[iwar] [fc:Al.Qaeda:.'Storm.of.airplanes'.will.not.stop.in.U.S.]

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Al Qaeda: 'Storm of airplanes' will not stop in U.S.

(CNN) -- In al Qaeda's first statement since the September 11 attacks, a
spokesman for the terrorist network said "the storm of airplanes will
not stop" until the United States ends what he said were attacks on
Islam. 

"There are thousands of young people who look forward to death like the
Americans look forward to living," said al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman
Abu-Gheith in a videotaped statement broadcast by Qatar-based al
Jazeera, the leading Arab news network.  (Full story)

He ordered all Muslims to join in a jihad, or holy war, against the
United States for airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to the attacks
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 

Abou-Gheith did not claim al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks, but
he did praise the hijackers for their "good deeds."

"They have moved the battle into the heart of America.  America must
know that the battle will not leave its land until America leaves our
land, until it stops supporting Israel, until it stops the blockade of
Iraq," he said. 

Latest developments

• Top U.S.  military officials said Tuesday initial strikes against
targets in Afghanistan were 85 percent successful and that U.S.  forces
had gained "air supremacy" over Afghanistan after three days.  Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the U.S.-led airstrikes were so
successful that the coalition could conduct strikes "more or less around
the clock as we wish."

• During a briefing at the Pentagon, Gen.  Richard Myers, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, displayed satellite photos he said showed the
destruction of an al Qaeda terrorist training camp. 

• East of Kabul, the capital, at least four local employees of a
U.N.-funded mine-clearing operation were killed during the airstrikes
when a missile hit the building where they worked, the United Nations
said.  The building is next to a transmission tower used by the Taliban
that may have been the intended target.  U.N.  Secretary General Kofi
Annan called the news of the deaths a "hard blow." (Full story)

• President Bush sent formal notification to Congress Tuesday of his
decision to deploy U.S.  forces for combat operations in Afghanistan. 
(Full story)

• NATO dispatched the first of five AWACS surveillance planes Tuesday to
patrol U.S.  skies -- the first time assets from other NATO members have
been used to help protect the continental United States.  The United
States requested the aircraft so its own AWACS planes could be used in
the fight against terrorism.  (Full story)

• The White House said Tuesday that classified information is being
limited to eight members of Congress "to protect lives." White House
spokesman Ari Fleischer said that the "circle is being diminished" to
protect American troops from the disclosure of information.  (Full
story)

• Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance on Tuesday claimed it had
cut off the Taliban's main north-south supply route, putting the
Taliban's northern forces in jeopardy.  The Alliance said it took
control of the route in northeast Afghanistan on Monday night, when 40
Taliban commanders and 1,200 mujahedeen fighters defected.  (Full story)

• CNN sources said bombs also hit a populated area of Kabul near a
military hospital, which has been used to treat civilians as well.  The
sources said the number of casualties in that attack was not yet known,
and the hospital was not damaged. 

• A Taliban official said Tuesday that suspected terrorist mastermind
Osama bin Laden and supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar were
alive and still in Afghanistan, and that the latest U.S.  military
strikes had not resulted in any Taliban casualties.  The Pentagon
confirmed that Omar's house near Kandahar was a target, but Taliban
officials said he had left shortly before the attack.  (Full story)

• Investigators are looking at whether a letter that came into the
mailroom of a Florida tabloid publishing company could be the source of
anthrax bacteria that killed an employee, a law enforcement source
confirmed to CNN.  Doctors in Virginia, meanwhile, said initial tests
were negative for a man who was thought to have been exposed to anthrax. 
(Full story)

• The U.S.  military planned to continue food drops in Afghanistan on
Tuesday, with a second load of 37,000 ready-to-eat meals.  But the
international aid agency Doctors Without Borders criticized the aid
drops as "a piece of military propaganda aimed at making the U.S.-led
attack more acceptable to international opinion." (Full story)

• In Pakistan, three Muslim clerics were placed under house arrest for
three months to prevent more anti-American demonstrations during the
Afghan bombing campaign.  But protests continued on Tuesday, including
one in which three people were killed.  (Full story)

• About 200 members of an Indonesian radical Islamic group staged a
vigil outside the U.S.  Embassy in Jakarta early Tuesday.  Handing out
pamphlets calling for a holy war against the United States, the
supporters of the Defenders of Islam group were all that remained after
500 demonstrators peacefully answered a call for "all Muslims" to
besiege the embassy.  (Full story)

• The United States and Great Britain notified the U.N.  Security
Council Monday as to why it undertook military strikes against
Afghanistan, and reserved the right to strike against other countries as
part of the war against terrorism, administrators and British officials
told CNN. 

• The Federal Aviation Administration is limiting all airline passengers
to one carry-on bag and one personal article such as a purse or
briefcase, an FAA official told CNN.  Experts said the move would give
screeners more time to examine bags and passengers closely.  (Full
story)

• Amnesty International called on the United States, its allies and the
Taliban to respect human rights in the wake of the airstrikes.  (Full
story)

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