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Afghanistan timeline March 2002===
March 1,
2002 ===
*
Space shuttle mission
STS-109 is launched at 6:22 a.m. EST today.
*The Bush Administration admits the existence of a
shadow government with the implementation of the
Continuity of Operations Plan.
===
March 2,
2002 ===
*
2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Army Chief
Warrant Officer Stanley L. Harriman, of the Third Special Forces Group, is killed in an ambush along the road from
Gardez to the
Shahi Kot Valley.
===
March 4,
2002 ===
*
2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Seven American
Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the
Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. Around 3 a.m. local time a
MH-47 Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, causing a soldier to fall out and damaging a hydraulic line. The helicopter made an emergency landing a half-mile away. A second helicopter on the mission picked up the first helicopter's crew and flew to where the crew member had fallen. The soldiers soon came under heavy fire, and six were killed. The remaining soldiers returned fire and retrieved the bodies before returning to base.
*
Bubble fusion: Scientific papers for and against the observation of apparent
nuclear fusion in imploding bubbles are now available online. If this can be repeated, this is an important scientific breakthrough. Other
physicists fear that this may be a repeat of the
cold fusion fiasco.
===
March 11,
2002 ===
*
Robert Mugabe has won the
Zimbabwe elections with 54% of the vote to
Morgan Tsvangirai's 40% on a turnout of 55.9%. His victory is controversial and comes amid claims that many were prevented from voting and there was a campaign of intimidation. But election observers from
South Africa and the
Organisation of African Unity have stated that the outcome was legitimate.
===
March 12,
2002 ===
*
Israel ground troops invade the
West Bank and
Gaza Strip in her largest offensive since the
1982 invasion of
Lebanon. Dozens of
tanks occupy
Ramallah. 37 total dead so far, Israeli and
Palestinian.
===
March 19,
2002 ===
*The
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called a three-day
general strike protesting police interference with union meetings, harassment of
trade unionists and general lawlessness following the general elections, which has led to slow-downs in business. In
South Korea, 5,600 power plant workers are on the 25th day of their strike, protesting the
neoliberal government plans to
privatize the state-run electricity plants. A vote among the remaining power plant workers to strike was cancelled due to company interference.
===
March 20,
2002 ===
*The
U.S. Senate passes the McCain-Feingold
campaign finance reform bill 60-40.
===
March 23,
2002 ===
*Two million to three million
trade union members rally in
Rome in protest both of
labor legislation filed by
Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and of the assassination of Marco Biagi, an advisor to the Labor Minister, by the re-formed
Red Brigades. Labor leaders threaten a
general strike if the legislation is passed.
===
March 24,
2002 ===
*74th
Academy Awards ceremony.
===
March 27,
2002 ===
*
Recent celebrity deaths:
Milton Berle dies.
*
Recent celebrity deaths:
Dudley Moore dies.
*President Bush signs the
campaign finance reform bill.
*
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: At the start of
Passover, a
suicide bomber kills 20 and injures more than 100 in a hotel in
Netanya.
===
March 28,
2002 ===
*
Recent celebrity deaths:
Billy Wilder dies.
*
Arab-Israeli conflict: Delegates to the summit of the
Arab League endorse the "
land for peace" plan proposed by
Crown Prince Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia.
*
Pope John Paul II accepts the resignation of Archbishop
Juliusz Paetz, who had been accused of
sexual abuse.
===
March 30,
2002 ===
*
Recent celebrity deaths:
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, dies.
*
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A
suicide bomber explodes in My Coffee Shop, a
Tel Aviv café at around 9:30 p.m. local time, wounding 32 people.
===
March 31,
2002:
Easter ===
*
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli troops exchange gunfire with guards of
Yasir Arafat in
Ramallah. A
suicide bomber identified as
Shadi Tubasi, a resident of the refugee camp
Jenin, kills 14 and wounds more than 40 in
Haifa. Later, a suicide bomber wounds four members of an
intensive care unit, one critically, in a
paramedics' dispatch station in
Efrat. In the past 18 months, according to the
Associated Press, 1262 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and on 401 on the Israeli side.
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