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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?

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To: Scoobah who wrote (1170)	12/9/2001 10:23:12 AM
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Marines block escape routes As Pashtun tribes jostled for control of Kandahar, U.S. Marines focused on the hunt for bin Laden and his aides, as well as Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who was thought to have been holed up in the city before it changed hands. Karzai has said Omar must face trial after missing his last chance to renounce terrorism and repudiate bin Laden. "We're still looking for identified terrorists, specifically al Qaeda," Marine Captain Stewart Upton told reporters at a desert airbase near Kandahar on Saturday. "We're not necessarily looking for Taliban soldiers." Upton said all Marine officers above the rank of sergeant were carrying photographs of key al Qaeda members. An American captured fighting with the Taliban in the north is being held as a "battlefield detainee" at the airbase. John Walker, 20, was handed over to U.S. forces after emerging on December 1 from several days of fierce fighting between Taliban prisoners and Alliance forces backed by U.S. air strikes at a fortress near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. "Walker is a battlefield detainee. He is being held here pending disposition instructions from higher headquarters," according to a statement from the Marines on Sunday. Marine spokesman Captain David Romley said earlier that Walker was being held "for his own protection and will be transferred to U.S. civilian authorities as soon as possible.” Travelling by helicopter, in military vehicles and on foot, the Marines have been monitoring possible escape routes from Kandahar after the Taliban's collapse, Upton said. Pakistan has stepped up border controls, deploying extra men and helicopter gunships to try to prevent Taliban or al Qaeda leaders slipping across the long, porous border with Afghanistan. Pakistani paramilitary troops took control of no man's land ahead of the frontier town of Chaman on Saturday night, border officials said. They said they had moved back to a checkpost abandoned since Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

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