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This is not crime. This is war. One of the reasons there are terrorists out there capable and audacious enough to carry out the deadliest attack on the United States in its history is that, while they have declared war on us, we have in the past responded (with the exception of a few useless cruise missile attacks on empty tents in the desert) by issuing subpoenas. Secretary of State Colin Powell's first reaction to the day of infamy was to pledge to "bring those responsible to justice." This is exactly wrong. Franklin Roosevelt did not respond to Pearl Harbor ...

I work just across the Potomac River from the Pentagon, in Southwest Washington, D.C. Like alot of us, I watched in awe as the the World Trade Center towers in New York City were destroyed this morning in a bizarre terrorist attack involving two passengers jets crashing into the twin towers.Around 9:30 a.m., someone in my office received a call from a friend of his who told him a plane had just crashed into the Pentagon. This wasn't being reported on the news, so I ran outside to see what I could see. Sure enough, dark smoke was rapidly rising ...

From Manhattan's Jewel To Rubble World Trade Center Built As Urban Renewal Project First Building Completed 1970; Twin Towers In 1976 50,000 Worked In Complex, 90,000 Visitors Each Day NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2001 AP (AP) The postcard-perfect grandeur of Manhattan's skyline was forever scarred Tuesday when terrorists reduced the city's two tallest buildings to rubble. Since their completion in the mid-1970s, the 110-story glass-and-steel twin towers of the World Trade Center had appeared to float like mirages above lower Manhattan, their peaks at times obscured by clouds. It may in fact have been their grandeur that led to ...

Press Briefing to the Pool By Ari Fleischer Aboard Air Force One 1:47 P.M. EDT      MR. FLEISCHER:  While on the ground at Barksdal, the President spoke to the Vice President several times ? the Vice President, of course, being at the operations center at the White House.      He spoke with the Secretary of Defense; he spoke to Senator Schumer; he had spoken to his wife prior to landing in Louisiana.      Q    Do you know where she is?      MR. FLEISCHER:  She's at a secure facility.      Q    And his daughters?      MR. FLEISCHER:  They're also at a secure location.      Q    Are they ...

Coast-To-Coast Alert All U.S. Air Traffic Halted; U.S. Military Bases On Alert Government Buildings Evacuated; Tourist Sites Closed Financial Markets Suspend Trading; Baseball Schedule Postponed CHICAGO, Sept. 11, 2001 AP Trying to get out from downtown Chicago after word of the attacks. (CBS) Authorities went on alert from coast to coast Tuesday, halting all air traffic, evacuating high-profile buildings and tightening security at strategic facilities following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Many federal and state office buildings were closed, as well as prominent tourist attractions — Disney World in Florida, Seattle's Space Needle, the ...

Timeline: Attack On America First Trouble Reported at 8:45 a.m. ET Twin Towers Collapse Before 10:30 a.m. ET Third WTC Building Falls Late Afternoon September 11, 2001 CBS (AP) A timeline of the attacks in the United States on Tuesday (times EDT), according to witnesses, authorities and media reports: 8:45 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, carrying 92 people from Boston to Los Angeles, crashes into north tower of World Trade Center. 9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, carrying 65 people from Boston to Los Angeles, crashes into south tower of World Trade Center. 9:31 a.m. President Bush calls the ...

American blood was spilled on American soil by a foreign entity.An unspeakable atrocity has been committed against the people of the United States.An act of war was declared on our freedoms from what has always been a clear and present danger.This struck at the very fabric of our existence and has shaken us from apathy.The perpetrators of this heinous act are celebrating a victory in their iniquitous dens while we are recovering our as yet unknown,unmourned dead.Our lives as we knew them will forever be dramatically changed.It is a time now to not only remain calm but also remain vigilant ...

It's 'More Than Any Of Us Can Bear' No Death Estimate For Days, Mayor Says New York City Grinds To A Halt Hospitals Working At Frantic Pace NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2001 AP Lisa Bianco, left, comforts two others near the World Trade Center after Tuesday's terrorist attack. (CBS) The World Trade Center catastrophe absorbed all of New York's fabled energy on Tuesday. In an instant, it became the only thing that mattered. Downtown, the Wall Street area was devoid of its usual hustle of pinstripes and briefcases. In their place were ambulances, police cars and school buses filled ...

N E W Y O R K, Sept. 11 — American installations around the world stepped up their security measures, and military forces re-deployed in the wake of today's wave of terrorist attacks on targets around the nation. Four passenger planes were apparently hijacked today in acts of terrorism. Two crashed into the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center, and one crashed into the Pentagon outside the nation's capital. The last aircraft crashed in western Pennsylvania. The aircraft carriers USS George Washington and the USS John F. Kennedy left their ports today, headed for the coast ...

Sept. 11 — U.S. government officials say they have not yet identified any groups or persons responsible for the terrorist attacks today, and experts say it could take a great deal of time and effort to determine who might have been involved. But intelligence analysts suggest the apparently coordinated attacks — against the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon outside Washington, and the downing of a jet in Pennsylvania — have the mark of Osama bin Laden's network al Qaeda. "You would think it would have to be bin Laden behind it, because who else would have ...

WASHINGTON If you called yesterday afternoon to the White House switchboard, that famously efficient Washington institution, you would hear a brief recording saying to hold for an operator and then the line would go dead. For many hours, the most eerie thing about the American capital, under attack for the first time since the British burned the White House in the War of 1812, was the stillness at the center of the city. New York was a clamorous inferno of pain, confusion and fear, with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the scene in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers ...

Friend working at CNN in Atlanta just informed me that CNN is about to roll footage of the first attack on the World Trade Center.

Sept. 11 — A United Airlines flight believed to have been hijacked crashed today southeast of Pittsburgh, presumably killing all 45 passengers and crew. United Airlines Flight 93 was headed from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, before crashing at around 10:20 a.m. ET near the small Somerset County airport, about 8 miles from Jennerstown. Officials involved in the rescue operation have said it does not appear there are any survivors. Government sources told ABCNEWS that during the flight, a passenger called 911 from a cell phone to report that the plane had been hijacked. According to The Associated Press, ...

Sept. 11 — In the worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil, hijackers crashed passenger planes into the World Trade Center in New York City, toppling the 110-story twin towers, killing all aboard the jets and an unknown number on the ground. Another passenger plane was crashed into the Pentagon outside Washington, leaving a gaping gash in the nation's hub of military power, killing all on board the plane and more on the ground. Within the hour, a fourth airliner went down near Pittsburgh, killing everyone aboard. There were no immediate details available on casualties, but thousands of people ...

The '45 Empire State Building crash is oft studied in architectural and structural engineering to learn why the building withstood the hit. The plane was a B-24, I believe, but in any case a much smaller craft than the ones which hit the WTC and the Pentagon. The '45 plane's engines did penetrate the building, shooting out the far side and falling to the ground and killing passersby, but most of the plane remained inside the structure for it was made of far more fragile materials than a building. A relative small amount of damage was done to the structure ...

Osama bin Laden's organization , Al Qaida, is the prime suspect in the spate of attacks against the United States. Based in Afghanistan, the group has been linked to a series of attacks on U.S. assets around the world and has repeatedly threatened to strike the United States within its own borders. An umbrella organization with an operational reach that stretches around the globe, Al-Qaida has been extremely successful at maintaining a high level of security and secrecy. Despite the intelligence efforts of several world powers, bin Laden's organization has continued to support or facilitate acts of international terrorism. ...

<p>The Animal Liberation Front receives e-mail from an activist claiming responsibility for the weekend blaze at the McDonald's on Campbell.</p> <p>The FBI is investigating the blaze.</p> <p>An animal rights activist is claiming responsibility for setting the fire that destroyed a Campbell Avenue McDonald's restaurant early Saturday.</p>

<p>Staff in the Los Angeles office of Cantor Fitzgerald LP listened via telephone Tuesday as chaos unfolded in its New York office minutes after the first plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, according to a person who spoke with the Los Angeles office early Tuesday.</p>

CNN just had a rolling text on the bottom of the screen that said the Fed's had recieved a search warrant for a location in South Florida. Anyone have more info?

<p>Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.</p> <p>The victims were in airplanes or in their offices -- secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers. Moms and dads. Friends and neighbors.</p>