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The war last week©Associated PressNovember 25, 2001 A summary of top developments in the attacks and anthrax stories last week. More than 1,000 pro-Taliban fighters surrendered Saturday in the besieged city of Kunduz, including hundreds of foreigners loyal to Osama bin Laden, according to the Northern Alliance. Some foreign fighters remained in the city, vowing to fight to the end. U.S. warplanes bombed Kunduz and also concentrated on Taliban forces, tunnels and caves near Kandahar and Jalalabad. Four international journalists were shot to death Monday after gunmen ambushed their convoy in eastern Afghanistan. Germany announced it would host a meeting of Afghan groups planning a post-Taliban government, and Northern Alliance forces agreed to attend. The meeting is planned for Tuesday in Bonn. Pakistan shut the Taliban's embassy in Islamabad on Thursday, leaving the Taliban without diplomatic ties to a single nation. Jordan said Tuesday it will send troops to Afghanistan to help humanitarian efforts, making it the first Arab country with ground soldiers in Afghanistan. The Pentagon deployed more U.S. commandos in the hunt for bin Laden and hoped that the possibility of $25-million in U.S. reward money will motivate Afghans to search for him. President Bush signed aviation legislation Monday to put airport baggage screeners on the federal payroll. Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old Connecticut woman, died Wednesday of inhalation anthrax. Preliminary tests found no trace of anthrax in her home, mail or post office; the source of her infection remains a mystery. The U.S. trade deficit narrowed by a record amount in September, but for the wrong reasons: growing domestic economic weakness and huge insurance payments resulting from Sept. 11 attacks. New York City's official estimate of the number of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center dropped below 3,700, far lower than the most conservative projections just after the disaster.
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