Operations
Defense Policy / Programs
Government Statements and Transcripts
US Domestic Responses
International Responses
Defense Industry
Other Conflicts
News Reports

Operations

• 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

Defense Policy / Programs

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

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

Defense Industry

• U.S. Navy Awards Northrop Grumman $369.8 Million Contract For DDG 102 Northrop Grumman 21 Dec 2001 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a $369.8 million contract to build an additional DDG 51 Class Aegis guided missile destroyer for the United States Navy.
• Northrop Grumman to Receive $440 Million in Settlement Northrop Grumman 21 Dec 2001 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today announced that it has reached a settlement agreement in antitrust and patent infringement lawsuits filed against Honeywell, Inc. (NYSE:HON).
• Oshkosh To Supply FMTV Medium Truck Parts to Department of Defense Oshkosh 21 Dec 2001 -- Oshkosh Truck Corporation [NASDAQ: OTRKB] announced today that the company has won a contract to supply more than 1,200 parts and components to the U.S. Army for its Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV).
• Boeing Space Unit Wraps Up Banner Year Boeing 21 Dec 2001 -- The achievement of several significant industry milestones in 2001 enabled Boeing Space and Communications, the world's largest space-related entity, to successfully execute on its strategic vision and business plans, further expanding its growth in global connectivity, information and communications and integrated battlespace.
• Northrop Grumman Awarded $15.7 Million Contract to Continue Work Under NASA's Space Launch Initiative Northrop Grumman 21 Dec 2001 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Integrated Systems sector has been awarded a $15.7 million contract to continue studies under NASA's Space Launch Initiative (SLI), a research and development effort to develop technologies for a second-generation reusable launch vehicle (RLV).

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 21 Dec 2001
• BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON SOMALIA United Nations 21 Dec 2001

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