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Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden is responsible for today's terrorist attacks in the United States, according to a senior US official and former prime minister Ehud Barak. The ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan, where Bin Laden is believed to be based, condemned the attacks. It said Bin Laden could not be responsible for the attacks, saying they were beyond his capabilities. Early today in the US, four hijacked commercial airliners crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and near Pittsburgh. Estimates of casualties range as high as more than 10,000. Hamas denied any connection to the ...

President Bush was abruptly plunged into the deepest crisis of his brief period in office on Tuesday and how he responds may well determine his political fate.Intelligence failures. Hijackers penetrating airport security. Failure to protect secure airspace over the Pentagon. Finding the perpetrators. Punishing them.Those were among the stunning challenges facing Bush in the face of the shocking use of hijacked commercial U.S. jets to crash and topple New York's twin World Trade Towers and collapse part of the Pentagon outside Washington.With searing television images of smoke clouds and panicked people fleeing burning buildings, a president unable to return to ...

Trading came to a virtual halt on US and European stock and commodities exchanges after co-ordinated attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. European stock markets plummeted, with Frankfurt down 8.6%, London losing 5.7% - its biggest one day fall since 1987 - and Paris plunging 7.4%. The New York Stock Exchange and the Nymex commodities exchange, just a few hundred metres from the devastated Trade Center towers, were evacuated, and trading was suspended "indefinitely". The world's largest electronic stock market, the Nasdaq, suspended all its trading for the day, as did the ...

Says he does not want groups of Americans pitted against other Americans. He does not want "reprisals inside our border". Is that how he thinks of Americans? Of Californians? What a cynical bastard he is. Glomming on for face time in this tragedy only to prove that he is the idiot we all know he is. How many innocent people have to die on planes, trains and in schoolyards before he realizes that the only answer is good, honest, decent ARMED Americans to fend off foreign and domestic terrorists? He would have us sacrifice our Liberty in exchange for Security ...

I mentioned in a previous post that this was another failure of gun control. The theory is that we can achieve safety by outlawing weapons and enforcing it through security measures such as metal detectors, etc. The folly of this was demonstrated at Colombine, and now, with much more devastating results, today. Our current approach to airline security is predicated on the assumption that the worst thing that can happen is that an airliner can be lost. If that's the case, and the goal is to prevent loss of aircraft, then it makes sense to try to minimize the probability ...

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Fox News Has Reported that Building #7 of the WTC has collapsed. What a Horror!

A CIA sourece tells NewsMax that there are only a handful of countries that could have been involved. Experts already believe that terrorists commandeered the jet aircraft that slammed into the Twin Towers and other targets. Believing no U.S. pilot would do this, the belief is that the pilots were killed and qualified terrorist/pilots were used. So far, planes used in the attacks were Boeing 767 and 757 models. According to our source, the list of possible training sites, with simulators, are very few in the Islamic world. The following countries or airlines have simulators capable of training pilots for ...

Building Seven, World Trade Center, Collapses

I will translate relevent parts below: Repudia México ataques contra EU Como expresión de duelo se ha instruido a las misiones diplomáticas y representaciones consulares en Estados Unidos a suspender las celebraciones de las fiestas patrias Por GRUPO REFORMA/El Norte Cd de México, México.- El Gobierno de México expresó este martes al pueblo y a las autoridades de Estados Unidos su solidaridad y sus más profundas condolencias por las irreparables pérdidas humanas que dejaron los atentados de esta mañana en las ciudades de Nueva York y Washington, D.C.En un mensaje a la prensa en la residencia oficial de Los Pinos, el ...

False alarm at Yukon airport WebPosted Tue Sep 11 16:24:58 2001 TORONTO - Schools and government offices in Whitehorse, Yukon were evacuated Tuesday as jet fighters escorted two commercial airliners to unscheduled landings, after aviation authorities suspected one of the aircraft may have been hijacked. It was a false alarm as both airliners were both simply running low on fuel as they waited to be directed to a new airport. One of the airliners was a Korean Airlines 747, the other an unknown 747. Both landed at Whitehorse airport. The jet fighters continued to circle over Whitehorse as the planes ...

False alarm at Yukon airport WebPosted Tue Sep 11 16:24:58 2001 TORONTO - Schools and government offices in Whitehorse, Yukon were evacuated Tuesday as jet fighters escorted two commercial airliners to unscheduled landings, after aviation authorities suspected one of the aircraft may have been hijacked. It was a false alarm as both airliners were both simply running low on fuel as they waited to be directed to a new airport. One of the airliners was a Korean Airlines 747, the other an unknown 747. Both landed at Whitehorse airport. The jet fighters continued to circle over Whitehorse as the planes ...

Israel puts rescue team on alert TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Israel put its national rescue team on alert and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said it would be ready to leave for the United States within an hour to help rescue operations. The Israeli team has gained considerable experience in digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings, including the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, though nothing even close to the scale of Tuesday's disaster. A small advance team was planning to leave Tuesday night to make plans, on the spot, if the offer of aide would be ...

They shot down one of our planes in Iraq! See the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1537000/1537128.stm

LONDON (Reuters) - The shock to financial markets from Tuesday's devastating plane attacks in the United States could have huge repercussions for an already-fragile world economy, stunned analysts said as they watched events unfold. Stock markets around the world plunged and oil prices soared after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and another plane slammed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Nervous investors fled to the safe haven of government bonds as the uncertainty from the wave of what seemed like terrorist attacks spread around the world. "This could trigger a recession," said Mats Kinnwall, ...

<p>NEW YORK (CNNfn) - It will be a long while before business gets back to normal on Wall Street after Tuesday's devastating terrorist attack, but a review of market history shows that acts of terrorism against the United States have had limited impact on the Dow Jones industrial average.</p>

When I first heard the news early this morning here on the West Coast I told my wife that this is the beginning of the beginning. Already there have been calls from European Leaders for someone to come upon the world stage and take control of the runaway events in the Middle East. Now we have this drastic and terrible attack that is in our mind related to the events in Israel. The carpet is being laid for the coming of a charismatic figure to capture the world stage. For those who understand, you know who is coming. For those ...

Clinton Says, 'Rally Behind the President' in Aftermath of Attacks By Ron Fournier The Associated Press Published: Sep 11, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Clinton, who led the nation through the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, urged Americans to rally behind President Bush in the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. "We should not be second-guessing. We should be supporting him," Clinton said in a telephone interview while traveling in Australia. Clinton, who left office in January after serving two terms, said he was stunned and angered by the attacks in New York and Washington. "The most important thing is, we ...

By RON FOURNIER AP White House Correspondent September 11, 2001, 4:27 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- Former President Clinton, who led the nation through the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, urged Americans to rally behind President Bush in the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attacks."We should not be second-guessing. We should be supporting him," Clinton said in a telephone interview while traveling in Australia.Clinton, who left office in January after serving two terms, said he was stunned and angered by the attacks in New York and Washington."The most important thing is, we all have to be strong, calm good Americans now and ...