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Developments in
terrorist attacks
fallout, investigation
Missiles and warplanes
rocked at least three cities as
the United States and Britain
military attack in
Afghanistan.
In a videotaped state-
aired after the strikes,
Osama bin Laden praised
God for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Defense Secretary
H. Rumsfeld said
sfrikes were designed to elimi
nate the Taliban’s air defens
es and destroy their military
aircraft. Officials said strikes
Kill last days or longer.
Several Muslim leaders
it Pakistan denounced U.S.-
Britain military attacks in
Afghanistan, calling them
brutal and unwarranted.
Moderate Arab countries are
slow to comment.
• United States stepped up
already heightened patrols
i security precautions,
icials took Vice President
Dick Cheney to an undis
closed secure location, step
up security around the
and place govern
ment nuclear weapons labs
on higher alert.
• U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo
planes began dropping food
and medical supplies inside
Afghanistan to aid displaced
Afghan civilians.
• New York Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani said that
unless there are specific
\ threats, none of the city's
bridges, tunnels or public
places will be closed.
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U.S. STRIKES BACK
Bush: Taliban, al-Qaeda 'paying a price'
WASHINGTON (AP) —
American and British forces
unleashed a punishing air attack
Sunday against military targets
and Osama bin Laden’s training
camps inside Afghanistan, strik
ing at terrorists blamed for the
attacks that murdered thousands
in New York City and
Washington D.C.
“We will not waver, we will
not tire,” said President George
W. Bush, speaking from the
White House as Tomahawk
cruise missiles and bombs found
targets halfway around the
globe. “We will not falter and
we will not fail.”
Under a campaign dubbed
“Enduring Freedom ” the assault
was accompanied by airdrops of
thousands of vitamin-enriched
food rations for needy civilians
— and by a ground-based attack
by Afghan opposition forces
against the ruling Taliban.
In a chilling threat, bin Laden
vowed defiantly that Americans
“will never dream of security or
see it before we live it and see it
in Palestine, and not before the
infidels’ armies leave the land of
Muhammad.” He spoke in a
videotaped statement prepared
before the attacks, but both he
and the leader of the Taliban rul
ing council of Afghanistan were
reported to have survived the
initial action.
In a fresh reminder of the
potential for renewed terrorist
attacks, the FBI said it was urg
ing law enforcement agencies
nationwide to “be at the highest
level of vigilance and be pre
pared to respond to any act of
terrorism or violence.’’
Bush ordered the strike on
Saturday, less than four weeks
after terrorists flew two hijacked
airplanes into the World Trade
Center twin towers and a third
into the Pentagon. A fourth plane
crashed in the Pennsylvania
countryside after an apparent
struggle between passengers and
terrorists on board.
Besides the Sept. 11 death
toll — estimated at more than
5,000 — the attacks dealt a
shuddering blow to Americans’
feeling of security, and pro
pelled an already weakened
economy toward recession.
“I know many Americans
feel fear today,” Bush said in his
nationally televised announce
ment from the White House
Treaty Room. Signs of height
ened security concerns were evi
dent, as officials took Vice
President Dick Cheney from his
residence to an undisclosed
secure location, security was
stepped up around the Capitol
See Forces oh page 2.
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I gave them fair
warning and they
chose not to heed it.
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George W. Bush
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attack submarines;
amphibious assault and
support ships
‘Figures are per battle group
Personnel
Approx. 8 to 10,000;
2,100 Marines
Aircraft
F-14 Tomcats, F/A-18
Hornets, EA-6B
Prowlers, E-2C
Hawkeyes, S-3A/B
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Harriers, CH-46 Sea
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Location of battle group
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Arabian Sea
USS Carl Vinson:
Persian Gulf
USS Theodore
Roosevelt:
enroute to
Mediterranean Sea
USS Kitty Hawk:
enroute from Japan
Forces by location
Bahrain: Home of the Navy’s
5th Fleet, which controls the
carriers while they are on six-
month deployments in the
Gulf. U.S. warplanes also use
an isolated air base south of
the capital; cargo planes fly
from another airstrip.
Kuwait U.S. warplanes,
based at al Jaber air base,
patrol the southern no-fly
zone over Iraq. Patriot
batteries can shoot down
missiles or aircraft. Supplies
to equip an Army brigade.
Saudi Arabia: U.S.
warplanes, out of Prince
Sultan Air Base in the desert
south of Riyadh, patrol the
southern no-fly zone over
Iraq.
Turkey: U.S. warplanes,
based at Incirlik air base,
patrol the northern no-fly zone
over Iraq.
Oman: U.S. cargo planes at
Seeb North Air Base near the
capital of Muscat and on
Masirah island. Also, 75
percent of Air Force reserve
equipment in the Middle East
is in Oman.
Qatar: Supplies to equip an
Army brigade.
United Arab Emirates:
Airborne iefueling4ankers for
planes that patrol Iraq.
Diego Garcia: Supplies to
equip an Army brigade.
Probable base for B-52
bombers.
Uzbekistan: About 1,000
Army infantry soldiers.
The best strategy
to prevent future
terrorist attacks in the
United States or
elsewhere in the world
is a strong offensive
action to knock out
and disrupt these
hateful terrorists'
abilities to attack,
rather than sitting
back in
defensive fear.
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SOURCES: Pentagon: ESRI; WoridSat; Associated Press
Threat of further terrorism remains
FBI asks law enforcement to be on UPD maintains heightened security
highest alert for new acts of terrorism
— Sen. George Allen
R-Virginia
I do not know
exactly how long this
war will last, but I do
know that America is
right and those who
attacked us are terribly
wrong and I know
that the storm
unleashed today will
continue until the
evil is eradicated.
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Concerned about more terror
ist attacks, the FBI on Sunday
urged law enforcement agen
cies nationwide to move to
their highest level of alert after
the U.S. military strikes in
Afghanistan.
“All law enforcement agen
cies have been asked to evaluate
whether additional local securi
ty measures are warranted in
light of the military operations
and the current threat level,” the
FBI said.
The bureau issued the advi
sory through its National Threat
Warning System after U.S. jets
and missiles targeted Afghan
Attacks led
missiles,
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Forty U.S. and British war
planes and an armada of war
ships and submarines pum-
meled strongholds of the al-
Qaeda network and the Taliban
regime in Afghanistan on
Sunday with Tomahawk cruise
missiles, 500-pound gravity
bombs and computer-guided
bombs.
The targets included early
warning radars, surface-to-air
missiles, airfields, aircraft, mili
tary command and control
installations and terrorist camps.
In one case, Taliban mili
tary equipment including tanks
was struck near Mazar-e-
Sharif in northern Afghanistan,
officials said.
The demonstration of
Western firepower was the first
wave of an anti-terrorism cam-
military sites and camps belong
ing to Osama bin Laden;
Local law enforcement
departments were asked to “be
at the highest level of vigilance
and be prepared to respond to
any act of terrorism or violence
should it become necessary.”
FBI officials said they had
no specific threats, but U.S.
intelligence and Attorney
General John Ashcroft had
been warning for days there
was a high likelihood of addi
tional terrorism activity, partic
ularly after the U.S. took its
first military action.
See Alert on page 12.
By Rolando Garcia
THE BATTALION
University police are main
taining a heightened state of
alert in the wake of U.S.-led air
strikes in Afghanistan Sunday,
but University Police
Department (UPD) Director
Bob Wiatt said Texas A&M is
an unlikely target for terrorists.
“Texas A&M is not a target,
even though some people think
we should be because we’re so
important,” Wiatt said. “Come
to A&M, relax, enjoy and
don’t worry.”
UPD has taken extra security
precautions since the Sept. 1 1
terrorist attacks in New York City
and Washington, D.C., Wiatt
said, including additional officers
and surveillance equipment at
the George Bush Presidential
Library and Museum. The muse
um would be the most likely tar
get on campus, Wiatt said, and it
was temporarily closed after the
Sept. 1 1 attacks.
“Tve been in contact with
all the people that know any
thing about anything, including
the FBI who are in contact with
the CIA, and if there was even
a glimmer of evidence that
indicated we might be a target,
they would have advised me,”
Wiatt said.
Sen. Phil Gramm
R-Texas
This war was
begun on Sept. 11 on
the terms of the
terrorists; it will he
prosecuted and won
on our terms.
— Rep. Bob Etheridge
D-North Carolina
by sea-launched cruise
long-range bombers
paign promised after the Sept.
11 attacks on the United States.
One senior administration offi
cial said the military strikes
would be sustained and would
last at least a few days.
“Our objective is to defeat
those who use terrorism and
those who house or support
them,” Defense Secretary
Our objective is
to defeat those who
use terrorism and
those who house
or support them.
n
Donald H. Rumsfeld
defense secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld told a
Pentagon news conference.
Defense officials said one
goal of the initial strike was to
disable the Taliban’s air and mil
itary defenses so that rebel
Afghans could advance in their
effort to overthrow the Taliban
regime that has harbored Osama
bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
“Our interest is to strengthen
those forces that are opposed to
al-Qaeda and opposed to the
Taliban leadership ... so that they
will have better opportunities to
prevail,” Rumsfeld said.
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.,
vice chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, said that
early indications were positive.
“It looks to be at this early
juncture successful,” Shelby
U.S.-led alliance strikes back
Missiles and warplanes filled the Afghan sky Sunday evening in a
U.S.-British attack on Taliban and al-Qaeda installations. Sources
reported explosions in at least four cities. The Afghan northern
alliance also launched an attack on Taliban forces near Kabul.
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