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WASHINGTON (AP) — A subsidiary of
a Texas-based company has won a $74.8
million contract to help the Immigration and
Naturalization Service keep tabs on visitors
to the United States.
The subsidiary. Affiliated Computer
Services-Business Process Solutions of
Lexington, Ky., will maintain a database of
information gathered when visitors — stu
dents, tourists and business travelers —
enter and exit the country.
A current system for maintaining this
information has been criticized as too slow
in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Several
of the suspected hijackers had entered the
country on travel or tourists visas and over
stayed them, INS officials have said.
“We are excited about this selection by
the INS for this important processing
work,” said Tom Blodgett, president of the
subsidiary of Dallas-based ACS Inc.
Blodgett said he plans to use new tech
nology to make the process more
Congress also is looking at othertechnc
and systems to keep track of foreign vis
Visitors must give INS a formcontr.
personal information when they arrive
port of entry. That information is
into a database. The visitors then
form to INS when they leave. The si
entry-exit system is supposed to
keep track of foreign visitors and
when they overstay their visas.
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Taliban headquarters in the
southern city of Kandahar —
said to be all but abandoned by
its half million inhabitants after
weeks of attacks.
In other developments:
• The Pentagon said two U.S.
helicopters came under fire in
Pakistan as their crews tried to
retrieve the wreckage of another
helicopter that had crashed dur
ing a covert weekend comman
do raid.
• Three U.S. bombs went
astray over the weekend, with
two landing in a civilian neigh
borhood near Kabul and the
other near a senior citizens’ cen-
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— Pervez Musharraf
Pakistani president
ter in Herat, the Pentagon said.
The military said it had no
information on casualties. The
United Nations said a U.S.
bomb struck a military hospital
in the western Afghan city of
Herat but said it had no infor
mation regarding casualties.
Taliban rulers aid more than 100
patients and medical workers
were killed Monday.
Pentagon spokeswoman
Victoria Clarke said a U.S.
bomb went astray near a senior
citizens’ home in Herat, landing
in a field between the home and
a military vehicle storage facili
ty. The 1,000-pound bomb was
dropped Sunday by an F/A-18.
She said it was not know if the
so-called senior citizens’ center
was the same building referred
to in the U.N. report.
• Britain will send troops and
equipment to join the U.S.-led
military effort against
Afghanistan, though just how
much has not been decided.
• Italy offered the United
States an armor regiment, attack
helicopters, fighter jets and spe
cialists in nuclear, chemical and
bacteriological warfare for the
coalition against terrorism.
• BBC-TV reported Tuesday
that a U.S. bomb hit a house in
Kabul Monday night that was
used by the Kashimiri militant
group Harakat ul-Mujahedeen.
Citing sources inside the organ
ization, the BBC said the bomb
killed 22 members of the group
which is linked to Osama bin
Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist ring.
President Bush initiated the
air campaign Oct. 7 after the
Taliban repeatedly refused to
surrender bin Laden, chief sus
pect in last month’s terror
attacks in the United States.
British Secretary of Defense
Geoff Hoon said Tuesday that
the military strikes on
Afghanistan have destroyed
nine of bin Laden’s terrorist
training camps and severely
damaged nine airfields and 24
military garrisons.
In recent days, U.S. forces
increasingly have shifted the
brunt of their attacks to Taliban
positions on front lines outside
Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif. hop
ing to break Taliban defenses
around the key cities.
On Tuesday, U.S. jets
streaked in high over the front
line at Kabul, then swooped in
to drop their bombs while as vil
lagers gawked and pointed.
“There it is,” residents of
the opposition-held communi
ty cried each time a white
speck appeared in the sky.
Nine blasts sounded, one after
the other. Witnesses said at
least five of those strikes hit
the Taliban front line.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — In a
deepening confrontation, Israel
defied a U.S. demand to pull its
army out of six Palestinian
towns Tuesday. President Bush
later moved to ease tensions by
urging the Jewish state to do it
“as quickly as possible.”
Only hours earlier, the State
Department told the Israelis
leave the towns without delay.
The presence of the Israeli
Defense Force “contributes to
an escalation in violence, and it
should be withdrawn immedi
ately,” spokesman Richard
Boucher said.
The diplomatic dispute with
Washington was the most seri
ous since Ariel Sharon was
elected prime minister eight
months ago.
But comments by Bush fol
lowing a meeting with Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres of Israel
reflected an effort to ease the
confrontation. “I did express our
concern about troops in
Palestinian territory and I would
hope the Israelis would move
their troops as quickly as possi
ble,” Bush said of the talks.
Israel sent its army into the
West Bank towns after the
assassination last Wednesday of
ultranationalist Tourism
Minister Rehavam Zeevi. The
killing was claimed by the radi
cal Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestinian as
vengeance for Israel’s Aug. 27
killing of its leader.
Israel moved into Jenin
Thursday then into Bethlehem
and Beit Jalla on Friday, and
finally Tulkarem, Kalkiliya and
Ramallah on Saturday.
In the latest incident, Israeli
troops shot and killed three
Palestinians in Tulkarem early
Wednesday. Palestinians said
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