FACES VIRUS OUTBREAK NFL Williams evolved Air Force sets Teams looking from his iconic COVID vaccination to rookie QBs at role on ‘The Wire’ deadline for Nov. 2 start of season Page 14 Page 6 Page 24 Woman arrested in death of US soldier’s child in South Korea ›› Page 3 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 103 ©SS 2021 WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas AFGHANISTAN Taliban announce caretaker Cabinet BY KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Tuesday announced a caretaker Cabinet that paid hom- age to the old guard of the group, giving top posts to Taliban person- alities who dominated the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coali- tion and its Afghan government al- lies. Interim Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund headed the Tali- ban government in Kabul during the last years of its rule. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who had led talks with the United States and signed the deal that led to America’s final withdrawal from Afghanistan, will be one of two deputies to Akhund. There was no evidence of non- Taliban in the lineup, a big de- mand of the international commu- nity. CLIFF OWEN/AP Taliban spokesman Zabihullah A TSA officer gives an airplane passenger a security pat down at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., in March 2019. Mujahid, when announcing the Cabinet, said the appointments were for an interim government. He did not elaborate on how long they would serve and what would Changes in the air be the catalyst for a change. So far, the Taliban have shown no indications that they will hold BY DAVID KOENIG stressful than ever. elections. Associated Press How the 9/11 terror attack altered the Two months after the attacks, The announcement of Cabinet DALLAS — Ask anyone old President George W. Bush signed enough to remember travel before way we fly: more security, less privacy legislation creating the Transpor- SEE TALIBAN ON PAGE 4 Sept. 11, 2001, and you’re likely to tation Security Administration, get a gauzy recollection of what port experience meant far less American soil led to increased and which required that all checked RELATED flying was like. stress. sometimes tension-filled security bags be screened, cockpit doors be There was security screening, That all ended when four hi- measures in airports across the reinforced, and more federal air Ramstein working but it wasn’t anywhere near as in- jacked planes crashed into the world. The cataclysm has also marshals be put on flights. trusive. There were no long World Trade Center towers, the contributed to other changes large There has not been another 9/11. to build ties with checkpoint lines. Passengers and Pentagon and a field in Pennsylva- and small that have reshaped the Nothing even close. But after that their families could walk right to nia. airline industry — and, for con- Afghan refugees the gate together. Overall, an air- The worst terror attack on sumers, made air travel more SEE CHANGES ON PAGE 10 Page 5 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Wednesday, September 8, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Protests block autobahn before car show EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,107.42 Associated Press words “Smash Car Lobby & every two years and is in Switzerland (Franc) .9103 Euro costs (Sept. 8) $1.16 Thailand (Baht) 30.16 Environmental activists Industry.” Munich for the first time this Dollar buys (Sept. 8) 0.8216 Turkey (New Lira) 7.7363 British pound (Sept. 8) $1.35 protesting car culture disrupt- Police and fire service offi- year. Japanese yen (Sept. 8) 107.00 (Military exchange rates are those available ed traffic on several highways cers ended the protests, and It previously took place in South Korean won (Sept. 8) 1,129.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ around Munich before the the affected stretches of auto- Frankfurt. The show moved many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain (Dinar) .3771 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ opening Tuesday of a leading bahn were reopened around after the German Association Britain (Pound) .7544 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.3093 your local military banking facility. Commercial auto show in the German city. lunchtime. of the Automotive Industry China (Yuan) 6.5582 rates are interbank rates provided for reference More protests are expected changed the concept of the Denmark (Krone) 6.2738 Demonstrators unfurled Egypt (Pound) 15.6310 when buying currency. All figures are foreign banners with slogans such as Friday, although organizers show to change its focus and Euro .8422 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7525 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ “Block IAA,” in some cases have not yet specified what include more discussion of Hungary (Forint) 304.83 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.3685 abseiling from highway exactly they plan to do. environmental issues, new Japan (Yen) 104.11 INTEREST RATES bridges to do so, news agency The IAA Mobility fair, technologies and innovation Kuwait (Dinar) .3059 Norway (Krone) 9.0636 Prime rate 3.25 dpa reported. which takes place every two and other modes of transpor- Philippines (Peso) 48.32 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.79 Federal funds market rate 0.09 At one location, they pasted years, was opening later tation, including e-scooters Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7506 3­month bill 0.05 over a highway sign with the Tuesday. The event is held and bicycles. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3436 30­year bond 1.94 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 73/64 Kabul Seoul 88/56 79/65 Baghdad 106/77 Drawsko Osan Tokyo Kandahar Mildenhall/ 79/67 79/65 Pomorskie Busan 103/67 Lakenheath 70/50 84/59 76/72 Iwakuni Kuwait City 79/75 Bahrain Brussels Zagan Sasebo 109/90 94/91 Ramstein 74/51 80/74 Guam 79/61 78/50 83/80 Riyadh Lajes, Stuttgart 107/81 Doha Azores Pápa 73/70 75/53 99/86 Aviano/ 77/54 Vicenza 77/56 Naples 80/67 Okinawa Morón 84/81 87/69 Sigonella Rota 77/68 The weather is provided by the Djibouti 75/53 Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 99/86 72/69 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 11 Classified .................... 13 Comics .........................16 Crossword ................... 16 Faces .......................... 14 Opinion ........................ 15 Sports .................... 17-24 Wednesday, September 8, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 MILITARY Woman arrested in death of US soldier’s child BY DAVID CHOI on Monday. Inside, the local residents found investigator said. The father, Eighth Army and the 2nd Infan- AND YOO KYONG CHANG Arrested the same morning, the the younger boy unresponsive and whose name the police did not re- try Division in an email Tuesday Stars and Stripes unidentified woman, 30, told po- contacted police. After declaring lease, was expected to pick them to Stars and Stripes described the CAMP HUMPHREYS, South lice she had “beaten the child to the boy dead, police found bruises up Sunday morning. incident as a “terrible tragedy” Korea — A woman from the Phi- death in order to send him to heav- on his face, back and other parts of Government officials in South and said they “will do everything lippines is under arrest on suspi- en because the child was pos- his body, the investigator said. He Korea customarily speak to the possible to care for the family in cion of beating to death the 3-year- sessed by an evil spirit,” the inves- said the older boy did not appear media on a condition of anonym- this time of profound grief and old son of a U.S. soldier left in her tigator said. physically injured. ity. loss.” care, according to South Korean Police responded first to a dis- Police responded around 7:30 The woman knew the soldier The U.S. commands will coop- police. turbance call from local residents a.m. to a separate call of a naked, from a bar near Camp Hum- erate with the Korean National Police declared the child dead who said they found another child, incoherent woman wandering the phreys where she worked, accord- Police investigation, according to after finding his bruised body a 7-year-old boy, crying outside a streets for about 40 minutes. ing to police. The investigator said the statement. Sunday morning at a home in Pye- home, the officer said. “My young- After taking her into custody, the woman arrived in the country ongtaek city, near Camp Hum- er brother appears dead,” the boy Pyeongtaek police learned the after marrying a South Korean [email protected] phreys, a South Korean criminal told the residents, according to the boys’ father had left them with her man in 2019. The couple later di- Twitter: @choibboy investigator told Stars and Stripes investigator. around 10:20 p.m. Saturday, the vorced. [email protected] S. Korea monitoring North over signs of military parade BY KIM TONG-HYUNG le for unspecified lapses in the Associated Press country’s pandemic response. SEOUL — South Korea’s mili- Kim in July had accused offi- tary on Tuesday was closely cials of causing a “great crisis” in watching North Korea amid signs national anti-virus efforts, but the the country was preparing to hold North never revealed what those a new military parade to showcase problems were and has yet to re- its growing nuclear and missile port a single coronavirus infec- capabilities.