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Guiliani just reported that the van pulled over in NJ was NOT loaded with explosives.

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Please do not use your Cell phones in the NYC area except in extreme emergency we have folks trapped in the tower trying to use them to call for help your call may be tying up lines Please pray for there recovery

A Despicable Act My dear friends, I don't know how many of you are reading this, but I pray that you are all safe and beside your loved ones at this solemn hour. The despicable act of destruction and cowardice that was inflicted on my country, my city, my friends and my fellow citizens, is so abominable that it is beyond what I can express with mere words. All Americans at this hour and wherever they may be, are united in total outrage, anger and the desire for see swift and fierce justice brought to bear. America is a peace-loving ...

<p>Americans who woke up Tuesday in peace went to bed at night convinced their nation is at war. A USA TODAY/Gallup/CNN Poll taken Tuesday afternoon and evening showed: Eighty-six percent of those surveyed described the terrorist attacks as acts of war against the United States.</p>

(Washington, D.C.): Today's attacks against the United States are acts of war. The Nation must vigorously support President Bush in responding appropriately and forcefully. The following essay by the Center for Security Policy's President, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., which appeared today in National Review OnLine, offers specific suggestions concerning what such a response should entail. WAR COMES TO AMERICA by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. National Review Online, 11 September 2001 At this writing, the United States is under attack as never before in its history. Coordinated, murderous strikes have happened at several of the most visible public and private ...

I heard on CBS radio news a while ago that Congress will vote on new spending for the intelligence community. Has anyone else heard this?

In light of today's horrific events, wherein a group of highly-trained, highly-motivated terrorists apparently armed with knives and/or box cutters hijacked no fewer than four civilian airliners, I'd like to offer a proposal for your consideration. Is it time, in light of the state of our world today, for a new category of "concealed carry" licensing? Let's call it, for lack of better phraseology for the time being, CCW-ATQ (ATQ = "Air Travel Qualified"). What I envision is a category of armed citizens who are a subset of those with "CCW" licenses. They would undergo much additional training, akin to ...

Shortly before 8 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 leaves Boston for Los Angeles. 8:50 a.m.: Plane hits North Tower of World Trade Center. Clyde Ebanks, vice president of an insurance company, was at a meeting on the 103rd floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when his boss said, "Look at that!" 9 a.m.: Luigi Ribaudo -- who works nearby, in Tribeca -- heard a twin-engine plane making what he said was a strange noise. He looked up; he saw a plane that was "too low." "It was going to hit something and it hit and ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday recommended that all U.S. nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel facilities go to the highest level of security as a precautionary measure in response to devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ``While there has been no credible general or specific threats to any of these (power plant) facilities, the recommendation was considered prudent, given the acts of terrorism in New York City and in Washington, D.C.,'' the NRC said. Hijacked planes crashed into the major U.S. landmarks, destroying New York's twin towers and plunging the ...

On Fox News, one particular angle of a shot of the wreckage made me look like somehow a flag survived the destruction of the trade center. Am I looking at this wrong? Forgive me if I am wrong and forgive me for posting on breaking news if I am so wrong, but if I am not, I thought I would put it on here because this would be such an inspiring thing....the flag stands even when everything else falls. It reminds me of the War of 1812.

There is an obvious news blackout about the airliner down in Pennsylvania.There is speculation here on the left coast that the aircraft was identified as highjacked and brought down by US military aircraft after events earlier in the morning establihed a clear pattern.Any local reports or eyewitnesses to the crash?

Swirski: "each floor... by itself... is designed to be a hermetically sealed unit..." Swirski: "it's not 50,000, it's half a million people who work in those buildings" Swirski: "that building doesn't even have sprinklers." Swirski: "shut off ... vertical openings" Q: "Does that also mean that people couldn't travel from one floor to another?" "That's right. No, they couldn't"

In light of today's horrific events, wherein a group of highly-trained, highly-motivated terrorists apparently armed with knives and/or box cutters hijacked no fewer than four civilian airliners, I'd like to offer a proposal for your consideration. Is it time, in light of the state of our world today, for a new category of "concealed carry" licensing? Let's call it, for lack of better phraseology for the time being, CCW-ATQ (ATQ = "Air Travel Qualified"). What I envision is a category of armed citizens who are a subset of those with "CCW" licenses. They would undergo much additional training, akin to ...

September 12, 2001 THE BUILDINGS Believed to Be Safe, the Towers Proved Vulnerable to the Intense Heat of a Jet Fuel Fire By JAMES GLANZ The cause of the twin collapse yesterday of the World Trade Center towers in Downtown Manhattan was most likely the intense fire fed by thousands of gallons of jet fuel aboard the two jetliners that crashed into the buildings, experts on skyscraper design said. The high temperatures, of perhaps 1,000 to 2,000 degrees, probably weakened the steel supports, the experts said, causing the external walls to buckle and allowing the floors above to fall ...

[Editor's Note: In terms of size and scope, today's terrorist strikes in New York City and Washington are unprecedented in our nation's history. President Bush vowed that the United States "will hunt down and pursue those responsible for these cowardly actions." We certainly hope so, and we have every confidence that the Commander in Chief will defend American liberty at home and abroad. But this not the first time American lives have been lost at the hands of masked fanatics. Five years ago, agents of Osama Bin Ladin's terrorist organization attacked a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia, killing five ...

Oft times I wonder how it is that some people do the things they do. Here we have the most serious and deadly attack on the US in its history with the largest single day/action loss of life and what do the gas vendors do? Raise prices on fuel. Not a single refinery hit, not a single supply line cut, but just because brokers for fuel and oil worked in the target they feel its time to multiply the price of gas per gallon by 5. They only add to the hysteria. This will cause a glut if anything. I ...

Diplomats, Politicians Urge Bush to Retaliate by Michael Carney WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush faced growing calls on Tuesday for revenge after a series of apparent terrorist attacks downed New York's once-mighty World Trade Center twin towers and destroyed part of the Pentagon in suburban Washington.With thousands feared dead after hijacked planes crashed into the landmark symbols of financial and military power, lawmakers and diplomats demanded forceful action against those responsible for the worst attack on the U.S. mainland in modern history.Republicans and Democrats rallied around the flag in the hours after the attacks, tempering criticism of the U.S. ...

In light of today's horrific events, wherein a group of highly-trained, highly-motivated terrorists apparently armed with knives and/or box cutters hijacked no fewer than four civilian airliners, I'd like to offer a proposal for your consideration. Is it time, in light of the state of our world today, for a new category of "concealed carry" licensing? Let's call it, for lack of better phraseology for the time being, CCW-ATQ (ATQ = "Air Travel Qualified"). What I envision is a category of armed citizens who are a subset of those with "CCW" licenses. They would undergo much additional training, akin to ...