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22 October 2001 Military News

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October 22, 2001 Airstrikes

Operations

  • PENTAGON ATTACKS VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- U-S Defense Department officials confirmed Monday that U-S forces are targeting Taleban troops north of Kabul and would welcome advances by rebels of the Northern Alliance. U-S officials are also denying a Taleban claim that American bombs hit a hospital in western Afghanistan, killing more than 100 civilians.
  • TALEBAN ATTACKS VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- U-S planes bombed Taleban frontline positions outside Kabul and a key northern town Monday. Meanwhile, Taleban officials claim a bomb leveled a hospital in the western city of Herat
  • BRITAIN/TROOPS VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- Britain says its ground forces are ready to go into Afghanistan to support the U-S-led war on terrorist and military targets







Video footage of targets struck in Afghanistan used during DoD news briefing
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Movie showing Oct. 21, 2001, airstrike on a Taliban tank set up in a defensive position and trying to find cover in a wadi in western Afghanistan, near Herat
Footage showing Oct. 21, 2001, airstrike on a Taliban tank set up in a defensive position and trying to find cover in a wadi in western Afghanistan, near Herat
Movie showing Oct. 20, 2001, airstrike on a Taliban armored vehicle set up at a security outpost in the Kandahar military training facility and deployment area Footage showing Oct. 20, 2001, airstrike on a Taliban armored vehicle set up at a security outpost in the Kandahar military training facility and deployment area Movie showing Oct. 20, 2001, airstrike on an armored vehicle positioned in a revetment in the southern plains of Afghanistan near Kandahar
Footage showing Oct. 20, 2001, airstrike on an armored vehicle positioned in a revetment in the southern plains of Afghanistan near Kandahar

Defense Policy / Programs

Government Statements and Transcripts

  • Transcript: Powell Briefing on Missile Defense, Mideast, Afghanistan 22 Oct. 2001-- I don't think we've gone so far so to say that it is the king that would be the head of this country. I think we all recognize that the king has unique authority and unique ability to perhaps convene the different parties
  • Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, October 22 22 Oct. 2001-- Reeker: "As you know, we favor no Afghan faction, and I think peace and stability can only be established for Afghanistan through the formation of a broad-based government representing the broad mix of ethnicities and geographic distribution that characterizes Afghanistan. And as the Secretary said in his interview yesterday, in such a government, we need to represent the whole spectrum"
  • Transcript: Pentagon Briefing on Afghanistan, Oct. 22 22 Oct. 2001-- Rumsfeld: "The fact that some members of the press knew enough about those operations to ask the questions and to print the stories was clearly because someone in the Pentagon had provided them that information. And clearly, it put at risk the individuals involved in the operation."
  • Transcript: Powell Remarks October 21 in Interview on Fox News Sunday Show 22 Oct. 2001-- Powell: "Nothing in the coalition, no aspect of the coalition, keeps the American President from doing what he feels he has to do to go after al-Qaida and to deal with the Taliban. But his efforts are so magnified by the presence of a coalition. This is a coalition that came together to go after this common enemy, terrorism. And the suggestion that somehow the coalition keeps us from doing what we want to do is just absolutely wrong."
  • Transcript: Powell Interview October 21 on CBS's "Face the Nation" 22 Oct. 2001-- Powell: "I think we are facing terrorism with or without this campaign, unfortunately. I think that war has been declared upon us by the al-Qaida organization, and we have no choice but to fight that war with the kind of campaign that the President has put together. "
  • Transcript: Powell Remarks October 21 in Interview on CNN's Late Edition 22 Oct. 2001-- Powell: "There are some constraints that are coming in front of us, in the form of winter arriving in about a month, which might change the tempo of our operations. But we also are noticing that the Northern Alliance, which we are supporting, has become more aggressive in their actions up north and moving toward Kabul in the very near future. And so let's hope the campaign comes to an end soon, but the most important thing to remember is we will pursue it until our mission has been accomplished."
  • Text: NATO-Ukraine Commission Reiterates Solidarity with U.S. 22 Oct. 2001-- The NATO-Ukraine Commission has reiterated its solidarity with the United States in the fight against terrorism and has welcomed Ukraine's offer to join the global anti-terror coalition, according to a statement issued after the commission met in ambassadorial session at NATO Headquarters October 22.
  • Byliner: USAID Administrator Natsios on Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan 22 Oct. 2001-- Cites long-term commitment to helping the Afghan people.

US Domestic Responses

International Responses

  • U-N-AFGHAN RELIEF VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- A United Nations official is encouraged by a Taleban order not to loot U-N equipment and relief supplies in Afghanistan but Carolyn McAskie says there are no plans to set up formal refugee camps on the Afghan border with Pakistan
  • SOUTH AFRICA - SECURITY VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- South Africa is tightening its internal security procedures following the terrorist attacks on the United States. It is also sharing intelligence on its domestic terrorists with the U-S government
  • ITALY/EU/ATTACKS VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- Representatives of the international community continue to hold talks with Afghanistan's former King Zahir Shah about the makeup of a possible post-Taleban transitional government
  • BRITAIN / AFGHANISTAN VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- Britain has laid out a four-point program to rehabilitate Afghanistan once military action ends there. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says the United Nations will take the lead in rebuilding a post-war Afghanistan
  • AFGHAN ATTACKS VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has again called on his forces to stand strong against the American-led military campaign
  • RUSSUA / TAJIKISTAN VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged more military assistance to Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance
  • AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY HOSPITAL VOA 22 Oct. 2001-- Northern Alliance military leaders in Afghanistan say their soldiers are ready to launch mass attacks against Taleban units across the country. But despite two weeks of U-S-led bombings of Taleban positions and command structures, military analysts say there is still a risk that Northern Alliance fighters could take heavy casualties

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