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December 17, 2001
Rumsfeld: U.S. and Russia Relationship Improves
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the relationship between the United States and Russia continues to improve despite President Bush's announcement he is pulling out of an anti-missile defense treaty. Rumsfeld said leaders of the two countries nevertheless will have to talk...
 Peacekeeping Troops Could be in Afghanistan Shortly
Britain is willing to lead an international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan and the first troops could be on the ground shortly, Prime Minister Tony Blair said. Addressing parliament, Blair said a number of details remain to be resolved...
 Five Prisoners of War in U.S. Custody
Five prisoners from the war in Afghanistan are in American custody, the Pentagon said. The captives have been take to the USS Peleliu, a Navy helicopter assault ship in the region, said Defense Department spokesman Richard McGraw...
 Most Relief Offices Still Closed in Kandahar
All across the city, foreign relief agency offices stand derelict, ransacked by Taliban fighters who fled with computers, vehicles and other valuables. Most agencies have not resumed work in Kandahar, the Taliban's home base until the militia abandoned the city...
 Where's bin Laden? It's 'Anybody's Guess'
Osama bin Laden is holed up in the caves of Tora Bora. Or he's hiding elsewhere in Afghanistan. Or he's escaped to Pakistan. Or he's dead. As the search goes on, all the Americans really know is what they don't know. It's "anybody's guess," offers one Pentagon official...
December 16, 2001
 Three U.S. Marines Wounded in Explosion
Three U.S. Marines were wounded -- one seriously -- when one of them stepped on a land mine at the airport outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. One of the Marines was carried on a stretcher and two, with bandaged hands, walked to a UN-H1 Huey helicopter...
 Mailed Anthrax Matches Army's Stockpile
A genetic match between the anthrax spores in the letters mailed to Capitol Hill and those in the Army's stockpile wouldn't necessarily provide clues to who was responsible for the bioterrorist attack, an Army spokesman said...
 U.S. Makes Progress, Tests al-Qaida Spoils
U.S. and Afghan opposition forces searched caves and bunkers to root out remnant al-Qaida terrorists, but Gen. Tommy Franks said "it's going to be a while" before Tora Bora is under control. Secretary of State Colin Powell said the hunt for Osama bin Laden could take years...
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 Rumsfeld Visits Soldiers in Afghanistan
Under extraordinary security, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld thanked U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan for sending the message that terrorist acts would not go unpunished. The World Trade Center "is still burning as we sit here..."
 Afghans Celebrate Ramadan's End
War took a short holiday as women in new clothes and men in shiny shoes strolled outside to begin celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the three feast days that follow the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Gunfire of the festive kind echoed in the streets...
 Al-Qaida Holdout Reported Fallen
After nine weeks of siege, Afghan tribal leaders claimed victory over al-Qaida guerrillas at their last stronghold in Afghanistan. But Osama bin Laden was nowhere to be seen, and U.S. officials said the fighting around Tora Bora was far from finished...
December 15, 2001
 Broadcasts Suggest U.S. Troops Near bin Laden
American forces heard Osama bin Laden giving orders over short-range radio in the Tora Bora area of eastern Afghanistan this past week during all-out assaults on the rugged mountains and caves where he is believed hiding...
 'I'm Going There': One Cop's Tale of Sept. 11
David Leclaire reaches into the two plastic bags and pulls out what's left of the police uniform he wore on Sept. 11. The shirt, once blue, is gray with dust. The pants, once sharply creased, are cutoffs now, torn at the knees...
British Newspaper Reports London Targeted
A British newspaper said it has found a notebook at an al-Qaida training camp in southern Afghanistan that contained a terrorist "blueprint" for an attack on London. The Observer said, "terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden have drawn up plans..."
 Bin Laden's Options Dwindle
U.S. commanders believe they are quickly narrowing Osama bin Laden's options for escape from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Yet even as U.S.-backed tribal forces advance in the rugged Tora Bora region, no one seems certain whether bin Laden is even there...
 Senate Office Still Tainted with Anthrax
Equipment problems delayed the pumping of a second round of poison gas into an anthrax-tainted Senate office building. Officials expected to go ahead with the operation after reaching the high humidity level needed in the ventilation system...
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