16 October 2002 Military News

U.S. Calls Special Warriors to Lead in Unconventional Fight AFPS 16 Oct. 2002-- "Afghanistan wasn't a generals' war. It was a war waged by colonels and lieutenant colonels and won by small units that operated with autonomy in a highly fluid environment," said Marshall Billingslea, principal deputy assistant defense secretary for special operations and low- intensity conflict.

U-S / Ivory Coast VOA 16 Oct. 2002-- The Bush administration's top African policy official says the United States is encouraging dialogue between the Ivory Coast government and army rebels. Assistant Secretary of State Walter Kansteiner is just back from an Africa trip that included a stop in Ivory Coast, and spoke to reporters Tuesday
IVORY COAST / UNREST VOA 16 Oct. 2002-- Ivory Coast's besieged city of Daloa is still in turmoil, as government troops and rebel forces battle for control of various neighborhoods
SUDAN PEACE TALKS VOA 16 Oct. 2002-- Peace talks aimed at ending 19 years of civil war in Sudan officially opened in Kenya Wednesday

Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System Successfully Launches Missile At-Sea NAVAIR 16 Oct 2002-- A U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missile was launched today at 8:30 PDT from USS STETHEM (DDG 63), an ARLEIGH BURKE-Class guided missile destroyer underway in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Calif.
Pacific soldiers jump into training with Indian allies Army News Service 16 Oct. 2002-- The Army's only airborne fighting force in the Pacific region made history earlier this month with an ally from the war on terrorism.
Safeguarding information critical to defense, success Kitty Hawk PAO 16 Oct. 2002-- Crew members on board the United States' only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier are asked not to prove the old cliché "loose lips sink ships," true, by protecting information.

BALI BLAST INVESTIGATION VOA 16 Oct. 2002-- Indonesian investigators have found traces of C-4 plastic explosives at the scene of a deadly bombing in Bali
MATTHEW LEVITT on al-Qaida VOA 16 Oct. 2002-- Some experts have suggested that recent terrorist activity believed to be related to the al-Qaida network indicates that al-Qaida is becoming less centrally managed by Osama bin Laden and more dependent on small "sleeper" groups. Matthew Levitt is one of those experts. He is the senior fellow on terrorism studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
PENTAGON / SNIPER VOA 16 Oct. 2002-- U-S Army surveillance aircraft are joining the Washington area hunt for a deadly sniper who has eluded law enforcement authorities for two weeks
Countering 21st Century Enemies and WMD Threats AFPS 16 Oct. 2002-- At the heart of the new National Security Strategy is a fundamental change in the way America addresses the 21st century threat of weapons of mass destruction, said presidential adviser Robert Joseph.