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. 

1:00 pm - Osama bin Laden appears along with one of his top aides Ayman al-Zawahri in an undated video tape shown by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television. In the tape, al-Zawahri declares the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. to have been, "a great victory, which was in fact achieved by the will of God Almighty and not because of our skill or superiority." [See: Bin Laden Appears in New, Undated Video (Reuters)]

10:30 am - On a video tape aired by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, one of the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers is shown pledging to die as a "martyr." "It is high time that we killed Americans in their home," said the man it identified as Ahmed Alghamdi. [See: Sept. 11 Hijacker Vows to Kill Americans in Will-TV (Reuters)]

Not Confirmed: 8:15 am - An official of the Afghan government reported that four U.S. servicemen had been killed while destroying unexploded ordinance near the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. "It was not an act of sabotage. It was an accident," Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for the provincial government told Reuters. [See: Four U.S. Soldiers Said Killed in Afghan Explosion (Reuters)]

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