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drops off coalition force members into the Tora
Bora region of Afghanistan in support of Operation
Torii. The intelligence-gathering operation involved
more than 400 members from the U.S., Canada and
Afghanistan. Photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock,
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Wolfowitz: Terrorists
Oppose
Democracy, Global Values |
| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American
Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON,
May 21, 2002 — Terrorists who attacked America last Sept.
11 are fanatics who have declared war on international values
of freedom, democracy and free enterprise, Deputy U.S. Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Tuesday.
Hundreds of people of other nationalities,
as well as Americans, were killed in the attacks; yet the terrorists
seek to destroy more than human lives, Wolfowitz said at the
World Economic Forum's annual meeting at the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce in Washington.
The terrorists were targeting "truly
international values," the deputy defense secretary explained.
"Sometimes we think of them as American
values — the belief in freedom and democracy and the benefits
of a free enterprise system," Wolfowitz said. "But
increasingly, as we've seen in the last century, those are values
that are not just American, not just Western, they really are
universal."
The global war against terrorism "really
is a struggle between those universal values and a fanatical
group of people that would much rather condemn the world, or
least a large part of the world, to (a) medieval kind of darkness,"
Wolfowitz said.
The stakes in this struggle "are very
large," Wolfowitz said. Therefore it's heartening, he added,
to see the strong expressions of solidarity presented by the
international community in the fight against terrorism. More |
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Budget Funds War, Transformation |
| By Sgt. 1st Class Kathleen T.
Rhem, USA / American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON,
May 21, 2002 — U.S. President George W. Bush's fiscal 2003
defense budget request funds the war on terrorism and transformation
in both the near and long term, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld told members of Congress Tuesday.
The budget request includes $379 billion,
a $48 billion increase from the fiscal 2002 defense budget.
Also on the table is a request for a $14 billion supplemental
to the fiscal 2002 budget to cover unforeseen costs of the war
on terrorism. More |
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Department Details Anti-Terror Effort |
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the lethal threat terrorism casts on the world is not new, "the
world's resolve to defeat it has never been greater," said
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday.
Powell, introducing the State Department's
annual Patterns of Global Terrorism, said the world has answered
U.S. President George W. Bush's call for a coalition against
global terrorism.
The report, mandated by the U.S. Congress,
puts the global campaign against terrorism in perspective. The
2001 version features a country-by-country listing of what these
nations have done to support the campaign against global terrorism.
"For some nations this means new counterterrorism
laws, tighter border security and increased financial controls,"
said Ambassador Francis X. Taylor, the State Department's Coordinator
for Counterterrorism who wrote the report. "For others,
it means contributing military assets to operations in Afghanistan.
For others still, it is an aggressive sanctioning of terrorist
groups in order to curtail their criminal activities."
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May is National Military Appreciation Month in
the United States. Send your thanks to the men
and women of the U.S. military by signing this
online thank
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Message to Afghanistan:
'America is With You' |
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service |
The people of America
are committed to the people of Afghanistan, first lady
Laura Bush said Tuesday.
"America ba shooma ahst (America
is with you)," said the wife of U.S. President George
W. Bush during an address from Radio Free Europe headquarters
in Prague, Czech Republic. "We care about you, and
we will be your partners in the reconstruction of your
country. ... Many people are dedicated to helping you
build a lasting peace, and you yourselves must seize this
opportunity."
The U.S. Agency for International Development
has made helping Afghan agriculture, education and healthcare
funding priorities, Bush said. The United States has sent
7,000 tons of wheat seed and another 14,000 tons is on
the way. U.S. AID officials are distributing fertilizer
and helping to rebuild irrigation systems. More
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Building
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of the U.S. Army's best soldiers are helping Afghans
build a multi-ethnic, national army to help maintain
order and stability in that long-troubled land.
Mohammed Ali, a 26-year-old recruit, is hopeful.
"I believe that all nationalities in Afghanistan
have to come together because we have suffered a
lot," he says. "And, God willing, we will
come together.” Story
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| Coalition Effort in Afghanistan
- Sweden, one of 68 coalition partners comprising
the Global Counter Terrorism Forces and one of the
largest past donors for developmental assistance
in Afghanistan, continues to support reconstruction
in rural areas of the country. The Swedish Committee
for Afghanistan (SCA), a non-governmental organization
primarily financed by the Swedish government, is
focusing on rural Afghanistan, primarily in the
health care, education and agriculture sectors.
SCA is currently supporting 487 primary schools
educating over 163,000 students and 167 medical
clinics treating and teaching over 1.5 million people.
SCA has constructed more than 9,000 village wells
and another 1,300 are scheduled in 8 provinces in
northern, eastern and southeastern Afghanistan in
an effort to improve water availability and sanitation.
By the end of 2002, SCA plans to construct 11 additional
schools and 12 clinics in the southeastern and northern
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| A Choice to
Transform |
| "Our enemies are
transforming. Will we?" U.S. Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld explains the decision to terminate the Crusader
artillery system. Article |
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| Ruben S. Ornedo |
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 Ruben
S. Ornedo was a lead engineer for Boeing Satellite
Systems of El Segundo, Ca. He was a passenger
on American Airlines flight 77.
He earned a degree in computer
engineering from the University of California
at Los Angeles. At work he was known as Ornedo
the Tornado for his hard work and diligence.
For more than 15 years at Hughes and Boeing,
he played a key role in projects that were of
vital importance to the defense and security
of the nation.
He loved nature, the outdoors,
world travel and home renovation. He was an
easy-going man who was always concerned about
others.
Survivors include his wife
Sheila.
We will not forget him.
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