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Iraq recruited Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden and his Islamic allies to carry out the suicide attacks around the United States, according to Israeli intelligence.Israeli officials and intelligence analysts said the suicide bombings that downed the World Trade Center and destroyed parts of the Pentagon was too large an operation for any one group.The analyists said the operation was also too big even for a coalition of Islamic terrorists headed by Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden.

Received the following via email: Subject: A plea from an American Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:18:36 EDT From: Golfergirlbal@cs.com To: webmaster@freerepublic.com I beg you, please read this. I am 56 years old and not exactly a computer literate. I tried to register to post and got nothing. I ask you, I beg you to listen. In this time of anger and horror I belive I have stumbled upon something that is much more "in your face" than buying flags or ribbons to send a message to these subspecies who attacked our nation. I came up with an idea: I ...

Sikhs become targets of ire in New York Following Tuesday's terrorist strikes on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Sikhs in New York have come under suspicion and attack, for no fault of theirs. On Tuesday night, the Richmond Hill gurdwara [a Sikh place of worship] was attacked when miscreants in a car who drove by firing what were believed to be rubber bullets at the building. Ranvir Singh, who was at the gurdwara when the incident took place, told rediff.com that the attackers failed to inflict any damage. The police precinct, confirming the incident, said the miscreants had ...

Empire State Building Area Evacuated in New York September 12, 2001 10:19 PM EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The area around the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan was evacuated on Wednesday night after a possible bomb threat at the famous landmark, police officers said. "There's a potential bomb threat at the Empire State Building," a police officer told Reuters. He said that he could not give any more information at the time. A one block area around the Empire State Building was immediately cordoned off by police, eyewitnesses said.

Good evening folks. Just this morning the mayor of New York stated that the World Trade Center would be rebuilt.  He just wasn't sure what form it would take.  Ahhhhh, some latitude.  Seems to me it should be a structure that would convey an image that the US will always remain strong and defiant, sortof like the "Don't Tread on Me Flag", but not exactly.  Hmmmm. Yesterday evening another freeper offered up his idea for a new design.  I felt that it was an excellent choice.  As far as I am concerned, it sends the best message I can ...

CNN reports (the male reporter with the blonde blow dried hair and big Clintonesque Nose) that Bush is seeking negotiations with Congressional leaders for a "Resolution of Resolve" (my quotation is as close as I can remember; but it definitely WAS NOT "DECLARATION OF WAR"). Dems are stalling as they don't "want to give the President a blank check".Anyone with CNN can verify this.

This is more extreme that is being spoken of by responsible officials, but I think that it offers the best hope of a complete success in our war against terrorism. I think anything less would result in remnant cells that would eventually go nuclear on us. 1 Create a list of every significant active terrorist group that has either attacked US interests, declared war on the US or actively aligned with those who have. 2 Identify all host nations of these groups that are not aggressively pursuing them. 3 Prioritize the list, starting with the biggest offenders. 4 Publish the ...

"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it." --Elmer Davis Fanatical suicidal scumbags with home-made knives herded unarmed passengers and crew members into the back of three planes, killed several of them, including flight attendants and pilots, and then flew the planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, murdering tens of thousands of people. But then you already knew that. You watched the whole thing on TV, trying to remind yourself that it wasn't just some Hollywood movie with really really good special effects. A fourth hijacked plane crashed before it could be ...

E-mail just received from Sowing Seeds Sowing Seeds of Faith September 11, 2001: A Day of Terror, Larry Davies * Linda hurriedly left the Boston hotel room for her morning flight to Los Angeles. It had been a long weekend for the young flight attendant but soon she would be home. Her fiancé called on the cell phone to confirm their dinner date. “I’ll be there to pick you up. What flight are you on?” A little impatiently, she reminded him… “Flight 11! Flight 11.” * David wolfed down a bagel and scanned the baseball scores before grabbing his brief ...

It was some ruthless bastard who said (and I paraphrase), "One person is a tragedy. A million people are a statistic."My brother is dead and I went through and pressed "DEL" on ICQ, my email, my contact list, my mailing list and a dozen other places that held his name today.I drank Jack Daniels and let it sink in that he is not the person I thanked effusively for his companionship last Saturday night only to get the call this afternoon that he was no longer here.I miss him incredibly. He didn't deserve to die. He was 5 years younger. ...

Education/discussion only..... [Note: This letter is published here exactly as in the original translated document given to FRONTLINE. No changes have been made to grammar or punctuation.] Born 1957 for Syrian mother, Osama bin Laden was the seventh son among fifty brothers and sisters. His father Mohammed Awad bin Laden came to the kingdom from Hadramout (South Yemen) sometime around 1930. The father started his life as a very poor laborer (porter in Jeddah port), to end up as owner of the biggest construction company in the kingdom. During the reign of King Saud, bin Laden the father became ...

<p>CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Following a U.S. request for stepped up border security, authorities in Tijuana said Wednesday they have rounded up 48 migrants from Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.</p> <p>Most of those detained in Tijuana appeared to be Iraqi Chaldean Christians, a Catholic group that frequently seeks U.S. asylum because of alleged persecution in their home country.</p>

Wednesday, 12 September, 2001, 22:31 GMT 23:31 UK UK death toll 'may reach hundreds' The number of British casualties caught up in the terrorist attacks in the US could run into hundreds, Downing Street has said. A spokesman said there had been a "massive" number of calls to Scotland Yard's casualty bureau, which is being run on behalf of the Foreign Office. Emergency number For Britons worried about friends and relatives in the US: 020 7008 0000 The news was broken to Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Civil Contingencies Committee - the summit of senior ministers, intelligence chiefs and ...

Israeli intelligence had evidence that Yasser Arafat was involved in the planning of the World Trade Center bombing in New York in February of 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 Yonah Alexander, a Pentagon consultant on terrorism, said, ...

GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE, LACK OF HONESTY WITH AMERICAN PEOPLE LEAD TO TERRORIST DISASTERS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 (Washington, DC, September 12, 2001) Larry Klayman, Chairman and General Counsel of Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today issued the following statement concerning the horrific terrorist attack on the United States, on a day – September 11, 2001 – that, even more than Pearl Harbor, will live in infamy. “It is now apparent – given the near total lack of security at U.S. airports and elsewhere – that the U.S. government has not been forthright with ...

CNN is reporting that the Empire State Building and Penn Station are being evacuated. Details not known.

9/12/01 Owners Silverstein, Westfield America Face World Trade Center Destruction By PETER GRANT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The cataclysmic destruction of the World Trade Center came less than two months after control of the famed complex passed into private hands for the first time in its 30-year history. A group led by New York developer Larry Silverstein and Westfield America Inc. acquired a 99-year lease of the 11 million square-foot complex from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The value of the deal was put at $3.2 billion, making it one of the biggest ...

Just Wanted to see if anyone agrees that Gary Condit has had the best week of the year. Did he get lucky or what. Anyone heard his name mentioned once the past two days?

YOU don’t eliminate malaria by swatting mosquitoes. And the violence unleashed on America yesterday will not be contained, let alone eradicated, by measures taken against individual terrorists. Tough action is now required by the West not just against groups of politically motivated criminals but against the causes of the world’s greatest single crime. The fingerprints of Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda group have been detected amid the wreckage of yesterday’s attack and there has been a widespread demand for immediate retribution. But the West should not delude itself that the removal of bin Laden would eliminate the threat. Not ...

Thank you Jim and John!