differ on The president of a major postal | community. “Each and every thing in that household will be Lundgren grewlistless afterthe death ofafriend. “She appeared to be not suffering from anything you wouldn’t expect to. see in a 94year-old woman,” Crowther WASHINGTON She reported nothing out of the ordinary in her mail and said in the last weeksoflife have Bill THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday con- firmed anthrax-as the cause of death In Thursday’s editions of The New York Times, Kenneth Dobuler, chief of medicine at the hospital, said doctors told her she might have anthrax andaskedabouther activities. Ottilie Lundgren, who died Wednesday, ga up driving years ago and rarely ventured from her home without the help offriends and neighbors. Investigators trying to pin point Lundgren’s whereabouts interviewed Postal Union Chief Advises Workers To Avoid Contaminated Buildings Griffin Hospital in Derby on slosed a clean Postal vice president Azeezaly Jaffer said talks for continuing were continuing with the unions on howto respond in the event of contamination. con cern that so much uncer tainty continues to exist re gardingthe source of these | Having rus, president of the 360,000-member American Postal Workers Union Nationwide the post of | | mail future workers with masks and gloves do their jobs while hazardous materials experts are doing cleanup “is not sound medi | infections,” said Bill Bur | cal procedure and psycho logically is an absolute di- saster,” Burrus said. fice has tested 278 facilities About 50 workers from Sey office in neighboring Seymour and at a larger mail distribu: mour and more than 1,100 from tion centerin Wallingford. Mail Wallingford have been offered ed at those two sites. Reults are expected in the next caution. About three-fourths of and Somali Internet Co. officials denied having links to terrorism. Abdulaziz Haji, managing director of Telecom Somali said the company only recently began to make money, “so how can it provide somebodyelse with money?” 14, “she did not feel good, she havecenteredonletters sent to media outlets and members of achedall over,” Congres Twin Towerreplacements maybe halfastall ‘NationalSecurity’ May Be New Password to Fed Funds The 110-story towers of the World Trade Center may be replaced by buildings halfas tall in aslittle as five years, the site’s lease holdersaid after meeting with the next mayor. Larry Silverstein, who leads a consortium that holds the $3.2 billion lease on the complex, also said the project would include amemorial for the Sept. 11 victims. “T’m goingto give you the next five, six, seven years of mylife to makesure this gets done, and doneto the very bestof our ability to the point where we can all be very proudofit,” he said Wednesday. Silverstein said it was too early to say how many towers are planned. As for their height, he said “50, 55-story towers are very muchaccomplishable in NewYork.” The plan would need to go through several steps before con- struction could begin. - Studieswill be completed andpresentedto Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg soon, Silverstein said. He said he is sure people would want to workin the new buildings, which will offer “very afford- able”rents. Tribune newsservices her friend was ai Anthrax tests were taken Wednesday morning at a post Lundgren’s temperature spiked to 101 degrees the next BY JAMES KUHNHENN delivered in Oxford is pro closky, an Indiana, Democrat and longtime WASHINGTON — For months before Congress for more than$2 billion to pay health benefijs to thousandsoflaid-off and retiredsteelworkers. Now, as thenationfights terrorism, the steel supporter, noted on the House floor recently. “Unfortunately,” he went on, “we have anindustryin distress.” _ Steel producers S| addeda senseof urgencyto their pitch. At stake, the lobbyists say, is nothing less than defenseof the country: The industry needs helpwith thosehealth benefitsif the country is going to rely on steel for war- ships, tanks and Humvees. “Tt is those specialty steels made by the domestic steel industry that are necessary economy. The total could stretchinto the tens of billions. Lobbyists < re arguing for their piece of 20 billion that has already been d for unspecified anti-terr ; $15 billion that Sen. Robert Bi 2 sought for homeland secur are among scores of d industries that, after years of ng on Congress’ door, hope industry and the steelworkers’ union have the workers have accepted the drug, postal officials said much ofa stretch, lobbyists sell their cli ents’ needs as a remedy for the anemic those armored vehicles,” Rep. Peter Vis- Sept. 11, the struggling steel industryasked the antibiotic Cipro as a pre two days. for those nuclear-attack submarines and KNIGHTRIDDER NEWS SERVICE | is not work in contaminated facilities. We will leave the building until it’s tested decontamination. “It's anthrax needed to cause an infec- tainted letters began ap: pearing. Postal facilities in NewJersey and Washington rema much “national security” is the newpassword to the federal treasury. Farm groups pushing corn-based ethanolfuel, advocates of sub: urbanlight-rail systems, and oil and gas companies seeking to tap into Alaska’s north slopearepleading with Congress in the nameoffighting terrorism. $100billion in proposed tax cuts. And that’sonly the beginning. When Cong! returns next week, law. makerswill be tempted to tuck some ofthe begged-for money into annual spending bills orlegislation that is intended to stim ulate the economy. Otherlikely vehicles include newbioterrorism legislation and even the latest rewrite of agriculture If the national security argument is too policy. THANKSGIVING AFTERR-THANKSGIVING SALE STARTS FRIDAY! 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