Operations
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Operations

• Text: Update on Afghanistan Air Operations 24 Dec. 2001-- The U.S. Central Command reported on December 24 that the United States has conducted a total approximately 17,000 air missions in the since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Defense Policy / Programs

Government Statements and Transcripts

US Domestic Responses

International Responses

• PAKISTAN TERRORISM VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- Pakistan's president says he will crack down on two Pakistani Islamic groups blamed by India for a recent deadly attack on its Parliament -- if he finds proof to support the charge
• AUSTRALIA / TERROR VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- The government has put Australia on a higher state of alert after receiving information of possible terrorist threats. Authorities say British and U-S interests in Australia could be targets

Defense Industry

• Ranger UAV System Formally Handed Over To Swiss Air Force Israel Aerospace Industries 24 Dec 2001 -- A formal hand over of the RANGER UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) System to the Swiss Air Force has taken place during the inauguration ceremony of the new Swiss Air Force UAV Training Center situated in Emmen, Switzerland.

Other Conflicts

News Reports

• YEARENDER: TERROR IMPACT VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- When Americans look back on 2001, they will no doubt break it into two parts, before and after the September 11th terrorist attacks
• YEARENDER: U-S / POLITICS VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- The September 11th terrorist attacks on New York and Washington reshaped the American political scene during the last few months of 2001
• AFGHANISTAN / EMERGENCY HOSPITAL VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- While major aid agencies were leaving Afghanistan after terrorists attacks on the United States, one agency was negotiating to return. "Emergency", an Italian medical organization, has hospitals in Cambodia, Sierra Leone and northern Iraq, but its officials say that nowhere was it more difficult to set up a hospital than in Afghanistan under the Taleban
• U-S AIR INCIDENT VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- The man who tried to set off explosives in his shoes during a transatlantic flight from Paris made his first court appearance in Boston, Massachusetts Monday
• FRANCE / SECURITY VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- French authorities are trying to determine how a man who had explosive devices hidden inside his shoes managed to get through security checks and onto a flight for the United States. The interior minister says airports in Paris have now increased security
• AFGHANISTAN WRAP VOA 24 Dec. 2001-- Members of Afghanistan's new interim cabinet went to work Monday to begin governing a country that has not known peace for more than 20 years