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TERROR IN AMERICA -- The Olympian


News for Wednesday, January 2, 2002

Stories:
Marines try to pick up Omar's trail
WASHINGTON -- About 200 Marines searched a former Taliban and al-Qaida compound in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as the hunt for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar intensified.
Mike Salsbury/The Olympian Marchers lodge plea for peace
OLYMPIA -- Samba Olywa percussionists kept the beat, as a sea of umbrellas and peace demonstrators drifted up Fifth Avenue on Tuesday.
At a glance
Tuesday's developments related to the Sept. 11 attacks:
Attacks illustrated economy's resilience
WASHINGTON -- The resiliency the nation has exhibited since Sept. 11 shows just how difficult it would be for Osama bin Laden's followers to carry out his call to bring down America by destroying its economy, economists say.

Multimedia

- USA TODAY database of Sept. 11 dead & missing

Documents
- Read the bin Laden video transcript(U.S. Dept of Defense)
- Indictment
(US v. Moussaoui)


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PhotographsPhotos
- Casualties of war
- Three months after Sept. 11
- War on terror images (10/5/01)
- Aftermath of terror (9/18/01)
- A day of prayer (9/16/01)
- Photos (9/11/01)


AudioAudio
- Operation Anaconda (3/02)
- Bush explains offensive in Afghanistan(10/7/01)
- British Prime Minister Blair: Military action unavoidable (10/7/01)

- Message to the troops (9/12/01)


FlashInteractive
Bioterrorism:
- How bacteria build resistance to antibiotics
- A look at how cutaneous anthrax is contracted
- Bioterrorism: a primer
- Anthrax FAQ
- Mapping the
anthrax threat
- Anthrax cases & exposures

Military:
- Battle in Afghanistan
- Update on which Taliban targets have been hit
- The Blackhawk MH-60k
- Learn more about the B-1 and other aircraft
- Cave detection methods used in the hunt for bin Laden
- Airlifting the Marines into Afghanistan
- How the U.S. uses a 'kill box' to attack targets
- A look at Afghan targets hit by U.S. bombers, missiles
- Where key U.S. forces are around the world
- Look at the new
unmanned spy planes

- How a Tomahawk cruise missile works
- U.S. special operations forces
- U.S. mobilizes

Afghanistan:
- Facts, terrain, borders
- Osama bin Laden's organization
- The Taliban

Attacks & response:
- Airport security tightens
- Searching for victims
- Damage in lower Manhattan
- Damage to the Pentagon
- Global impact of attacks on America

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