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JERUSALEM (AP) —
Israeli troops pulled out of bibli
cal Bethlehem and a neighbor
ing village early Tuesday, wit
nesses said, edging Israel and
the Palestinians closer to a
cease-fire in the 18-month-old
Mideast conflict.
The pullback came during a
visit by Vice President Dick
Cheney, winding up a tour of
the region that concentrated on
the U.S.-led campaign against
world terrorism. Concerned
that Palestinian-Israeli violence
would disrupt the effort,
Cheney called on both sides to
end their conflict.
Cheney joined the efforts of
U.S. mediator Anthony Zinni,
and the two Americans held
talks Monday afternoon with
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon. Cheney called on both
sides to end their conflict.
The effort follows one of the
bloodiest periods in the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. Israelis are
increasingly impatient for an
end to the carnage, while the
Palestinians have been suffer
ing very heavy casualties and
economic losses.
Leaving Bethlehem, soldiers
dismantled rooftop positions,
made of sandbags.
Armored personnel carriers
and tanks then rumbled along
the main roads of Bethlehem
and Beit Jalla into Israeli con
trolled territory.
However, Israeli troops
remained in the village of El-
Khader, next to Bethlehem, and
enforced a curfew in the Aida
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Man dead upon
flight’s arrival in
Phoenix
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - An
80-year-old man who was dead
when he arrived on a flight from
Phoenix had been slumped
over when he was wheeled onto
the plane but was breathing,
flight attendants said.
A medical examiner said
there is no way to determine
exactly when James Mark
Walsh died.
The medical examiner’s
report said the man’s son,
Mark Walsh, who accompa
nied the older man, had told
investigators he was “pretty
much convinced" his father
had died in the Phoenix air
port, although flight attendants
were reassured he was all right
during the flight.
The Federal Aviation
Administration was looking
into whether the airline and
crew followed regulations, but
sanctions were unlikely,
spokesperson Elizabeth
Isham-Cory said in Chicago.
Walsh was declared dead
Saturday after arriving at Des
Moines International Airport
on an America West Express
flight. He had a history of
heart and kidney-related
problems.
According to the medical
examiner’s report, a ticket
agent noticed Walsh was “a bit
loud” when he arrived at a tick
et counter that morning in
Phoenix with Mark Walsh, of
Green Valley, Ariz., and another
family member.
But the report quoted Mark
Walsh as saying his father
slumped over in his wheelchair
and became quiet before they
boarded the airplane.
refugee camp adjacent to the
West Bank town, traditional
birthplace of Jesus.
In violence Monday, Israeli
soldiers shot and killed an
armed Palestinian near a cross
ing point between Gaza and
Israel, the military said. Also,
Palestinians fired two Qassam
rockets into Israel from northern
Gaza, the military said.
Palestinians said Israel sent
armored vehicles to search
farms afterward.
The meeting
today was tough
and seriousy but
positive.
— Jibril Rajoub
Palestinian security chief
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers
tracked down and arrested two
Palestinians who had infiltrated
into northern Israel, planning to
carry out a terror attack, the
military said.
In the most promising sign
since Zinni arrived last week,
Israeli and Palestinian security
officials met three times in less
than 24 hours.
“The meeting today was
tough and serious, but positive,”
said Jibril Rajoub, the
Palestinian security chief in the
West Bank. “The Israelis are
committed to withdrawing
all (Palestinian-run) areasV
West Bank.”
Israeli forces have en,
more than a half-*
Palestinian towns and cities,
month in a search forPalestii
militants. They have withdn
from all the Palestinian
tion centers except Bethlei
and Beit Jalla, two adji
West Bank towns just soiit
Jerusalem.
It was not clear whe
Israeli troops would remain
few Palestinian-run areasoi
Gaza Strip — a key road
some farmland — which
also seized in recent mw
and this was apparently not
of Monday’s emerging deal
An Israeli pullout
meet the most imme;
Palestinian demand forrea,
a cease-fire. However,
breakthrough could be s»
undone by Palestinian attack
Israelis, which could pro
Israeli retaliation.
Zinni, who has beensk
between Israeli and PaF:
leaders, is trying to get the
sides to implement a cease
deal brokered last yearb)i
chief George Tenet.
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endorsed the plan, which cals
the Israelis to pull backtrooa
where they were before thef
ing began in September!
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from militants.
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Taliban forces in Afghanistan, U.S. forces killed 16 fight:'
gun battle and captured 31 others at a military compoutitt
officials said Monday.
There was no indication that any of those killed or captured';
senior leaders of al-Qaida or the Taliban.
No American troops were wounded in either confrontaC
Pentagon officials said. *
The biggest U.S.-led ground offensive of the war, duH
Operation Anaconda, was declared finished Monday.
“While this particular operation’s over, we’re still activelyp®
ing al-Qaida and Taliban personnel throughout Afghanistans
we’re preparing for any subsequent missions that may be needai
said Air Force Brig. Gen. John Rosa, deputy director of operatic
for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
President Bush, speaking during a visit to St. Louis on
also said that while Anaconda is over, the war in Afghanistan is*
“I feel like we’ve got a lot more fighting to do in Afghanis!®
he said. “These are people who are there to die and we accon®
dated them. They are relentless, but so are we.”
In a sign of the global scope of the United States’ war on t^
ism, Rosa said American troops in the Philippines evacuated^
Filipino soldiers from Basilan Island after they were wounded®
firefight with Abu Sayyaf, the small Muslim extremist groups 1 *
say is linked to al-Qaida.
Rosa said the U.S. troops were not involved in the m 111
there, nor did they come under fire during the emergency a 11 ; 1
U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers are providing countertenor 1
training to Filipino forces.
In Afghanistan on Sunday morning, a team of Army V
Forces soldiers attacked a convoy of three vehicles about 45 W
southwest of the city of Gardez, killing 16 people believed toN'
Qaida fighters and wounding one. One other was detained. R° sas
U.S. forces initially fired warning shots from their helicop 1
and those in the vehicles fired back. A firefight ensued on the grot
he said. He and other officials said they were awaiting other det-
A fourth vehicle traveling some distance behind the three-''
cle convoy also was stopped by the Americans and those inside"
determined to include women and children, Rosa said. They'
allowed to proceed.
Ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons
found in the three vehicles, Rosa said.
Rosa said he was not sure where the three-vehicle convoy had
inated but other officials said it appeared those in the vehicles
trying to escape the area attacked heavily during Operation Anao
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