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Tribal leaders demand US stops bombing their positions

(27 Dec 2001) Kabul - December 27 1. Tribal leaders seated behind table with spokesman Abdul Hakim Munir speaking (on far left) 2. UPSOUND (English) translator (off camera) "Paktia province tribal council and the authorities ask that the bombing campaign must be stopped on Paktia province." 3. Tribal leaders sitting around table 4. Abdul Hakim Munir speaking 5. UPSOUND (English) translator (off camera) "In the convoy there was no al-Qaida member. There were the elders of Paktia and Khost province, and they came to Kabul in order to congratulate the new government." 6. Tribal council elder and leader Haji Saifullah (white beard, on left) 7. Close up hands holding paper 8. Close up spokesman Abdul Hakim Munir 9. Safullah reading with glasses 10. Munir speaking 11. UPSOUND (English) translator (off camera) "Regarding the firing of a stinger missile, the government of U-S can answer, but there is no interest among the Paktia people to the al-Qaida terrorists." Paktia Province - December 23 12. Various of damaged vehicles from convoy Kabul - December 27 13. Wide shot tribal leaders 14. Close up Saifullah, pan to Munir 15. Haji Safullah speaking 16. UPSOUND (English) translator (off camera) "No witness, but they have some telephone calls with the elders. They say there was no al-Qaida members, and the number of killed people may increase." Paktia Province - December 23 17. Various of scene of attack on convoy STORYLINE: Tribesmen from an eastern Afghanistan province where a controversial US bombing flattened a convoy of vehicles last week pleaded on Thursday for an immediate end to air attacks on their territory. The half-dozen tribesmen from Paktia province said they made the same demand in a meeting Wednesday with interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. Their heads wrapped in voluminous turbans and their beards untrimmed, the tribesmen spoke to a handful of reporters Thursday at the Insaf hotel in the Afghan capital, known during Taliban rule as a hotel used by al-Qaida members. They said Karzai promised to press the United States to stop the bombing of Paktia province, said Abdul Hakim Munir, their spokesman and a former Taliban deputy communications minister. He said he abandoned the Taliban after they refused to hand Osama bin Laden over to the United States. Munir said there are no more al-Qaida members in Paktia province. But some within Afghanistan's new administration, US intelligence and former Taliban believe large pockets of al-Qaida loyalists are hiding in Paktia's snow-clogged mountains. A week ago, US bombs hit a convoy that was winding its way along a secondary road through the mountains of Paktia. The Pentagon says it received U-S intelligence that the convoy was carrying al-Qaida members who fired at the high-altitude bombers. Paktia tribesmen said the United States made a mistake and hit a convoy of tribesmen heading to Kabul to congratulate Afghanistan's new interim administration. They said Karzai's brother had been notified of the convoy's plans to travel to Kabul. At the news conference, Haji Saifullah, an elder of the Paktia shura, or council, said as many as 65 people were killed - 15 men in the convoy and the rest in nearby mountain villages. Saifullah asserted that enemy tribesmen had falsely identified the vehicles as an al-Qaida convoy to the United States so that it would be bombed and their enemies killed. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...