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Chronology: All time shown below are approximate Eastern Daylight Times. Monday, October 1, 2001 The
Investigation (CNN) Also Today: U.S. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers took over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Myers replaced Gen. Hugh Shelton, who retired today.
9:30 pm - An additional 3,400 members of the military reserve and National Guard were called to active duty to bring the total number called up since September 11 to some 20,000. A total of 35,000 are expected to be called to serve in homeland defense capacities. [Details: Ranks of reservists called to active duty swell (CNN)] 6:00 pm - CNN reported that the U.S. had started sharing with allied nations evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. [See: U.S. begins sharing evidence with allies (CNN)] 4:30 pm - The U.N. began emergency refugee airlifts, with flights into Iran and Pakistan. The first flights carried tents, bedding and other essentials necessary to help care for the massive numbers of Afghans now fleeing their country in advance of possible U.S. military strikes. [See: U.N. prepares to airlift refugee supplies (CNN)] 2:30 pm - Iran warned that it would take action against any U.S. warplanes that regularly violate its airspace during any attacks into Afghanistan. Iran had stated on Sunday that it would not support any U.S. military action against Afghanistan's Taliban government. [See: Iran warns U.S. to stay out of its airspace (CNN)] 8:30 am - Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf, in an interview by the BBC, stated that Afghanistan's Taliban government will fall from power as their confrontation with the United States appears imminent. "It appears that the United States will take action in Afghanistan. We have conveyed this to the Taliban," stated Musharraf, who inidcated that the Taliban's refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden would lead to U.S. military action. [See: Taliban Days Are Numbered, Says Pakistan's President (Reuters)] 8:00 am - Britain announced that its Finance Ministry had frozen some $90 million in assets of Afghanistan's Taliban government and other groups thought to be connected to international terrorism. [See: UK freezes $90m Taliban assets (CNN)] 6:00 am - Afghanistan's Taliban leaders admitted they had Osama bin Laden under their control, but refused to hand him over. [See: Afghan Taliban Defiant as U.S. Wrath Grows (Reuters)] 4:00 am - The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV63) sailed from Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom - the war on terrorism. A U.S. Navy spokesman stated "The USS Kitty Hawk departed on Monday to support tasking as assigned by the National Command Authority in response to 'Operation Enduring Freedom.'" [See: U.S. carrier Kitty Hawk leaves Japanese port (CNN)]
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