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Chronology: All time shown below are approximate Eastern Daylight Times. Sunday, January 6, 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) 5:00 pm - Tampa, Florida police stated that the 15-year-old student pilot who crashed a small plane into a Tampa high-rise office building on Saturday left behind an apparent suicide note in which he expressed sympathy for Osama bin Laden. [See: Teen Pilot in Tampa Crash Had 'Sympathy' for Osama (Reuters)] 11:00 am - In spite of fresh U.S. bombing strikes in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, interim-Afghan government leader Hamid Karzai said both former Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden remained at large. [See: Fresh U.S. Air Strikes; No Sign of Bin Laden (Reuters)] 7:40 am - German police announced they had arrested a suspected al Qaeda member. The unidentified man used an Italian name and was arrested in the town of Moenchengladbach, in western Germany. [See: Germany arrests al Qaeda suspect (CNN)]
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