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GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) donated blood Wednesday for the victims of the terror attacks in New York and Washington while other Palestinians held a vigil in Jerusalem in sympathy with the United States. ''God bless them,'' Arafat said as medical staff prepared to draw his blood in Gaza Shifa hospital. Palestinian officials said his donation would be the start of a blood drive for the casualties of Tuesday's attacks. It was unclear if arrangements had been made to transfer the blood from Gaza and the West Bank to the United States. Thousands of ...

Conversation with a Pacifist On the night in 1940 when the big ack-ack barrage was fired over London for the first time, I was in Picadilly Circus when the guns opened up, and I fled into the Cafe Royal to take cover. Among the crowd inside a good-looking, well-made youth of about twenty-five was making somewhat of a nuisance of himself with a copy of Peace News, which he was forcing upon the attention of everyone at the neighbouring tables. I got into conversation with him, and the conversation went something like this: The youth: "I tell you, it'll all ...

MSNBC reporting that police have entered Copley Hotel in Boston. They have a live shot with lots of vehicles and officers. Large scale search of hotel underway. Guns drawn. 16th floor. Looking under door with fiber optics. Rumors of arrests.

Passing along an idea.

<p>NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday estimated the final death toll in the World Trade Center attacks could rise above 4,000.</p> <p>"The numbers we are working with are in the thousands," Giuliani told reporters at a briefing, the day after hijacked airliners crashed into the twin 110-story trade center towers. He said that while people were able to flee, "The best estimate we can make ... is that there will be a few thousand people left in each building."</p>

Police action outside hotel in Boston, bomb threat, related to WTC?...CNN via local Boston affiliate

A few unorganized thoughts regarding the events in New York: &#149;&#160; 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 of grief therapy. We lost. &#149;&#160; We cannot ...

StorySources: Suspects Paid Cash For One-Way TicketsCar, Evidence Seized From Logan AirportBOSTON, 11:57 a.m. EDT September 12, 2001 -- Sources are telling NewsCenter 5 that Middle Eastern men who boarded the two planes bound for New York Tuesday bought one-way tickets and paid in cash, and there may be a connection to Springfield, Mass., which could link them to the USS Cole bombing. NewsCenter 5's David Boeri reported Wednesday morning that sources say at least four suspects, described as Middle Eastern men, arrived late to the airport, purchased one-way tickets and paid in cash for them, all of those factors ...

SKOPJE (Reuters) - President Boris Trajkovski on Wednesday ruled out a NATO-led security force in Macedonia, saying it would keep only an artificial peace and mutate into the "Green Line" policemen ethnic Albanian separatists wanted. In an interview, he also said Macedonia needed up to $600 million in aid to fund a decentralisation of power, bilingual governance and policing reforms stipulated by its Western- brokered peace accord with rebellious minority Albanians. The guerrilla National Liberation Army (NLA) rose up in February on behalf of Macedonia's one-third Albanian minority, who had complained of official discrimination since the country won independence from ...

It seems to me that that out of all libomorons who speaked yesterday Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) was the worst. In essence he said that it all happened because Bush did not support Kyoto treaty.

Three hijacked planes crashed into major U.S. landmarks yesterday, destroying New York's World Trade Center and causing major damage to the Pentagon in Washington. Cato Vice President for Foreign Policy and Defense Studies Ted Galen Carpenter had the following comments: "The monstrous attack in New York City and in our nation's capital justifiably generates outrage on the part of all Americans. We grieve for the innocent victims and their families. "The first order of business must be to determine who is responsible for these terrible acts and to order appropriate retaliation. Terrorist assaults of this magnitude should be treated as ...

As politically incorrect and globally unpopular as this may be at first blush, America's military response must be huge, and brutal. We must take out huge, significant strategic targets in Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and anywhere else in the world that terrorists are allowed to hide and train. America must make the world, Arab and otherwise, understand that, if this ever happens again, they will all pay... again. And again. The greater the loss of innocent life in these other countries, the better they will understand the clear message. Police your own, or pay more dearly than you are ...

Arafat Was Connected With First WTC Bombing Israeli intelligence had evidence that Yasser Arafat was involved in the planning of the first World Trade Center bombing in New York in February, 1993. Moshe Peled, Israel's Deputy Education Minister in the Netanyahu government, declared in early 1997 that he has information connecting Arafat to the Sudanese terror network responsible for carrying out the WTC bombing. CIA representatives met in Israel with Peled to discuss his information. Similarly, E-Kihan, the official Iranian government newspaper, accused Arafat of responsibility for the first WTC bombing. The Jerusalem Post reported in March 1997 that ...

Enigmatic Bin Laden greeted as new hero by Palestinian youths KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip, Sept 12 (AFP) - While one of the biggest manhunts in history swung into motion Wednesday to track down the perpetrator of the terror attacks on the United States, suspect number one -- Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden -- was hailed as a great avenger by youths in this Gaza Strip town. "He's a fighter: I heard it on the television," said Ahmad, 19, who admits the first time he heard of Bin Laden was in the flood of reports spewing out of New York and ...

HOW SHALL WE WAGE WAR? I think we all agree with the President of the United States, that America will "make no distinction" between the terrorists responsible, and the nation-states that harbor them. So how shall we wage this coming war? Shall we lob a couple of Tomahawks at another aspirin factory? Shall we join with the NATO nations and Israel to overwhelm and destroy Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, and the other terrorism-sponsoring nations with massive conventional invasion? Shall we use nuclear weapons on Osama Bin Laden's hiding places until we finally get him? How should our nation wage ...

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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 of grief therapy. We lost. (2) We ...

SKOPJE (AP) - Legislators in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) moved toward a possible political showdown yesterday that could further complicate the Western-brokered peace process. Parliament was to continue a debate on the fate of Justice Minister Ixhet Memeti, an ethnic Albanian, who Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski has asked to be removed. Georgievski has accused Memeti of failing to arrange the extradition from Germany of ethnic Albanian Sami Habibi, a suspect in a January attack on a police station in north western FYROM that killed one officer. But Memeti, a member of the ethnic Albanian Party for Democratic ...

"We're going to go about our daily lives and carry on: this will show that terrorism is not going to stop American democracy." These were the brave words of New York City major Rudolph Giuliani at a news conference held hours after the World Trade Center attack. The next question came from a reporter who asked, to audible groans, whether or not the New York City primary would be canceled. Governor George Pataki, standing next to the mayor, confirmed that the election had indeed been called off. And that's just the beginning of what's been called off from New York ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 11 — The first commandment of any crisis is to be cool. Don’t panic. Don’t do anything to make it worse. There is plenty of time to assess blame and figure out how to respond in a manner and moment of our own choosing. Nothing could dishonor the dead quite as profoundly than to kill more innocents in the name of vengeance and let the true perpetrators get away with their crimes. WE ALL KNEW this was possible. All modern cities are vulnerable to terrorism; indeed to chemical and biological attacks that can do as much or ...