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To: Jerry in Omaha who wrote (12555)	12/3/2001 11:52:54 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

Some Finns obviously know lots of Orwellian facts. I expect it has something to do with lack of daylight this time of year. -g- I am getting some breaking news =========================================================== UN pulls out amid Mazar fighting (Filed: 03/12/2001) [Note from pb: Is there anywhere where they are staying?] FACTIONAL fighting has prompted the United Nations to pull its international staff out of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesman said today. "We have observations of sporadic fighting and shooting in the city, we don't have any information on who is fighting whom. We have heard about factional fighting," UN spokesman Khaled Mansour said. The apparent outbreak of fighting between various Northern Alliance factions in Mazar-i-Sharif was the latest sign that long-held tensions within the grouping of warlords were beginning to show. "The area around the city is very unstable," Mansour said. "We don't have anyone in Mazar, our security officer left the city, I think yesterday." Another UN official in Kabul said several concerns had prompted the pull-out. "There was a combination of looting, security threats to Western nationals and factional fighting. Several factions want control of the city." He said a similar situation existed in the eastern city of Jalalabad. Mansour also said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was concerned about reports of rising tension among the population on Pakistan's northwestern border with Afghanistan portal.telegraph.co.uk