Go to Part 2, 11 September 2001
| 12 Sep | NATO invokes the mutual defense provision of its charter for the first time |
| 12 Sep | 5 survivors pulled from rubble of World Trade Center |
| 13 Sep | With limitations, air traffic resumes in the U.S. |
| 13 Sep | Secretary of State Colin Powell names Osama bin Laden as prime suspect |
| 14 Sep | Congress authorizes use of force against those responsible for 11 September attacks |
| 17 Sep | Wall Street financial markets reopen |
| 18 Sep | Earliest known postmark date for letters carrying anthrax |
| 19 Sep | U.S. forces begin deployment to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, the Persian Gulf, and Diego Garcia |
| 20 Sep | President Bush issues ultimatum to Taliban, demanding that Osama bin Laden be turned over |
| 24 Sep | U.S. freezes assets of terrorist-supporting organizations |
| 28 Sep | United Nations calls on all member nations to stop harboring terrorists |
| 1 Oct | Muslim militants kill 40 in attack on Indian legislative building in Jammu and Kashmir |
| 5 Oct | Employee of American Media Inc. dies of inhalation anthrax |
| 7 Oct | U.S. begins air strikes on targets in Afghanistan |
| 8 Oct | Tom Ridge sworn in as head of new Office of Homeland Security |
| 9 Oct | U.S. completes destruction of 7 terrorist training camps in Afghanistan |
| 15 Oct | Letter containing anthrax is opened in Senator Tom Daschle's office, forcing closure of the Hart office building |
| 19 Oct | First reports of U.S. ground operations in Afghanistan |
| 22 Oct | Two Washington DC area postal workers die of inhalation anthrax |
| 28 Oct | Gunmen kill 16 at a Christian church service in Behawalpur, Pakistan |
| 29 Oct | U.S. Justice Dept. issues a general terrorism alert |
| 31 Oct | Hospital worker in New York City dies of inhalation anthrax |
| Congress passes new antiterrorism bill, to be implemented over the next two years | |
| 2 Nov | Homeland Defense Secretary Ridge issues general terrorism alert |
| 6 Nov | President Bush warns that Al Qaeda is trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction |
| 9 Nov | Northern Alliance captures Mazar-e Sharif |
| 12 Nov | American Airlines Flight 587 crashes in New York City, apparently due to wake-induced damage to aircraft |
| 12 Nov | Northern Alliance captures Kabul |
| 15 Nov | Several foreign aid workers, including 2 Americans, are flown out of Afghanistan after being liberated from the Taliban |
| 16 Nov | Mohammed Atef, deputy of bin Laden, killed in U.S. air strikes |
| 18 Nov | Taliban declares it will no longer protect Osama bin Laden |
| 21 Nov | Connecticut retiree dies of inhalation anthrax |
| Nov | Congress passes airline security bill |
| 25 Nov | Representatives from Afghanistan meet in Bonn, Germany, to begin planning interim post-Taliban government |
| 26 Nov | U.S. Marines landed in Afghanistan |
| 26 Nov | Northern Alliance captures Konduz; uprising by captured Taliban soldiers kills U.S. CIA employee |
| 27 Nov | Konduz prison uprising put down with several hundred Taliban killed |
| 1 Dec | Two suicide bombings in Jerusalem, Israel, kill 12 |
| 2 Dec | Suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel, kills 15 |
| 3 Dec | Israel strikes headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza |
| 3 Dec | U.S. officials issue third terrorism alert |
| 4 Dec | Pakistan allows U.S. to interview two of its nuclear scientists under arrest for ties to Al Qaeda |
| 4 Dec | Afghan delegates in Bonn reach agreement on interim government |
| 6 Dec | Northern Alliance captures Khondahar |
| 11 Dec | U.S. confirms that 100 special forces are in Somalia providing counterterrorism support |
| 12 Dec | Palestinian gunmen kill 10 in an ambush of a bus near the Jewish settlement of Emmanuel |
| 12 Dec | Israel cuts off contact with Yassir Arafat, head of Palestinian Authority |
| 13 Dec | U.S. releases captured video in which Osama bin Laden discusses planning the 11 September attack and expresses satisfaction with the results |
| 13 Dec | terrorist attack on Indian national parliament kills 12 |
| 18 Dec | President Bush designates 11 September as Patriot Day |
| 19 Dec | Last fires extinguished at the World Trade Center site |
| 22 Dec | Man with possible ties to Al Qaeda attempts to ignite explosives on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami; passengers subdue him and the plane lands in Boston |
| 22 Dec | Border tensions develop between India and Pakistan, including sanctions and gun battles |
| 22 Dec | Hamid Karzai sworn in as Afghanistan's interim prime minister |
© 2002 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 31 March 2002.
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