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Chronology: All time shown below are approximate Eastern Daylight Times.

Thursday, January 3, 2002

NOTE: Reports from news sources involving movements or operations of United States military personnel NOT confirmed by named U.S. government officials will be labeled as such.

Maps Detailing Allied Attacks (CNN)
Map of Coalition Bases of Operation (CNN)
Detailed Afghanistan Maps and Information (About Geography)
Afghanistan and Area Weather Forecast (AccuWeather)
Most Wanted Terrorist List (FBI)
To Report Terrorist Activities to the FBI (FBI)
English translation of Osama bin Laden videotape (Defense Department - .pdf file)

Also Today: President Bush invited the leader of Afghanistan's interim government, Hamid Karzai to visit Washington. [Details on CNN]

• An al Qaeda compound near Khowst, Afghanistan first attacked by U.S. cruise missiles in 1998 was struck again by B-1 bombers, F-18 fighter jets and AC-130 gunships. [Details on CNN]

10:30 pm - The White House extended the current high alert status for U.S. law enforcement agencies for three months, through the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. [See: FBI Extends U.S. Security Alert Through Olympics (Reuters)]

3:30 pm - Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated that while Taliban rule in Afghanistan had ended, the U.S. was ramping up efforts to find missing leaders of the fallen regime. [See: U.S. Steps Up Effort to Finish Off Taliban Era (Reuters)]

10:30 am - Police in India stated that as many as twenty people had been killed over the last 24-hours in Kashmir during violence between Indian army soldiers and Islamic militants. At least two Indian soldiers and five member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group were reported killed. Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, another Pakistani-based Muslim guerrilla group, have been blamed by India for the Dec. 13, 2001 attack on its Parliament. [See: Violence Escalates in Indian Kashmir, 20 Killed (Reuters)]

9:00 am - The Washington Post reported that suspected airline shoe-bomber Richard Reid spoke by telephone with Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person indicted on charges involving the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. The two men had previously been linked as attending the same London, England mosque. [See: Paper: Shoe-Bomb Suspect, Moussaoui Spoke by Phone (Reuters)]

3:00 am - The Pentagon confirmed that the U.S. had dispatched several hundred of paratroops from the Army's 101st Airborne Division to Afghanistan to take part in the search for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and Osama bin Laden, [See: United States Sends Paratroops to Afghanistan (Reuters)]

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