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...NAMED. SYED SIRAJUDDIN SYED PUTRA JAMALULLAIL 58, the ruler of Perlis, Malaysia's smallest state, as the country's 12th King since 1957; in Kuala Lumpur. Syed Sirajuddin, trained at Britain's Sandhurst, served in the army before succeeding his father as Sultan of Perlis last year. His election has no political significance; the ceremonial crown is rotated among royalty every five years. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of DICK ARMEY, 65, the House of Representatives Republican majority leader since 1995; in Washington, D.C. Armey, extolled by fellow Texan George W. Bush for his tax-cutting agenda, will step down after completing...
...Atta and his security chief, Wasiq, described how Mazar had been taken, it became clear that this fighting had finished only hours before I arrived. They told me about Sultan Raziya, a girls' school in the southeast part of the city, where Pakistani "tourists," as they called them, had held out until late Tuesday. Reports of a massacre there had filtered out of Mazar the weekend before. "Many people died there," said Wasiq. "We had to kill many." I asked if I could visit the site. Wasiq smiled and said I would have to get permission from Atta...
...approached Sultan Raziya the next morning, a Red Cross team was sifting the rubble and transferring bodies and pieces of bodies onto a flatbed tractor trailer. The stench of death hung across the ruins. The team concentrated on intact bodies that could be lifted by the arms and legs. There had been more than 300 of them so far. With Atta's permission, I was given free rein to climb through the rubble, stepping past corpse after corpse, many of them dismembered. Elsewhere, fire had reduced everything--furniture, clothing, people...
...Sultan Raziya, where the Pakistanis had set up their garrison, the soldiers refused to surrender. Alliance troops met a lethal volley of automatic-weapons fire from every side of the two-story building. They called in American fighter-bombers--guided by spotters on the ground--which scored two direct hits on the front of the school Saturday afternoon. Windows were blown out a quarter of a mile away. Hundreds of Pakistanis died in the explosions...
...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...