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I heard a jet flying overhead around midnight here in the LA area, east of LA, south of Pasadena. I went outside to see but there are puffy white clouds and I couldn't see it but followed the sound as it headed toward LA (west). This is weird because normally there are a lot of jets that will fly by. When I heard this one I realized how silent it had been. No air traffic at all. It is eery and spooky. It is noteworthy because it is the first I have heard all day. It was travelling high and ...

DAY OF INFAMY 2001 Pentagon suspectsOsama bin Laden Officials anxious to take terrorist out, after Clinton let him 'grow in strength' By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Counterterrorism experts in the Pentagon suspect Pakistan and Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden is behind the deadly attacks on America's nerve centers, WorldNetDaily has learned. And they say they are looking at targets to take him out once and for all, something that they say the Clinton administration never seriously considered. "No one seriously went after him," one Pentagon official told WorldNetDaily. "You go after him, he's dead. People like that shouldn't ...

Even as they scrambled to flee World Trade Center offices, workers paused to count heads, making sure their deskmates were there. Construction workers cobbled together stretchers from materials at their Manhattan worksite. On the House floor, members of Congress hugged and sang "God Bless America." In the midst of the chaos, humanity emerged from Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Passengers on doomed planes reached loved ones by cell phone, saying a few words final words before the connections broke. In New York, a priest couldn't find the words to comfort relatives of one of the many dead firefighters. "I don't know what ...

Paying the Price for Its Blind Support of Racist Regime (Horror in the White House) TEHRAN TIMES INTL. DESK * CAMP DAVID ATTACKED * LONDON OFFICE TOWERS EVACUATED AFTER U.S. ATTACKS * ANY ATTACKS AGAINST INNOCENT CIVILIANS ARE CONDEMNED BY ALL MUSLIMS TEHRAN Yesterday the United States of America woke up to living terror when the landmarks of the capitalist world were rocked by a series of huge explosions. Eight U.S. planes including a police airplane were hijacked. A number of U.S. official buildings, including the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon ...

KABUL, Sept 12 (AFP) - Afghanistan's anti-Taliban opposition forces Wednesday claimed responsibility for an attack on Kabul airport which initially sparked fears of US missile strikes. "We knew they (the Taliban) were worried about American strikes so we decided to exploit the opportunity," an opposition commander on the frontlines north of the capital told AFP.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Former President George Bush, on his way to a speech in Minnesota, was grounded in Wisconsin Tuesday when federal officials cleared the skies after the East Coast terrorist attacks, his son Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said. "I think that's where he still is, like a lot of people across the country, until air service begins again," Jeb Bush said Tuesday in a news conference in Tallahassee, Fla. Officials with the FBI in Wisconsin and the State Patrol would not comment. A Secret Service spokesman in Milwaukee did not return several telephone calls from The Associated Press. ...

We need to pray that America's leaders exercise good judgment, temperance and moderation in handling this matter. I sincerely hope that we DON'T began indiscriminate attacks against certain designated terrorist countries with NO lines of distinctions between civilians and terrorists. Evil begets evil. It would also be a great tragedy if for the purposes of coming up with a quick answer that the truth is swept under the table. We need an honest and thorough investigation into this incident. Forensics could take weeks to months... just to answer cursory questions about the incident. It is my sincere hope that this ...

<p>STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Swedish aid workers in Afghanistan fear U.S. strikes on targets there if Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden, who is said to reside in the country, was found to be behind Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the United States, the Swedish Afghanistan Committee said.</p>

WAR: Hub terror suspects ID’d: Bush vows retaliation after devestating attackby Ed Hayward, Tom Farmer and Cosmo Macero Jr.Authorities in Massachusetts identified at least five Arab men as suspects in yesterday's terror attacks launched from Logan International Airport, seizing in the central parking garage a car laden with Arabic-language flight training manuals, sources said last night. Two of the men, whose passports were traced to the United Arab Emirates, were brothers, one of whom was a trained pilot, a source told the Herald, speaking on condition of anonymity.

AP NewsAlert KABUL, Afghanistan, (AP) - United Nations foreign staff and expatriates working with international aid organizations are preparing to leave Kabul in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks in the United States and fears of reprisal assaults on Afghanistan, says a U.N. worker. Copyright 2001 Associated Press, All rights reserved

The United States and Western Countries have been haunted ever since the disintegration of the Soviet Union with the prospect of WMDs falling into the hands of terrorist groups. Their fears have turned out true with information now available that the Islamic Jehadi groups led by Osama bin Laden have indeed acquired WMDs.WMDs in the hands of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists fortified with the spirit of martyrdom and imbued with the frenzy of expelling the United States from the Islamic world or Islamisation of countries with sizeable Muslim population, indeed become frightening weapons of terror. Indications of possession of WMDs by ...

Dastardly crime: India DH News Service NEW DELHI, Sept. 11 India tonight unequivocally condemned terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and expressed deep shock over the "dastardly crime" against American people and humanity as a whole even as it reiterated its commitment to fight the menace of international terrorism. The worst-ever terrorist strike in the US prompted Prime Minister A B Vajpayee to convene an emergency meeting of the full Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) tonight. The meeting attended by all senior ministers, chiefs of the three Services and intelligence agencies, took stock of the full international and domestic ...

<p>Henry Weintraub, Legal Aid Society attorney in office right across the street from World Trade Center, in the Federal Post Office Building: "I was right there, in my office, at 92 Church St., 15th floor in my office, 20 to 9 in the morning, and I heard a loud explosion and I immediately said to myself , 'It sounds like a plane hit the Trade Center.' I was being facetious. Lo and behold, that's what it was. I didn't realize it at first. I could see out my window — it faces in that direction. There was debris flying all over the place. I immediately heard sirens from everywhere. There was just a couple of people in my office. A few minutes later I saw bodies coming out of the high floors of the towers, 75th or 80th floors. It was either people leaping as they flew out or they were being sucked out of the building."</p>

<p>Aydan Kizldrgli, a student from Turkey, was driving past the Pentagon when the plane hit, about 9:35 a.m. ET. "I was in the car, and there was a big boom,'' he said. "Everybody was in shock. I turned to the person in the next car and said, 'Did you see that?' Nobody could believe it.''</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) &#151; When flights resume at the nation's airports, passengers won't be able to check their bags at the curb in front of the terminal, they will be subjected to random checks and they will see more uniformed security officers throughout the airport. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said he is acting to augment airline security after Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, which began with the hijacking of four commercial airliners. ``There will be higher levels of surveillance, more stringent searches,'' Mineta said. ``Travelers may experience some inconveniences, but we ask for your patience. We ...

In memory of those NY Fire Fighters, Law Enforcement Officers (LEO), Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personel who perished in NY and the military personel who died at the Pentagon, contributions to the following charities are suggested. All of the brave men and women in these careers are pledged to go into harm's way as necessary to safeguard the rest of us. Several hundred of them layed down their lives for us and the U.S today. National Fallen Firefighters Memorial National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial National EMS Memorial USO - provides entertainment and support for armed forces personel No Greater Love ...

US Attitude to Pakistan: The Bin Laden Factor EXECUTIVE ASSESSMENT (Snip) He further wrote: " After all, Osama bin Laden is not exactly a stranger to Washington. During the height of the war against the Soviets, he was the blue-eyed boy of the Saudi intelligence and ran his Bayt al-Ansar (House of Auxiliaries) in collaboration with the Jordanian-Palestinian Muslim brother Abdullah Azzam in Peshawar. Their activities were heavily funded by the Saudi intelligence and the CIA knew all about Osama." Before Mr.Nawaz Sharif's visit to Washington in the first week of December,1998, there was intense speculation in the Pakistani press ...

NEW YORK (AP) &#151; Rescue workers dug for bodies in mountains of rubble as the city struggled to recover Wednesday from an airborne attack on the World Trade Center that shut down the nation's financial capital and created a new skyline etched in terror. ``It is unimaginable, devastating, unspeakable carnage,'' said Scott O'Grady, a firefighter. ``To say it looks like a war zone and to tell you about bodies lying in the street and blood and steel beams blocking roads would not begin to describe what it's like. It's horrible.'' New York was the hardest hit target in a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York's World Trade Center, an icon of global capitalism, crumbled on Tuesday after a series of attacks, leaving Wall Street in clouds of smoke and rubble and raising the specter of a global recession. Economists said a global economic contraction was almost assured as world stock markets plunged, the U.S. dollar spiraled lower against the yen and euro, and oil and gold prices soared after terror attacks on landmarks in New York and near Washington. Analysts speculated the catastrophic events could deal a hammer blow to U.S. confidence and could send already wary investors fleeing to ...