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To: stockman_scott who wrote (45175)	12/14/2001 2:07:10 PM
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YEARAHEAD-U.S. seen shaking recession shackles in 2002 By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The high-flying U.S. economy came back to earth with a thud in 2001, but economists expect it to struggle back upward in the year ahead as it shakes off the first recession in a decade...................... biz.yahoo.com

To: stockman_scott who wrote (45175)	12/14/2001 2:27:13 PM
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U.S. officials: Al Qaeda protecting something (CNN) -- Al Qaeda fighters trapped between the caves and the canyons around Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan are battling Friday as if they're protecting something valuable, according to U.S. officials who openly speculated that they may be protecting Osama bin Laden. Farther south, U.S. Marines didn't fire a shot as they took over the Kandahar airstrip and set to work preparing it for use. Military officials told CNN that the 1,500 Marines stationed at Camp Rhino southwest of Kandahar would eventually move to the airfield. "My mission here is to secure the airport ... get the runway in better condition and open it up," said U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis, who leads the mission at the airstrip. "The Marines found enough explosives out there to have a big Fourth of July celebration." Mattis said Soviet-era minefields dotted the area, and scattered groups of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters remained, but he added that he had no "big concerns" about the mission. The general said Marines expected to have all the unexploded ordnance off the runway later Friday evening. "In a day or two we'll have (the airstrip) wide open for use," he said. At Tora Bora, U.S. bombs and Eastern Alliance ground fire hammered at al Qaeda positions in the snow-covered mountains. Afghan commander Hazrat Ali said Eastern Alliance forces are narrowing the locale in which the al Qaeda network can operate, telling CNN's Ben Wedeman that al Qaeda has suffered heavy casualties and is essentially finished. In the midst of the airstrikes, alliance and al Qaeda forces traded heavy machine-gun fire. Alliance tanks also pounded al Qaeda positions. cnn.com