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Show Ad The Salt Lake Tribune WAR ON TERRORISM Monday, November26, 2001 Main Afghan Factions to Meet, Discuss New Government Pressureis on to build longest-running conflicts. TheUnited Nations has sponsored a stable ruling coalition theconferenceoutside Bonnas a mat ter of urgency. The United State: Bri ach with troops inside / ghanistan, have much at stake as the sides attempt to create a multiparty government to replace the Taliban BY GREG MYRE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Afghanistan But starti powerswill be ders of leading begintalks at ethnic groups across Afghanistan. If the assembly conferred its blessing, Afghanistan could have an in- and again write off Af s The country has lacked a central community is poiséd to offer hundreds authority, a legal system and most othertrappings of government since toa bankruptnation in desperate need the Talibanleft the capital Nov. 13. The Northern Alliancewill be the most important of the four major groupsat the Bon: in conference, which is expected to run about a week and ofreconstruction. are grateful that the U: nied helped bring down the Tali. .” said Aziz Ahmed Rasete biggest effort yet to forge a political to of the world's ban, whostill hold several provinces. The four parties at Bonn say that the Taliban will not be part of a future government and that they want to into another roundof factional con flict, the-world is likely to lose interest since the 1970s, and the international solution member council as hoped, the next step would be to hold a national as- maynotsee again. Ifthey fail to set up of millions,perhapsbillions, of dollars Tuesday, the major ing overthe shoul Afghan factions as they a Germ an hotel in the Thethree otherparties are all based outside Afghanistan, prompting criticism that the conference will not be dealing with the armed groups inside Afghanistan, most notably the Tali- a functioning government and slide If the talks succeed, Afghanistan could have its first stable government ged in the mid-199 ong ained bitterly that the worl nored them, dismissing their land as an incorrigibly lawless place that could be pitied, but not helped. council that would be the core ofanew Americans andthe United Nations.” The pressure will be on the Af ghans to make the most of an oppor. tunity they he ad before and regime. As civil will attempt to agree on a 15-member historyprofessor at Kabul University. commanderPir Gailani, now based in Pakistan, and the Cyprus group, whichis madeup of Afghan exiles. “But we hope the world doesn't forget about us. We will need help from the government. keep the talks manageably small. The former Afghan king, MohammadZaherShah,remainsat his home in Rome, but will have four representatives at the conference, making it the second largest delegation. Two other movements will have three seats each. They are the Peshawar group, led by former guerrilla If the first round produces the 15- sembly, or “loyajirga,” with hundreds of delegates representing parties and terim government that would likely: Tule for about two years. Thetrick will be to make everyone feel included,but notto allow the process to drag on interminably, “The new government must come quickly, orit will be like 1992 all over again,” said Rahmand, the history professor. IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Taliban POWsRise Up Against Guards Taintedletter extremely deadly, Leahy says WASHINGTON — Sen.Patrick Leahy says there was enough anthrax in theletter sentto his office to kill more than 100,000 people. The letter to the Vermont Democrat wasdiscovered Nov.16 in a batch of unopened mail sent to Capitol Hill and quarantined since the discovery of an anthrax-contaminated letter to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., on Oct.15. “We still haven't got the letter open,” Leahy said Sunday on NBC's “Meetthe Press.” “It is so powerful that they're having difficulty figuring out how best to open it and preserve the evidence.” @ Continued from A-1 himself and two of his com: rades, seriously injuring a Northern Alliance commander. The remaining prisoners werethen takento Kala-i Janghi, a few miles west of Mazar-e if to the 16th century for- An FBImicrobiologistsaid last week that there werebillions of sporesinside theletter, which was taped aroundthe edges. being used by Dostumas his headquarters. A few hunre ross the courtyi Indonesian Islamic militancy re-emerging a prison in which the JAKARTA,Indonesia — After decades of dormancy under the iron-fisted rule offormerdictator Suharto,Islamic militancy is on Taliban POWswerebeingheld. Thesituation worsened Sunday morning with an apparently planned uprising bythe Taliban prisoners. Numerous prisoners detonated grenades hidden on the rise in Indonesia, and U.S. officials fear its newfound democ- racyis threatened. They warn that Osama bin Laden’sal-Qaida network has taken advantageoflax security to infiltrate Indonesia, the world’s most themselves, which also killed many Northern Alliance guards. In moments, the surviving prisoners seized the weapons. of the dead guards and opened fire, gaining partial con- trol of the compound. As many as15 Taliban pris: oners may have escaped. A German TV crew wasin the compound whenthe firefight began and report there were only 100 Northern Alliance soldiers guarding the more than 500 Taliban risoners were brought in Saturday night after dark and apparently were not adequately se ‘hed for grenades or ee Pervonel weapons. U.S. Special Fe person- nel here used the GermanTV. ih tellite phone to call jonal Special Forces to the y. Up to 100 Northern Alliance soldiers backed by two tanks and armored personnel carriers also arrived as populous Muslim nation. “They are more dangerousto Indonesia than they are to the United States,” Paul Wolfowitz, a deputy U.S.secretary of defense and former U.S. ambassadorin Jakarta, told the Indonesian news ‘The Associated Press German TV footage shows Northern Alliance fighters dragging away a comradekilled in Sunday's POW uprising in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. The soldier's condition is unknown. reinforcement. Special Forces troops reported having seen hundreds dead andfeared for thelife ofthe U.S.soldier. In the melee, Taliban forces werealso able ,to ze heavy weapons. The situation was not brought under control until fourU.S. Special Forces soldiers scaled the walls using ropes to position themselves to call in irstrikes on the ease Trapped inside , Ergashev said he feared he would bekilled by the heldby the Taliban. Sharif was firmly under the Sevenhourslater, one could still hear the sound of U.S. ance. Dostum had USS. maytarget Afghan opium trade already fighters overhead and detona- shifted his attention to Kunduz WASHINGTON — USS.officials are exploring waysto prevent tions in the directionofthefortress. Some here have openly and was not even in the city Sunday when the fighting brokeout at his headquarters. a surge“in opium cultivation in Afghanistan, once the world’s questioned whether Dostum and the Northern Alliance may take advantageof their misfor- This could be an indication of the problems that any cease fight opium production andtrafficking, when these groups in the past have shown little inclination to do that. tune to eliminate all ofthe for- volving the foreign elements of eign Taliban prisoners taken Saturday. Only a week ago, up to 600 foreign fighters were killed in Mazar-e Sharif by Dostum’s forces as they consolidated who drowned themselves in Kunduzratherthan surrender. U.S. bombs. But becauseof the powerin the city. Of note are the small number of soldiers se spotting of the Special ; personnel, the bombs hit theirtarget on the southern guarding the many Taliban prisoners. Until Sunday's skirmish it endof the compound, the area magazine Tempo. control of the Northern Alli- was believed that Mazar-e leading producer, nowthat the Taliban’s controlis crumbling. The challenge is persuading the factions likely to govern to fire or surrenderwill face inthe Taliban. There were reports last week of 60 Chechens Ashcroft to address Judiciary Committee WASHINGTON — Lawmakers critical of the Justice Department’s anti-terrorism campaign will hear directly from Attorney Billingsley is a Utah filmmaker who has vast experience with militant Islamic fighters. Hecurrently is in Afghanistan General John Ashcroft at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in early December. Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker confirmed Ashcroft’s scheduled appearance before the committee. onassignmentfor The Salt Lake Tribune. The Associated Press contributed to this story. Some lawmakers havesaid that recentactions to fight terror- ism gotoo far in usurpingcivil liberties. For example, more than 1,000 people remain incarcerated after being rounded up following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. — Tribune wire services Pakistani Officials Dread Influx of Exiled Taliban BY JONATHANL.ANDAY KNIGHT RIDDERNEWSSERVICE ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Talibanfighters, their support. ers and even wives of slain Arab militants have been making for Pakistanin the face of sure by U.S.-backed anti uliban forces across Afghani- ‘cording to Pakistani His comments reflected the military regime's grave fear that a majorinflux of Taliban fleeing U.S. air strikes and anti-Taliban forces could further destabilize Pakistan’s already tenseborder ar The Taliban mainly comprise ethnic have enjoyed of the frontier and with whom they share linguistic, cultural enraged by Islamabad’s sup- An estimated 10,000 Pakistanis, many from the border region, have foughtfor the Taliban since the movement port for the U.S.led offensive against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, could make comment. That threat, they say, have been killed in U.S, air- couldgrowif the Northern Al- strikes and offensives by the that dominate Pakistan's side NorthernAlliance. Pakistani officials iNOTCE RN ET Free. moncause against the govern- emerged in 1994, and many who backing from Pashtun tribes vel@citus. concernedthatthe Taliban and their Pakistani sympathizers, andfamilyties. considerable Pashtuns liance refuses to share power . With Pashtuns in an interim are Afghan government. 3 months free DSLordial-up. Call for details. 800.219.9996 ° velocitus.net ast 200 retreating Talibanmilitia members found safe haven Nov. 17 with sympa- thetic Pashtun villagers in KurramAgency, a tribal region west of Peshawar,said a senior Pakistani law enforcementofficial on Sunday. ‘The official said local officials were prevented fromex- Maybethe fountain of youth isn't a fountainatall. pelling the Afghans by their Pakistani hosts. 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