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Operation Enduring Freedom

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• October 2001 - 1st day of Operation: October 7th

News Service Archives

• CBS daily video archive, beginning 9/11/01

Prior to Operation Enduring Freedom

• Taliban blames US for strikes in Afghanistan 9/12/01
• 9/16/01 time line
• 9/15/01 time line
• 9/14/01 time line
• 9/13/01 time line
• Chronology of Tuesday, 9/11/01 attacks
• Arab journalist warned of attack 9/11/01
• Ahmad Shah Masood, leader of Taliban oppositioin, killed by suicide bomber 9/9/01 - Suspects detained in Belgium and France; investigators trying to establish links between suspects and at least one of the 9/11 suicide hijackers.
  • A former Taliban deputy, Mullah Mohammed Khaksar, claims that bin Laden had ordered the assassination of then Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood, having him killed on 9/9/01 (two days before 9/11 attacks) by two Arabs who were diverted from their trip to Indonesia.  It's believed that "bin Laden may have killed Massood to ingratiate himself further with Taliban leader Mohammed Omar to ensure his protection if the Americans retaliated for the attacks he knew were only days away in the United States."
• A CIA unit, whose members do not wear military uniforms, became the first US force to enter Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and al Qaeda. 9/27/01
• Osama bin Laden: Thorn in Pakistan's Flesh 8/21/01
• 5 bin Laden associates planned to bomb US embassy in India 8/14/01

Previous Attacks and Acts of Barbarianism on the US by al Qaeda network & others; also, related conflicts

• 10/12/00: The USS Cole was bombed in Yemen while refueling in Aden Harbor.  17 US soldiers were killed and 39 others were wounded.  The explosion tore a 40 x 60 foot hole in the port side of the ship.  USS Cole statistics.  Results of Navy's investigation.  The State Welcome Center on I10 on Mississippi's eastern border has a good display and information on the attack and the ship's recovery.  The USS Cole (DDG67) was relaunched 9/14/01 in Pascagoula, MS.  8/02
• 10/31/99: Egypt Air Flight 990 ( Boeing 767) crashed into Atlantic after take off on flight to Cairo, Egypt.  Delayed from takeoff, but finally departed from Kennedy Airport.  Final moments of flight.  Evidence points to the co-pilot Capt. Gamil El Batouty. (217 people killed)
• 9/2/98: Swissair Flight 111 (MD 11) enroute to Geneva crashed off Nova Scotia.  Last minutes of flight.  Departed from Kennedy Airport.  Similar to TWA Flt 800.  (229 people killed)
• 8/7/98: US Embassies bombed in Nairobi, Kenya, (213 people killed, 4500 injured) and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (11 people killed).
  • Convicted were: Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, Wadih El-Hage, Mohamed Sadeek Odeh
  • Wanted for this are: Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, Anas Al-Liby, Ahmed Ghailani, Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil, Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, Fahid Msalam, Muhammad Atef - killed 11/15/01 by US bombing in Afghanistan, Saif Al-Adel.
• 96/97: Atlanta bombings
  • 2/22/97: Nightclub - 5 injured
  • 1/97: Abortion clinics
  • 7/27/96: Olympic Games - 1 killed, 100+ injured
  • 4/26/96: Bomb plant discovered near Atlanta
• 7/17/96: TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747-100) blew up in the sky off New York's Long Island (on way to Paris), then the flaming debris fell into the water.  All 230 people onboard killed.  Departed from Kennedy Airport.
• 6/25/96: Khobar Towers military housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, bombed.  Killed 19 servicemen and injured 500+.  Linked to Riyadh bombing in 11/95.
  • Wanted for this are: Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser, Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Mughassil, Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie, Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub.
• (5/11/96: ValuJet 592 (DC-9) went down in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 people aboard.  Crashed 10 minutes after departing Miami International Airport enroute back to ATL.  Its preceding flight had a delayed departure from Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta.  Government blamed crash on oxygen bottles.  Final moments of flight.  ValueJet 592 Memorial Site.)
• 11/13/95: A car bomb exploded in the courtyard of the Office of the Program Manager, Saudi Arabia National Guard, aka OPM-SANG Military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 5 Americans and 2 Indians, and injuring 30+.
• 1/95: Attacks planned to bomb 11 US commercial planes.
  • Indicted but on the loose: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
• 10/3-4/93: Mogadishu, Somalia - Bloody battle killing 18 US soldiers and wounding 84.  US humanitarian intervention force's helicopter was shot down and the bodies of the US soldiers were dragged through the streets.  US occupation was part of Operation Restore Hope.
• 2/26/93: World Trade Center NYC south tower truck-bombed.  6 people killed and 1000+ injured.
  • Convicted were Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima, Ahmad Mohammad Ajaj, Eyad Ismoil, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.  Still wanted is Abdul Rahman Yasin.
• 1/25/93: Pakistan national Mir Aimal Kansi shot and killed two CIA agents sitting in their car at a traffic light, and wounded three others, outside the Langley, Virginia headquarters, using an AK-47.  He entered the US in March '91 on a business visa, seeking asylum.  He was allowed to stay and was given a well-paying job in a company owned by the son of a former CIA official.  Kansi's family lived in Qetta, a Pakistani city where the CIA conducted covert operations during the Afghan war years.  He was captured in Afghanistan by the FBI 6/17/97 and convicted of the two murders by a jury in Fairfax, Virginia on 11/10/97.  Two days later, in retaliation to the conviction, four US auditors employed by Union Texas Petroleum were gunned down, along with their Pakistani driver, while in a car traveling in Karachi, Pakastan.
• 1/16/91-2/28/91: (Persian) Gulf War, in which the US attempted to remove Iraq from Kuwait.  US had "148 killed in action, 458 wounded, 121 killed in nonhostile actions and 11 female combat deaths."
• 12/21/88: Pan Am Flight 103 (Boeing 747 jumbojet), bound from London to New York, was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland.  All 259 people on board were killed, as well as 11 people on the ground.
  • 2 Libyans arrested: Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah.
• 4/5/86: West Berlin's La Belle discotheque full of US soldiers bombed by Libya.  2 US soldiers and 1 Turkish woman were killed, 230 others injured.
  • 4 finally convicted 11/13/01:  Chraidi, Eter, Chanaa, Chanaa
  • Arrested: Yasser Chraidi (mastermind; Palestinian; driver at the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin), Musbah Abulghasem Eter (Libyan; had worked for the CIA),  Ali Chanaa (Lebanese-born German), Mohammed Amairi (possible agent of Mossad, Israeli's secret service), Verena Chanaa
  • US response: bombed Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi 4/15/86
• 6/14/85: TWA jet hijacked. 1 passenger, a US Navy diver, killed and others assaulted.
  • Wanted for this are: then- Hezbollah security chief Imad Mughniyah, Ali Atwa, Hasan Izz-Al-Din.
• 1983: Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon were bombed, killing 241 Marine, Army, and Navy personnel.
• 9/5-6/72: Eight Palestinians armed with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades snuck into Olympic Village at the Olympic games in Munich.  Calling themselves "Black September", the group killed two Israelis in their team quarters about four in the morning, then killed nine more when they threw grenades into helicopters where the nine were placed, tied-up, during an escape attempt and botched rescue effort.