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iN Tuesday, September 25, 2001 Baltimore, Maryland 50 cents "1 0 freezes 00 7 l.lHJMm-.ULl. U-UM 1 1 1 I i --Z 1 H-A "WW-. ASSOCIATED PRESS Business front: President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell (right) and Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill. Pakistan Musnnis iiiiiiuiinp.

i Hi K. fl HlllDrt Iff ftH (l HllTll Hi I ll Prince George's County Fire and EMS. A family friend, Dr. Clifford Turen, confirmed last night that the victims-were sisters, Colleen Patricia Marlatt, 23, and Erin Patricia Marlatt, 20, of Triadelphia Mill Road in Clarksvllle. The girls' father, F.

Patrick Marlatt, is chief of the Fifth District Fire Department in Howard County and deputy director of the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, whose trailers on the campus were destroyed by the tornado. He was taken to Washington Hospital Center with minor injuries. See Tornado, 6a t- Storm damage: Keith Weiss Denton Hall on the College Park MATTLARIVIERE: SPECIAL TO THE SUN (left), a UM senior, and junior Sean McQuillen look at overturned cars in a parking lot near campus. A tornado touched down about 5:20 p.m., killing two and injuring more than 50. ornado lolls two UM students Bush acts, to cut off flow of money to militant, associates Foreign banks warned President describes executive order as part of war on terror By David L.

Greene SUN NATIONAL STAFF WASHINGTON Launching the first known strike in his war on terrorism, President Bush issued an executive order yesterday freezing U.S. assets belonging to Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, his Al Qaeda organization and even charities that may unwittingly support him. In an extraordinary threat, Bush also warned foreign banks that he would freeze their assets and halt their financial transactions in the United States if they did not cut off money flowing to bin Laden's network. "Today, we have launched a strike on the financial foundation of the global terror network," Bush said. "If you do business with terrorists, if you support or sponsor them, you will not do business with the United States of America." Bush, flanked by senior Cabinet officers in the Rose Garden, said he hoped the fanfare attending his announcement would convey to Americans that some of the most significant actions of the war would not involve planes or troops.

"I've asked our military to be ready for a reason," the president said. "But the American people must understand this war on terrorism will be fought on a variety offronts." Bush's order, signed at 12:01 yesterday morning, specifically targets 27 entitles: bin Laden and 11 of his lieutenants; Al Qaeda and 10 terrorist organizations from cies of Soviet times. Little more than a decade ago, allowing U.S. planes to use Soviet airspace was unthinkable, the Northern Alliance was the enemy rather than a possible ally, and the Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were wholly within the Soviet orbit and thus off-limits to the United States. Putin said that "other deeper forms of cooperation between Russia and other participants in the counter-terrorist operation are possible" but that such decisions would depend on the "quality" of Russia's relations with the United States and its al Possible alliance -mi i i 'I.

(St J295 yJl CoUege area Washington Temporary trailer for Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute collapsed Two people killed when their vehicle was overturned by high winds Roof torn of! Laurel High School BUN STAFF More inside School Laurel High's football team was meeting inside when a tornado ripped off the building's roof. Page 6a More inside Stocks: The Dow Jones industrial average rises 368 points for its first positive session since Sept. 11. Pagelc Sun Journal: Many Afghans, inside and outside their country, have lost faith in the Taliban. Page 2a Oil the Net For updates, visit The Sun's Web site atwww.sunspot.net nations such as Algeria, the Philippines and Yemen that are believed to support it; a German company suspected of being a front for bin Laden; and three charities that U.S.

officials believe are sources of funding for bin Laden's operations even though they might not be aware of it. A goal of one of the charities, the Al Rashid Trust, is to feed the hungry in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and it claims to have opened bakeries in the two countries for that purpose. "Just to show you how insidious these terrorists are, they oftentimes use nice-sounding, See Bush, 9a lies. The statement seemed to link additional support to Washington and Western European capitals endorsing Russia's military actions in Chechnya. Russia has described its actions there as a battle against terrorist gangs rather than a war against separatist guerillas.

But it has been widely condemned for its brutal conduct and its refusal to negotiate without conditions with Chechen rebels. At one point last night, Putin called on the rebels to initiate talks within 72 hours. "I suggest members of aU illegal armed See Russia, 11a ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 tc I fcSlll ill II I I've never heard it before," said College Park Home Depot manager Eric Ziolkowski, who had about 100 employees and customers with him in the store when the storm hit, taking off the roof. "You could then start hearing and seeing the skylights start shattering, and then the front windows started blow-ingin." Two students were killed when the storm picked up their car near the Easton Hall dormitory on the University of Maryland campus and threw it into a tree in a parking area, said Mark Brady, a spokesman for Ashcroft eyes wider power, files charge in terror case Va. man said to help hijackers get fake IDs By Gail Gibson SUN NATIONAL STAFF WASHINGTON More than 350 people have been detained by federal agents Investigating the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday. While no one has been charged directly in the catastrophic events that killed thousands, federal authorities have filed the first public charges linking someone to the hrjackers. The Justice Department said yesterday that a Virginia man was charged with helping lujackers fraudulently obtain identification cards last month. Herbert Villalobos, and another man whose name was not released because he is a cooperating witness, signed fake identity and residency papers for at least two suspected rujackers in exchange for $80, according to an FBI affidavit signed Fri-dayin SeeAsiUfroft, 10a Putin opens sides for U.S. aid urged to rise up Bin Laden calls for holy war against 'crusade' led by U.S.

By John Murphy SUN FOREIGN STAFF ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Osama bin Laden, suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, called yesterday on Muslims in Pakistan to join a holy war "to push the American crusade forces from invading Pakistan and Afghanistan," according to a statement broadcast in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. The statement was sent by facsimile yesterday to Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite channel and made no mention of the events at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It focused on anti-American protests last week in Pakistan, where three demonstrators died. The station said it was confident that the statement was authentic. "We hope that these brothers are among the first martyrs in Islam's battle in this era against the new Christian-Jewish crusade led by the big crusader Bush under the flag of the cross," the statement said.

It continued, "I announce to you the good news, my loved brothers, that we are steadfast on the path of jihad forthesakeofAUah." Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, in statements of its own, said its forces have ample weapons for fighting the United States. It said 300,000 experienced mujahadeen holy warriors were guarding Afghanistan's borders. The Taliban's leader. Mullah Mohammed Omar, meanwhile, called on the United States' to withdraw troops from the Persian Gulf region and accused it of waging war against Islam. "America wants to eliminate Islam, and they are spreading lawlessness to install a pro-American government in Afghanistan," Omar said in a statement sent by facsimile to news agencies from the Taliban's headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

"This effort will not solve the problem, and the Americans are Igniting a fire that will burn them if they indulge in this kind of activity." The See Pakistan, 11 a Clarksvllle sisters dead, 50 injured in College Park Bj Michael Dresser and Alec MacGillis SUN STAFF COLLEGE PARK A tornado blazed a 10-mile-long path of destruction through Central Maryland at rush hour yesterday afternoon, killing two Howard County sisters and injuring dozens of people while ripping the roofs off buildings and flinging cars through the air. The storm whose winds were clocked as high as 206 mph touched down in College Park at about 5:20 p.m. and tore north into Beltsville, Laurel and Savage, flipping trucks off of roads, shredding trees and twisting the goalposts at the University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium. The tornado displaced 3,000 students from Maryland dorms and left at least 16,300 residents, mostly in Howard and Prince George's counties, without power last night. "It started out like it was going to be a strong thunderstorm and then you heard the wind start howling like Ambush of Israeli couple derails truce talks.

Page 13a Three get life in murder of five women in rowhouse. Page 1b Bonds hits 67th homer, needs 3 to tie season mark. Page Id Weather Becoming partly cloudy. High, 72; low, 51. Yesterday's city high, 80; low, 70.

Page 14b Bridge 13b Classified 6b Comics 6k Xword 13b, 7k Deaths 4b SunSpot Editorials 14a Horoscope 4k Lottery 2b Movies 5k Television 4k The Sun on the Internet: http:www.sunspot.net The Sun's 165th Yean Number 268 Inside Russia to give arms to Afghan opposition, help in search, rescue By Douglas Birch SUN FOREION STAFF MOSCOW President Vladimir V. Putin announced last night that Russia would open its airspace to what he called "humanitarian" aid to U.S. forces pursuing terrorists blamed for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He also pledged to send arms and military equipment to the Northern Alliance, the rebel forces who helped defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s and who have been battling the ruling Taliban regime since the mid-1990s. And he noted, without criticism, that several former Soviet republics had offered the United States the use of airfields.

Putin spoke on national television after meeting with leaders of the Russian parliament to outline his plan and after several days of talks with the Bush administration, Russian military planners and governments In Central Asia. He pledged that he would not send Russian troops to Afghanistan but promised to help in search-and-rescue operations. His decisions represent a complete reversal of the poli Ttirl Morm effort seeks to make middle school a model for others Extra resources and attention are being focused on Lombard Middle School, one of Baltimore's worst performing facilities with its low test scores and placement on the state's list of failing schools. The goal is to turn Lombard around and make it a model of reform for other city schools. Page 1b 4 I An Afghan opposition fighter anticipates a Taliban attack north of Kabul.

The success of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism siay rest with the Taliban 'sfoes, which just recently were fear collapse. (Article on Page 11a).