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said Sunday night. “This is only
the beginning, and it looks to me
to be a strong beginning.”
Along with the strikes
against air defenses of the
Taliban and their small fleet of
warplanes, U.S. Air Force C-17
cargo planes flying from
Ramstein Air Base, Germany,
were dropping food and medical
supplies inside Afghanistan as
part of President Bush’s effort to
aid displaced civilians.
Rumsfeld said 37,500 sets of
rations were to be dropped in an
initial wave Sunday in the
beginning stage of a humanitar
ian operation that might eventu
ally include moving relief sup
plies by ground. Another official
said the air drops probably
would continue for several days.
At the same time. Air Force
EC-130E Commando Solo air
craft equipped with sophisti
cated radio equipment flew
over the area and broadcast
messages aimed at both the
Taliban and Afghans opposing
the ruling regime, U.S. offi
cials said. Among the messages
were assurances that the U.S.-
led attacks were aimed at ter
rorists and not the Afghan peo
ple, said one official familiar
with the operation.
A Pentagon official said the
United States also will conduct
operations inside Afghanistan
that will not be seen publicly —
an apparent reference to the use
of Army special operations
ground forces.
Gen. Richard Myers, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said 15 land-based bombers —
including B-2 Stealth bombers
flying from Whiteman Air Force
Base, Mo. — and 25 other strike
aircraft flying from U.S. aircraft
carriers began the attack at
12:30 p.m. EDT — after dark
ness fell in Afghanistan. He
termed the strike “the early
stages of ongoing combat opera
tions” against the Taliban and
the al-Qaeda network.
A senior defense official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity, said later that
Navy F/A-18 and F-14 fight
ers flew missions off two U.S.
carriers — the USS Carl
Vinson and the USS
Enterprise — in the Arabian
Sea, and that no land-based
Air Force strike planes other
than bombers were used in the
first round of attacks. The sup
port planes used in the raids
included Navy EA-6B elec
tronic warfare aircraft and E2-
C Hawkeye early warning
radar planes as well as
American and British tankers
that refueled the bombers on
theji long-range strikes.
NEWS IN BRIEF
‘Standing for America’ shirts
will remain for sale this week
Organizers of the Red, White and Blue Out project will
continue selling “Standing For America" shirts to raise
money for the families of victims of the Sept. 11 terror
ist attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City.
The red, white and blue T-shirts were worn at the
Sept. 22 A&M-Okiahoma State game at Kyle Field.
Eric Bethea, a RWB Out organizer and a junior
finance major, said T-shirt requests from outside
the College Station area can be made using the fol
lowing link: http://www.logocenter.com. T-shirt
prices for out-of-town orders will be $7 plus ship
ping and handling. Shirts sized XXL will cost $9
plus shipping and handling. The Arlington-based
company LogoCenter.com will distribute the shirts.
T-shirts can be ordered in the College Station
area through Oct. 10 by email at RWBshirts@hot-
mail.com. Name, phone number, size and color
of shirts desired must be included in the email.
Shirts sold in Bryan-College Station will remain
at $5.
College Station printers C&C Creations will produce
the shirts to be sold locally.
A portion of all sales will benefit the New York
Firefighters 911 Relief Fund and the World Trade
Center Police Disaster Relief Fund.
Bethea said future fundraising might come from
the sale of posters, which will include aerial photos
of Kyle Field from the Sept. 22 game, in which third
deck fans wore red, second deck fans wore white
and first deck fans wore blue. For updates, check
the RWB Out Website at www.jaredp.com.
and government nuclear weapai
labs were put on higher alert.Ill
FBI said it was acting on tit
basis of “the possibility of a#
tional terrorist activity occumii
somewhere in the world.”
Within hours of the attack
Bush drew public support froa
foreign leaders around tk
world, as well as from congre:
sional leaders and the Amenta
public.
A crowd of 64,000 cheerc
the president’s words at Veteran
Stadium in Philadelphia, when
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football game was delayed
the fans could view Bus
appearance on the big scree;
scoreboard. Chants of “USA
USA” filled another stadia®
this one in Atlanta.
The initial strike involved)!
Tomahawk cruise missiles
launched from American
British ships. Gen. Richi;
Myers said 15 bombers andl 1
strike aircraft, both sea and laid
based, also were involved. Ik
assault came at 12:30 p.m.0'
— nighttime in Afghanistan.
Myers, sworn into offices
chairman of the Joint Chiefsii
Staff less than a week ago, sail
the attacks included B-l, B-!
and B-52 bombers as well a
ships and submarines that ha«
been deployed in the region
the days since Sept. 11.
The B-52s dropped at leJ
dozens of 500-pound gravi
bombs on al-Qaeda terronj
training camps in ease:
Afghanistan, one official said
Defense Secretary Donald 1
Rumsfeld said the strikes k
designed to eliminate tk
Taliban’s air defenses anddestn-
their military aircraft
Afghanistan’s rulers are knounc
have a small inventory of surface
to-air missiles as well as shoul
der-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
Afghan sources in Paki'sn
said the attack had damagedik
Taliban military headquarten
and destroyed a radar installa
tion and control tower al their-
port in the southern AfgJmwj;
of Kandahar. Smoke coiikt
seen billowing from the felt-
walled compound of Mullal
Mohammed Omar, the Tata
leader, these sources added, t
CORRECTION
In Friday's article, “12
draws scholars from across the
U.S.," the name of Dr. Janis
Stout was misspelled. Stout
who is holding the University
mace in the photo, is the dean
of faculties. Also, the authoref
the story was Justin Smith, not
Eric Ambrose.
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