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World
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THE BATTALION
Friday, November!
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Cuba seeks food,
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) —-
Cuba’s foreign minister said
Thursday a U.S. offer of assis
tance after Hurricane Michelle
was Washington’s first positive
gesture toward the communist
island in 40 years, and he hoped
it signaled a change in policy.
Felipe Perez Roque told The
Associated Press that while
Cuba turned down the proffered
U.S. aid, it has opened talks
with Washington for a one-time
cash purchase of food and med
icine to replenish stocks deplet
ed by the hurricane.
“The government of the
United States offered assistance
to us. They offered to send some
people from the United States to
make an assessment on the dam
age, and then provide assis
tance,’’ the foreign minister
said.
“We replied that it was very
positive that for the first time
ever after 40 years, the United
States was going to have a ges
ture of this nature towards
Cuba,’’ Perez Roque said.
Cuba has been under a U.S.
embargo for 40 years, though
purchases of medical supplies
have been allowed since 1992.
Exports of food to Cuba were
authorized by Congress last
year. However, Cuban President
Fidel Castro had ruled out food
purchases because no American
financing was permitted.
But Castro has made an
exception because of the devas
tation of Hurricane Michelle,
which destroyed hundreds of
thousands of houses and vast
tracts of farmland. Perez Roque
called it the worst hurricane to
hit Cuba in a half century.
Perez Roque said a next pos
itive step from Washington
should be “to allow Americans
to travel freely to Cuba.” U.S.
citizens, unless granted waivers,
are banned from Cuban travel.
Perez Roque said the fact that
the highest levels of the Bush
administration must be called on
to authorize a special dispensa
tion for the shipmenis
how irrational the bkx
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is, and how pointless t,
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BANGI, Afghanistan (AP) — Northern
alliance forces and Pashtun tribesmen encircled
two of the Taliban’s last remaining strongholds at
opposite ends of the country Thursday. The
Taliban’s supreme leader vowed to fight to the
death and to seek the “extinction of America.”
Backed by U.S. warplanes, the alliance laid
siege to the northern city of Kunduz, where the
defenders include an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 for
eigners loyal to Osama bin Laden.
In the south, the Taliban clung to tenuous con
trol of its birthplace, Kandahar. Opposition leader
Hamid Karzai said his sources told him there was
“turmoil” in the city; other sources said local
Pashtun tribesmen had surrounded the city.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said there were spurts of fighting near
the city center as the Pashtun fighters advanced.
Most of Kandahar province, outside of the city, is
in the hands of anti-Taliban rebels, he said.
Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. commander of the
Afghanistan campaign, said American special
forces were operating near Kandahar. Inside the city,
Franks said, “we do see signs of some fracturing”
within the Taliban ranks. Pashtuns are Afghanistan’s
largest ethnic group, and served as the backbone of
the Taliban's harsh five-year regime.
Pakistan strengthened its border defenses clos
est to Kandahar with tanks and extra troops, wor
ried that unrest — and bin Laden supporters —
could spill across the frontier.
In other developments:
• Eight international aid workers arrested three
months ago for preaching Christianity in
Afghanistan were reported in good condition in
Pakistan after being helicoptered to safety by U.S.
special forces. The women in the group, including
two Americans, signaled to their rescuers by burn
ing the body-covering burqas they had been
forced to wear.
• U.S. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge
confirmed that documents that would be helpful in
making a nuclear device were found in a building
in Kabul, described as an al-Qaida safe house. But
Ridge said'the documents contained information
taken off the Internet that could have been widely
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• British troops arrived at the Bagramai
north of Kabul, on what the Ministry ofDtL
said was a mission to prepare the facilit)-foris
a future humanitarian mission.
• In Washington, the Pentagon said sanest
Taliban and al-Qaida leaders were He
airstrikes this week, hut had no evidence:—
Laden was among them. Defense to |M S inapP 1
Donald H. Rumsfeld told a news confer®*® ac ^ s *
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Afghanistan.
• The northern alliance has capturedspu^
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speaking on the condition of anonwlM
senior Taliban officers also have sffll
official said. The official declined .
U.S. officials had interviewed the prisi
President Bush launched airstrikes it*
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surrender bin Laden, wanted in the Sept 11*
rorist attacks on the World Trade Centeto
Pentagon.
The Taliban supreme leader,
Mohammed Omar, sought to portray the 1*
recent retreats from urban centers as partoW
er strategy aiming to destroy America.
“If God's help is with us, this
within a short period of time —keep in
prediction,” he said in an interview
conducted over satellite phone. “The real milt
the extinction of America, and Godw""
fall to the ground.”
Omar ruled out taking part in a
government like the one the United
proposed for Afghanistan.
“The struggle for a broad-based goveic
has been going on for the last 20 years,but!
ing came of it,” he said. “We will not a®
government of wrongdoers. We r .
to be a part of an evil government.
Kandahar came under heavy bombai*^."^
Thursday, the Pakistan-based Afghan Isli * t ?’
Press said. It said eight civilians were kill^ 1 f ° CUS
22 injured, a report that could not be indepea!
ly verified.
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