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U.S. military special forces
kill 21 anti-Taliban fighters
By Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (KRT)
— U.S. military commanders have
acknowledged to Afghan officials
that U.S. special forces mistakenly
attacked and killed 21 anti-Taliban
fighters last week in southern Uruz
gan Province, a senior Afghan offi
cial said Thursday, speaking on
condition of anonymity.
The incident, which is still under
investigation by the U.S. military,
raises serious questions about the
quality of intelligence in Afghanistan
and the U.S. military’s ability to navi
gate the rivalries among Afghan fac
tions in the search for Taliban and al
Qaeda remnants.
The Afghan official, a member of
the shura, or advisory council, of
Kandahar Province who is close to
Afghanistan's U.S.-backed interim
administration, said the American
commanders made the admission re
cently when he met them at the U.S.
military base at Kandahar airport.
The Afghan official's comments
provided further support for allega
tions that one of the largest U.S.
ground operations in Afghanistan to
date backfired in a bloody friendly
fire incident.
"It was a mistake, an intelligence
mistake, and these things happen,"
the Afghan official said.
His statement appeared to contra
dict the Pentagon's public statements.
On Wednesday, Air Force Gen.
Richard Myers, the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that while the
U.S. military is investigating the Jan. 24
attack, he had seen no evidence that
U. S. special forces hit the wrong target.
Marine Corps Maj. Ralph Mills, a
spokesman for the U.S. Central
Command in Tampa, Fla., said
Thursday that the U.S. investigation
of the incident was continuing and
that he had nothing to add to what
Myers had said.
In addition to using data from U.S.
assets such as spy satellites, U.S.
commanders are relying on informa
tion from the warlords who divided
Afghanistan into personal fiefdoms
after driving the Taliban from power
in December with U.S. support.
But U.S. officials have said that on
several previous occasions, local war
lords have duped U.S. forces into at
tacking their rivals by falsely identify
ing them as Taliban or fighters of bin
Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.
The Jan. 24 operation in Uruzgan, a
remote mountain village with the same
name as the province, coincided with a
dispute between two factions over the
post of district administrator.
There is no hard evidence that ei
ther faction duped U.S. command
ers into launching the raid. But the
senior Afghan official, echoing the
belief of villagers and local officials
who were interviewed by Knight
Ridder, said he believes an Afghan
source erroneously identified Uruz
gan as a Taliban stronghold.
"The problem is among the
Afghans," he asserted.
He said he was assured that such
a mistake "is not going to happen
anymore."
The Pentagon said the operation
targeted two Taliban compounds,
vehicles and a large weapons cache.
Twenty-seven senior Taliban lead
ers were arrested and taken for in
terrogation to a detention center at
Kandahar airport, it said.
A visit last weekend to Uruzgan
by Knight Ridder found that the at
tack by Green Berets backed by heli
copters and an AC-130 gunship
devastated the district administra
tion compound and the village’s
only high school.
©2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Career Center
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After a student group or depart
ment receives funding for an event,
it must submit a report about its ac
tivity to the Career Council. The re
port must contain an estimate of the
number of students involved, the
student’s reactions and how the
event could be improved if the or
ganization decides to participate
the following year.
“We basically want to know how
many people benefited from the
event,” Smith said. “These events are
intended to be an extraordinary op
portunity for students to explore and
do networking within their career.”
The Office of Multicultural Af
fairs is just one example of a stu
dent group that was able to host a
career reception Tuesday with the
help of the Career Center. Twenty
employers and 65 students attend
ed the event.
“The collaborative effort is im
pressive. What makes this event
successful is partnering with the
Career Center as well as the Office
of Student Life, and it is an exam
ple of how these departments’ ef
forts can really work,” Associate
Director of Multicultural Affairs
Randy Choy said. “Just listening to
the sound and interaction of this
event can tell you that.”
The Career Center will not be
receiving grant money for
2002-03 because of the Supreme
Court’s Southworth v. Board of
Regents of the University of Wis
consin System decision, which
changed the process for allocat
ing student incidental fees across
the country. This year, the ASUO
Programs Finance Committee de
cided the Career Center’s 2002-03
budget. The Career Center did
not include this career program
in their budget request to the
PFC.
Smith said he hopes to sustain
the program for the next seven
years with funds from previously
awarded grant money.
E-mail reporter Danielle Gillespie
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
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