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ALERT: Now Is The Time for Americans to Defend America Everybody in America now knows that on Tuesday, September 11, three aircraft were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These crashes appeared timed and were part of a planned terrorist action. The death toll will likely exceed that caused by the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that started World War II. This coordinated attack was an act of war. Some years ago Israel bombed a nuclear plant in Iraq. World opinion largely condemned Israel's actions, but Israel warned that if the world does not get rid ...

Friday Night at 7:00 p.m. step out your door, stop your car, or step out of your establishment and light a candle. We will show the world that Americans are strong and united together against terrorism. Please pass this to everyone on your e-mail list. We need to reach everyone across the United States quickly. The message: WE STAND UNITED - WE WILL NOT TOLERATE TERRORISM! Thank you. We need press to cover this - we need the world to see.

Law enforcement officials tell ABCNEWS arrests have been made or are in the process of being made in connection with Tuesday's terrorist attacks. The Pentagon is being evacuated again

the Economic Effect of Catastrophe United Press International - September 11, 2001 WASHINGTON, Sep 11, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Assuming that today's events are not an isolated incident, and that more such horrors, plus possibly military action, in the Middle East or elsewhere, lie ahead, what are the economic consequences? The obvious effect is to raise the "insurance premium" on economic activity. The cost of repair of the disasters, and of protection against future disasters, will fall squarely on the productive sector of the economy. This will lower corporate earnings, capital investment and economic growth rates, and ...

The Religious and Moral Doctrine On Jihad Imam Ibn Taymiyyah From "al-Siyaasa al-shar`iyya fee islaah al-raa`ee wa al-raa`iyya" (Governance according to God’s Law in reforming both the ruler and his flock) Transl. R.P. The penalties that the Sharee`ah has introduced for those who disobey God and His Messengers are of two kinds: the punishment of those who are under the sway [of the imam], both individuals and collectivities, as has been mentioned before [in the chapter on criminal law], and, secondly, the punishment of recalcitrant groups, such as those that can only be brought under the sway of the ...

Islamic militants hate America and everything it represents -- democracy, freedom of conscience and religious tolerance. The Palestinian Authority regularly calls on the Arab world to avenge itself on the Great Satan. A month before Pearl Harbor, when Britannia stood alone, Churchill told the boys at Harrow: "This is the great lesson: Never give in. ... Never yield to force ... Do not let us speak of darker days; let us rather speak of sterner days." Mettle is burnished in the fires of conflict. September 11th, 2001: The Day the "Great Satan" Arose From Its Sleep By Don Feder ...

If you are a reader of right-wing opinion websites, you will by now have heard the voice of the Paleos, loud and strong. This is a judgment on us for our interventionist foreign policy... It is time to examine the U.S. relationship with Israel. The lives of every Israeli is not worth one drop of American blood... Who has reason to hate this country? Only a few hundred million people — Arabs, Muslims, Serbs, and numerous others whose countries have been hit by U.S. bombers... Nobody is bombing Helsinki or Rome. Nobody is bombing Ottawa or Sydney... On the day ...

Hegemony was attacked today – by faceless, desperate people. And hegemony will be defended. People are not their governments. But they are wrong to think that they will not bear the consequences for their governments' actions. As I travel abroad a great deal, I am often put to explaining that the American people are one entity, and that the American Government/CIA/corporate realm is a separate entity. And they are not truly or necessarily on the same track. Many Americans that I talk with disassociate themselves from the actions of the U.S. government. In its actions, abroad or at home, overt ...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Federal police are reportedly increasing Internet surveillance after Tuesday's deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.</p> <p>Just hours after three airplanes smashed into the buildings in what some U.S. legislators have dubbed a second Pearl Harbor, FBI agents began to visit Web-based, e-mail firms and network providers, according to engineers at those companies who spoke on condition of anonymity.</p>

"American security services overnight stopped a car bomb on the George Washington Bridge connecting New York and New Jersey. The van, packed with explosives, was stopped on an approach ramp to the bridge..."

Why do we have "the law of war" at all?  Why is it important for the armed forces of the United States to understand the basics of just war theory, the law of armed conflict, and rules of engagement?

It struct me late last night that Gary Condit's name was not mentioned all day yesterday. Rightfully so. But I imagine he is thinking that if this had happened in mid-May, he would still be a nobody, with a hidden adulterous private life, getting ready for re-election.

So it begins. We now have a choice between two options. We can escalate the current low intensity war that the United States is waging against nations of the world from Columbia to Iraq. Or, we can pause and re-examine our current imperial adventures around the world and recognize that terrorism against the United States is the natural consequence of trying to tell the rest of the world how to live. Already, the war chant has gone up from the neo-conservative establishment regarding the need to escalate American intelligence efforts and American hegemony in our world. Former Senator Warren Rudman ...

Anyone listening to Paul. Says gun sales are going threw the roof today and there are lines all across the country to sign up for Military duty.

Reports are that the fires are not out and are spreading again....

FReep This Poll: What is America's Best Course of Action After Tuesday's Devastation? What is America's best course of action after Tuesday's devastation?your opinion!

Nothing ever repeats itself twice; that is both the joy of life, and the sickness of woe.In the uncertain hour before the morningNear the ending of interminable night ….After the dark dove with the flickering tongueHad passed below the horizon of his homing …. That is how T.S. Eliot described air-raid duty in wartime London under the threat of buzz bombs. In the predawn pallor he meets a ghostly mentor, long distant, possibly dead. The arrangement of the lines suggests that Eliot’s interlocutor is mainly Dante; the mood of the encounter is the mood of limbo. Sept. 11 began with ...

"And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, with Ate by his side come hot from hell, shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'HAVOC,' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial." Shakespeare: Julus Caesar III. i. "I want to see the cinders dance." General Curtis LeMay "Civilize `em with a Krag." Popular song sung during the Moros rebellion (Islamic terrorists from the turn of the last century). "I don't want to kill everyone, Tom. Just my enemies." Godfather Part II. Francis Ford Coppola &amp; ...

Give Peace A Chance About 100 anti-war demonstrators gathered in downtown Seattle Tuesday evening, saying they hope that the United States doesn't retaliate indiscriminately over terrorist attacks on the East Coast. Members from groups such as the Western Washington Fellowship of Conciliation are carrying signs with slogans such as "No war," "Have no enemies, find common ground," and "No U.S. massacres in Afghanistan." One of the demonstrators, Seattle resident Tim Nelson, says that he is worried that people will jump to conclusions and vilify Muslims without even knowing whether Muslim extremists were responsible for the attacks. In Dearborn, Mich., just ...

Stunned EU Vows to Stand by U.S. By ROBERT WIELAARD Associated Press Writer September 12, 2001, 11:31 AM EDT BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Declaring a day of mourning for victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the European Union pledged Wednesday to "spare no efforts" to help U.S. authorities bring those responsible to justice.After meeting in special session, EU foreign ministers issued a declaration asking "all Europeans to observe three minutes of silence" Friday at 6 a.m. EDT."We also declare Sept. 14, 2001, a day of mourning" across the 15-nation EU, the declaration said. "We were all victims of ...