October 22, 2001 Diary: America Strikes Back

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America battles Taliban abroad, anthrax at home
Monday, October 22, 2001
U.S. warplanes bombarded Taliban positions Sunday near a front line north of the capital, Kabul, marking what could be the start of a more aggressive campaign on behalf of opposition forces fighting the Islamic regime.
In Kabul, meanwhile, grieving neighbors pulled dust-covered bodies of seven civilians — three women and four children — from the ruins of two homes destroyed Sunday by a U.S. bomb. "This pilot was like he was blind!" sobbed one neighbor.v

Former Green Beret offers insight on war
Monday, October 22, 2001
By Mike Belt

When U.S. Army Rangers launched raids in Afghanistan, most likely Green Berets were already there scouting the target.
And former Green Beret Mark Johnson knows what that's like.

CIA given new powers, funds to hunt down bin Laden
Monday, October 22, 2001
As the U.S. military pursues its mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network, the CIA has been given new powers and money to wage its own war against America's most wanted terrorist suspect.

KU professor's database can aid terror response
Monday, October 22, 2001
By Terry Rombeck

If terrorists spray hazardous chemicals over a city, Jerry Dobson can tell you how many people it will affect.
Dobson, a Kansas University adjunct professor of geography and researcher in the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, helped design LandScan 2000, a database that combines Census data with other information to give officials a good idea how many people live in a square kilometer anywhere in the world.

Postal worker's life in danger from lethal form of bacterium
Monday, October 22, 2001
A District of Columbia postal worker is "gravely ill" from inhalation anthrax, a rare and lethal form of the disease, officials said Sunday, and five others are sick with suspicious symptoms. The Postal Service closed two facilities and began testing more than 2,200 workers for exposure.
The diagnosed man, who was not identified, is the third person in the nation to come down with the most serious form of the disease, where anthrax spores enter the respiratory system and lodge deep in the lungs. Six others, including two postal workers in New Jersey, have been infected with a highly treatable form that is contracted through the skin.

Two postal workers die apparently of anthrax
Monday, October 22, 2001
(Web Posted Monday at 4:04 p.m.) Two postal workers at a site that handles mail for the Capitol died Monday, apparently from anthrax, officials said, and two more remained hospitalized with the life-threatening disease as the nation's bioterror casualty count mounted.

U.S. prepared to deal justice with bullets
Monday, October 22, 2001
U.S. commandos are prepared to use deadly force on Osama bin Laden, the nation's top general said Sunday, as the Pentagon pressed its bombing and covert ground campaign to hunt down America's No. 1 terrorist suspect.
Opening a third week of air strikes, U.S. warplanes hit north of the capital, Kabul. And Afghan officials reported air attacks Sunday around the western city of Herat, Kandahar in the south and the front line positions near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Second D.C. postal worker has inhalation anthrax
Monday, October 22, 2001
(Updated Monday at 1:06 p.m.) Two Washington-area postal workers have been diagnosed with inhalation anthrax and two more employees at the same facility have died of symptoms consistent with the disease, officials said Monday as the nation grappled with an unprecedented bioterrorism threat.

CIA told to do 'whatever necessary' to kill bin Laden
Monday, October 22, 2001
President Bush last month signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake its most sweeping and lethal covert action since the founding of the agency in 1947, explicitly calling for the destruction of Osama bin Laden and his worldwide al-Qaida network, according to senior government officials.

Yankee-haters change tune
Monday, October 22, 2001
By Mark Shields
Creators Syndicate

To be born a Boston Red Sox fan is to learn early, if not always well, that the sick colt will not miraculously recover to win the Kentucky Derby, that the deserving night-school graduate probably will not prevail over the spoiled rich kid, that underdogs are underdogs for a good reason — they usually lose. To be a Red Sox fan is both to know that life is not going to work out and to live with a seething hatred for the too rich, too arrogant, and altogether too successful New York Yankees.

U.S. jets press attacks on Taliban positions
Monday, October 22, 2001
(Updated Monday at 12:55 p.m.) U.S. jets pounded Taliban positions Monday near front lines outside the Afghan capital and a key northern city, the Taliban said. The attacks appeared aimed at helping Afghan opposition forces advance.

Charities expect fewer donations
Monday, October 22, 2001
By Scott Rothschild

Local charities and non-profit groups are concerned donations to relief efforts related to the Sept. 11 attack may reduce giving to other worthy causes.

Briefly
Monday, October 22, 2001
• Pentagon identifies soldiers killed in helicopter crash
• Port closed to prevent extremists from leavingv
• Coca-Cola plant attacked in anti-U.S. protest

Congress will wrap up year with post-attack measures
Monday, October 22, 2001
Measures in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are claiming the lion's share of the action as Congress wraps up work for the year.

N.Y. looking less liberal
Monday, October 22, 2001
By George Will
Washington Post Writers Group

Mark Green's long shinny up the greasy pole of city politics will almost certainly be crowned with success when he is elected mayor Nov. 6. He has a difficult act to follow.
However, he may find governing after Rudy Giuliani made easier, in a sense, by the task of galvanizing the city's recovery from the trauma of terrorism. The encompassing nature of that challenge will force him to temper his liberalism.

The aftershocks of terrorism
Monday, October 22, 2001
By Ellen Goodman
The Boston Globe

Right after Sept. 11, when stunned Americans first looked darkly into the unknown, they asked each other what will it be like to live under a cloud of terrorism.\
The question was shaped rather like a riddle: What do you call a country where people go about life as random targets of suicidal bombers? The answer was one word: Israel.

Wartime may reap poor behavior by youths
Monday, October 22, 2001
Teachers and parents shouldn't be surprised if they see an increase in child behavior problems in the coming months, said David Osher, managing research scientist and director of the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C.

Minority patriot
Monday, October 22, 2001

Country stands united
Monday, October 22, 2001
Themes of patriotism, generosity and defiance of terrorism sounded as top country stars staged the Country Freedom Concert, the third benefit concert of the weekend.

Publishers rush to update history textbooks
Monday, October 22, 2001
New editions of McGraw-Hill's history textbooks were ready for the printer when terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Suddenly, the books seemed horribly outdated.