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Denied aid of the Southern Command to protect the Canal (7:05 p.m.) The journalist Leila Andrew it denied that the troops of the Southern Command, based on Puerto Rico, intended to send troops to reinforce the security of the Canal Of Panama. José Pagán, spokesman of the South ern Command headquarters in Buchanan, the journalist said that had listened rumors about that Puerto Rico would send soldiers to protect the aquatic way and he contradicted him, because not he had No order to the respect. Likewise Andrew explained that its country had as priority to send aid to the ...

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Warning: More Attacks , Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Possible Tuesday, September 11, 2001 NewsMax's national security expert, Col. Stanislav Lunev, is traveling abroad.  The highest-ranking military officer ever to defect from Russia, Col. Lunev has served as a consultant to the CIA, the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency. He called NewsMax and gave the following analysis: 1. Last year, Col. Lunev wrote that the U.S. had been the main target of terrorist groups and the nations that support them. The actions today against the U.S. should not be surprising. 2. The successful attack today by this ...

With the breaking news of the suspicious car found in Florida, I thought this may be a timely time to educate ourselves on Ramadan Abdullah Shallah. His possible relevance to the WTC comes from this thread: Links To Osama Bin Laden Found At Daytona Beach Flight School FBI agents backed up by local Sheriff's deputies found Osama bin Laden printed materiel while executing search warrent at Embry Riddle flight school in Daytoa Beach. Embry Riddle has about 250 Islamic flight students and has ties to Phoenix East flight school, which has many more. Phoenix East is run by former Saudia ...

CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame Christopher Ruddy Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 The worst, single most tragic day in the history of America has just passed. Tuesday more Americans likely died than all the casualties of the Battle of Antietam on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1862. Already the media spin on yesterday's events is relentless. The talking heads are pushing several themes, including: Now is not the time to point fingers at responsible parties in America, i.e., political figures like Clinton or our own security agencies. The events of Tuesday are the "worst-case scenario" – the ...

Don't Let the Terrorists Achieve Their Greatest Victory Paul Weyrich Sept. 12, 2001 War has been declared on the United States. Greater than Pearl Harbor, incredibly greater than Oklahoma City, perhaps as significant as the Civil War, this country has been immobilized. In the immediate time frame we will be grappling with the terrible loss of life and the damage to all places the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. But as has been the case with every conflict beginning with the Civil War, the long-range pressures of this war will be to greatly expand the powers of the ...

Make no mistake, yesterday an "act of war" was committed against the U.S.. It was not a civil crime that requires justice. Sadly, I'm seeing too many politicians and opinion makers commenting that the guilty ones need to be brought to justice as if they were bank robbers. President Bush needs to ask Congress for a declaration of war against terrorists and those governments that harbor them, and Congress needs to find the courage to declare it. The military brass needs to pocket their typical objection to warfare that does not have traditional WWII type fronts. The military and covert ...

<p>As thousands of Palestinians celebrated in the West Bank and in Lebanese refugee camps, governments across the globe offered condolences to an America that looked more vulnerable than ever after Tuesday's terror attacks.</p> <p>People on every continent watched in horror as astonishing images of terror in the United States filled their television screens. But in the West Bank town of Nablus, Palestinians cheered and distributed candy to passers-by, and Iraqi television played a patriotic song that began "Down with America!" as it showed the World Trade Center towers collapsing.</p>

Toward the end of his first post-bombing press conference, a reporter (obviously a 'sensitive' one) asked Secy. Rumsfeld what did he 'feel' at the time of the bombing. Rumsfeld answer: I felt the building shaking and I heard a loud noise. This is not an exact quote but it should be quite close.

For many people, Tuesday morning was like waking to find you were on the set of a disaster movie. The images of planes crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, of the twin towers collapsing, of panic in the streets of Manhattan, all had a dream-like unreality to them. It was only on finding that someone you knew might be involved &#150; killed, injured, trapped in the melee &#150; that the reality of what was occurring would hit like a punch in the stomach. But this movie set is an all-too-familiar scene to people around the world, ...

CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame The worst, single most tragic day in the history of America has just passed. Tuesday more Americans likely died than all the casualties of the Battle of Antietam on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1862. Already the media spin on yesterday's events is relentless. The talking heads are pushing several themes, including: * Now is not the time to point fingers at responsible parties in America, i.e., political figures like Clinton or our own security agencies. * The events of Tuesday are the "worst-case scenario" – the worst is over. * Osama ...

Part 2 continued! January 14, 2001 New York Times One Man and a Global Web of Violence By STEPHEN ENGELBERG The Base From Many Lands, Under One Banner Fired by their triumph over the Soviets, the Arabs who had fought in Afghanistan returned home, eager to apply the principles of jihad to their native lands. The Koran sets strict limits on when and how holy war is to be undertaken. But Gilles Kepel, a leading French scholar of contemporary Islam, said the Afghan veterans were guided by their own radical interpretation of sacred Muslim texts. "Intoxicated by the Muslim victory ...

Put the author of this missive along with gas gougers, people who would use this tragedy to expand government control and restrict liberty, and even the terrorists themselves. No wonder so many consider Christians to be nuts. However, note the links he has included at the end of his (her?) mass, unsolicited, junk emailing. They explain a lot. From boosflow@boosflow.iserver.net Wed Sep 12 08:10:34 2001 X-Apparently-To: aruanan@yahoo.com via web11405; 12 Sep 2001 01:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: To: aruanan@yahoo.com,aruba_77777@yahoo.com, arubhita@yahoo.com, aruiz_90037@yahoo.com, arul_anand_m@yahoo.com, arulpremnath@yahoo.com, arum1004_2000@yahoo.com, arume0502@yahoo.com, arumnya_koko@yahoo.com, arun_2000_hotcrush@yahoo.com From: WorIdTradeCenter@yahoo.com () Subject: 704963029 Content-Length: 1292 Below is the result of your feedback ...

This Is Only A Test! By now I'm sure that it's apparent to most (or at least considered) that this first co-ordinated effort, was only a test. However such a task was accomplished minutes and hundreds of miles apart, valuable intell was gathered on both sides. It is sad to think, that in retrospect, these targets may have been chosen simply to gauge a number of factors, from problems with execution [sick irony there], to reflective responses on the part of the US. I'm disgusted to say, this would be my approach, were I to plan such an attack. The ...

We must know our enemy Part 1 of 2 January 14, 2001 New York Times One Man and a Global Web of Violence By STEPHEN ENGELBERG The following article is based on reporting by Craig Pyes, Judith Miller and Stephen Engelberg and was written by Mr. Engelberg. In 1987, several years after he began training Arab volunteers to oust Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden had a vision. The time had come, he told friends, to start a global jihad, or Islamic holy war, against the corrupt secular governments of the Muslim Middle East and the Western powers that ...

Just a thought. That ragtag group of anti-American and anti-capitalists democracy haters that have been protesting all the WTO meetings world wide have been silent. I thinks their protests helped to embolden Bin Laden and others into thinking that there is support for them here and around the world. Nuts like the Unabomber, who had Al Gore's book, Earth In The Balance, dogeared, were railing against the government and free markets. Don't they all share responsibility of accepting and placating these people?

Isn't it wonderful that we have the Democratics to thank for the 60% U.S. dependency on foreign oil. Isn't it wonderful we have the Democratics to thank for the prospect of the Islamic OPEC countries cutting off large portions of our vital oil supplies when we retaliate against the radical nations that use terrorism as a matter of state policy. This cutoff and subsequent economic breakdown constitutes the second wave of terror planned by our attackers.Will the Democratics take responsibility for the potentially debilitating economic conditions that will face the U.S. and the world over probable OPEC cutoffs?Or do you ...

The head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, in a rare public statement, said the service was working closely with agencies in the United States, Europe and the Middle East in the wake of the attacks. The security chief, Sergei Lebedev, said that the attacks had proved the global nature of the threat of international terrorism and the need for joint action to prevent it. He said the aim of the present contacts was to try to discover who was responsible and to try to prevent further attacks. The Russian domestic intelligence service, FSB, said that any significant information unearthed ...

THE DARK YEARS THE DAILY RECKONING PARIS, FRANCE WEDNESDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2001 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE DARK YEARS By Bill Bonner "...behind the doors of this ambitious day stand shadows with enormous grudges, outside its chartered ocean of perception misshapen coastguards drunk with foreboding, and whispering websters, creeping through this world, discredit so much literature and praise. Summer was worse than we expected;Now an Autumn cold comes on the water..." The Dark Years W.H. Auden Along the rue ...