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

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

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)
Afghanistan Maps and Information (About Geography)
Most Wanted Terrorist List (FBI)

Also Today: Investigators in Boca Raton, Florida reported finding no traces of the anthrax virus other than those found on the keyboard of a 63-year old Robert Stevens who died of the disease last week. Traces of anthrax were found in the offices of American Media in Boca Raton, but not at Stevens' home. [Details on CNN]

8:00 pm - Acting U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis announced in Boca Raton, Florida, that a third worker in the American Media Inc. (AMI) building had tested positive for exposure to the same strain of anthrax that resulted in the death last week of 63-year old Robert Stevens. Due to this finding, stated Lewis, the FBI was taking over the investigation and treating it as a crime. Lewis stated that the FBI would attempt to determine: how and when the anthrax bacteria was brought into the building, by whom and why. FBI Special Agent in charge of the investigation Hector Pesquera stated that there had been no evidence found so far suggesting that the strain of anthrax found in the AMI building had been produced by or was in any way related to the terrorist groups responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The third person to test positive for anthrax exposure was identified as a 35-year old woman who had asked to remain anonymous. 

6:00 pm - CNN reported that key Afghan cities of Kabul and Kandahar were still being rocked by a fourth straight day of allied bomb and missile attacks. [See: Key Afghan areas again hit from the air (CNN)] 

NOT Confirmed: 6:00 pm - An unnamed U.S. government official reported to CNN that "several" Taliban leaders had been killed during the initial rounds of allied attacks on Sunday. According the the unnamed source, two of the leaders killed were related to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

4:15 pm - Secretary of State Collin Powell stated at a press conference that the U.S. and allies had no current intention of conducting attacks in any county than Afghanistan against the al Qaeda terrorist organization of Osama bin Laden. "The first phase is directed against al Qaeda. We will see what we are able to flush out as a result of intelligence activity, law enforcement and financial activities," stated Secretary Powell. [See: Powell: U.S. Concentrating for Now on Al Qaeda (Reuters)]

1:30 pm - CNN reported that the Taliban stronghold city of Kandahar had come under a fourth straight night of heavy allied attack. According to CNN, all facilities of the airport at Kandahar had been destroyed.

11:30 am - President Bush announced a new FBI "Most Wanted Terrorist" list of 22 persons suspected of planning or taking part in a series of terrorist crimes going back to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. [See: 'Most wanted terrorists' list released (CNN)][List with pictures (FBI)]

8:00 am - Investigators in Florida stated that the strain of anthrax responsible for killing a man last week was manufactured rather than naturally occurring. Preliminary tests indicated that the anthrax bacteria was made by an Iowa firm for research purposes during the 1950s. Traces of the anthrax bacteria was found in the office of the man who died. [See: Sources: Anthrax possibly linked to lab (CNN)]

6:45 am - The Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef refuted U.S. claims that allied airstrikes has destroyed all Taliban air defenses. Zaeef also stated that Osama bin Laden remained "safe and alive" and that "As long as America is shedding the blood of Afghans it will not be beneficial to America." [See: Taliban: 'Air defenses still intact' (CNN)]

6:25 am - The Taliban reported giving Osama bin Laden "free reign" to conduct his holy war against the United States. Abdul Hai Mutmaen, a Taliban spokesman stated that since the allied attacks in Afghanistan had begun, all previous restrictions the Taliban had placed on bin Laden's terrorist activates had been removed. "Jihad is an obligation on all Muslims of the world. We want this, bin Laden wants this and America will face the unpleasant consequences,'' stated Mutmaen. [See: Taliban Give Bin Laden Free Rein After U.S. Raids (Reuters)]

5:00 am - Commanders of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance asked the allies to begin striking Taliban forces along the front lines. The Alliance hopes that allied air strikes will help them in their efforts to occupy the Afghan capital of Kabul. The Alliance currently claims to control about ten percent of Afghanistan. [See: Afghan Alliance 'ready to attack' (CNN)]