| Show A12 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday September 13 2002 Special forces have BAGR AM Afghanistan (AP) — Out came the razors and off went the beards this week for special operations troops at camps and safe houses throughout Afghanistan as soldiers complied with new orders requiring them to shed their local look in return for clean-cmilitary appearance The order came Sept 6 and was supposed to go into effect by noon the next day according to special operations soldiers operating in southeastern Afghanistan Officials at Bagram Air Base the US military headquarters in Afghanistan were not immediately available for comment At the Special Forces safe house in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan soldiers com- plied with the new orders over the past few days ut - experience hair-raisin- g told that they did not need to blend into the population as they once had They were also told they had to clean up because of increasing coverage of the operations by journalists — especially during the weeks leading up to the anniversary Two soldiers who had been sporting long bushy beards for the last few months were almost unrecognizable when they shaved all except their mustaches on Tuesday to the laughs of their colleagues The last holdout shaved his Fu Manchu mustache early Thursday morning Since the beginning of the US-le- d campaign in Afghanistan against and the Taliban dress and grooming standards for special operations forces have been relaxed to help the troops blend in better with the local Muslim population It wasn't immediately clear why the soldiers were ordered to return to the traditional military standard for grooming and dress: Some of the special opera-tion- s troops said they’d been of the Sept 11 attacks International aid organizations have complained about armed soldiers doing humanitarian jobs like building schools or digging wells while wearing civilian clothes and beards in an effort to blend in Aid groups say the practice puts their workers in danger because militants looking to make a statement against the United States could accidentally snatch or kill an impartial aid worker if they can’t tell the difference da student sues FBI on NEW YORK (AP)— A Jordanian student sued the FBI and federal prosecutors Thursday saying his civil rights were violated when he was arrested as a material witness and questioned about his relationship with two Sept 1 1 hijackers Osama Awadallah 21 a Grossmont College student in El Cajon Calif said in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan that he was arrested without probable cause and was subjected to excessive force The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages APphoto In April Judge Shira US Army Special Forces soldier Darren has his hair trimmed by his colleague Brian on Sept 7 at the Chapman air base in Khost Scheindlin threw out a perjury Afghanistan Out came the razors and off went the beards this week case against Awadallah after ' for special operations troops at camps and safe houses throughout concluding it was unlawful to Afghanistan as soldiers complied with new orders requiring them to detain him solely for a grand shed their local look in return for clean-cu- t mifitary appearance jury proceeding The ruling has been appealed by federal BJeftaiiraeesVfamiBSes awaStwoirdl 'bri'niM GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE Cuba (AP) — For relative of v “Rasul didn’t want to serve even in the Russian army because he didn't accept violence or military uniforms” his mother said Sultanov said his friend “always wanted to study abroad" and that “America was his highest dream” While some families hold out hope -for America’s judicial system others have taken their cases to other coiurts The lawyer for a British Taliban sus-- ‘ pect urged a panel of British judges Tuesday in London to order his country’s government to intervene " Attorney Nicholas Blake Sdd Britain was obligated by its commitment to human rights to urge the United States to either release Ferroz Abbasi 22 or charge him and give him access to a lawyer “Guantanamo is a sort of legal black 7 hole” Judge Robert Carowath said after Blake described detainees’ lack of access to the courts In Australia qieanwhile Maha Habib is watching her children grow up without their father Mamdouh Habib 47 who was captured by US forces in Pakistan in October on suspicion of links to His wife denies the allegation A postcard sent to die couple’s eldest son Ahmed listed Habib’s vdetainee designation m JJJFFAsWith-"- ' ' an nt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A stamp itwas mailed to Australia by US officials in WashingPakistani man who spent ton hours photographing the The only other contact Maha Habib World Trade Center days has had with her husband — an Aus- before Sept 11 was sentenced tralian who also holds Egyptian citito six months in jail for immizenship — was a letter sent via tlx gration violations Thursday Red Cross in April Ashar Butt 22 told federal Habib has told Australian media that agents he took a roll of picha husband’s imprisonment is “taking tures of the buildings just to its toll” on the couple’s four children pass time while he waited for Ahmed recently completed his final a ride He was arrested Sept exams but 12 2001 after a photo develyoungest son cries constantly opment shop clerk alerted Short letters from several Kuwaiti authorities detainees made available to The AssoButt acknowledged he ciated Press express a strong belief in entered the country illegally their innocence aqd a hope of freedom last year using an altered British passport but his “Be delighted because God’s relief is imminent” reads a June 19 letter lawyers said he wanted only to start a new life in the United Fawzi sent to his States family Butt who pleaded guilty to Fawzi’s father Khaled said he has received five letters since his son’s immigration violations in detention in Guantanamo “He always June will be eligible for release within afew weeks says that he is fine and asks us to pray and will be deported after he is for him He is also confident of his freed innocence and so are we” ‘ : lawyers The detainees can communicate with relatives only through mail deliv-ere- d by the US Postal Service or the International Committee of the Red CrosseSirluch is the only independent gqflJTallowed to see the suspects Chellali Benchellali reached by telephone at his home in Venissieux France said he and his wife have stopped getting cards from their son Mourad one of at least six French prisoners at Guantanamo Mourad told his parents last year he was leaving to “learn about religion" in Arab countries Then they received a postcard saying he was at Guan-tanam- o “His morale was low he said in the postcard" Benchellali said Since then “it's been silence" Uncertainty is taking its toll on both the families and detainees Fobr detainees tried to kill themselves in July and August said Army Lt Col JoeHoey The families were not notified of the attempts: “That is not within our radar scope" Capt Al Shimkus a surgeon at the base said Thursday post-traumat- ic prosecutors Awadallah was imprisoned after FBI agents confronted him outride his San Diego home (m Sept 20 He was detained a day later as a prisoner and wasn’t released until December Prosecutors said Awadallah testified before a grand jury in New York that he met hijacker Nawaf up to 40 times but denied knowing associate Khalid Confronted with an exam booklet in which he had written the name Khalid he later admitted he knew both of them prosecutors said Awadallah said in his lawsuit that he cooperated from the start with investigators telling them he saw ' two or three times a week usually at a local mosque or the gas station where Awadallah worked However he added he had not seen either of the men for a year before the terrorist attacks high-securi- the 598 detainees at this remote out- post life goes on — without their men and without any idea how long their husbands and sonswill be imprisoned Rasul Kudayev’s fiancee in Russia married someone else Mamdouh Habib’s wife and four children fend for themselves in Australia Mourad ' Benchellali’s father in France wonders if he will see — or hear from — his son again “The detainees’ families are going on with their lives during the day but at night they're dreaming of their a sons” said Najeeb and former Qatari justice minlawyer ister who aigues the detainees should be returned to their home countries The detainees come from 43 nations and are suspected of links to the Qaida terror network and Afghanistan’s fallen Taliban regime The first of the men were flown to this desolate US military base in Cuba in January After eight months they have not been charged or allowed to see He said 57 detainees suffer from psychological disorders including stress disorder includ30 that medication to fight are on ing and depression anxiety rights ty Man who took WTC photos sentenced 80-ce- 3 - APphoto Australian Mamdouh Habib hia wife Maha and two of their four children are seen in this undated file photo Habib is one of the 598 detainees accused of links to terrorist network and Afghanistan's fallen Taliban regime being held at the US military base In Guantanamo Cuba Egyptian-bo- m moved on in his absence His mother Patimat Tikayev has taken a new job as a nurse She said her son’s fiancee married another man Tikayev who lives in the southern Russia city of Khasanya said her Son went to Kyrgyzstan to become a wrestler in 1999 She was readied by telephone from Moscow dong with her son’s friend Zeytun Sultanov who said Kudayev went to die former Soviet republic to escape the draft : speaking by telephone from Australia said he has copies of 80 postcards the men wrote to their families “Some of die detainees have told their families they won’t be writing anymore and will see them in heavwho has copies of en” said 80 postcards “One man told his family that guards had told him he would ' be buried in Guantanamo1’ The family of Rasul Kudayev has mi to al-O- da TTIUll 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