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Terror for all: The day that changed the modern world By The Editors The United States, its allies and the civilised world are at war today against an enemy which, while undeclared, is as well organised and as ruthless as any that a modern state has confronted. Four aircraft, simultaneously hijacked and deployed in suicide attacks, have been used to kill thousands of civilians, to destroy two of America’s best known landmarks, to wreck the Pentagon, force the evacuation of the White House and bring the normal business of government to a halt. New Yorkers suffered an urban avalanche; the ...

We may be too quick to point fingers at the airline industry for lapses in security at large airports. If initial reports are accurate, as they no doubt are, hijackers took airplanes by force with knives. Plastic knives could easily have been smuggled past metal detectors. Disturbingly, a simple search for "plastic knives" online yields a number of hits, including THESE.

More than 200 firefighters feared dead in Trade Center attack Please pray for the firefighters loved ones.

The Times of India ">TODAY'S EDITORIALSTarget: Humanity he scenes of devastation were truly horrific. Huge swelling clouds of smoke, towering buildings collapsing, screams and sirens renting the air, as piercing as shrapnel. It could have been Kosovo, Beirut, or the West Bank. But in fact, it was New York City and Washington DC, the very heart of the fortress of democracy, now sought to be made even more impregnable by the Bush administration-proposed National Missile Defence. The loss in both material and human terms is collosal and will take months, if not years, to fully compute, let alone for ...

The Declining Terrorist Threat By Larry C. Johnson July 10, 2001 WASHINGTON - Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism. None of these beliefs are based in fact. While many crimes are committed ...

Some of those killed on flights commandeered by terrorists Tuesday: BARBARA OLSON, 45, was the wife of U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson. She was aboard American Flight 77 from Dulles International Airport when it crashed into the Pentagon. She twice called her husband as the plane was being hijacked and described some details, including that the attackers were using knife-like instruments. Barbara Olson was a chief investigator for the House Government Reform Committee in the mid-1990s. She later became a lawyer on the staff of Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles, before branching out on her own as a TV ...

War to the death between America and Islamic terrorists By Daniel Johnson ALL we can do is to pray for the victims. As I write, we can only guess at casualties, but their number is evidently legion. The scale of the catastrophe was already clear to anybody watching the almost surreal pictures of the World Trade Centre reduced to an inferno, of the Pentagon in flames, of Manhattan wreathed in smoke, the Statue of Liberty rising above the billowing clouds like St Paul's in the Blitz. The destruction wrought by Islamic terrorists in New York and Washington constitutes a declaration ...

REV 18:1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. 2 With a mighty voice he shouted: "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. REV 18:3 For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries." REV 18:4 Then I heard another ...

I hope this gets through. The Catholic cardinal of LosAngeles asks that we put a candle in our front window to signify our unity in Faith. I will have my wife do that tonight. I think that is a great idea. Let's show the cowars that we still have Faith. That we still believe in freedom. That we still are the greatest nation on Earth! Freep some candles out there!!!!!

Far from the smoke and rubble, Americans everywhere reeled from the blow of Tuesday's terrorism. Then, as the shock subsided, anger flooded in. "We will respond," vowed Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. "America's been attacked. Those who attacked us will pay a price." "I feel like going to war again. No mercy," said Felix Novelli of New York, a World War II veteran who served aboard the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier. "We have to come together like '41, go after them." For many citizens, from homemakers to lawmakers, the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington were a devastating bolt from ...

While watching news I heard jet engines. Knowing that all aircraft were grounded, I went outside to hear and then see an F14 buzz a cessna 152/172 flying over North Seattle. Impressive sight, that I never thought that I would see in American airspace.

Special to _The Libertarian Enterprise_ Please copy and send at will, with proper credit Professor John Lott wrote a book a few years ago, called _More Guns Mean Less Crime_, in which he said things -- the mere title was enough -- that still have the victim disarmament crowd screaming and weeping. Today, after horrifying attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we can now safely observe that no guns mean the ultimate crime. When I started writing my first novel, _The Probability Broach_, in 1977, I was just back from a national Libertarian Party convention where I ...

George Bush- "We will make no distinction between those who have committed the act and those who have supported them." As I have seen posted here several times tonight, "No Arab will sleep tonight" IT WILL SOON BE ASS KICKIN' TIME

The Guild is our safe harbor in this terrible storm. Thread One

Fellow Freepers in JapanCivilian employees of the U.S. bases as well as all non-essential personnnel of the U.S. Embassy have been told to stay home. All U.S. bases in Japan are at a very high state of alert.The U.S. Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes on Sunday issued a strong warning to all military and civilian personnel in Japan that terrorist attacks were likely in Japan and Korea. If I can download a copy of that story from the web, I will post it later on this thread.Please review your security precautions. Gather your family and fellow citizens and make sure ...

Sorry for the vanity, but I have a friend who is in Toronto. She really wants to drive home via car but is not sure if the border is open. Can anyone tell me if it is or not?

>>>>> The World Trade Center today became the richest real estate prize in New York City history as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reached agreement with a major New York City developer and an international shopping center operator on a long-term lease of the famous Twin Towers and other properties at the World Trade Center. Silverstein Properties, Inc., and Westfield America, Inc. have agreed to a net lease transaction for a term of 99 years, worth an estimated $3.2 billion on a present value basis. The net lease covers four buildings at the World Trade Center, ...

>b>Rumsfeld Predicted More Attacks By Robert Burns Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001; 6:49 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON –– Inside the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had just raced to his office after hearing of the World Trade Center attack. On a house porch a little more than a mile away, Ralph Banton, 79, was enjoying a crystal-clear morning. Rumsfeld was in his office when the aircraft hit on the opposite side of the building. He had just run there after hearing of the Trade Center attack while at a meeting on missile defense in his private dining room. ...

THE pilots of the four hijacked aircraft were probably murdered before their planes were diverted on their devastating suicide missions, terrorism experts speculated. No fewer than 30 highly-trained renegades - some 'graduates' of a secret school of terrorism - would have been involved in the extraordinarily well synchronised series of deadly attacks. As experts pieced together their audacious operation, it was clear that no pilot would have steered their plane into a building packed with people. Instead, it is possible they were shot dead in the cockpit and their seats taken by terrorists with at least a rudimentary ability ...

Tuesday, 11 September, 2001, 17:58 GMT 18:58 UK Tories suspend leadership contest The Conservatives have put off announcing who has won the ballot to be the next Tory leader until Thursday. Outgoing leader William Hague said the move was a mark of respect to those killed in the devastating terrorist attacks which hit the US on Tuesday. Speaking outside Conservative Central Office, Mr Hague said the plane attacks on the World Trade building in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington, DC, were a "monstrous act of war against the civilised world". He said: "In the light of these ...