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Officials tracing, freezing funding WASHINGTON (AP)-As more is learned about how the Sept. 11 hijackings were financed, author ities are showing some success in cutting off sources of terror money, with $6 million blocked and 50 bank accounts frozen so far. U.S. investigators believe they have traced wire transfers from one of the terrorists to Mustafah Ahmed, a man from theUnited Arab Emirates who disappeared the day of the attacks. Mohamed Atta, a suspected leader of the hijacking teams, received $100,000 sent from Pakistan, said a law enforcement source speaking Monday on condition of anonymity. Atta wired money to Ahmed on Sept. 8 and Sept. 9 just days before the attacks, possibly returning unused funds from the hijacking plot, the source said. Atta is thought to have been the pilot of one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center in New York. ATTACKS BRIEFS Bush says America will not negotiate WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Tuesday that Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban will suffer certain consequences for the Sept. 11 attacks on America unless it meets his demands that it turn over Osama bin Laden and his followers. “There is no timetable ... there are no negotiations,” he warned. Bush also announced that Reagan National Airport, the only airport still closed because of the Sept. 11 attacks, will reopen Thursday under intense security. Bush dispatched Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the Middle East for talks with political and military leaders in the region. Asked why Rumsfeld was sent, rather than Secretary of State Colin Powell, Fleischer would only say the president believed Rumsfeld was the “appropriate” official to go. At NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the alliance’s secretary-general, Lord Robertson, said the United States presented “clear and compelling evidence” tying bin Laden and his al-Qaida organization to the terror attacks. Jesse Jackson mulls Taliban invitation GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Two days after saying he would not travel to Afghanistan, Jesse Jackson said Monday he is still considering going to the Middle Eastern country that is believed to be the home base of operations of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Jackson wants to negotiate the hand-over of bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. He said he also seeks the release of eight aid workers detained in Afghanistan. “We’ve not made that decision yet because we don’t have enough information,” he said. “If they’ll make a commitment to release the eight Christians, commit to turn Mr. bin Laden over to international justice, then that’s one thing.” Secretary of State Colin Powell has said Jackson is free to travel but did not think the trip would accomplish anything. Man charged with stealing donations SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A Spartanburg County man has been charged with stealing money donated to help victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Parcell Wiggleton, 38, was arrested Monday. Police say he stole money from two 911 Family Fund collection cans at a convenience store in Una. The robbery was caught by a surveillance camera. “This guy was stealing money literally from widows and orphans,” Spartanburg sheriffs Lt. Ron Gahagan said. Gahagan said Wiggleton has been uncooperative. “He might have taken $5 or $500.” Investi gators said they think Wiggleton spent the money on drugs. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED TERRORIST CONFESSES: In France, French-Algerian suspect Djamel Beghal confessed and gave intricate details of a plot to attack the U.S. Embassy and other sites. Beghal said he was recruited for the attack in Osama bin Laden’s Afghanistan home. Rally Participants seek alternative to war CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ■ should be delayed,” he said, “It should be done rationally and not emotionally. People are mak ing judgements based on their emotions right now.” Dr. Janice Love, a professor of international studies arid re ligion, also disagreed with using the term “war.” “This shoulji be a police ac tion, not a military campaign,” she said. “Those responsible should be arrested and tried in a world court.” Love said a military response might compromise our current position. “The massive loss of life gives the U.S. the moral high ground,” she said. “That moral authority is key to whether people respect us in the world. If we kill more people than were killed here, where does that leave us?” The rally not only expressed calls for restraint. Some of those present said a military response would be unjustified. Mehta is concerned about the U.S. break ing international law by taking military action. “There is no reason interna tional law should not apply to the U.S.,” he said, “I am not say ing international law is perfect, but at least it adheres to basic codes of ethics. “They need to first prove guilt and then extract the guilty parties and administer justice through a world court,” he said. Michael Berg thinks the ter rorist attacks must be viewed within a broader context He cited the napalm bombing of Vietnam in the 1960s, U.S. involvement with terrorists in Lebanon and U.S.-backed guerillas fighting in Central and South America. “There should be an interna tional court which brings to jus tice the people who perpetrated the acts on New York,” Berg said. Most of the rally participants did not criticize U.S. policy but instead focused on the need for careful consideration in re gards to finding justice. Mehta fears retaliation may play into a trap. “Bin Laden .quite possibly wanted to perpetrate a large and violent act on America that would coalesce the Muslim world into an enemy of the Unit , ed States,” Mehta said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. Attacks Compromise not possible, Blair says CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Abdul Salam Zaeef, the envoy, told reporters in Quetta, Pakistan. He dismissed the threat that the Taliban would be toppled, say ing, “Only Allah changes the regime, and only Allah brings the others instead of us.” Speaking in English, he also re jected NATO’s claim that Washing ton had given the alliance conclusive proof of bin Laden’s guilt. “They haven’t given it to us,” he said. Blair said there was no doubt “bin Laden and his people orga nized this atrocity” and that they were “supported, shielded and giv en succor” by the Taliban regime. “The Taliban aid and abet him. He will not desist from further acts of terror. They will not stop helping him,” he said, accusing the Taliban of having no “moral inhibition” on slaughtering innocent people. “There is no compromise possi ble with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror,” he said. “There is just a choice: Defeat it or be defeat ed by it, and defeat it we must.” "Whatever the dangers oi me action we take, the dangers of in action are far, far greater,” he said. Blair, who has toured the scene of the destruction in New York, said the families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks “don’t want re venge.” What is needed, he said, is the “destruction of the machinery of terrorism wherever it is found.” Military strikes against the Tal iban, he said, would be “propor tionate, targeted” and would strive to avoid civilian casualties. On Monday, Pakistani Presi dent Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he had all but given up on efforts to mediate the standoff between the Taliban and Washington and that it now “appears that the Unit ed States will take action in Afghanistan, and we have con veyed this to the Taliban.” Asked if the Taliban’s days were numbered, he told the British Broadcasting Corp.: “It appears so.” Blair’s speech came as the United States continues a massive military buildup around Afghanistan. The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk left its base in Japan on Monday to join other American forces being posi tioned for possible action. 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