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...Around 900 Pakistanis were surrounded in a girls' school, Sultan Razinya, in the southeast of the city. Over three days, the Alliance commanders - Ustad Mohammed Atta, General Rashid Dostum and Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq - say they tried to persuade the Pakistanis to surrender. The Pakistanis refused. By Tuesday afternoon, the commanders had exhausted their patience, and warned civilians living in the area to move away. Then they attacked, and the fighting lasted four hours. The Alliance took just 175 prisoners...
...possibility of greater upheaval in the region should the fighting spread. Indonesia's Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda warned last week that coordinated action must be taken quickly by the countries affected. He called for a regional meeting in November and said representatives from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Australia and Southeast Asia would be invited...
Quandong: “Vessel used in Southeast Asia to travel on rivers...
...potential visitors within driving distance. Visit Florida, the Tallahassee-based official tourism marketing agency for Florida, will allow its entire $2 million emergency budget to be used for in-state advertising, and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a massive direct-mail campaign throughout the Southeast. Las Vegas is directing a $13 million advertising effort at markets within a 750-mile radius. One week after the terror attacks, the management at the tony Canyon Ranch spa persuaded 67 East Coast-based guests who would have canceled flights to its Tucson, Ariz., resort to drive instead...
...Indonesia, right now, may be the wobbliest "domino" in Southeast Asia, because of Jakarta's notoriously volatile domestic politics. Four years of economic meltdown and political flux has left the question of power in Indonesia - even of the archipelago's future integrity as a single nation state - dangerously unresolved. If the Islamic parties that previously conspired to keep President Megawati Sukarnoputri out of power use the unrest sparked by the Afghanistan raids to move against her once again, Jakarta could be in for another year of living dangerously...