Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday March 29 2002 — A5 4f- - T L J&L mIaIrIkTeKtIrIlTATcIe Prices Effective March 29-3- 0 'U i A AP photo US Army Master Sgt Jefferson Donald Davis 39 of Watauga Term above and Sgt 1st Class Daniel Petithory received the Silver Star for the actions at Tarin Kot Afghanistan Davis Petithory and another Green Beret died Dec 12 during an errant bombing run by American forcea K©ir®®s toft Tam Greet Berets killed in Afghan war awarded Silver Stars WASHINGTON (AP) — The Green Berets who helped take Thrin Kot knew victory over the Taliban had come too easily — not one shot fired' — and steeled themselves for a ' counterattack Their fight to hang on to the dusty Afghan town brought the kind of odds that can make heroes or martyrs of men: About 500 Taliban militiamen in pickup trucks armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles machine guns and grenades facing 11 determined Americans Within hours hundreds of Taliban fighters lay dead amid the smoldering wreckage of their vehicles Tarin Kot capital of Afghanistan’s remote Uruzgan province was safely under the control of commander Hamid rocket-propell- US troops look to stay in Afghanistan worried that the can and other Western soldiers leave is die day Afghanistan again will start to disintegrate “The law may be there on paper but unless you have someone to turn to then it’s only paper” said the UN human rights representative Afghanistan Kamal Hossaim He urged expansion of the international force beyond Kabul die cap- ital to “create an environ-mein which people ckn feel free from rear” day Ameri- indefinitely in Afghanistan amid troubling power struggles and the continued presence of fighters The Bush administration says it will not send American peacekeepers to the country but US combat troops will train the Afghan' army in addition to fighting the network The Americans also might inter- vene to keep feuding warlords apart a top official said Many analysts are urging an even more aggressive ed Karzai The fight bn the night of Nov: 16 was key to the eventual surrender of Kandahar the Taliban stronghold about 60 miles to the south It added to the stature of Karzai a d ethnic Pashtun leader who now heads Afghanistan’s interim govern- would wear Elvis-styglasses' on parachute jumps Petithory 32 was Texas 12’s communications sergeant a whiz at the complicated art of using a hand-hel- d radio to guide bomba pilots to enemy tar‘ gets Outnumbered Davis’ men fanned out along ridges overlooking the narrow vafley that the Taliban convoy would use to approach Tarin Kot and soon saw the convoy carrying die 500 heavily armed Taliban “We had about 80 vehicles ' headed our way” said Capt Jason Amerine Texas 12’s commander “When you see SUVs instead of tanks you ' kind of do a double-tak-e But then you see they’re loaded up ' with once-exile- ment code-nam- ed ' US military’s award for valor Master Sgt Jefferson Donald Davis — JD — was a third-highe- st quiet Tennessean a family man with two children who loved fishing and riding motorcycles Trained as a medic the Davis was Texas 12’s operations sergeant directing its combat operations Sgt 1st Class Daniel Petithory was die cutup of the bunch a former altar boy from rural Massachusetts who rocket-propell- ed grenades" Petithory used a sophisticat- ed laser range finder a device that lodes like a large pair of binoculars that uses a laser to calculate the distance to a target The range finder plugged into a hand-heGlobal Posi- tioning System device about ld Western Family HOUSTON (AP) 7 Former UBS PaineWebber clients are suing the brokerage for financial losses they inclined when Enron Corp failed last year despite the firm’s repeated assurances that the stock was attractive The lawsuit filed in federal court in Houston earlier this month accuses the investment bank of making “manipulative and deceptive” rec- ommlendadons that investors buy Enron stock The brokerage failed to warn them of Enron's financial problems because it wanted to protect its business relationships with’ the energy company the ?uit asserts “Many of Enron’s top executives had their brokerage accounts at paineWebber” one of theclients JaniceSchiietteofRobstown Texas said in an affidavit accompanying die lawsuit “I believed tlutt because of its dosp association with such executives PaineWebber T-- or 2 1 f?h ?1 U lceCream Casco Bars or Fat Boy Ice Cream Sandwiches Rack Cottage Cheese Thepheradioed the coordi-nates to bomber pilots waiting : Satellite-guided- 2 Creama Weber 24 Ql Artichokes j Extra Large to strike “Petithory was consistently under direct fire of both RPG grenade) and machine gun while calling in missions on the Taliban” his Silver Star nomination said (rocket-propell- Peas or Com Pineapple ed Western Family 16 Ql Petite Frozen Del Monte Gold Pineapple Sirloin Roast 000-pou- nd bombs destroyedat Dole 20 Ql Assorted Pork least 35 of the Taliban vehi- cles and killed about 300 of the radical Islamic militia’s ' 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