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U.S. Army takes over Kandahar base
Marines to head home, but hunt for bin Laden, others continues
A soldier with the U.S. 101st Airborne Division patrols the perimeter of the
U.S. base at Kandahar's airport Saturday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 19 — A famed U.S. Army paratrooper division took
over the largest American military installation in Afghanistan on Saturday,
taking command from Marines who were returning to their ships and sending a
signal that the hunt for al-Qaida and Taliban holdouts, particularly Osama
bin Laden, is far from over.
THE HANDOVER was accomplished with a ceremony to hoist the Army flag.
The switch has been under way for a few days, with troops from the 101st
Airborne Division relieving Marines from bunkers along the perimeter of the
base established at Kandahar’s airport.
The Marines looked forward to TV, soft beds and meals “that didn’t
come out of a bag,” said Cpl. Marcus Rounsaville, 22, of Jackson, Miss. He
spent a month in the bunkers.
A Marines spokesman said they would “retain an offensive capability at
the base” until the Army is fully settled in, MSNBC.com’s Preston Mendenhall
reported from the base.
And NBC’s Jim Maceda reported that the Army troops were busy with
perimeter patrols and even extending the perimeter in places.
Emotional mission for Afghan Marine
Troops report frequent sightings of armed men outside the perimeter,
and the base came under fire last week during the first flight of al-Qaida
and Taliban prisoners from a temporary detention facility to a high-security
jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Earlier this week, a man claiming to have significant information
about the Taliban showed up at the gate. He remained under interrogation
Saturday, said Army spokesman Maj. Ignacio Perez, who declined to say if the
man was being formally held or would be free to leave if he wished.
A Marine spokesperson said the man had “made no request to leave and
the word is on the street who he is, and he’s safer here than he would be off
the base right now.”
EVIDENCE ON BIN LADEN
Intelligence information gathered in Afghanistan has led U.S.
officials to believe that bin Laden, the Saudi-born militant suspected of
masterminding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, was still
in either Afghanistan or neighboring Pakistan.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Defense Department officials said surveillance aircraft flying over
Afghanistan and U.S. troops on the ground were watching numerous areas of the
country in hope of finding bin Laden and other leaders of al-Qaida and the
Taliban.
Navy ships and patrol planes, meanwhile, were monitoring the waters
off Pakistan’s coast in case they tried to slip away by sea.
U.S. officials specifically dismissed comments by Pakistan’s
president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that bin Laden had probably died.
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In interviews with CNN and Newsweek, Musharraf repeated his belief
that bin Laden was dead because he had a kidney disease and could not have
received adequate treatment since the United States began its military
assault in Afghanistan last October.
Musharraf did not indicate whether he had intelligence reports to back
up his suspicions, telling Newsweek that he had reached his conclusion
because bin Laden was “not visible anywhere.”
A senior U.S. official told NBC News on condition of anonymity Friday
that if bin Laden had died, it was “news to us.” Another U.S. official told
NBC’s Robert Windrem that there was no evidence that bin Laden had ever had a
kidney ailment other than a bout with kidney stones. Other officials
described bin Laden as a hypochondriac who had complained of numerous
illnesses for many years.
MANY TIPS FROM VIDEO
Jan. 17 — Excerpts of the tapes played Thursday did not include a sound
track because intelligence officials were still analyzing them.
The United States has kept much of its evidence close to the vest,
but some of the most dramatic was revealed Thursday when the Justice
Department released parts of new videotapes found in the home of bin Laden’s
top terrorist planner.
FBI officials told NBC News on Friday that worldwide reaction to a
call for information on five men depicted in the tapes had been “huge.” They
said that many tips had already come into the FBI Web site and that agents
would check out credible leads.
The initial response, which FBI officials described as surprisingly
large, was so promising that the agency was considering whether to renew the
call for tips next week by depicting the men as they would look in
Western-style dress, officials told NBC’s Pete Williams, who first disclosed
the tapes’ existence Thursday.
The five tapes were found in the Afghan home of al-Qaida’s military
leader, Mohammed Atef, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert
Mueller said Thursday at a news conference where excerpts were played.
Atef, who was related through marriage to bin Laden, helped found
al-Qaida. U.S. officials have said that Atef, who was believed to have died
in a U.S. airstrike, had “principal responsibility for supervising the
training of al-Qaida members.”
On the tapes, “the young men deliver what appear to be martyrdom
messages from suicide terrorists,” said Ashcroft, who warned that the men
“could be anywhere in the world” and “may be trained and prepared to commit
future suicide terrorist acts.”
Among the five men was Ramzi Binalshibh, named by prosecutors as an
unindicted co-conspirator in the attacks on Washington and New York.
Binalshibh, 29, of Yemen, was a roommate of suspected terrorist ringleader
Mohammed Atta when the two lived in Germany.
IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
Interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai held talk with leaders in Saudi Arabia
on Saturday aimed at securing an aid package for Afghanistan from the
oil-rich Gulf state.
Three Marines at Kandahar who were injured when an unidentified object
exploded as they were burning trash were in serious but stable condition
Friday at the U.S. medical center in Landstuhl, Germany.
U.S. officials told NBC News that U.S. forces would hand over John Walker
Lindh, the U.S. follower of the Taliban captured last month in Afghanistan,
to Justice Department authorities on Sunday. Walker, currently being detained
aboard the USS Bataan in the Arabian Sea, faces criminal charges in U.S.
District Court in Alexandria, Va.
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