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

Friday, November 16, 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)
Map of Coalition Bases of Operation (CNN)
Detailed Afghanistan Maps and Information (About Geography)
Afghanistan and Area Weather Forecast (AccuWeather)
Most Wanted Terrorist List (FBI)

Also Today: U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated that the Taliban now controlled only one-third of Afghanistan, but discounted reports that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar had ordered his troops to abandon Kandahar.

11:30 pm - National Guard troops began helping protect the U.S. Capitol for the first time since 1968 when demonstrations rocked Washington after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. [See: National Guard Troops Help Protect Capitol (Reuters)]

3:30 pm - Officials at Hartsfield International Airport began slowly began to restore service after determining that the man who bolted past security screeners was not carrying a gun. Despite re-opening, travel at Hartsfield was not expected to return to normal for hours.

2:15 pm - Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport was shut down and evacuated after a man with carrying a gun ran through a security checkpoint toward the airline gate area. Authorities were unable to locate the man. Officials stated that all air operations would be suspended until the airport was cleared and searched. [See: Atlanta airport evacuated after security breach (CNN)]

1:30 pm - The Afghan Islamic Press reported that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has ordered his troops to withdraw from Kandahar, considered to be the last Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.

10:00 am - CNN reported that unnamed U.S. officials had informed the network that senior al Qaeda leader Mohammed Atef may have been killed during recent U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan. Aftef is suspected of being one of the main planners of the September 11 terrorists attacks against the United States.

9:00 am - CNN reported that U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had confirmed that armed U.S. troops were now actively engaged in battle against Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld stated that no American troops had been killed in battle. [See: Report: U.S. troops on ground in Afghanistan (CNN)]

7:30 am - Iranian radio reported having information from an 'informed source" that Osama bin Laden had fled Afghanistan for Pakistan across the border near Tirah, southwest of Peshawar. [See: Bin Laden May Have Fled to Pakistan --Iran Radio (Reuters)]

7:00 pm - A fierce battle raged between the Taliban and Northern Alliance for control of the northern Afghanistan city of Konduz. The Taliban were defending the city with heavy artillery, tanks and thousands of Chechen, Uzbek and Pakistani fighters who had vowed alliance to Osama bin Laden. [See: Fight for Konduz rages as Ramadan begins (CNN)]

5:00 am - As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began in Afghanistan, the Taliban continued to cling to their southern strongholds near the southern city of Kandahar. In Kabul, the ethnically diverse Northern Alliance is viewed with suspicion by the mainly Pashtun public and other anti-Taliban forces. [See: Taliban Cling on in South, Opposition Divided (Reuters)]

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