Response to Terror

Afghanistan: Incident also leaves 5 Afghans dead and 20 more Americans wounded in battle to take the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.

Profile: Special Forces fighter Brian Cody Prosser of Frazier Park followed his father into the armed services. He died under “friendly fire.”

Moving to heal their ruined and fractious country, Afghans signed an accord Wednesday to create a multiethnic government in which a triumphant military force, the Northern Alliance, will share power with an array of rivals that excludes the all-but-vanquished Taliban.

War: Anti-Taliban troops search for Bin Laden in mountains that were “center of our jihad.”

Anthrax: The FBI hopes to find clues about the sender of the bacteria-laden envelope. Spores are to be sent to labs for analysis.

Transition: Sima Samar, advocate for women and children’s health and education, was already a heroine to ethnic Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan.

Immigration: The unexpected move will add 314,000 names of those facing deportation to a computer system used regularly by police.

Diplomacy: Secretary of State calls agreement on interim government “quite encouraging.” U.S. to reestablish a diplo- matic office in Kabul.

Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon outlined plans Wednesday to revise and update Britain’s military “concepts, capabilities and forces” in light of the Sept. 11 attacks and the allied campaign in Afghanistan.

Weapons: Despite better bombing precision and battlefield identification, military officials say, inadvertent casualties are difficult to avoid.

Politics: Afghans living in Pakistan generally back Hamid Karzai. But some question his experience and absences from his homeland.

Courts: The unusual step involves a Middle Eastern pilot protesting his jailing in a dragnet. He faces identity fraud charges.

In a conference call with Los Angeles Mayor James K.

Trial: The Iranian takes the stand to challenge the testimony of two flight attendants.