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Does anyone have information as to what caused the fourth terrorist flight to go down in Pennsylvania, obviously missing it's target? I know it was being tracked prior to the crash. Did we have to shoot it down?

Today is Pearl Harbor, The destruction of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon, the revelation to all the world that even the White House is vulnerable, should be a wake up call to Americans. This country is at war, and we are far behind in securing our citizens' safety and preparing for our defense. How was it possible to hijack 5 commercial airliners from major airports - one of them Dulles International - and to do so within a set time frame? How could obvious targets like the Pentagon and the World Trade Center Towers be so ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials have begun piecing together a case linking Osama bin Laden to the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. They're being aided by an intercept of communications between his supporters and harrowing cell phone calls from victims aboard the jetliners before they crashed on Tuesday. Law enforcement sources say that authorities are focusing some of their efforts on possible bin Laden supporters in Florida based on the identification of a suspected hijacker on one of the manifests of the four jets that crashed. The sources say that the FBI is preparing to search locations in Broward ...

Israel, India next? By Kesava Menon MANAMA (Bahrain), SEPT. 11. Israel has evacuated all diplomatic missions around the world fearing that the attacks in the U.S. might not mark the end of today's tragedies. The Palestinian Authority President, Mr. Yasser Arafat, has been amongst the first to issue a statement condemning the incident. There are stray reports of signs of celebration in the Arab world accompanied with statements to the effect that ``Israel and India should be next''.

not sure which..morgan stanley maybe?

Just reported on local news channel, WFTV Channel 9 in Orlando, that a car has been seized in Daytona Beach. Someone called the authorities after the attacks when they looked into the car and saw picture of Osama Bin Laden in one of front seats. Also, car had a sticker of the United Arabs (whatever that is), and the owner is said to have been a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University here in Central Florida. For those unfamiliar with Embry Riddle, it is one of the premier pilot training schools in the U.S. where pilots are trained to fly commercial ...

Government Faces Peril Squarely President Travels To Nebraska Bunker Vice President Remains In Washington Congressional Leaders Taken To Safety WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2001 AP President Bush: A day of travel (CBS) As the White House and other U.S. leaders try to put the pieces back together in Washington, they are doing everything possible to show that even an horrific attack like this could not destroy the government. President Bush arrived back at the White House just after 7 p.m., capping a long day of journeys that took him from Florida, where he was taking part in an education program, ...

Day Of Infamy Two Planes Slam Into Twin Towers; Both Later Collapse .Pentagon Ablaze After Massive Explosion Enormous Casualties Likely; U.S. Officials Suspect bin Laden NEW YORK, Sept, 11, 2001 CBS The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York collapsed Tuesday morning. (CBS) In the most devastating terrorist onslaught ever waged against the United States, hijackers crashed two commercial airliners into the World Trade Center on Tuesday, toppling its twin 110-story towers. The deadly calamity was witnessed on televisions across the world as another plane slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed outside Pittsburgh. Said ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 11 — President Bush assured the world tonight America would withstand the worst terrorist attacks the nation has ever suffered, and vowed to hunt down the perpetrators and "those who harbor them." Stern and somber, the president addressed the nation from the Oval Office on a day when hijacked planes were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia. A fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania. "The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush and congressional leaders sought to calm a shaken nation and show the government was functioning and determined after Tuesday's deadly terrorist attacks. From the Oval Office, Bush pledged to ``find those responsible and bring them to justice.'' As fires still smoldered at the Pentagon less than a mile away, Bush told the nation, ``Our way of life, our very freedom, came under attack'' when highjacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center in New York and severely damaged the Pentagon. Administration officials and members of Congress said early evidence pointed to suspected fugitive terrorist Osama ...

A private Web site has been set up so that survivors of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon can add their names to a list of people who are kn own to be safe. The Web site simply asks users to "check in here if you're alive in New York City or any other affected city." Go to survivors check in site - http://www.shunn.net/okay Another Web site contains a list of the businesses housed within the World Trade Center. Go to World Trade Center business tenant list

<p>NEW YORK — New York City remained in a state of shock throughout the day Tuesday after unprecedented terrorist attacks were waged on its famous twin World Trade Towers, the international symbols of American capitalism.</p> <p>Survivors and eyewitnesses tried to come to grips with what they saw and heard Tuesday, after terrorists crashed a pair of American Airlines and United Airlines jets into Towers One and Two at about 8:50 a.m. and 9:05 a.m., respectively.</p>

<p>Americans were reeling with horror and seething with anger Tuesday after knife-wielding terrorists hijacked four airliners and launched coordinated attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., crashing the passenger jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.</p> <p>In a day of infamy being compared to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, the Twin Towers of New York's landmark World Trade Center crashed to the ground about an hour after passenger airliners smashed into each of the 110-story buildings at 8:45 a.m. and 9:03 a.m. EDT.</p>

Bush Addresses Nation on Attacks By SANDRA SOBIERAJ .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Sept. 11) - A grim-faced President Bush mourned the deaths of thousands of Americans in Tuesday's atrocities and vowed to avenge their killings. ''Today, our nation saw evil,'' he said. In his first prime-time Oval Office address, Bush said the United States would find and punish ''those behind these evil acts,'' and any country that harbors them. Bush spoke from the Oval Office just hours after bouncing between Florida and air bases in Louisiana and Nebraska for security reasons. Fighter jets and decoy helicopters accompanied his evening ...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush responded Tuesday night to the events of a day of unfathomable death, destruction and heartbreak in America's centers of commerce and government by expressing the "steel" will of the United States to heal her deep wounds, and to administer justice to those responsible for carrying out the most shocking simultaneous acts of criminal violence in U.S. history.</p>

As the smoke clears from the skies of New York, Washington and western Pennsylvania, much remains unknown this morning regarding yesterday's terrorist attacks. But what is certain is that the American people will not succumb to terrorists -- and will not rest until justice is done to those responsible. As a free society, and one that is constantly renewed and strengthened by integrating individuals from all lands and cultures, America is particularly vulnerable to those who exploit our openness. The objective of such terrorists is to cause America to cower -- to withdraw from the world and to abandon our ...

President George W. Bush campaigned as a "compassionate conservative." I suggest that this situation calls for a man without compassion, and not conservative, but radical in his response. We have had a warlike attack launched against our nation, and I believe it requires a warlike response consistent with our position as the only world superpower. The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a clear example of a massive failure of intelligence. A decade later it there was another intelligence failure in Korea, where the North Koreans were able to mount a large attack on South Korea, and ...

<p>MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The FBI has obtained search warrants for homes and post office boxes in Florida in connection with Wednesday's terror attacks, a law enforcement source told CNN.</p> <p>The source said authorities were focusing on "South Florida ties to some of the people we're looking at."</p>

(September 12) - "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked... No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory... I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire." - US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, after the attack on Pearl Harbor We live today ...

WASHINGTON (AP) &#151; Attorney General John Ashcroft Tuesday asked that anyone with information about Tuesday's terrorist attacks contact the FBI via a Web site &#151; although that site was jammed within seconds of Ashcroft's announcement. The site, www.ifccfbi.gov, is run by the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, which is itself a joint venture of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. That site has received about 10,000 complaints about consumer fraud since its inception last year and was apparently unable to handle the crush of visitors Tuesday evening. Many news Web sites were also slowed or knocked offline ...