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Boston Airport Breaches Investigated By JUSTIN POPE, Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - Logan International Airport officials defended their security system as investigators started tracking the hijackers who boarded two airliners at the airport and crashed them into New York's World Trade Center towers. Two suspects flew to Boston from Portland, Maine, the governor of Maine said Wednesday. The Boston Herald quoted a source as saying five Arab men had been identified as suspects, including a trained pilot. Authorities said they received no unusual communications from American Flight 11, which left Boston at 7:59 a.m. Tuesday with 92 people aboard, ...

Just got e-mail from Southwest Airlines. They're flying at noon, if the FAA says go.

Boston Airport Breaches Investigated By JUSTIN POPE, Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - Logan International Airport officials defended their security system as investigators started tracking the hijackers who boarded two airliners at the airport and crashed them into New York's World Trade Center towers. Two suspects flew to Boston from Portland, Maine, the governor of Maine said Wednesday. The Boston Herald quoted a source as saying five Arab men had been identified as suspects, including a trained pilot. Authorities said they received no unusual communications from American Flight 11, which left Boston at 7:59 a.m. Tuesday with 92 people aboard, ...

A Massive Breach Of Security Attackers Were Armed With Knives Lengthy Travel Disruptions Are Likely WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2001 AP Moments after the attack; view from uptown Manhattan. (AP) The terrorists who crashed planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center probably were able to overcome the flight crews and then fly the airliners themselves, aviation safety experts suggested. "It's just incredible that you have these four apparent breaches of security," Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, said following Tuesday's attacks. "We've seen from today that a determined terrorist isn't going to be stopped by ...

Boston Airport Breaches Investigated By JUSTIN POPE, Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - Logan International Airport officials defended their security system as investigators started tracking the hijackers who boarded two airliners at the airport and crashed them into New York's World Trade Center towers. Two suspects flew to Boston from Portland, Maine, the governor of Maine said Wednesday. The Boston Herald quoted a source as saying five Arab men had been identified as suspects, including a trained pilot. Authorities said they received no unusual communications from American Flight 11, which left Boston at 7:59 a.m. Tuesday with 92 people aboard, ...

It’s rather useless to state the obvious this morning- that if Al Gore would have won the election, he would no doubt have assembled a National Security team that claim to “understand” people like Bin Laden who chose to carry out horrific terror because they might be misunderstood and need to be tolerated because they might have a slightly different physical appearance. It’s rather useless this morning to re-hash, saying “I told you so,” concerning the committee on terrorism solutions report that was finalized two years ago by terrorism experts, but which the Clinton/Gore Administration shelved as a policy because ...

MSNBC http://msnbc.com/news/190144.asp?cp1=1                http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp#BODY Bin Laden comes home to roost His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 1998 — At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a code name: Blowback. Simply defined, this is the term that describes an agent, an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden, our new public enemy Number 1, is the personification of blowback. And the fact that he is viewed as a hero by millions in the Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap what you ...

Sounded like two, much to fast for me to see as I ran to the window. Anyone else in northern mass searing/hearing?

Has anyone heard or seen the sick antics ol' Chuckie-Boy has pulled during this?Yesterday, while standing next to Hitlery, he echoed the Klintoonian famous line, "I feel your pain." And today while addressing the Senate, He ends up HOGGING the mike with crocodile tears and relentless banter for almost FIFTEEN MINUTES! I was almost hoping someone behind him would roll their eyes, yawn, or pop their knuckles. SOMETHING to stop his self-serving GRANDSTANDING.Perhaps, this is his attempt at a smokescreen to cover the fact that it was anti-gun zealots like HIM that removed Sky Marshalls from airlines.

US to Israelis: 'We will not forget your friendship' U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer made the following statement - first in English and then in Hebrew - in Jerusalem this afternoon: "On behalf of the United States Government and the American people, I want to thank the people and the government of Israel for their generous expressions of sympathy and solidarity. The United States experienced horrific events yesterday. It was good and important to hear from our friends. "We are deeply moved by Israel's response. The Government of Israel has declared a national day of mourning. The Israeli public ...

www.frontpagemag.com       Return to normal viewU.S. Must Show Domestic Restraint and International Ruthlessness in Wake of Terrorist Attacks FrontPageMagazine.com | September 12, 2001 URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/guestcolumnists/murdock09-12-01.htm   NEW YORK – I was sitting on my balcony this morning editing an opinion piece when the silver belly of a commercial jet suddenly flew right over my apartment building. It was headed toward the southwest over Greenwich Village rather than northeast over the Hudson or East Rivers, the customary aviation route toward La Guardia Airport. “My God,” I thought. “He's heading for an emergency landing at Newark. I hope he makes it.” The ...

The Taliban Time Bomb by James F Dunnigan While the Taliban movement rules most of Afghanistan, their control is shaky and threatened by internal divisions as well as regional and ethnic animosities. The Taliban (the organization of Talibs) began as a religious movement. Talib means religious student. Just how Afghan religious students came to rule Afghanistan is one of those "truth is stranger than fiction" tales. Normally the Afghans are not very religious, but they are very attached to their customs and traditions. These include loyalty to family and clan, protecting the women, owning a gun and knowing how to ...

We stumble to work, at a loss for words over the tremendous personal loss of our brothers in New York and Washington. Beyond the grief, above the anger, one question permeates the collective American psyche, and its not just what can be done, but What can I do? The answer came to me after our church's impromptu prayer service, as I was watching Gulf War Hero "Storm'n Norman" being interviewed on the news. "Let me say just one more thing. We went to great risk in the Gulf War, of our own personnel, to spare the lives of civilians. These ...

No hope of survivors in Pentagon attack By PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- No one who survived the impact and collapse of the Pentagon in the area where a hijacked civilian airliner crashed into the building could have survived the fire afterward, the Defense Department said in a statement Wednesday. "Reconnaissance efforts conducted overnight indicate that there are no survivors in the immediate collapsed area. Listening devices that have been able to get in have proven negative, and it is doubtful that anyone in the immediate impact area survived," the statement said. An American Airlines jet, hijacked ...

<p>CNN now has video of the first plane hitting the towers, I haven't see it before.</p>

Sorry for the lack of source, but the U.N., blocks from where I am sitting, is being evacuated. Authorities have threats they deem credible enough, in light of yesterday's attacks, to take seriously. I have this from a reliable source in my company, here at 50th and Lexington. If you hear more reports, please help me by posting sources.

The World Trade Center The Price Of Pansyhood A few unorganized thoughts regarding the events in New York: (1) We lost. Our moral posturing about our degradation is merely embarrassing. We have been made fools of, expertly and calculatedly, in the greatest military defeat the country has suffered since we fled from Viet Nam. The Moslem world is laughing and dancing in the streets. The rest of the earth, while often sympathetic, sees us as the weak and helpless nation that we are. The casualty figures aren't in, but 10,000 dead seems reasonable, and we wring our hands and speak ...

It's been about 24 hours since the attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers. There has been a lot of news reporting, some of it accurate, and some of it wildly speculative. But there is one item conspicuously absent from the news reportage. There has not been a single report that any armed hijacker was arrested on the way TO an airplane yesterday morning. Think about that. We are being told that four teams of at least three armed hijackers each got past all the security at three modern airports, and not one of them was detected. ...

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 bin Laden is the culprit. On these points of spin, the first one ...

Tony Blair is holding urgent telephone talks with President George W Bush following the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Earlier, Blair announced that Parliament will reconvene on Friday to help determine the country's next steps, both political and military. He declined to speculate on what sort of help the UK might offer the US in seeking retaliation for the attacks. "But be under no doubt at all, we stand with the USA in this matter," he said. Earlier today, five suspects were identified as responsible for carrying out the attacks on America yesterday. The men have ties to terrorist leader ...