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From OAODNS.News@pasadena.oao.com Tue Sep 11 08:50:45 2001 Subject: All OAODNS Activities Cancelled for September 11th Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:47:35 -0700 Due to the tragedy today and the closure of JPL, all scheduled activities by OAODNS have been cancelled and will be rescheduled.

The terrorists who apparently hijacked four planes and attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon could only have succeeded by using their own trained pilots in a scheme that defied all scenarios envisioned by national security officials, terrorism experts said. "They flew the planes themselves," Gene Poteat, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, said Tuesday. "No pilot, even with a gun to his head, is going to fly into the World Towers," he said. The hijackers used the airplanes as weapons, Poteat said, adding that they may also have had the ability to disable communications systems used to ...

Telegraph UK home page is reporting that Iraq has shot down another Predator.

The 10,000 figure was just reported about 10 minutes ago on Fox News.

Anyone been listening to Peter Jennings on ABC? He is criticising President Bush saying it's been two hours since he spoke from Florida; that the President needs to demonstrate more vigorous leadership during this crisis. With the largest attack against the U.S. (internal to our borders) in history, how can this talking head suggest that the President needs to be making PR appearances, when he needs to be conferring with top security officials within the government and elsewhere in order to ascertain whom was responsible, and to coordinate and develop an appropriate response? I think we need somehow to let ...

Bush responds: "Freedom attacked by faceless cowards...who will be hunted down and punished." Tuesday September 11 12:54 PM ET Bush Says Has Taken Steps to Protect American People BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, Louisiana (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said on Tuesday the United States had taken all appropriate steps to protect the American people and would hunt down and punish those responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites). ``We have taken all appropriate security precautions to protect the American people,'' Bush told reporters in a hastily arranged appearance ...

Just reported on Fox. The same place where the "Camp David Accords" were signed. "Peace in our time?"

Tuesday, 11 September, 2001, 16:36 GMT 17:36 UK Taleban denies bin Laden responsible A spokesman for the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan has said that the Saudi militant, Osama bin Laden, could not have been responsible for the attacks, as he did not have the capability for such a huge operation. The Taleban are believed to be sheltering Osama bin Laden, who's been accused by the United States of ordering previous, devastating attacks on US targets. The Taleban also said it condemned the explosions as terrorism. In Palestinian camps in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, some people expressed joy at ...

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Steel and Fire and Stone Under attack. Mr. Derbyshire is also an NR contributing editor September 11, 2001 11:40 a.m. I am writing this less than an hour after the U.S.A. was struck by what looks very much like a coordinated wave of terrorist attacks. Two planes, one said to have been hijacked, crashed into the World Trade Center, setting both towers on fire. From my front lawn here in Long Island, thirty miles away, I can see the smoke plume. Something similar seems to have happened at the Pentagon, and the latest news is of a fire on ...

UNCONFIRMED Story out of DOD contact says the A/C that crashed south of Pittsburgh was not headed for Camp David, but instead was shot down by USAF after terrorists aboard broadcast message that it too was headed for DC to hit DOD or Capitol Building. Expect more within 90 minutes.

National Emergency Click here for breaking News - NewsMax.com NewsMax.com Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 12:41 p.m. EDT - Air Force One has landed with President Bush in Shreveport, La., and a statement from him is expected soon, Fox News reported. 12:35 p.m. - The Pittsburgh plane crash was a failed attempt to attack Camp David, the presidential retreat, Fox News reported. Officials in Boston have begun an "initial" investigation to determine if and how security was breached at Logan International Airport that reportedly allowed terrorists to board and hijack two passenger jets and crash them into the World Trade ...

<p>People walk away from the World Trade Center as ash rains down.</p> <p>NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.</p>

I work for a major chemical industry. Word here is that all employees are being evacuated from offshore oil rigs and platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. All non-essential personnel are told to go home. Hightened awareness and nom deliveries accepted onto the refinery complex.One Shell Square located in New Orleans has been evacuated.

I'm angry today, as I see the city where I grew up in flames. People I know have undoubtedly been killed. All the news coverage shows the horrific pictures, but no one is asking or answering "WHY"? Why would someone be moved to kill themselves along with tens of thousands of people, cause billions of dollars in damage, and humiliate and paralyze a nation? The reason is America's blind support for Israel. Before the cast-iron skulls among you try to shout me down, crying that this is not the time for recrimination, that needs to be said, or we dishonor ...

My website, www.libertynews.org is up and available for people to post factual information from their local areas. With alot of the major sites being overwhelmed lets off-load some of it to the smaller sites. Pass the word.

-- A Couple of things , from here in the Midwest : (-) Keep your head and minds screwed on straight , folks . Losing our minds , and panicking , is what the bad guys want us to do (-) Pray ! Especially on a day like this , prayer for our fellow citizens , our public servants , and for the Armed Forces would be an excellent idea . (-) A blood drive is another fabulous idea . There are likely to be thousands dead , possibly tens of thousands dead , and tens of thousands more ...

An American in China by Sascha Matuszak Antiwar.com September 11, 2001 Cheating as a Way of Life Guanxi Rules China's Schools Four students and I were helping Professor Gan clean his backyard. We were probably the first group to do so in the last 50 years. All day we threw old, rotten wood and ancient bricks into a dumpster and smoked cigarettes to regain strength whenever we could. Midway through the sweltering day one of the students, Huang Qin Qiu, turned to me with a grin and said, "Now I don't have to worry about my grade in this class." ...

Much time and gnashing of teeth has been spent on Free Republic discussing our Government's various SI programs. It would seem, on the surface at least, that those programs have not lived up to the reputation. This single incident today has demonstrated beyond doubt the deplorable state of our signal intellengence program.