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

Thursday, January 10, 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 warned Iran not to harbor al Qaeda members who had fled Afghanistan and cautioned the Iranian government against challenging the rule of the interim-Afghan government.

2:00 pm - CNN reported that the first group of 20 al Qaeda and Taliban detainees in U.S. custody had left the Kandahar airport in Afghanistan for the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Enemy gunfire erupted as the U.S. C-17 lifted off the runway, but was quickly suppressed when U.S. Marines responded with M-16 and machine gun fire. 

5:00 am - A U.S. Marine Corps spokesman in Kandahar, Afghanistan confirmed that all seven member of the crew of the KC-130 mid-air refueling plane than crashed yesterday in Pakistan had been killed. The crash occurred as the plane was on  approach for landing at the Marine base at Shamsi, just west of Quetta, Pakistan. The Marines killed included:

• Command Pilot: Capt. Matthew W. Bancroft, 29, of Shasta, California; 
• Co-pilot: Capt. Daniel G. McCollum, 29, of Richland, South Carolina; 
• Flight Engineer: Gunnery Sgt. Stephen L. Bryson, 35, of Montgomery, Alabama; 
• Loadmaster: Staff Sgt. Scott N. Germosen, 37, of Queens, New York; 
• Flight mechanic: Sgt. Nathan P. Hays, 21, of Lincoln, Washington; 
• Flight navigator: Lance Cpl. Bryan P. Bertrand, 23, of Coos Bay, Oregon; 
• Radio operator: Sgt. Jeannette L. Winters, 25, of Gary, Indiana

[See: Seven Marines die as tanker plane crashes (CNN)]

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