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TERRORISM LAW & POLICY - NOVEMBER 2001
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November 1

President Bush proposed a plan to enforce the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention by calling on signatories to enact laws against developing biological weapons, as well as a UN procedure to investigate reports of their use.

November 2

The State Department announced the freezing of the financial assets of 22 foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Basque ETA, the Real IRA, and three Colombian groups.

November 5

November 6

President Bush addressed an anti-terrorism conference in Warsaw by satellite video. He compared militant Islamic terrorists to the totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century, said that their access to weapons of mass destruction would pose a "dark threat" to civilization, and that no nation could be neutral in the struggle.

November 7

The United States froze the assets of 62 organizations and persons with suspected terrorist connections. Most were offices or affiliates of Al-Barakaat and Al-Taqwa, which were informal financial exchange institutions linking the United States with the Middle East and Somalia. FBI and Customs agents raided the offices of Al-Barakaat in Alexandria, Falls Church, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle, and Columbus. Similar raids took place in Liechtenstein, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland. President Bush held a press conference at the Treasury Department’s financial crimes center and told the world’s financial institutions that failure to act against terrorism would prevent them from doing business with the United States.

November 8

President Bush gave a speech in the George World Congress Center in Atlanta in which he stressed the public’s responsibility for preventing terrorism.

November 9

Northern Alliance forces captured Mazar-e Sharif and claimed that Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan were in retreat.

November 10

President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly and said that each nation would be expected to play its part in the war against terrorism and that the ‘allies of terror" would be held accountable.

November 11

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November 13

President Bush issued a directive to authorize the establishment of military tribunals to try foreign terrorist suspects and their accomplices. The Secretary of Defense would appoint the tribunals and determine their rules and procedures. Bush also held a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the White House in which Putin hoped that the war on terrorism would make possible closer cooperation between the United States and Russia. Taliban forces abandoned Kabul and Northern Alliance forces took control of the Afghan capital.

November 14

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November 16

The House and Senate passed the conference committee version of the Aviation Security Act, now renamed the Airport and Transportation Security Act. The FBI announced that a letter sent in October to Democratic Senator Patrick J. Leahy had tested positive for anthrax.

November 17

The G-20 Finance Ministers met in Ottawa to discuss means of shutting down terrorist financial networks.

November 19

President Bush signed into law a bill federalizing U.S. airport security personnel. In Geneva, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John R. Bolton said that Iraq was pursuing a biological weapons program, while North Korea, Libya, Syria, Iran, and Sudan were suspected of doing so. The United States still favored enactment of domestic bans on biological weapons activities, international investigations of suspicious outbreaks of diseases, and more cooperation with the World Health Organization instead of the draft protocol for enforcement of the Biological Weapons Convention.

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November 26

President Bush said that other countries that tried to develop weapons of mass destruction would "be held accountable." Countries that harbored, funded, or sheltered terrorists would be counted as terrorists.

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