20 December 2001 Military News |
- U-N-AFGHAN SECURITY VOA 20 Dec. 2001-- The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution authorizing an international security force for Afghanistan
Government Statements and Transcripts
- Transcript: U.S. Statement on Bishkek Conference on Terrorism 20 Dec. 2001-- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) must act to transform into "quantifiable actions" the proposals agreed to at the recently-concluded Bishkek conference on combating international terrorism, U.S. diplomat Stephan M. Minikes told the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna December 20.
- Text: Report Outlines Coalition Successes In Destroying Al-Qaeda 20 Dec. 2001-- In a report on the first 100 days of the war on terrorism, President
Bush says the international anti-terrorism coalition "began to destroy
al-Qaeda's grip on Afghanistan," disrupted its finances, and destroyed
11 training camps and 39 Taliban militia command-and-control sites.
News Reports
- Christmas in a Time of War VOA 20 Dec. 2001-- This holiday season, the United States finds itself at war. Throughout our past, the most powerful images and the feeling of war have come not from front-line dispatches, but from war letters sent home by soldiers. And the most powerful of these are the letters that came home from the battle lines during the holidays
- AFGHANISTAN VOA 20 Dec. 2001-- The focus of war in Afghanistan is switching to peace as leaders in Kabul prepare for the installation of a new interim government and the arrival of international peacekeepers. But away from the capital the situation in Afghanistan is uncertain
US Domestic Responses
International Responses
