21 December 2001 Military News |
- AFGHANISTAN / BRITISH PEACEKEEPERS VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- Some 60 British Royal Marines have arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul to enhance security for the country's new interim government taking power on Saturday
- BIN LADEN SEARCH VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- U-S Defense officials say more American troops will be sent to the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan to press the search for Osama bin Laden
Government Statements and Transcripts
- DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace 21 Dec. 2001-- Rumsfeld: The -- let me -- the reason that kind of question comes up is because, as I indicated in my first remarks, we are continuing without pause, but it's in a somewhat different phase. And one does not bomb unless there is something to bomb. That is to say that you have an identified target that you feel would be worthwhile to attack. And it is not appropriate to be bombing in Tora Bora when in fact you have people crawling around in caves and tunnels. That would be highly inappropriate
News Reports
- BUSH / JOHN WALKER VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- President Bush says he is still trying to figure out what to do with John Walker, the American citizen captured in Afghanistan for fighting alongside the Taleban.
- U-N / AFGHAN REFUGEES VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- Afghan refugees are returning by the thousands from Pakistan and Iran hoping for new stability in Afghanistan.
- U-N / AFGHANISTAN VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- United Nations humanitarian organizations say their activities in Afghanistan will increase with the installation of the new interim government. On Saturday, Hamid Karzai will be sworn in as Afghanistan's interim leader at a ceremony in the presidential palace
- AFGHAN/PRISONERS VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- The U-S led anti-terrorism coalition says it is holding seven thousand Taleban and Al-Qaida members in custody in Afghanistan
- AFGHANISTAN / NEW YORK AIRLIFT VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- An orphanage in the Afghan capital, Kabul, received a shipment of humanitarian supplies Friday from a private foundation in the United States -- created to support victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks
- AFGHAN/POLITICS VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- An interim government takes office in Afghanistan Saturday, amid great expectations that the transfer of power will herald a new era of peace -- and considerable fear that it won't. No one believes the task will be easy, and there have been plenty of signs of trouble ahead, with many factions openly unhappy about the role they have been given in the process
US Domestic Responses
- AFGHANISTAN / U-S VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- The United States will recognize the new interim administration to be inaugurated in Kabul on Saturday as the official government of Afghanistan. The announcement was made Friday by a senior U-S official in the Afghan capital
International Responses
- POWELL / IRAQ REACT VOA 21 Dec. 2001-- Iraq's representative to the Arab League says his country is not concerned -- and has no reason to believe -- that the United States will expand the war on terrorism into Iraq
