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Show DAILY HERALD Friday, August 24, 2007 A7 Remnants ofDean drench central Mexico U.S. gave troops OK to Richard Jacobsen enter Pakistan in 04 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scott Lindlaw ensure the "Mil Liaison team in Islamabad was notified. Operations officers had a hot line to that liaison office, which Newly uncovered rules of would in turn inform Pakistani engagement show the U.S. officials, according to a U.S. ofmilitary gave elite units broad ficer who served in the region authority more than three years ago to pursue suspected , and is knowledgabie about terrorists into Pakistan, with no operations within Afghanistan 4 mention of telling the Pakistanis during that period. in advance. On same occasions, the officer The documents obtained by said, Pakistanis would detect The Associated Press offer a groundor air incursions and detailed glimpse atwhat Army request explanations from the Americans, who would open Rangers and other terrorist-huntin- g fauuiries.' units were authorized to do earlier in the war on : terviews with officers in terror. And interviews with the field, and the public state- military officials suggest some ments of top U.S. commanders, of those same guidelines have . indicate similar guidelines reremained in place, such as the main in place today. -to hot across At a hearing of the Senate the right pursuit border. Armed Services Committee in March, Sen Bill Nelson, DFla., Pakistan, a key U.S. partner in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 asked Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, "Do we have to have the . attacks, has long viewed such incursions as a threat to its sov- approval of the Pakistani government in hot pursuit across ereignty. Islamabad protested the border? , loudly this month when Democratic presidential candidate No, Lute replied. If U.S. forcSea Barack Obama pledged to es spot so much as a "hostile grant U.S. forces the authority intent against them and chase the threat toward the border, to unilaterally penetrate Pakistan in the hunt for terrorist, "then we have all the authorities leaders. we need to pursue, either with fires or on the ground, across Washington repeated assurances it would consult before ' the border, he said. Even a surveillance report , any such incursions. But summaries of the rules of enemy fighters setting up of engagement an the Afghani-- ' a rocket and pointing it west into Afghanistan is enough to border in April lead2004 say chasing trigger a unilateral military reers across the frontier was fair sponse, said Lute, then the chief game. operations officer for the Joint One summary states that ' " Chiefs of Staff and now President Bush's deputy national seEntry into PAK authorized : for the following reasons; curity adviser -- the "war czar on Iraq and Afghanistan. I "Hot pursuit of aLQaida, Taliban and terrorist command-and-contr- d Capt. Scott Horrigan, a for-mcompany commander at targets Tram APG into Pakistan (must be continu- . Ounp Tillman, an outpost about a mile inside Afghanistan's eastous and uninterrupted). I If the head of U.S. Central ern Paktika province, told the AP earlier this year that rules Command, which oversees of engagement allowed U.S. American forces in the Middle ' forces on the ground to travel East and Central Asia, ap: up to a kilometer, a little more proved direct action "against The pig 3," listed as Osama bin than half a mile, into Pakistani Laden; his deputy, Ayman ai-territory if they had eyes on Zawahri; and Taliban supreme insurgents, not just terrorist leaders. : leader Mullah Omar. The three are still believed to be hiding in Horrigan said that pursuit would require the approval of the border region. I If the Defense secretary ap- , Pakistani authorities or Horri-gan- s ' brigade commander. It proved such an incursion. bri-' whether incursions the wasn't clear Other grounds for into Pakistan, according to this gade commander was required to consult with Rikistani ofsummary , were personnel ficials before such an incursion. recovery," including rescuing troops after the downing of Through a spokesman at Fort aircraft; and troops "in contact Drum, where he to currently . with" the enemy, meaning un-- stationed, Horrigan declined to comment this week. derfire. ' As for geographic limits," Horrigan also said in the the memo states: "General rule; earlier interview that U,S.air-cra- ft could penetrate up to 10 penetrate no deeper than 10 kilometers into Pakistan, but . km," Or 6.2 miles. Told Of the guidelines, Pakimust seek permission first. And ' he said his soldiers had fired' stani military spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad said, from Afghanistan into Pakistan "two or three times. With fire "This is all nonsense. Pakistan never allowed the coalition . coming from Pakistan, usually I can fire back, he said, citing forces to enter into our terri"an inherent right to setf-de- tory while chasing militants, s ' no such was There agreement, fenflCi Lt. CoL David Accetta, there was no such understand, spokesman for U.S.troops in ing." Pentagon spokesman Lt. GoL ..Afghanistan, said last week he Todd Vician said this week ; could not talk about rules of he could not comment. As a engagement along the Pakistan policy we don't talk about rules border. He did say, after an AP of engagement, certainly not reporter informed him of Horriabout current rules in place for gan' comments, that the rules ary operations in Afghanistan, haven't changed since January, ' when Horrigan spoke.'. Iraq or any other operation, g A he said. Ranger offiThe 2004 documents were " cer who has served in Afghani-- ; included among 1,100 pages Of stan and is familiar with the investigative documents gener- current rules of engagement said that if he found himself "in ated by the Armys probe into 'contact with the enemy at the the death of NFL play border, he would feel authoRanger ft Tillman, whose rized to chase them into Pakiplatoon was operating in the stan. He spoke on condition of region at the time. anonymity because of the high exchanges between sensitivity of the Ranger officers in the docu- merits make no mentim of a relationship. Occasionally, there have been requirement to inform Pakistan in advance of strikes into signs of American operations in the Pakistani frontier. that country. However, one In January 2006, tribal elders chain of a mentions summary told the AP that US. helicopters required notifications, which had launched an attack on reresulted in Pakistan being ap- mote Saidgi village, about three prised apparently after the miles from the Afghan border fact One rule says joint task force commander must inform in Ifekistans lawless North Wa-- ziristan tribal region. CENTCOM immediately and 1HE ASSOCIATED PRESS mid-200- . . . . . . . stan-Rakist- . er . . . . . . . .. . POZA RICA, Mexico The remnants of Hurricane Dean dumped heavy rain across central Mexico on Thursday, ' : drenching tnud&lidprone . ft mountains as pushed inland after slamming into the Gulf Coast as a Category 2 storm and killing four people. Neighbors banded together to dev fallen trees with axes and machetes from the streets of this storm-lashe- d city, while workers began reconnecting downed power lines. Mexican officials said Thursday that four people died after the storm struck the, t:: central Mexican coast. In Veracruz state, a man drowned trying to cross a swollen river ... and another was crushed to ,a-d walL death by a In neighbaring Hidalgo state, ALEXANDRE MENEOMMAssociaWd Preu a woman and her son were killed when their .: Residents waRi past debris at the beach of Tecolutla, In Veracruz, southern Mexico on shack collapsed on them in a Thursday. Hurricane Dean, which crashed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday , mountain village. .. as the strongest hurricane to hit land in the Atlantic region since 1 9b$, passed through the : Veracruz region. Wednesday, with no victims reported, authorities said,. Jamaica also reported another death, bringing the . v33 rain-soake- storms toU to 25. . . 60-mi- st QruZ said. Dean hft the mainland as a Category 2 storm after, re- -' gaining some of the force ft . unleashed on the Yucatan. Its first strike on the peninsula Tuesday as a Category Stem- pest with 165 mph winds was the third most intense Atlantic hurricane ever to make land-fal- L . . I Associated Press writers . Julie Watson and Paul Kieman in Mexico City, Mark Stevenson in Mafahual arid John Pain and Adrian Sains in Miami contributed to this : report . - .. SIEMENS . mm . . Edison Stanford Hearing Center ; . portof .. MajahuaL . HER .; ' 1, BLOWOUTSALE 20 to 60 OFF SkI OMranot dm. WVilv rff 5 I." f ! r 1 SuppiM ImL Catah imnubduraA mtrfctioni imy apptyL Pmww JM DC 801 S2S4007 ugir Houm 560E2100S S01A87S233 5360 & . Sandy 10S55S Stats St 801.5715770 1666 South State - i 801 .221 .7494 uliUAiiUHiULg s t ii isjeli J;Vi s Wts.;cte) a Pheasant Meadow r . TOWNKOMIS a 830-202- . . Mexico suspended offshore oil produetkm and shut down its only nuclear power plant as tens of thousands headed for higher ground. The state oil company reopened three ports in the southern Gulf after the storm passed and said there . was no known damage to any of its production facilities. Producers of com and sugar cane likely suffered heavy ; losses in Veracruz, a key agricultural state. Coffee plantations at higher elevations also. .. were threatened by the heavy rain, industry officials said. Although Dean swept over Yucatan as a rare Category 5 hurricane, which is capable of causing catastrophic damage, its top winds were relatively narrow and appeared to hit just one town: the cruise ship ; End of Summer On . . : AT SLBBPT d K ;i BID6B tf m Act Fast C:M : . Deans remnants moved out over the Pacific Ocean near Manzanillo. Even if the system does slowly regain tropical storm force, forecasters would give ft another name because Dean weakened below tropical cydone status over Mexico's mountains. The mountain ranges near ' Mexicos coast are dotted with villages connected by precarious roads and susceptible to disaster. A rainstorm in 1999 caused floods that killed at least 350 people. Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days Wednesday with top sustained winds of 100 mph. Its center bit the tourism and ' fishing town of Tecolutla. The wide storms hurricane-farc- e winds lashed at a stretch of the Mexican coast hi Veracruz state. "Theres been a tremendous amount of damage across the state," Veracruz Gov. Fidel Herrera told the Televisa television network. In the vanilla-harveheartland of Papant la, "a huge number of roofs were ripped off houses, he said. As the storm pushed inland, .! Poza Rica, located 30 miles " from Tecolutla, became the area's command center, and. ' hundreds of people awbke in shelters there Thursday. Maria Patricia Perez, 8 merchant in Poza Rica, had the tin roof ripped completely off her house. We were afraid it would knock people living in stick huts rode out the storm. Greatly weakened from its. trip across the peninsula, Dean moved through the southern Gulf of Mexico, home to 100 oil platforms, three major. ! ports and the Cantare 11 oil field, Mexicos' most productive. All offshore : production was halted ahead .of the storm, reducing daily production by 2.7 million bar-- . rels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic ' feet of natural gas. But Femex said its offshore platforms and loading facilities would emerge without major, damage. Nearly everyone in Maja- hual fled or was evacuated ' ' ahead of the storm. Dean de- molished hundreds erf houses, crumpled steel girderi splin-- . tered wooden structures and washed away parts of con-- , Crete dock that transformed what once was a sleepy fishing village into a top cruise : ship destination. for A . Royal Caspokesman ribbean Cruises Ltd., Michael Sheehan, said the company may have to find an alterna- tive for a ship that has a port call at Costa Maya cm Aug. 30. Another top cruise ship operator, Carnival Corp., said early reports were that .. damage to Costa Maya was extensive and "the port will be out of commission for an indeterminate period." Information still was sparse .. about dozens of inland Mayan Indian communities where .. ld mudslides. : ta. down everything, she said. Exhausted residents de-scribed helping one another battle Dean's rains and winds. Shopkeeper Joel Ouz's was left without electricity or telephone lines after a pine tree gave way, but it could have been worse. Amid the howling winds, his neighbors helped him tie ropes around the tree and they were able to direct its fall away from his home. They also managed to move two cars away just before the giant tree came down. It was an adventure we . survived, the 30year-ol- d . . high-rankin- m . 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