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The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University Monday Sports: GSU beats Illinois St. for 1,000th all-time win Volume 74, No. 45 December 3,2001 Page 7 www.stp.gasou.edu ON THE INSIDE: Special Forces take American Taliban Taliban puts price on into custody KRT Campus MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Af- ghanistan - U.S. Special Forces took into custody early Sunday a Covering the campus like a western journalists' heads 20-year-old American who claims swarm of gnats he has been fighting for the By Jake Hallman Taliban for six months. Jhday's "Weather [email protected] The American, who identified Taliban leadership began offer- himself as Abdul Hamid of Wash- ing $50,000 bounties for western ington, D.C., surrendered on Sat- urday along with more than 80 Partly cloudy journalists Friday. other Taliban fighters who held with a high of A mass exodus of reporters from out in an underground bunker for 71° F and a low Afghanistan began shortly after the five days after a bloody uprising of49°F. offer was made public. Taliban leader Mullah at the Qala-i-jangy fortress in this: Mohammed Omar turned his wrath city in northern Afghanistan. on journalists after two incidents in Most of those who surrendered; Afghanistan, the kidnapping and were taken directly to Sheberghan reported torture of a Candian re- prison. Hamid, who was shot in Only in America porter near Kandahar and the shoot- both legs at Qala-i-jangy, was in- • A man gets his name in the ing of a European journalist in stead directed along with 19 other record books by eating 18,000 Northern Alliance-held territory. wounded prisoners to Sheberghan Big Macs. "It's getting more dangerous and hospital, where they arrived at • A California nudist resort closes unpredictable," a European ambas- about 1,1 p.m. Saturday. for lack of members. sador told the British newspaper Shortly after that, American • A man is arrested for assaulting Media Guardian. soldiers arrived, said an Afghan a theme park employee dressed U.S. Secretary of Defense nurse who said he was present as Cookie Monster. Donald Rumsfeld stated that "a when the wounded Taliban were good deal of turmoil" exists in the treated. Page 3 country, which could lead to Ameri- KRT Campus "Two American soldiers came and looked over all of the prison- Opimnm _ can military casualties. NO SAFE PASSAGE: Northern Alliance soldiers watch intently as Taliban soldiers surrender on Sunday, ers," the nurse said. "They spoke •Chris Brennaman tackles the The U.S. has suffered one casu- Nov. 25 before an attack on Khanabad and Konduz, the last Taliban-controlled cities Afghanistan. Northern to one in English and'left the oth- football team. alty thus far in Afghanistan, a CIA Alliance leaders have refused to provide security for journalists targeted by the Taliban. •The Taliban's bounty for agent slain in a revolt of Taliban ers alone. Then they took the western journalists? Jake prisoners. In the past three weeks, American away in a car." Hallman writes of America's war eight journalists have died in the with Reuters; Azizullah Haidari, staying in. lem," the U.N. refugee agency Maj. James Cassella, a Penta- gon spokesman, said in Washing- on its own journalists. country. an Afghan-born Reuters photog- Northern Alliance General told the Media Guardian. ton that U.S. authorities have cus- • Consumer advocate Ralph On Nov. 12, Johanne Sutton of rapher; Julio Fuentes of Spain's Rashid Dostam, whose forces While reporters are under fire tody of a man in Afghanistan who Nader uncovers U.S. Radio France Internationale, Pierre El Mundo and Maria Grazia crushed the Taliban in northern in Afghanistan, the Northern Al- said he was an American citizen. corporations' greed in times of Billaud of France's RTL radio sta- Cutuli, a reporter with Italy's Afghanistan, would not offer se- liance has resisted calls for U.N. Cassella said the man was injured tragedy. tion and Volker Handloik, a Corriere della Sera, were all killed curity for departing media con- peacekeeping troops. freelance writer for the German when gunmen ambushed the con- voys on bandit-infested Afghan The bounty is not a new move and was being treated at an undis- Page 4 magazine Stern, were killed when voy they were travelling in. roads. He also made veiled threats in the Afghan war. The Taliban closed location. the Taliban ambushed the Northern November 27, Oluf against journalists seeking to flee has already offered a $50 million' The man was among the Sports Alliance armored personnel carrier Stromberg, a television camera- cities taken by his forces last bounty for the capture of Presi- Taliban fighters who surrendered • Eagle Football advances towards they were riding on. man with Sweden's TV4 chan- week. dent George W. Bush, in response its quest for an seventh national A week later, Harry Burton, an nel, was killed when armed rob- "Security on the roads inside to a U.S. offer of $25 million for See Taliban, Page 8 I-AA title in Chattanooga, TN. Australian television cameraman bers broke into the house he was Afghanistan remains a huge prob- the capture of Osama bin Laden. As Napster fades to black, other GSU official serves as observer in Nicaraguan national elections services make song-swapping easy G-A News Service Nicaragua is one of the poorest coun- tries in the Western "CHATTANOOGA hemisphere, but the Central American Page 6 nation is rich in Li AN r. people who take Features their right to vote VAN TAHKKI.t. • Find out ways to stay on top of very seriously. your workout routine during the CENTRO DK RDOCACION In fact, GSU's MONDIAL winter months. G. Lane Van Tassell • The graphic novel "Jinx" believes the citizens follows the adventures of afemale of the United States V16EMCIA HASTA EL 15 Of NOWEtWUtE DEL HXM bounty hunter. « can learn a lesson Acretfitacidn: Wo." oojsa -03A € Page 10 from the tiny land of Arts five million people. GSU's associate &Entertainment vice president of OBSERVA&0$ •GSU's Creative Writing Club Academic Affairs INTERNAC§®§§At held a reading at Emack and and dean of the Col- G-A News Service Bolio's on Thursday, Nov. 30. lege of Graduate Studies, Van Tassell POORNATION,RICHDEMOCRACY: GSU's served as an official Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and observer of the Nica- Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, Dr. Lane raguan national Van Tassell served as an official observer of the KRT Campus elections held on Nicaraguan national elections held on Nov. 4. University of Minnesota sophomore Laurie Hahn says if she likes a AN ETHICAL DIGITAL PIRATE?: Nov. 4. song she downloads from Audiogalaxy she will go out and buy it. "It was really quite stunning to Tassell said. KRT Campus see 80 to 85 percent of the electorate "It's a country still trying to rec- • Additional reporting by Jake turn out to vote in a country that is by oncile itself with a civil war where Hallman Net, has been idle for months as it David Moulder, an 18-year-old and large the second-poorest country [email protected] battles a music-industry lawsuit. So computer-engineering freshman, in the Western hemisphere," Van See Van Tassell, Page 5 Napster may be napping, but tor- college kids have turned to alternate says his dorm-room computer has Page 8 rents of digital tunes, movies and file-swapping services in droves. "somewhere in the vicinity of 2,400 Gang tackling the Rattlers... software are once again pouring Just take a peek inside MP3s," most harvested from Napster EAGLES SWOOP AND through the Internet onto the hard Middlebrook Hall, a 900-student resi- during his high-school years in Hunts- SWALLOW RATTLERS: GSU drives of America's college students dence overlooking the University of ville, Ala. had a scary first half against the this fall. Minnesota's Minneapolis campus on When a lawsuit by the Recording Southern Florida A&M Rattlers this Saturday, Napster, the once-booming ser- the West Bank of the Mississippi trailing 28-27 at the halfway point. Events vice for swapping music files via the River. See Napster, Page 5 i WOMEN'S BASKETBALL The second half was dominated by the Eagles, though. GSU scored 32 • GSU will battle UGA in points in the second half to the Hanner Fieldhouse at 7 p.m. GSU Welcome Center starts sock drive Rattlers mere 7. The Eagles face on Dec. 4. Special to the G-A tinues through the whole month of theWelcome Center. Santa will be long-time rivals Appalachian State WILDLIFE EDUCATION The GSU Welcome Center is December. Drop-off boxes will be available to take pictures with those this coming Saturday at Paulson • The Center for once again collecting socks for the set up to accept donations of socks interested for $2.00 or a donation Stadium. The winner of the App.