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I U.S. intensifies attacks, brings in guns hips BY KATHY GANNON AND AMIR SHAH ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - U.S. strikes set Red Cross warehous es afire near Afghanistan’s cap ital Tuesday, sending workers scrambling to salvage desper ately needed relief goods during a bombardment that could be heard 30 miles away. To the south, two U.S. special forces gunships entered the air war for the first time, raking the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar with cannon and heavy machine gun fire in a raid before dawn. Heavy, round-the-clock attacks and the first use of the lumbering, low-flying AC-130 gunships sig naled U.S. confidence that 10 days of attacks by cruise missiles and high-flying jets have crippled the air defenses of the Taliban, the Muslim militia that rules most of Afghanistan. U.S.-led forces have used more than 2,000 bombs and missiles since opening the attacks Oct. 7, Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, direc tor of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news conference. The past two days’ attacks have been especial ly intense, putting more than 100 warplanes and five cruise mis siles into the air, he said. Tuesday’s strikes were mostly against military installations and airports around Kabul, Kandahar and the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, on which the Afghan op position claims its forces are clos ing in. Afternoon raids in the Kabul area were so strong that the deto nations could be heard 30 miles north of the city, where Taliban forces are battling Afghan fight ers of the opposition northern al liance. During the afternoon raids, at least one bomb exploded in the ♦ AFGHANISTAN, SEE PAGE 4 READY TO SAVE LIVES USC’s Army ROTC practices CPR this past Thursday in Maxey Gregg Park as part of its regular first-aid training. PHOTO BY ANNA MAZUREK Gamecocks’ winning streak ends in Arkansas BY CHRIS FOY THE GAMECOCK For only the third time this season, the USC football team (5-1, 4-1) outgained its opponent in to tal yards. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to win the game. Behind two Phil Petty interceptions and a blocked field goal, the Arkansas Razorbacks handed the Gamecocks its first loss of the sea son, 10-7. In a game where one play could have determined the out come, USC head coach Lou Holtz knew any call could have resulted in a different final score. “A game like this you could play over a million different times with a million different out comes,” Holtz said. “What it comes down to is we wouldn’t make the big plays when we had to.” With the score at 10-7 late in the third quarter, neither team could make a scoring drive, with both constantly punting the ball ♦ FOOTBALL, SEE PAGE 5 INTO THE MINDS OF TERRORISTS -T I “How do we know if a terrorist group has global reach? It attacks us in our homeland.” PETER SEDERBERG HONORS COLLEGE PRESIDENT, TERRORISM EXPERT USC professor gives realistic perspective on current threats BY MICHAELSTUTZ THE GAMECOCK With many Americans anx ious about the uncertainty of personal security, it can be tough to have a realistic per spective on what the current threats to the United States ac tually are. Dr. Peter Sederberg, President of the Honors College and an ex pert in terrorism, spoke with The Gamecock about a topic that has been mostly unknown to the American public until recently. Q: What are the potential threats to the United States in the future — in particular, threats by organizations other than the A1 Qaeda network? Sederberg: One of the dis tinctions that the Bush admin istration has defined is to dis tinguish between terrorist groups with global reach versus terrorist groups that do not have global reach. And, by that, I suppose one could mean ter rorist groups that have an in terest in and capability for at tacking us. How do we know if a terror ist group has global reach? It at tacks us in our homeland ... Here are many groups around the world, unfortunately, that use terrorism, both in the name of the regime and in the name of some kind of revolutionary or secessionist change. Most of those do not target Americans, except for in South America, where they kidnap them for ransom as a way of raising funds. But there aren’t many groups that are not associated with the instabilities of the Middle East that really fall into that category of global reach. And so, do I feel particularly worried that the apparent demonstrated success of Osama bin Laden’s network or coali tion in attacking the U.S. home land will serve as a precedent and incite others not already as sociated, at least in sympathy, if not organizationally, to attack us? No, I don’t lose a lot of sleep over that. On the other hand, if you mean inside the United States, domestic, “homegrown,” as we call it, that may contemplate ter ♦ TERRORISM, SEE PAGE 3 ANTHRAX INFECTION SITES I State-by-State Summary of Anthrax FLORIDA: Robert Stevens, 63, photo editor of The Sun, died Oct. 5 from inhaling anthrax spores. Mailroom worker Ernesto Blanco, 73, has the inhaled form of anthrax. Traces of anthrax have been found in the Boca Raton postal building that handles the company’s mail. NEW YORK: Erin O’Conner, an assistant to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has the anthrax skin infection, which is rarely-fatal and was being treated by antibiotics. A letter to NBC postmarked Sept. 18 from Trenton, NJ. was found to contain anthrax. A second NBC employee had symptoms of the skin form of anthrax but has not tested positive for it. A police detective and two health department lab technicians later tested positive for the bacteria after handling the letter. The baby son of an ABC News producer has tested positive for the skin form of anthrax. The child is being treated and is expected to recover. NEVADA: Anthrax has been found in a mysterious letter containing pornographic pictures and mailed from Malaysia to a Microsoft office in Reno. Six Microsoft employees who handled the mail have tested negative for anthrax exposure. WASHINGTON, D.C.: A letter opened Monday in Sen. Tom Daschle’s office tested positive for anthrax. It was also postmarked Sept. 18 in Trenton, N J. NEW JERSEY: Postal inspectors announced Monday that a mail carrier and post office maintenance employee in Trenton, where at least two anthrax-tainted letters were mailed, have shown symptoms of the disease. SOURCE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS More fall ill with anthrax Seven-month-old son of ABC news producer has less harmful form BY DEEPTI HAJELA ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — City officials con ducted environmental tests at ABC offices Tuesday, trying to find the source of the anthrax that infected a network news produc er’s infant son. In Washington, authorities closed a wing of an eight-story Senate office building a day after a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle tested posi tive for anthrax bacteria. The diagnosis of the 7-month old child marked the second an athrax case involv ing a major news organization in New York in four days, following one at NBC in which an employ Daschle ee was infected by a letter carrying anthrax. ABC News President David Westin said Monday the boy de veloped the skin form of anthrax after spending time at the news room last month. The child has been released from the hospital, is taking antibiotics and is expected to recover. “The prognosis is excellent,” Westin said. After the case was discovered, in vestigators took to media mailrooms across New York City late Monday. ♦ ANTHRAX, SEE PAGE 5 USC students worry about getting disease BYGINNY THORNTON THE GAMECOCK Although no cases of anthrax have been reported in South Carolina so far, USC students aren’t entirely removed from the effects of the virus. According to Cicely Jenkins, director of nursing at Thomson Student Health Center, concerned students have been calling with questions. “They want to know what they can do to prevent it,” Jenkins said. “Some of them have been very upset.” Third-year marine science stu dent Natalie Monacci is worried about the recent series of anthrax findings. “It’s like, every week or ♦ USC ANTHRAX, SEE PAGE 6 USC’S PAST Oct. 24,1946 The Carolina-Clemson football game, which USC won 26-14, was mobbed with more fans than the stadium could hold after counterfeiters sold thousands of bogus tickets. WEATHER Today Tomorrow Sunny, Sunny, 69/38 68/44 INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE USC takes first SEC loss Gamecocks squander chance to defeat Hogs. ♦ PAGE 13 < Frankenstein exhibit hits museum S.C. State Museum brings back its annual spookfest. ♦ PAGE 9 Iiqmi. J|L) i, ■, t .H , „■=**.- M •• ■ m. - - , ■ • L - M - - ONLINE POLL Mascot change Do you think USC should change its mascot? Vote at www.dailygamecock.com. 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