Check out this site
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/ for the Infidel Satan Navy's opinion about when Ramadam ends. Click FAQ and then "Crescent Moon Visibility and the Islamic Calendar". Briefly, the cresent moon is visible about a day after the new moon. It needs to be visually sighted, unaided by a telescope. Weather counts and you need at least 24 hours for the crescent to get far enough away from the sun.
The new moon ending Ramadam occurs on December, 4 at 7:34 UT.(ZULU) (Again from the Infidel Satan Navy's website.) Like the Hebrew Calendar, the day begins at sunset, so sunset of the day on which the first waxing crescent is sighted is the beginning of the first day after Ramadam.
Therefore, Ramadam ends with sunset, 16:55 December 6, Baghdad time. Moonset is 17:55 local time. Some time in the night of 6-7 December 2002. I think we want to avoid December 7 for symbolic reasons, but may be not. Put me down for: TA DAH
December 6, 23:00 HR Baghdad time, 20:00 UT, 15:00 EST.
Don't doubt your calendrics for a moment, my information about Ramadan was evidently in error. Apologies.
The comments about cooler operational weather and Christmas still stand, though. The post-Christmas new moon, (Jan 2 is it?), is the time.
Dec 4 doesn't allow any time for inspection violations to occur and for the subsequent 2-3 weeks of scr*wing around with that useless debating society in New York.