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To: maceng2 who wrote (12994)	12/6/2001 3:38:26 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Traffic through Salang tunnel in Afghanistan may be restored shortly [note by pb..Is this the tunnel where several thousand Russian troops died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning when a vehicle broke down?] Interfax. Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001, 7:46 PM Moscow Time KABUL. Dec 6 (Interfax) - The movement of truck convoys through the tunnel in Salang pass in Afghanistan may be restored shortly, Russian Deputy Emergencies Minister Valery Vostrotin told Interfax on his return from Salang to Kabul on Thursday. Afghans have partly cleared the southern entry of the tunnel, he said. Explosions have destroyed suspended structures inside the tunnel, Vostrotin said, and special equipment is needed to remove them. There is no electric lighting or ventilation in the 2,676 meter-long tunnel, without which truck convoys cannot move, he said. Russian Transstroi and Metrostroi engineers who originally built the tunnel will arrive in Kabul on Friday to see the situation first hand and estimate the amount of work to be done and the procedure to follow, Vostrotin said. The tunnel is for practical purposes the only link between the north of the country and its central and southern parts in wintertime. Russian humanitarian aid supplies have been amassed in Tajikistan. Once traffic through the tunnel is restored, it will be moved from Dushanbe to Kabul using the shorter route themoscowtimes.com

To: maceng2 who wrote (12994)	12/6/2001 5:06:14 PM
From: teevee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Russian President Vladimir Putin make a statement today on the necessity of neutralizing all extremist groups acting in the Middle East. Speaking at a news conference in Athens, the President of Russia underlined that Russia believes that people who have taken the responsibility for resolving the Middle East crisis "should make every effort to neutralize extremist groups." "All extremists and terrorists should be arrested immediately," Putin emphasized. Surely he was including Israeli extremist groups?