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The Salt Lake Tribune OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Substance on shoes triggers evacuation The San Francisco Interna Groupgives journalists 3 daysto leave Pakistan BYZAHID HUSSAIN nal was reopened mid-morning and passengers were re- screened. The residue wasdetected after a like material was wiped across the man’s shoes then put through a machine. It triggered an alarm during the random screening. While a guard checked with his supervisor, the man put on his shoes and walked away. “Therefore, we will execute him within 24 hours un- U.S. group claiming to hold Pearl. The group called itself the National Movementfor the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. The e-mail had two photographs of Pearl attached. In them the journalist was wearing the sameclothing as he wasin pictures released Sunday. journalists of working for intelligence agen- Pearl's wife, Marianne, whois pregnant, in an interview with CNN ap- less Amreeka [America] fulfills our de- mands,”the threatening e-mailsaid. ‘THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS due on the shoes of a man who waited outside for about two hours and the United Airlines terminal was searched. The manwas not found. The termi- Thursday, January 31, 2002 Kidnappers Deliver Ultimatum on U.S. Reporter tional Airport was evacuated Wednesday after security guards detected explosives resi- then disappeared into the crowd. Thousands of passengers WAR ON TERRORISM It ISLAMABAD,Pakistan — An e-mail purportedly sent Wednesday by kidnappers of Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl threatened to kill him within 24 hours and warned American journalists to leave Pakistan within three days or “be targeted.” accused cies and warned “all Amreekan _journalists”to leave Pakistan within three days. “Anyone remainingafter that will be The unsigned e-mail received early Wednesday claimed that Pearl, who disappeared in Karachi on Jan. 23, was targeted,”it said. an agent of the Israeli intelligence ser- contained phrasessimilarto thosein emails sent over the weekend by the vice, the Mossad. pealed to the kidnappers to open a dialogue with her about winning her husband’s freedom. ‘Theearlier e-mail included pictures of Pearl, South Asian correspondentof the Journal based in Bombay,India, with a pistol pointed to his head. ‘The weekend e-mails included list of demands,includingbetter treatment for terrorist suspects held by U.S. Pear The e-mail was sent to both Western and Pakistani news organizations and authorities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It demanded that Pakistani pi peigoere be returned to Pakistan for trial. Pearl disappeared after leaving for an appointmentat a Karachirestaurant with a contact whom he hoped could arrange an interview with Sheik Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, head of the small militantIslamic group Tanzimul Fuqra. Wednesday, police apprehended Gilani in the northern city of Rawalpindi and transported him to Karachi, police official Mazoor Mughal said. Police said that they did not know where Pear! was but that they carried out raids Wednesday in several Pakistani cities in connection with the investigation. The Wall Street Journal denied Wednesday that Pearl was an agent of any governmentandcalled for his release. Karzai: Afghans Understand U.S. Pain » wreathofyellow roses atthe site.A black, red and green Afghan flag flew next to the Stars and BY JOSHUA ROBIN US. to investigate claims aboutraid NEWSDAY NEW YORK — Theterrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center also helped to destroy Afghanistan, the nation’s interim leader said The American military now Wednesdaywhilevisiting Ground Zero. “Afghans understand America’s pain,” Hamid says it is investigating Afghan chargesthat U.S. special forces mistakenly killed anti-Taliban fighters loyal to the interim government of Hamid Karzai in Karzai declared Wednesday amid the rubble. “The people that committed the crime here in -New York, the people that committed crimesin Afghanistan against Afghan people, they destroyed exactly the same waythere as they did a Jan. 24 raid on a Taliban arms cache. ere.” Air Force Gen. Richard My- Karzai, who was joined by Gov. George Pataki, said theterrorists “were againstlife itself.” ers, the chairmanof the Joint Chiefs ofStaff, said Wednesday that while he had seen no evidencethatthe United States had Theleader, who assumed interim control of Afghanistan after U.S. air strikes helped bring Picked about the end of the Taliban’s rule, placed a the wrong target, the Stripes. Karzai, 44, is in the United States in an attempt to draw help to his desperatelypoor nation. After touring GroundZero, he addressed the United Nations, asking for an expansion of the international force protecting his fledgling government. “Securityis the foundationfor peace,stability and economicreconstruction,” Karzaisaid. The new government's's desire to place multinational troops in Afghan cities other than the capital Kabul has been spurred by continuing instability, lawlessness and a resurgence ofactivity by local warlords. This has hampered distribution of desperately needed humanitarian relief in manyareas. The U.N.Security Council authorized deploymentofthe current, British-led force. claim was being takenseriously enough to warrant close look by U.S. Central Command. The villagers and local offi- Iranians, Iraqis Bristle at Bush’s Enemy Roster cials havesaid that 21 men were killed in the attack on two compounds. The Pentagon has said 15 were killed. ACLU:Rights need protecting now,too ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt. — Iran rejected President Bush’s charges thatit exports terrorism andis pursuing weapons of A day after President Bush rallied the nation around a war on enemies abroad,the leader of the American Civil Liberties Union warned ofa battle brewing on the homefront, accusing the government of hiding behind a “veil of secrecy” that im- perils the personal freedoms of all Americans. From the detention of foreigners to racial profilingatair- ports, said executive director Anthony Romero, theterrorist attacks on Sept. 11 have opened a floodgate of responses by the Bush administration that vio- late First Amendmentrights. Fear, Romero said, should mass destruction, and several othernations bristled WednesSergei Grits/TheAssociated Press Prison workers prepare porridge for inmatesin a prison in the town of Shibergan, 75 miles west of Mazar-e Sharif, northern Afghanistan, on Tuesday. About 3,500 prisoners are crowded into the compoundwith only basic sanitation and medicalcare. Jailed Taliban Fighters Beg To Be Movedto U.S. Prison not override a commitmentto ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS maintaining the civil liberties SHIBERGAN, Afghanistan — Jailed fighters of the fallen that are the cornerstone of American democracy. Tree planted in Paris to honor 9-11 victims NewYorkCity policeofficers and firefighters Wednesday planted an oak tree in dirt brought in from Ground Zero, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania at a ceremony in Paris to honor victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. New York Police Officer Ann Marie Moloney sang “America the Beautiful,” at the ceremony in the Luxembourg Gardens, on the historic Left Bank. She was so touched that she stopped and collected herself. The French Heritage Society organized the ceremony, andof- ficials from the New YorkCity mayor's office for emergency managementalso took part. The society’s president said thetree was a symbol of France and America’s friendship. — Tribune newsservices Taliban shout the nameoftheir former foe, but no longer in anger. “We want to go to an American prison,” many plead. Anything,they say, to leave Shibergan prison in northern Afghanistan, now jammed to morethan 10 times its capacity with about 3,500 men. But unlike the U.S. detention centerat Guantanamo Bay, this has been a prisonlargely outof the spotlight. “T can’t lie and sayit’s fine. The problemsare clearly visi- ble,” said the head warden, Gen. Jurabeg. “We are struggling.” While human ‘rights advo- cates and someU.S.allies have complained about the conditions at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba,thesituation in Shibergan is much more dire. Inadditionto overcrowding, prisoners have to deal with shortages of medical supplies and care, water, and food, and there is little to protect them from the elements. Facing bit- ter cold outside andinside, they havejust the clothes they were wearing when they were captured. Many don’t have shoes. The prison about 75 miles west of Mazar-e Sharif is controlled by the forces of Gen. Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek who rules much of northern Afghanistan. He and other militia leaders are under international pressure to help build a credible central authority in Kabul. But Dostum still apparently answers to no one about many aspects ofhis fiefdom. Prison doctors have begged for medicine from Dostum’s military hospital in Shibergan: Only a fewboxesof antibiotics and rehydration salts have beensent to Shibergan, one of the largest detention camps in thecountry. » Anofficial at the hospital, said supplies arecritically low and thereis little money to buy more. “The Taliban prisoners arenota priority,” he said. weet een 28 =COUPON: = += seen ereens ' Azaleas ue 197 day at his tough talk in the State of the Union message. Politicians in the Philippines and Malaysia worried that Bush was signaling a more aggressive U.S. presence in their nations, where the governments have been pressured to crack down on militants linked to the al-Qaida terror network. Some South Koreans were concerned Bush’s comments on North Korea would hurt efforts to revive the peninsula's fitful peace process. “Wereject the U.S. accusa- tions and we think that the world will not tolerate the hegemony of the U.S.,” Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Wednesday, according to state-run radio. “The U.S. president should offer proof to support his allegation.” In hisState of the Union address Tuesday, Bushsaidstates such as Iran, Iraq and North Korea werepart of an “axis of evil.” There was no immediate comment from Iraq or North Korea. Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani said that while Bush “calls the people and holy resistance movements of Palestine and Lebanonterrorists, he himself is a supporterofterrorism.” In the Mideast and the Muslim world, Washington’s per- ceived bias toward Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been cited as fueling Arab and Muslimanger that sparks violence against the United States. 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