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To: sandintoes who wrote (25319)	4/5/2002 1:04:10 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Al Qaeda Sympathizers Offer Rewards For Killing Their Opponents APRIL 5, 2002 (CBS News) - A day after hundreds of arrests for an alleged plot to overthrow the Afghan government, word surfaced of rewards being offered to kill foreigners fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban, and a U.S. general said the situation in eastern Afghanistan remains tense and dangerous. Speaking at the Pentagon on Thursday, Brigadier General John Rosa said U.S. troops in and around Khost have spotted al Qaeda fighters in the area. The Khost region is a major land route into Pakistan and is also not far from the area where U.S. and coalition forces conducted the largest battle so far in the campaign in Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda. Rosa says U.S. military in Khost is continuing to gather intelligence and will decide when and how to attack, on its own terms. North of Kabul, at Bagram Air Base, a U.S. military spokesman Major Bryan Hilferty said Friday that "credible threats of violence" continue against coalition service members, citizens and journalists. "There have also been leaflets found in Paktia province offering rewards for capturing or killing coalition members," said Hilferty. He said he does not know the exact size of the rewards being offered, but he thinks "it's above a thousand" U.S. dollars. Hilferty said Paktia's Shah-e-Kot Valley area - the center of last month's heavy fighting - has been largely cleared of armed opposition and international forces are concentrating reconnaissance and searches in nearby areas around Gardez and Khost. The U.S.-led coalition says it killed hundreds of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in and around the Shah-e-Kot Valley. Some Afghan commanders say those figures are exaggerated and many rebels slipped deeper into the mountains or across the rugged border into Pakistan. Hilferty elaborated on an attack on Wednesday, saying some several hundred Afghan soldiers and dozens of U.S. special forces patrolling the Shahi Kot area were targeted but unharmed by five tube-launched rockets. "We think they came from several kilometers away," he said. "We think they came from the south of the Shah-e-Kot Valley area." U.S. officers said on Thursday the rocket attack was a "good indication" that al Qaeda and Taliban fighters remained active in the region. The Taliban, which ruled most of Afghanistan for five years under a strict interpretation of Islam, have been targeted by the U.S.-led military coalition for harboring Sept. 11 terror attacks suspected mastermind Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda fighters.