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• RUMSFELD/PAKISTAN VOA 27 Dec. 2001-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the United States is keeping a close eye on the tense standoff between India and Pakistan
• AFGHANISTAN PEACEKEEPERS VOA 27 Dec. 2001-- There are some 200 British Royal Marines in Afghanistan's capital city Kabul. They are the advance guard for a much larger multi-national peacekeeping force that could begin deploying within the next few days. For most Afghans, the foreign soldiers cannot arrive too soon

  Pre- and post-strikes aerials of Tori Khel Taliban Complex used during DoD news briefing
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Defense Policy / Programs

Government Statements and Transcripts

• Transcript: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers 27 Dec. 2001 -- "Regarding Afghanistan, we continue our search for the Taliban and al Qaeda leadership. Yesterday we did strike one target with both heavy bombers and tactical aircraft, using both precision and non-precision weapons, and we destroyed a compound near Ghazni. We had reports that put some of the Taliban leadership in that facility (...) Also late yesterday, we took custody of about 20 people turned over to us by Pakistani authorities. These detainees are now being held in facilities at Kandahar, and that brings us to 45 total right now Taliban and al Qaeda personnel in custody, 37 at Kandahar and eight on the -- on USS Peleliu"

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News Reports

• BIN LADEN/TV VOA 27 Dec. 2001-- While the United States hunts for Osama bin Laden he appeared on another videotape possibly made in recent weeks and aired on television throughout the Middle East late Thursday night
• BRITAIN / U-S AIR INCIDENT VOA 27 Dec. 2001-- Leaders of Britain's Muslim community say the London man who allegedly tried to bomb a trans-Atlantic airliner last Saturday,had fallen under the influence of extremist clerics
• ISRAEL / TERROR VOA 27 Dec. 2001-- Israel's high court has ruled (Thursday) that a former security official who admitted to killing two Palestinians in custody is not fit to serve as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's top anti-terror adviser
• RED CROSS / AFGHANISTAN VOA 27 Dec. 2001-- The International Committee of the Red Cross, I-C-R-C, says it has been able to visit thousands of fighters captured in Afghanistan
• AFGHANISTAN / REBUILDING / EDUCATION VOA 27 Dec. 2001-- Afghanistan's new interim government says it will soon establish a committee, charged with the task of planning the reconstruction of the country's ruined infrastructure and society