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

Tuesday, October 9, 2001

NOTE: Reports from news sources involving movements or operations of United States military personnel NOT confirmed by U.S. government officials will be labeled as such.

Maps Detailing Allied Attacks of 10/07/01 (CNN)
Afghanistan Maps and Information (About Geography)

Also Today: The Pentagon confirmed that the house of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar had been struck by allied attacks Monday night, but that Omar had left the house only 15 minutes before the attack.

• Taliban leaders stated that both Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar were still alive and located in Afghanistan.
• The international medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontiers called U.S. humanitarian food drops to Afghan refugees "a piece of military propaganda aimed at making the U.S.-led attack more acceptable to international opinion." [Details from CNN]
• The FAA issued new regulations allowing the airlines to decide how they would reinforce cockpit doors on board passenger planes. [Details from Reuters]

11:00 pm - CNN reported that another round of allied daylight air attacks was underway against Taliban targets near Kandahar.

10:15 pm - The Pentagon stated it was possible that four civilian U.N. mine-clearing personnel may have been killed by an off-course U.S. cruise missile launched during Monday night's strikes on Taliban military assets. [See: Pentagon: Missile may have killed civilians (CNN)]

9:15 pm - President Bush informed Congress of his plans for deployment of ground troops in Afghanistan. He stated he would take such measures "as necessary in exercise of our right of self defense and to protect U.S. citizens and interests." The President refused to state whether he had decided to use ground forces. "We are not going to share intelligence, nor am I going to tell you what we've got planned for the future." said the president. [See: President notifies Congress about troop deployment (CNN)]

5:35 pm - NATO deployed five AWACS -- Airborne Warning and Control Systems --  surveillance aircraft to patrol the U.S. airspace. The action marks the first time since the founding of the alliance that NATO hardware and personnel have been used to protect the continental United States. [See: NATO sends planes to protect U.S. (CNN)]

5:00 pm - Speaking to Al Jazeera Television, Al Qaeda spokesman Sleiman Abou-Gheith praised the hijackers who carried out the the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and threatened that terrorist attacks against Americans would continue as long as allied attacks in Afghanistan continued.

2:00 pm - Northern Alliance fighters claimed to have cut the Taliban's main north-south supply line during fighting last night. "This has put the Taliban in a very difficult situation," stated Northern Alliance Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. [See: Northern Alliance says Taliban supply route cut (CNN)]

1:30 pm - Declaring that allied attacks had left the coalition with total air superiority, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated that future airstrikes against Taliban-held targets would continue around the clock. "We believe we are able to carry out strikes more or less round the clock, as we wish," stated Rumsfeld. Referring to photo reconnaissance, Rumsfeld stated that allied efforts had created "conditions necessary to conduct a sustained campaign to root out terrorists." [See: Rumsfeld: 'Around the clock' attacks possible (CNN)] 

10:30 am - Allied forces began the first daylight raids against Taliban targets in and around the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. [Details from CNN]

7:30 am - An official of the British Foreign Ministry stated that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network has probably possessed chemical and biological weapons for the last 10 years. "What we're not sure about is whether they've got a delivery mechanism," British Foreign Office Minister Ben Bradshaw told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. [See: Britain Says Bin Laden Likely Has Germ Weapons (Reuters)] 

6:00 am - At least four members of a United Nations mine removal team in Kabul, Afghanistan were reported killed by an allied cruise missile that struck their headquarters during Monday night's attacks on Taliban facilities. The demining team worked at the Afghan Technical Consultancy (ATC), located next to an unused radio station. ATC official Dr. Shah Wali told the Reuters News Agency, "This is a civilian area and they have killed four of the guards of this building." The four men killed were reported to have been security guards. U.S. defense officials stated they were investigating the incident but stressed that all allied attacks had been aimed at military targets linked to Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist network. [See: U.S. Missile Kills Four in Afghan Demining Office (Reuters)] 

4:30 am - Pakistan for the first time deployed armed soldiers in an around the capital city of Islamabad to control anticipated anti-American protestors. The armed squads were assigned to protect Pakistani government and United Nations facilities. [See: Pakistan Steps Up Security After Anti-US Violence (Reuters)]