November 22, 2001 Diary: America Strikes Back

Strength and unity
Thursday, November 22, 2001
Journal-World Editorial

It's been a difficult period in America, but that doesn't mean there isn't ample reason to be thankful. As it has with just about every day since, Sept. 11 has given a little different feeling to Thanksgiving Day 2001.

Taliban took interest in anthrax lab
Thursday, November 22, 2001
At an Agriculture Ministry laboratory outside Kabul, scientists worked with anthrax. If Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network wanted to get its hands on the deadly substance, this laboratory, now badly damaged by U.S. bombing, could have been a source.

Tribunal justice should be part of the solution
Thursday, November 22, 2001
By George Will
Washington Post Writers Group

A foolishness of recent decades — a fetishism of rights without parameters — has been partially purged by the heat of burning jet fuel. Sobriety is evident in the mostly temperate response to President Bush's revival of the traditional wartime option of trying unlawful foreign belligerents in military tribunals.

Anthrax investigation takes new turn
Thursday, November 22, 2001
A 94-year-old woman who lived alone and seldom left her rural home died of the inhaled form of anthrax Wednesday in a baffling new twist in the bioterrorism investigation. Ottilie Lundgren died five days after she was hospitalized with respiratory problems. She is the fifth person to die of anthrax since early October.

Americans celebrate a different Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 22, 2001
(Web Posted Thursday at 6:23 p.m.) With Sept. 11 still fresh in their minds, Americans at ground zero and across the nation celebrated Thanksgiving with renewed fervor and patriotism even as they struggled to cope with losses.

Taliban agree to surrender last northern stronghold
Thursday, November 22, 2001
(Updated Thursday at 6:29 p.m.) Taliban commanders have agreed to let northern alliance troops into their last stronghold in northern Afghanistan to oversee a surrender of the besieged city of Kunduz, anti-Taliban officials said.

Pakistan shuts down Taliban embassy, severing links with Islamic movement it nurtured
Thursday, November 22, 2001
(Web Posted Thursday at 11:58 a.m.) When the black-turbaned fighters of the Taliban took over Afghanistan and imposed their unforgiving vision of Islam on its people, Pakistan was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the ragtag militia it had nurtured into a potent force.

Holidays let us feel normal again
Thursday, November 22, 2001
By Susan Reimer
The Baltimore Sun

Thanksgiving is the first sentimental holiday after Sept. 11, and for thousands of Americans it is the first, in a year of firsts, without a loved one.

Palestinians demand U.S. force truce terms
Thursday, November 22, 2001
Palestinians demanded Wednesday that U.S. envoys heading to the Mideast next week force Israel to implement an agreed truce without delay.

Bush rallies the troops with tough talk and turkey dinner
Thursday, November 22, 2001
President Bush, visiting with troops before Thanksgiving, told cheering soldiers Wednesday the war in Afghanistan is going well but "the most difficult steps in this mission still lie ahead." He said it will take time to find terrorists in caves and deal with fanatics who will fight to the death.

Campsite gives glimpse into al-Qaida
Thursday, November 22, 2001
Scattered around the 15-foot-deep craters left by American bombs lay the detritus of one of Osama bin Laden's former terrorist camps: spent anti-aircraft shells, mortar detonators, collapsed buildings and payroll records.

Briefly
Thursday, November 22, 2001
• New York City: Official WTC toll drops
• Washington, D.C.: FBI develops new technology to aid in eavesdropping
• Washington, D.C.: 360 suspects held abroad
• Pakistan: Pro-Taliban cleric sentenced

Unintended deaths
Thursday, November 22, 2001