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Copyright © 2001 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Tim Weiner New York Times Service Tuesday, December 4, 2001 Local Leaders Ask for End to Raids and Tell Foreign Fighters to Leave (extract) ............. In a signed declaration addressed to the world, the elders of this region said: "To those foreigners living in the mountains of Afghanistan, we say to you: Leave our country. Because of you, our innocent countrymen are suffering. Our demand to the United States government and its coalition: Stop the bombing in the name of humanity. "Please stop bombing our innocent people. We say to all civilized nations that this bombardment is cruelty." One of the elders, Mohammed Hazrat Faqirbad, said: "War is disaster. War is evil. Because war is unholy. There is no holy war. It makes our women widows and beggars. No more." The villagers of Kama Ado, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of here, said they had identified and buried 155 of their dead. Eastern Shura officials said that at least 58 people had died in three other nearby villages. The officials and villagers said that the death toll would climb and that the dead were Afghan civilians, not Qaida fighters. The Pentagon has not acknowledged that any villages were struck, saying it bombed only Qaida military targets between Friday night and early Monday morning. The villages lie within 15 kilometers of the cave complexes of Tora Bora in southern Nangarhar Province. Copyright © 2001 The International Herald Tribune ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================