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500 Meter Qwim • 31K Bike • 5K Run
April 4 * Lake Bryan in Bryan, TX
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SWIM: 500 meter open water
swim in Lake Bryan.
BIKE: The 31K course includes
numerous rolling hills & short
climbs on lightly traveled roads.
RUN: The flat 5K is run through
the park, partly on pavement,
partly cross country.
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Monday, March 22, 2004
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Afghan minister killed in power struggle will
rival commander, heavy gunbattle erupt
By Stephen Graham
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan — Soldiers loyal
to a local commander shot and killed
Afghanistan’s aviation minister Sunday in
the western city of Herat, setting off a big
gunbattle in which as many as 100 people
died vicious factional fighting, the com
mander told The Associated Press.
In Kabul, President Hamid Karzai’s
Cabinet convened in emergency session
after the killing of minister Mirwais Sadiq
— a son of Herat’s powerful governor —
and dispatched extra troops to try to calm
the city.
Presidential spokesman Khaleeq
Ahmed said only that the minister had
been shot in his car and circumstances
were unclear.
However, a top Herat military com
mander, Zaher Naib Zada, told AP by tele
phone Sunday night that his forces had
killed Sadiq in a confrontation after the
minister went to Zada’s home to fire him.
Afterward, Zada’s forces and soldiers
loyal to Sadiq began fighting with machine
guns, tanks and rockets for control of the
city’s main military barracks. Zada said
between 50 and 100 soldiers were killed in
the first hours of the ongoing battle.
Sadiq is the third leading figure of
Karzai’s government, and the second avia
tion minister, to be killed.
The father of the slain minister, Ismail
Khan, is a former anti-Soviet commander
who runs a large private army and has had
firm control over Herat since the fall of
the Taliban in late 2001. But there have
been persistent tensions — and occasional
factional fighting — between his men and
those loyal to rival warlords. Sadiq was
widely viewed as his father’s representa
tive in Karzai’s government.
State television had reported that
Sadiq’s father, Khan, had escaped a sepa
rate attack unhurt. The presidential
spokesman and other officials, however,
said there had been no attack on Khan.
Aid workers in the city speaking by
phone reported gunfire and heavy explo
sions and said they had been ordered to
stay indoors. U.N. workers scrambled into
a bunker at their headquarters.
A police officer, Fahim, reached by
telephone at the main police station, gave a
different account, saying Sadiq had gone
to Zada’s residence to ask him about the
killing of three civilians by Zada’s forces
two days earlier.
Karzai’s defense and interior ministers
were preparing to travel to Herat to try to
determine the circumstances of the killing,
and the battles that followed, his
spokesman said.
The president, who escaped a 2002
attempt on his life, said in a brief statement
from Kabul that he was “deeply shocked”
by the killing and offered condolences to
Ismail Khan.
Karzai’s first civil aviation minister,
Abdul Rahman, was assassinated Feb. 14,
2002, at Kabul’s airport, in circumstances
that remain unclear. Gunmen shot and
killed Vice President Abdul Qadir in the
capital on July 6, 2002.
Both of those killings remain unsolved.
Karzai has been constantly shadowed
Fighting follows
official’s death
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aviation minister Mirwais Sadi]
in the western city of Herat and
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NEWS IN BRIEF
War on terror proves hard to fight in court
BERLIN — The post-Sept. 11 war against terrorism is suffering as much
in the courts as in the streets with several legal setbacks involving sus
pected 20 members and other groups around the world.
The biggest reversal came in Germany when a court threw out the only
conviction of a Sept. 11 suspect. But other cases have been hindered, too,
including against a militant Indonesian cleric and Zacarias Moussaoui, the
only alleged Sept. 11 conspirator charged in the United States.
The U.S. reluctance to let witnesses in custody testify and the sheer
complexity of cross-border investigations are mostly to blame.
And the Madrid bombings that killed 202 people last week showed
while investigators struggle to build judicial cases against suspect
rorists are still successfully plotting and carrying out attacks.
Spanish authorities had one of the chief suspects in the Mai
ings, Jamal Zougam, on their radar since at least 2001 asaf
Qaida operative, even once searching his apartment, but were unaUjfc
build a case against him. ^ ^
Zougam, arrested two days after the bombings, operated in ata
two countries, Morocco and Spain.
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Climbing Technique Clinic
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Kayak Roll Instructional Clinic
Canoe Day Trip
Wilderness First Aid Class
Fly Fishing for White Bass
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Lead Climbing Clinic
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Sea Kayak the Texas Coast—Join TAMU Outdoorses
sea kayaking adventure! Paddle Texas' Gulf Coo!
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Rock Climbing Day Trip—Climb the limestone cliffs off
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IM Basketball and Soccer Playoffs—Posted in notebooks locat
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