Guy Reschenthaler, Wire Service Editor
The Behrend Beacon
Bush rejects Taliban offer
to negotiate; FBI confirms
terrorist-anthrax link
President George W. Bush and director of the newly-created Office of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge
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and five more are heille itqc,ti•tl
confirm positive hlood test result.
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Giuliani said a police officer and iv. o
lab technicians who had helped u .es
tigate an anthrax case at Nl3(' v ere
being treated for exposure to the bac
teria. 'File three unidentified patients
did not develop symptoms and are
expected to be fine.
That brought the number of people
confirmed to have conic in contact
with anthrax to 12 in the United States
since Sept. ii.
In Nevada, officials said they do not
expect anyone there to de \ clop the
disease. "We are very optimistic that
we will see no human cases of anthrax
from this incident," said Barbara Flint
of the Washoe County district health
office in Nevada.
Attorney General John Ashcroft
said he has "real suspicion'' - but no
hard evidence - that the anthrax cases
are tied to the attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon. Ile
also said that federal investigators are
looking for nearly 200 people with
possible ties to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes contin
ued to pound targets in Afghanistan
Sunday, as bombing raids against the
Taliban and ()salmi bin Lade is ter
rorist network entered the second
week.
Returning to the White House after
a weekend at the Camp David presi
dential retreat, Bush bristled with an
ger when asked about reports that the
Taliban was willing to negotiate the
fate of bin Laden. Deputy Prime Min
ister Haji Abdul Kabir said the Taliban
would consider sending bin Laden to
a neutral third country to stand trial if
the United States would end air strikes
in Afghanistan.
"There's nothinll to ncgotial.
about," Bush said. "They're harbor
ing a terrorist, and they need to turn
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U.S. officials from Rush on clown
sought to calm the nation while ur)i-
Mg continued vigilance.
In earlier videotaped remarks to the
American Society of Anesthesiolo
gist, Rush offered assurances that the
country will emerge from what he
called "one of the darkest moments in
our history - with a victor) , over ter-
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"I ,et me be clear about this: We will
win the war on terrorism," Bush told
the cloetors
In Afghanistan, air strikes cut off
electricity in Kandahar, a Taliban
stronghold, according to reports from
l'aLiq in
Taliban spokesman Sohail Shaheen
acknowledged that eight straight days
of bombing raids and missile attacks
had taken a toll, but he added, "The
real war starts when ground troops en-
ter Afghanistan. -
In marked contrast to the talk of ne
gotiation from other Taliban leaders,
Shaheen said the regime would never
surrender bin Laden. He told ABC that
U.S. air strikes had killed at least 400
civilians.
"It is better to be destroyed than to
surrender to might and arrogance," he
said.
U.S. officials remained focused on
the threat of more terrorist attacks and
the baffling outbreaks of anthrax in
Florida, New York and Nevada.
"There's no question that it's bio
terrorism," Health and Human Ser
vices Secretary Tommy Thompson
tt )1(1 CNN. "Whether or not it's con-
nected to al Qaida, we can't say con-
clusively."
Friday, October 19, 2001
CHUCK KENNEDY/KR T PHOTO
In Boca Raton, Sun editor Michael
Irish's w ife Gloria rented unit 1504 at
the Delray Racquet Club to Marwan
Alshehhi and Saeed Alghaindi this
summer. 1131 spokeswoman Judy
Orilmela
Alshehhi NA as aboard United Hight
175, the second jet to strike the World
Trade Center. A lghamdi was on United
Hight 93, which crashed 80 miles
southeast of Pittsburgh \\ hen pa,,,en-
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editor's wile and the terrorists
Orihueia said. But just ac quickly, she
said the 1131 wasn't draw.ini.l. inunedi-
ate concitiiott
"Right nom it Imiks like a coinci
dence,- Orihuela said from outside the
tabloid's Boca Raton headquarters.
"We are not searchinv. the apaitinent at
this time. We are locusinii on this build-
Only one other person besides photo
editor Stevens has developed the dis
ease - Erin O'Connor, an assistant to
NBC news anchor 'loin Brokaw.
O'Connor is expected to recover alter
being exposed through a cut on her
The third anthrax incident occurred
in Nevada. where investigators traced
the bacteria to a letter that was sent from
Malaysia to a Microsoft subsidiary's
office.
Ashcroft speculated that terrorists
may have targeted news organizations
for anthrax attacks as part of an effort
to undermine one of the hallmarks of
American democracy.
"If people hate freedom, they ought
to hate information that allows free
people to make good decisions," he
said on CBS. "If 1 were a terrorist, I
would want to engender fear that was
irrational, and I would want to curtail
the availability of information in a free
press."
Ashcroft said federal authorities
were still looking for nearly 2(X) people
who may have been involved "in one
way or another" with the attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
"I don't want to be more specific
about how they might' have been in
volved. That's one of the things we're
trying to ascertain," he said.
Ashcroft said it is "very unlikely"
that authorities have captured all of the
terrorists who were involved in the
Sept. 11 attacks or others who had
been planning separate attacks.
"We are doing everything possible
to disrupt, to interrupt, to prevent, to
destabilize any additional activity," he
told NBC.
The attorney general said he could
not confirm a report by Knight Ridder
Newspapers that terrorists had gath
ered information for possible terror
ist attacks against Walt Disney World
in Florida.
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From the Koran to foreign policy,
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by John Chadwick
The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)
Weeks after the terror of Sept. I
some teachers and students at
Fairleigh Dickinson University in
Teaneck, N.J. removed their shoes,
listened to readings from the Mus
lim holy book, and tried to answer
the question: "Where do we go from
here?"
But even the Muslims who orga
nized the forum expressed disagree
ment and uncertainty as they
struggled to cope with and compre
hend the horrifying attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Penta
gon on Sept. I I.
The discussion, which attracted
about 50 people to the student union
on the Teaneck-Hackensack (New
Jersey) campus, started with a read
ing from the Koran that said God cre
ated different nations so man would
have to learn to get along.
A short time later, one Muslim said
the United States could help that
learning process by reevaluating its
foreign policy.
"If we really want to go forward
and create this feeling of unity, do
we really understand our foreign
policy and what we are doing to the
rest of the world?" said Nadeem
Siddigi, a Hackensack, N.J. resident
who said his wife attends the uni
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"Do we really expect the next gen
eration of Iraqis to grow up loving
America?" Siddiqi said.
The university's Muslim chaplain,
however, said blaming the attacks on
America's foreign policy trivializes ter
rorism, which he called a criminal act.
Khalil Ali tried to draw a parallel to
the murder of James Byrd, a black man
killed in 1998 when three white men
dragged him from the back of a pickup
truck in Texas.
"People said he was killed because
he was black, which subtly placed
blame upon him," Ali said. "He was
killed because the men who killed him
were violent criminals. I don't think the
world was attacked Sept. 11 because of
foreign policy."
Still, Leonard Grob, a philosophy
teacher who also lectures on the Holo
caust, said it was important to "get be
hind the criminality" of the terror at
tacks and understand that many nations
view the world in strikingly different
terms from the way many American
view it.
"I do see this as a heinous criminal
act, and justice must be served," Grob
said afterward. "But 1 think we can't
stop there. We have to ask what's be
hind the act and understand some of the
reasons why America is so hated."
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students, and its location in Teaneck
amid a thriving Indo-Pakistani commu
nity, Fairleigh Dickinson has hundreds
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dents and faculty members.
The audience seemed split be
tween Muslims and non-Muslims.
Some Muslims disagreed over the
steps they should be taking to edu
cate the public about their religion.
The suspected hijackers had Ara
bic names and are believed to have
carried out their murderous mission
for an Islamic extremist group linked
to Osarna bin Laden.
Ummi Nur Ali, a guest speaker,
said Muslims shouldn't try to teach
the public about Islam during the cur
rent, highly charged atmosphere sur
rounding the attacks. She said such
efforts compromise the complexity
of Islam.
"It's a time for the religious com
munities to come together, but it's not
a time to teach Islam," she said.
Others disagreed.
Senior Islam Farghaly said many
Americans know almost nothing
about Islam, including its reverence
for the prophets of Judaism and
Christianity.
One faculty member said Muslims
must show that the terrorists misused
Islam, just as others throughout his
tory have misused religion to justify
atrocities.
"The Muslims must say this is a
distortion, just like Christians must
say the Salem witch trials were a dis
tortion," said Gilbert Steiner, direc
tor of the School of Computer Sci
ence and Information Systems.
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