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

Thursday, March 14, 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.

DefendAmerica.mil
The latest news on the war on terror from the U.S. Department of Defense
Most Wanted Terrorist List (FBI)
To Report Terrorist Activities to the FBI (FBI)

Map of Current  Military Action in Afghanistan (CNN)

Threat Condition Yellow (Elevated Condition)

Also Today: Vice President Cheney is in Yemen, attempting to win support for preventing the al Qaeda from reforming in the country. Yemen is the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden. [Details from Reuters]

1:30 pm - A U.S. federal grand jury handed up indictments against British-born militant Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh on counts of kidnapping and murder in the death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to the Justice Department. Sheikh already faces charges in Pakistan, where he is now being held while awaiting trial. U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft stated that the U.S. indictments were filed in the event Sheikh was somehow released by or escaped from Pakistani authorities. Pakistan's government has stated it would consider turning Sheikh over to the U.S. only after his trial in Pakistan. U.S. authorities consider Sheikh to be the mastermind of the crime. [See: U.S. grand jury indicts key suspect in Pearl case (CNN)]

12:00 noon - U.S. General Frank Hagenbeck told reporters that Afghan troops searching caves abandoned by al Qaeda and Taliban forces after Operation Anaconda found several foreign fighters among the 20 bodies recovered. According to Gen. Hagenbeck, bodies of Egyptians, Sudanese, Indonesians, Chechens, Uzbeks and Chinese were found. [See: U.S. Says Foreigners Among Afghan Rebels Killed (Reuters)]

3:00 am - U.S., Canadian and Afghan troops searched caves in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan searching for documents left behind by fleeing al Qaeda and Taliban fighters routed by Operation Anaconda. According to U.S. military spokesman Major Bryan Hilferty, over 1,000 coalition troops had now occupied the Shahi Kot valley. "We are conducting sensitive site exploitation, looking for information, looking in the caves," he said. [See: U.S., Coalition Forces Search Al Qaeda Caves (Reuters)]

Israeli - Palestinian Crisis
Israel Leaves W.Bank City; Peace Mission Under Way (Reuters)
Israeli PM Orders Pullout, U.S. Envoy Flies In (Reuters)
Palestinians Kill 3 Israelis Before U.S. Truce Trip (Reuters)

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