Week of December 8, 2001
Tribal fighters battle their way toward a suspected mountain hideout of Osama
bin Laden. The Pentagon says a bomb was dropped on the cave complex in
Afghanistan, where it’s believed he is hiding.
The Bush administration releases a videotape that
shows a smiling
Osama bin Laden
recounting his
role in the Sept. 11 attacks. He said that many of
the hijackers knew only that they’d been
dispatched on a mission of “martyrdom” and then
recounted early radio reports of the attacks. “I was
thinking that the fire from the gas I the plane would
melt the iron structure of the building and collapse
the area where the plane and all the floors above it
only. This is all that we hoped for,” said bin Laden.
A federal grand jury charges Zacarias Moussaoul -
a Frenchman of Moroccan decent with conspiring
to kill and maim thousands of Americans in the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon. He was being on immigration violations in Minnesota.
Unemployment hits a six-year high of 5.7%..
Pat Flounders - a widow from the World Trade Center attacks, kills herself in her
family’s dream house. She had been despondent seen her husband’s death on
September 11.
Overall ad spending during the first nine months of the year fell by 7.8% to $68.8
billion.
Technology
- the FCC approves area codes for pagers and cell phones. The
action is aimed at slowing the costly and disruptive nationwide explosion of area
codes.
Israel cut ties with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat after a Bus
ambush in Jerusalem killed 10 people.
