World News 15-11-2001 $25million Reward For Capture Of Bin Laden who: Tony Blair what: Urges Afghan people to hand over Osama bin Laden where: Afghanistan when: Yesterday snippet: "Tony Blair went on Afghan radio yesterday to tell poverty-stricken tribesmen of the $25million bounty for Osama bin Laden," reports The Mirror. Millions of Afghan people heard his broadcast on BBC World Service offering "a very substantial reward, worth millions of dollars" for bin Laden and his supporters. However, the "victorious" Northern Alliance spurned Allied efforts to finish off the Taliban, says The Guardian, "by insisting yesterday that it would take care of security in Afghanistan and that an international peacekeeping force was unnecessary." "The obstacle to achieving peace is, of course, the Taliban and the terrorists," said the Northern Alliance`s foreign affairs spokesman Dr Abdullah Abdullah yesterday. "After getting rid of the Taliban and the terrorists, there won`t be war and won`t be a need for international peacekeeping forces." Meanwhile, says The Sun, as the Taliban`s grip on Afghanistan relaxes, US forces are to be joined by the SAS on the hunt for Osama bin Laden and Tony Blair has already ordered British Commandos and Paras into Afghanistan to spearhead the international peacekeeping force. Nevertheless, the war still rages in the south of the country. "Heavy fighting was reported in and around the Taliban`s headquarters, Kandahar," says The Telegraph. "The eastern city of Jalalabad, the headquarters of al-Qa`eda, fell to tribal fighters previously loyal to the fundamentalist regime." Non-Alliance groups in the south include the ethnic Pathan tribesmen, veterans of the anti-Soviet struggle who fear that the Alliance`s capture of Kabul could lead to civil war. [... more]

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