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  • City begins massive rescue effort as volunteers seek to help

    09/11/2001 3:52:16 PM PDT · by sarcasm · 7 replies · 37+ views
    AP via Boston Globe ^ | September 11, 2001 | Helen O'Neill
    <p>NEW YORK - After the initial horror, after the nightmarish scenes of people on fire jumping from buildings, the city braced itself for more pain: digging through the rubble for the dead and the injured.</p> <p>The downtown area was quickly cordoned off as hundreds of volunteers and medical workers converged on triage centers, offering services and blood.</p>
  • No Word on ArabNews.com on WTC attack

    09/11/2001 3:33:48 PM PDT · by Kermit · 14 replies · 52+ views
    ArabNews.com ^ | 11 September 2001 | staff
    Today's Headlines: '); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); //--> Daily Edition&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;Tuesday, September 11, 2001 &nbsp;&nbsp; More Headlines &nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday's Edition &nbsp;Category Politics | Business and Economics | Local &nbsp;Country News Algeria | Bahrain | Comoros | Djibouti | Egypt | Iraq | Jordan | Kuwait | Lebanon | Libya | Mauritania | Morocco | Oman | Palestine | Qatar | Syria | Saudi Arabia | Somalia | Sudan | Tunisia | United Arab Emirates | Yemen &nbsp;Search News Calendar &nbsp;Resources Weather Food &amp; Recipies Book Store Science and Technology Phone Codes Currency Exchange Travel Alerts, Visa Info Country Information ...
  • Defense Dept: THE USA HAS *NOT* BOMBED KABUL AFGHANISTAN

    09/11/2001 3:33:08 PM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 61 replies · 234+ views
    Brit Hume just stated.
  • QUESTION...WHY WERE ALL FOUR AIRLINERS VIRTUALLY EMPTY?

    09/11/2001 3:19:07 PM PDT · by JohnnLee · 122+ views
    9-11-01 | SELF
    I have a question that I haven't seen addressed yet, and pardon me for donning my tinfoil hat, buuuuutttt..........Considering high fuel prices, interminable service delays at airports, why, WHY were four transcontinental commercial passenger aircraft flying virtually empty? Each were reported to have capacities of an excess of 250.......None had even half the seats filled! The flight from Newark had only 38 passengers on board.Pardon me, but most transcontinental flights would be cancelled under these circumstances, wouldn't they? Can anyone come up with answeres to this question?
  • Very Dangerous Situation

    09/11/2001 3:13:32 PM PDT · by tim_h · 1 replies · 145+ views
    I was in Midtown during the strike. It's a peculiar feeling when you see the familiar world come crushing down around you. I can still hardly believe it happened. Those were two enormous buildings, which took years to build. It took a few minutes to destroy them and kill thousands of people. Here's what I think. America has been at war with many countries, e.g. Iraq, the Palestinians, the former Yugoslavia, and so on. For example, Israel and the Arabs don't like each other. In fact, they are at war. Since we support Israel, the Arabs figure they are at ...
  • Islamic Terrorist Leader Taught At Florida University!!!

    09/11/2001 3:08:35 PM PDT · by MindBender26 · 9 replies · 228+ views
    Chicago Jewish Paper | Nov 3, 1995
    Chicago, Il, November 3,1995 ...The new leader of an Islamic terrorist organization ran an Islamic studies think tank at the University of South Florida (USF) about which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) had raised serious concerns with university officials. Ramadan Abdallah became the leader of Islamic Jihad for Palestine, a known terrorist group that has taken responsibility for the killing of dozens of Israelis, after the assassination in Malta of Fathi Shikaki. Mr. Abdallah was the Administrative Director of the World Islam and Studies Enterprise (WISE), a think tank of the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP). ADL has been monitoring the ...
  • Passenger (Barbara Olson) phoned husband moments before Pentagon crash

    09/11/2001 3:08:02 PM PDT · by Geronimo · 147 replies · 617+ views
    PA/ananova ^ | Sept 11, 2001
    A passenger managed to reach her husband on her mobile phone moments before American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara Olson, a commentator for CNN and wife of US Solicitor General Theodore Olson, was one of 58 passengers on the Boeing 757. They had been herded to the back of the plane along with the four flight attendants and two pilots. In two brief and furtive conversations with her husband, Olson, 46, gave a few details about the plane's hijackers, CNN reported. She mentioned that there was more than one, but the only weapons she described were knives ...
  • Wash. Post issues late edition, lead editorial: "WAR"

    09/11/2001 3:07:38 PM PDT · by Dems_R_Losers · 74 replies · 297+ views
    Washington Post ^ | September 11, 2001 | various
    The Washington Post has just put out a rare late special edition on today's events with a huge horrible picture of the second plane headed for the Trade Center tower while the other one burned. Excerpts: Front page story on Pentagon attack titled 'This is on the Scale of Pearl Harbor'... Lead editorial titled simply, "WAR"..."It has been 60 years since the U,S. homeland sustained an aggression of this magnitude. The country responded then without panic but with an iron determination to defend itself and punish the aggressors. the response today must be as decisive - to the mass murderes ...
  • Reported plane crash in Dayton

    09/11/2001 3:05:59 PM PDT · by katze · 49 replies · 375+ views
    CBS local news | 11 Sep '01
    We just heard of a plane crash in Dayton. I was outside with neighbors, we heard this very loud boom, from the direction of Wright-Patterson AFB, about 10 mi from my home. I came home, turned on local TV, the local CBS said there is an "unconfirmed" report of a plane crash near the VA Medicl Center. The camera showed a huge cloud of smoke. This is all I know for now.
  • Multiple explosions in Kabul Afghanistan

    09/11/2001 3:01:15 PM PDT · by McGruff · 159 replies · 241+ views
    We strike back!
  • Arab Street Cheers, Govts Lament U.S. Attacks

    09/11/2001 2:59:16 PM PDT · by Thinkin' Gal · 115 replies · 339+ views
    Yahoo ^ | Tuesday September 11 4:04 PM ET | By Joseph Logan
    Tuesday September 11 4:04 PM ET Arab Street Cheers, Govts Lament U.S. Attacks Photos Reuters Photo &nbsp; By Joseph Logan BEIRUT (Reuters) - Arab leaders voiced shock and horror at devastating attacks that leveled symbols of American power on Tuesday, but a chorus of cheers rose from streets that resent U.S. backing of Israel. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (news - web sites), Washington's key Arab ally, called the plane attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and left the Pentagon (news - web sites) in flames ``horrific beyond imagination.'' Ordinary Egyptians, however, felt otherwise. ``Do you want to hear my ...
  • Chaotic Scene Unfolds on Television (major gag alert)

    09/11/2001 2:57:04 PM PDT · by Utah Girl · 1 replies · 56+ views
    AP ^ | 9/11/2001 | DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
    Television became a national gathering place on a terror-filled Tuesday, replaying unimaginable scenes of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center and its skyscrapers collapsing. Newspapers rushed out special editions. Many headlines said simply: ``TERROR.'' When the first of two planes hit the Manhattan landmark shortly before 9 a.m., it set in motion an extraordinary effort by the media to tell the story. Catastrophes unfolded as fast as television could detail them: a plane plunging into the Pentagon, a crash in Pennsylvania, buildings evacuated across the country. Commentators tried to keep calm. ``This is the most serious attack on ...
  • A Date which will live in Infamy

    09/11/2001 2:53:57 PM PDT · by Chuckmorse · 2 replies · 29+ views
    Chuckmorse.com ^ | Sept. 11, 2001 | Chuck Morse
    A Date which will live in Infamy Sept. 11, 2001, a date which will live in infamy, a demonic force suddenly and deliberately attacked the government and people of the United States. For the first time since the British attacked Washington and Baltimore in the War of 1812, a foreign enemy has directly assaulted the mainland of our Republic. Every one reading this is a survivor today. I, personally, was considering a flight from Boston to New York City this morning for a business meeting but had changed my mind. A passenger flight from Boston was one of those that ...
  • I've seen no reports regarding the Pentagon. What is the toll, the facts?

    09/11/2001 2:51:37 PM PDT · by xzins · 39+ views
    Sep11, 01 | xzins
    The only thing I've heard is that it was possibly the Army wing that was hit. I've also heard that the jet Barbara Olsen was on was the one that hit the 5Gon. Is there a death toll? Any other facts?
  • President Bush to Address Nation at 9:00pm Est...

    09/11/2001 2:48:24 PM PDT · by RCW2001 · 14 replies · 189+ views
    CNN Live
    President Bush to Address Nation at 9:00pm Est...
  • A letter to my nephew

    09/11/2001 2:47:32 PM PDT · by VA Voter · 45+ views
    self | 9/11/01 | self
    Rhys, Our future as a country as we know it is being threatened today. Nothing will ever be the same. There is nothing more important than the survival of America. Nothing. A lot of our freedoms have been threatened internally but now is the time to hope and pray that our leaders will set aside partisan wrangling and do the right thing. There must be terrible and swift retribution against the perpetrators of these acts and the countries that harbored them. Nothing less will satisfy the image of our weakness in the world. A weakness that threatens our very existence. ...
  • Expert testifies Islamic terrorists flocking to U.S.

    09/11/2001 2:43:38 PM PDT · by Lex · 46 replies · 569+ views
    World Tribune | Jan. 31, 2000 (REMEMBER WHEN....)
    Expert testifies Islamic terrorists flocking to U.S. SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, January 31, 2000 WASHINGTON -- The United States and Canada have become havens for Islamic terrorists from the Middle East, a congressional panel has been told. Despite counterterrorism legislation, the United States and Canada have become a haven for such terrorist groups as the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Lebanese Hizbullah, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, the Egyptian Al Gamat Al Islamiya and the Al Qaida group, led by Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden. Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson cited the liberal climate in the United States, ...
  • Sep 11, 2001, the SECOND bloodiest day in America (Behind the Battle of Antietam, 1863, 25k+ killed)

    09/11/2001 2:40:22 PM PDT · by DCBryan1 · 28 replies · 803+ views
    Fox News ^ | 11 SEP 01 - the SECOND bloodiest day in America | dcbryan1
    Fox News was just on live with NYC official, and they expect 10k+ in fatalities. This exceeds the bloodiest day in American History, the Battle of Antietam in 1863 during the American Civil War in which there were over 25,000 killed and three times as many wounded. I think the D-Day invasion and Pearl Harbor, Tarawa, and Iwo Jima top off the next deadliest days in America...This is a horrible day in America...but as always, we will prevail.
  • FReeoples EMERGENCY THREAD // Thread 167

    09/11/2001 2:40:15 PM PDT · by tomkat · 120 replies · 385+ views
    WOULD ALL WHO CARE TO PLEASE JOIN ALL US FReeoples PRAY - COMMISERATE - RAGE - COMFORT ONE ANOTHER LET US GATHER STRENGTH TOGETHER
  • A letter to my nephew

    09/11/2001 2:35:28 PM PDT · by VA Voter · 6+ views
    Rhys, Our future as a country as we know it is being threatened today. Nothing will ever be the same. There is nothing more important than the survival of America. Nothing. A lot of our freedoms have been threatened internally but now is the time to hope and pray that our leaders will set aside partisan wrangling and do the right thing. There must be terrible and swift retribution against the perpetrators of these acts and the countries that harbored them. Nothing less will satisfy the image of our weakness in the world. A weakness that threatens our very existence. ...