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<p>NORFOLK, Va. — Navy installations along the East Coast tightened security Tuesday to the highest levels after terrorist planes crashed into the World Trade Center and explosions rocked the Pentagon and State Department. ''We have been attacked like we haven't since Pearl Harbor,'' Adm. Robert J. Natter said at a news conference at the Norfolk Navy base. Natter, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, sent Navy ships to the New York and Washington, D.C., areas to assist with air defense and medical needs. Aircraft carriers USS John F. Kennedy and Norfolk-based USS George Washington were headed to New York, said Atlantic Fleet spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Mark McDonald. The Mayport, Fla.-based JFK has 80 aircraft, including F-18s and F-14s.</p>

Sept. 11 — On Tuesday four airliners were turned into deadly weapons. There is a nationwide hold on all commercial flights, the first ever in history, until at least midday Wednesday, maybe longer. And there are some chilling details of what may have been going on the cockpit. THE string of events that resulted in four horrific crashes, began at Boston’s Logan Airport at 7:45 a.m. American flight 11, a 767 with 92 on board is supposed to fly from Boston to Los Angeles, but over New York state it was diverted and forced to fly south — directly ...

Disaster At The Pentagon Aircraft Crashes Into Defense Headquarters In Washington Sources Say 100 People Killed Or Wounded In Attack Defense Secretary Says Pentagon Is Functioning WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2001 CBS Fire burning at the Pentagon. (CBS) A hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon on Tuesday, setting off a massive fire and sending the nation's capital into shock. President Bush ordered the military to "high-alert status," and vowed to "hunt down and punish those responsible" for the attacks in Washington and New York, where the World Trade Center was devastated with a heavy loss of life. The top leaders ...

<p>Results are based on telephone interviews with - 407 - National Adults, aged 18+, conducted September 11, 2001. For results based on the total sample of National Adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points. Polls conducted entirely in one day, such as this one, are subject to additional error or bias not found in polls conducted over several days.</p>

ISLAMABAD : The ruling Taliban authorities in Afghanistan while strongly condemning loss of life and destruction caused by a series of unprecedented act of terrorism on Tuesday in New York and Washington warned the Bush administration that any attack on Afghanistan will be a big mistake. Afghan envoy to Pakistan Maulvi Abdus Salaam Zaeef addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday night said " the incident which took now in Washington and New York and which caused destruction and killings we strongly condemn it and investigation should be carried against those to brought them to justice". In reply ...

<p>WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have begun examining airport security camera tapes, airline voice recorders and passenger lists as part of what they say will be the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history to determine who was behind Tuesday's terrorist attacks. "Think of it as several Oklahoma City bombings wrapped up in one," says former FBI deputy director William Esposito, who investigated the 1995 federal building bombing which killed 168 people. Besides trying to determine who carried out the attacks on the Word Trade Center and the Pentagon, the investigation will focus on why U.S. intelligence agencies failed to detect such well-orchestrated acts of terrorism. The probe also will take a look at the Federal Aviation Administration, which law enforcement sources said did not alert authorities as two passenger jets veered off course and closed in on the Trade Center's towers.</p>

Poll: Americans Fear More Attacks By Analysis by Gary Langer ABCNEWS.com Poll: Americans Back Reprisals for Terror Through the shock of today's devastating terror attacks, four sentiments loom large in American public opinion: prayers for the victims, fears for the future, faith in U.S. efforts to find those responsible - and vast support for reprisals. The sense of shared risk is palpable, an ABCNEWS/ Washington Post poll found. Nearly nine in 10 Americans say they're worried about the possibility of more major terrorist attacks in this country. Half say they're very worried about it. And nearly half worry that they ...

THE MOST OBSCENE COMMENT YET: Ignoring Peter Jennings' constant reiteration of the reasons for Muslim and Arab hatred for the West, the following passage from today's Slate is the first time I've actually felt revulsion at anyone's reaction to the horror of September 11. Here is John Lahr's attempt to insinuate that the United States was responsible: "We still don't really know who killed Kennedy or Martin Luther King; it took us a long time to find out the hidden agenda to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Gulf of Tonkin "incident," which tipped us into Vietnam and a war ...

<p>President Bush, addressing the nation last night, promised to commit the full resources of intelligence and law enforcement to punish the masterminds of yesterday's "evil, despicable acts of terror."</p> <p>"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed those attacks and those who harbor them," Mr. Bush said.</p>

Musharraf, Bin Laden and the Lashkar Contrary to Pakistan's assesrtions, the military regime in that country is deeply involved with Islamist international terrorist networks including the one run by Osama bin Laden The report on the Patterns of Global Terrorism during 2000 released by the Counter-Terrorism Division of the US State Department in April had made detailed references to Pakistan and the Taliban and to the activities of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET). It had also, for the first time, identified the HUM as a member of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the US ...

<p>The two airplanes that smashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers may have destabilized them, but a deadly combination of fire, energy shifts and gravity brought down the skyscrapers, one of the nation's leading experts in demolition said yesterday.</p>

<p>Terror struck the Capitol yesterday, even though a hijacked plane did not.</p> <p>On television monitors across Capitol Hill, lawmakers and staffers were watching the horrifying scenes at the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center unfold around 9:30 a.m. when reports began to circulate that a plane commandeered by terrorists was headed for the Capitol.</p>

Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who is accused of masterminding the 1998 bomb attack on the US embassy in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, has denied that he is behind Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Bin Laden contacted a Pakistani newspaper on Wednesday to say that he supported the attack, but was not involved, reported the BBC. The denial will no doubt be welcomed by the Taliban government in Afghanistan, who have been sheltering bin Laden. They have denied that bin Laden is capable of launching such a complex operation. However, US officials had ...

BOSTON (AP) &#151; Stephen Lynch, a conservative former ironworker from a working-class Boston neighborhood, won the Democratic primary Tuesday and advanced to a special election next month in which he will likely be the favorite to replace the late Rep. Joe Moakley. Lynch, 46, will face veteran state Sen. JoAnn Sprague in the Oct. 16 special election in the heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District. Sprague, 69, easily defeated banker William McKinney for the Republican nomination. The winner will serve the remaining year of Moakley's term. Moakley, a Democrat who held the seat for three decades, died in May after ...

<p>By Mark Helprin, a novelist and a contributing editor of the Journal.</p> <p>America, it is said, is slow to awaken, and indeed it is, but once America stirs, its resolution can be matchless and its ferocity a stunning surprise.</p> <p>The enemy we face today, though barbaric and ingenious, is hardly comparable to the masters of the Third Reich, whose doubts about our ability to persevere we chose to dissuade in a Berlin that we had reduced to rubble. Nor is he comparable to the commanders of the Japanese Empire, whose doubts about our ability to persevere we chose to dissuade in a Tokyo we had reduced to rubble. Nor to the Soviet Empire that we faced down patiently over half a century, nor to the great British Empire from which we broke free in a long and taxing struggle that affords a better picture of our kith and kin than any the world may have today of who we are and of what we are capable.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) &#151; For all its technological prowess and military might, the United States didn't see this coming. None of the vaunted intelligence tools at the nation's disposal gave any warning of the coming nightmare &#151; a massively coordinated effort to hijack and crash at least four airliners at the same time. U.S. officials confirmed they had no reports that such attacks were imminent. Not from the CIA's networks of spies and informants. Not from the FBI's many counterterrorism agents. Not from the National Security Agency's telephone and computer taps. Not from the military's satellites or spy planes. ``If ...

Just watching ABC News now...their correspondent in Seattle just said that the airlines are discussing with the FAA the possibility of federalizing airport security nationwide. The reasoning is that since airport security has now become a national security matter, the federal government should take over, placing armed, uniformed officers at airports nationwide. I dunno. Maybe I could get behind this. Snidely

BOSTON (AP) &#151; Investigators descended on Logan International Airport on Tuesday, trying to determine how terrorists commandeered two nearly identical jets that took off moments apart and then crashed them into New York City's World Trade Center. Authorities said they received no unusual communications from American Flight 11, which left Boston at 7:59 a.m. with 92 people aboard or from United Flight 175, which left 15 minutes later, with 65 people. The 767s were both bound for Los Angeles. ``Everything seemed normal when they left Logan,'' said Joseph Lawless, public safety director of the Massachusetts Port Authority. ``We don't ...

Islamic Jihad and the United States The Jihadists in Pakistan have spread their influence all over the globe - even the United States is not immune. The startling part is that Pakistan''s secret service, the ISI, is deeply involved with the key Jihadist organisations and have helped set up such organisations in the United States. The New York Times reported on October 20,2000, that Ali Mohammed, 48, an ex-US Army Sergeant of Egyptian origin pleaded guilty before an US District Judge to a charge of plotting with Osama bin Laden to kill Americans anywhere in the world.

President Bush crisscrossed the country under tight security and near total secrecy on Tuesday as the White House scrambled to protect him after the attacks that destroyed the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and left the Pentagon in flames.Flying at times with a fighter at each wingtip, Bush's Air Force One aircraft took him from Florida to Air Force bases in Louisiana and Nebraska and on to Washington as the government tried to keep him safe using combat troops, an armored vehicle, an underground bunker and, above all, the element of surprise.Bush learned of the first aircraft ...