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Bill Clinton Guarded in AustraliaBRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Former President Clinton (news - web sites) was under guard in an Australian resort Wednesday, awaiting a chance to return home following the deadly terrorist attacks in the United States. Former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites), meanwhile, was stranded in Austria as many airlines canceled flights to the United States and U.S. airports remained closed Wednesday morning. Clinton had been taking a break in Port Douglas, Queensland state, after recent speaking engagements in Sydney and Melbourne. He arrived in the northeastern resort town Tuesday morning and spent the day ...

Just heard announced that there is a bomb threat at the IDS Tower in Mpls. They are investigating but not evacuating. This was announced by Charlie Weaver, our State Atty Gen'l.

American Interventionism & the Terrorist Threat by Jon Basil Utley Updated 9/12/01 Editors Note: Antiwar.com first published this guest column by Mr. Utley on August 16, 2001. On Tuesday morning, September 11, unknown persons attacked various targets in Manhattan and Washington, DC, in what many are already calling the most deadly terrorist (that is, non-state) attack in world history. We are republishing this piece in the hope that it will influence the national debate about terrorism that is certain to occur. At an American Bar Association's meeting on preparing for the terrorist threat, General Bruce Lawler, head of the Joint ...

T R A D I T I O N A L V A L U E S C O A L I T I O N MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release September 12, 2001 For more information contact: Steve Aiken, 202-547-8570 TVC Calls Upon Citizens To Encourage A National Day Of Repentance And Reconciliation STATEMENT BY REV. LOUIS P. SHELDON: With the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, this is a time for Americans—regardless of their political beliefs—to come together in unity to pray for the thousands of innocent victims who died in planes, in buildings, ...

Air India Boeing 747 crashed into the Atlantic southwest of Ireland, on June 23, 1985, killing all 329 on board.

A man managed to escape the World Trade Centre yesterday as it was hit by a hijacked jet, only to find out that his sister and young niece were on board, his family revealed today. Irishman Ronnie Clifford fled after the first plane struck the twin towers in New York yesterday, and escaped the second tower as it was hit by the United Airlines Boeing 767. In a devastating turn of events, his sister Ruth Clifford McCourt, 45, and her four-year-old daughter Juliana were passengers on the second plane - they died as he escaped. Meanwhile, British officials in New ...

Various news sources are reporting that NATO is expected to invoke Article V. - The attack on the U.S. will be considered an attack on all NATO countries. Awaiting NATO announcement.

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the ...

Dear friends, I was supposed to fly today on the 4:30 PM American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK. But tonight I find myself stuck in L.A. with an incredible range of emotions over what has happened on the island where I work and live in New York City. My wife and I spent the first hours of the day — after being awakened by phone calls from our parents at 6:40am PT — trying to contact our daughter at school in New York and our friend JoAnn who works near the World Trade Center. I called JoAnn at ...

Wednesday September 12 12:10 PM ET Fed Adds $38.25 Billion to U.S. Reserves NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it had added an unusually large $38.25 billion in temporary reserves to the U.S. banking system, pumping money into the financial system a day after hijackers flew two planes into the heart of Wall Street. A spokesman for the New York Federal Reserve earlier said the Fed would add more reserves as needed. U.S. bond and stock markets, along with futures exchanges in Chicago, were closed on Wednesday. William McDonough, President of the New York Fed, who ...

My cousins daughters fiancee was in one of the Towers.She was engaged and was to go shopping today for a bridal gown.They have not heard from him. He worked for Bloomberg.

LET FREEDOM RING! "Every morn brought forth a noble chanceAnd every chance brought forth a noble knight..." Winston Churchill--We Shall Fight in the Fields and in the Streets Free Republic has a rich history of activism -- we pull together when the going gets rough, and we're making headway! On behalf of Jim Robinson, who has so kindly consented to authorize this thread for the Breaking News category, I would like to invite you all to take five minutes from your very busy lives and make a phone call, send a fax or write an e-mail. If you would ...

Wondering what this is all about? Click here to read more about The Online Beat. Balancing security and civil liberties: "These are the moments that are the greatest tests of our commitment to Constitutional liberties" September 12 @ 9:31am WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs a key Senate subcommittee dealing with Constitutional matters, says he will struggle to assure that the response to Tuesday's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington will balance security concerns with respect for the Constitution. "These are the moments that are the greatest tests of our commitment to Constitutional liberties," says Feingold, ...

High Prices, Fist Fights at Gas Stations After Attacks, but Prices at Some Stations Then EbbBy Hope Yen The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Several gas stations lowered prices Wednesday, a day after attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as state and federal officials threatened action against gougers. At several locations, gas stations jacked up prices on Tuesday and motorists fearful of shortages scuffled in long lines at the pumps in the hours after the attacks. In Topeka, Kan., a 78-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault after he allegedly pulled a pellet gun on ...

Japan Intelligence on Hunt for U.S. Attackers-Source TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's intelligence authorities have joined forces with U.S. counterparts in trying to identify those responsible for attacks on the financial and political centers of the United States, a Japanese intelligence source said on Wednesday. ``We are now coordinating efforts with U.S. authorities to try to identify and hunt down the culprits,'' the source told Reuters, calling them ``terrorists.'' The source, who declined to be identified, added there were no visible signs so far of similar attacks in Japan. ``Still, we have to be fully vigilant.'' The source said Japanese intelligence ...

Lazio Bashes ClintonsWashington -- Still deep in debt from his unsuccessful Senate campaign, Rick Lazio is using a caustic fund-raising letter bashing the winner, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, in an attempt to turn lingering resentment of the two into cash for him. "I wish I could shake your hand,” Lazio wrote in his letter to former campaign supporters, "because you had the courage and commitment to stand up to the Clintons.” In the letter, Lazio obliquely mentioned the "latest round of Clinton scandals” without being specific and asked, "Don't you wish they'd go ...

There is growing evidence that confirms what we already suspected: The hijackers were groups of Arab male non-citizens. I am in favor of ethnic/national profiling at our airports. If the passenger is: 1) Arab 2) Male (esp. in the 20-50 age range) 3) Non-U.S. citizen (esp. from the Middle East) Then: 1) Search the luggage. 2) Search the carry-ons. 3) Frisk the person. If there are two or more Arab male non-citizens boarding the same plane, double or triple the scrutiny. Also, do not let anyone fitting the above profile work in an airport. This is war.

Look at the FBI and national security failures that are screwing our country right now. Clinton's failures couldn't be more evident at this point. What a jerk!

Thomas Jefferson once said ... "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." We have lost enough patriots, it is now the tyrants turn. The moments that define modern American history are now 3. My grandparents, although only 1 survives, could each recount with amazing clarity and detail where they were the moment they learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. My parents hold similar regard for the assassination of President Kennedy. The events that define the lives of Americans all come back to the same place. They remember ...