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XINHUA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE THE MATERIALS IN THE XINHUA FILE WERE COMPILED BY THE XINHUA NEWS AGENCY. THESE MATERIALS MAY NOT BE REPUBLISHED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE XINHUA NEWS AGENCY. September 13, 2001, Thursday 5:16 PM Eastern Time SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS; POLITICAL LENGTH: 320 words HEADLINE: Chinese, U.S. Presidents Talk over Phone DATELINE: BEIJING, September 12 BODY: Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday night exchanged views over the phone on terrorist attacks in some parts of New York and Washington D.C. as arranged earlier. Bush thanked Jiang for his message of ...

Here's a link to an article about a training accident 1 year ago. The article is in the middle of the page, relevant portion is: The other man killed in the crash was Ameer Bukhari, a Saudi Arabian national living in nearby Vero Beach, Fla., Mr. Weinberg said. He was flying a single-engine Piper Cherokee owned by FlightSafety International, where he was a student pilot. The second article has the following relevant information: Police and law enforcement sources said the two brothers suspected in the Boston hijackings were Adnan Bukhari and Ameer Abbas Bukhari, who up until recent days had ...

CIA Official Confirms Ruddy Terror Exclusive A former CIA official said late Wednesday that U.S. spy recruitment had been decimated by strict Clinton administration rules that tied the agency's hands in its war against terrorism, a development first reported by NewsMax.com's Executive Editor Christopher Ruddy. "We don't have enough people on the ground in the right places," former Iraqi bureau station chief Whitney Bruner told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. "Partly it's because there's a culture that I think has developed in Washington concerning human operations over the last several years," Bruner said; a policy that limited the kind of ...

"Kelly said the picture, which eerily shows group member ''Boots'' Riley holding a detonator in front of the exploding towers..." "Kelly said the artwork was done about two months ago for the band's upcoming album, ``Party Music,'' which features a single called ``5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO''..." Time we identify those inside our country that are against freedom and stop hiding behind the first amendment. The first amendment protects FREE speech. Not ANTI-FREE speech -- nor speech that supports terrorism and attacks on the American way of life.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 12 — NATO invoked a mutual defense clause in its founding treaty for the first time today, strongly suggesting that the United States would have the support of the allies if it takes military action against those responsible for attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A NATO statement issued after a meeting of ambassadors to the 19- member alliance said, "If it is determined that this attack was directed from abroad against the United States, it shall be regarded as an action covered by Article 5 of the Washington Treaty." Article 5, the cornerstone ...

CBS Poll: America Wants Retaliation Results Of First Post-Tragedy CBS News Poll: More Than Half Of Us Think The U.S. Will Go To War — And Should More Than Half Also Think Government Could Have Done More NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2001 CBS (CBS) Most Americans think war is inevitable following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and two-thirds think the U.S. should retaliate even if innocent people are killed. Many Americanss also wonder why the government didn't prevent the attacks, according to a CBS News poll. Shock and horror were among the feelings Americans experienced when ...

I tried to post the whole thing twice. It won't post. Maybe too long? Here is link: www.foxnews.com.

Casualties And Counterattacks Rumsfeld: Estimates Of 800 Hurt Or Killed May Be Too High U.S. Response Will Be 'Sustained And Broadly Based' Military Nerve Center Is Partially Reopened WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2001 CBS Fire burning at the Pentagon. (CBS) Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday that earlier estimates of the number of people killed when a hijacked airliner crashed into the Pentagon may be far too high. At a news conference from the Pentagon, Rumsfeld said an estimate from the Arlington County Fire Department, which led the fire-fighting effort, that as many as 800 people may have perished ...

TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war ...

<p>"This is the most significant collapse of a building in history," said Art Lerner-Lam, Associate Director for geology and geophysics at Colombia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory. "But the (seismic) impact is relatively mild."</p> <p>While the Richter Scale specifically applies to earthquakes, Lerner-Lam said Lamont-Doherty seismologists calculated that both planes' impacts into the two World Trade Center towers would have registered a magnitude of 0.8.</p>

<p>VERO BEACH, Fla. (CNN) -- Investigators have leads on four hijackers they believe commandeered the two airliners from Boston that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center, CNN has learned.</p> <p>Two of the men were brothers, apparently from Saudi Arabia, who had most recently been living in Florida and attended flight training school there.</p>

Joint Congressional Resolution Wednesday, September 12, 2001 Respond to Editor Email this Article Text of a joint resolution introduced Wednesday in the House and Senate condemning the terrorist attacks Tuesday on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: Expressing the sense of the Senate and House of Representatives regarding the terrorist attacks launched against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. Whereas on Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked and destroyed four civilian aircraft, crashing two of them into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and a third into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C.; Whereas thousands ...

Sept. 12 — One day into what promises to be the biggest criminal investigation ever, authorities have determined that at least a dozen terrorists took part in the assault on America, including pilots who were trained in the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday. Meanwhile, FBI agents fanned out in Florida, Massachusetts and elsewhere to question associates and obtain evidence about who was behind the plot to commandeer four airliners and use them as flying bombs. “THE FOUR PLANES were hijacked by between three and six individuals per plane, using knives and box cutters, and in some ...

MSNBC's Frank Lutz just conducted a poll, which has 80% approving of Bush, 8% not. 80% also approving of force to retaliate, again 8% against.

MSNBC's Frank Lutz just conducted a poll, which has 80% approving of Bush, 8% not. 80% also approving of force to retaliate, again 8% against.

ABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 12 — If there are Americans clamoring to bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age, they ought to know that this nation does not have so far to go. This is a post-apocalyptic place of felled cities, parched land and downtrodden people. The fragility of this country was part of the message the Taliban government conveyed in a plea for restraint issued late tonight.It said in part, "We appeal to the United States not to put Afghanistan into more misery because our people have suffered so much." Whatever Afghanistan's current cataclysm, its next one seems to ...

<p>A senior Pentagon source tells Fox News he has been lobbied by staff members for Senators Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., to support a public call for CIA Director George Tenet to resign.</p> <p>The source said that Sen. Shelby, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has also been working on Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., who is supposedly undecided. Graham is the Chairman of Select Committee on Intelligence.</p>

UPS NETWORK OPERATING Air Packages Moving Through Ground System UPS said today its ground network is operating in a normal fashion and has expanded to handle many of the express packages that typically would move by air. Deliveries and pickups are occurring, and ground and air packages are being accepted and moved as expeditiously as possible using UPS's extensive, integrated transportation network. Service has been restored to Washington, D.C., but deliveries continue to be limited in parts of Manhattan. The UPS air operation was closed Tuesday night and will remain closed until the Federal Aviation Administration reopens the skies. The ...

Thursday, September 13 9:50 AM SGT Israeli forces take over Jericho: Palestinians JERICHO, West Bank, Sept 13 (AFP) - Israeli troops, supported by tanks and helicopters, took control of the Palestinian-ruled city of Jericho in the West Bank Thursday after entering under cover of night, Palestinian security forces said. Sporadic gunfire could still be heard after the Israeli forces moved into the autonomous zone after simultaneous incursions from the city's north,south and east, the Palestinian sources said. There was no immediate word from the Israeli side. All the Palestinian security offices are located in the Palestinian headquarters in Jericho, near ...

hen the first jet struck 1 World Trade Center at 8:48 a.m. on Tuesday, the people in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant inferno across the divide had the clearest sense of what they, too, must do: get out fast. Katherine Ilachinski, who had been knocked off her chair by the blast of heat exploding from the neighboring tower, was one of those. Despite her 70 years, Ms. Ilachinski, an architect working on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Center, the south tower, went for the stairs. Twelve floors above her, Judy Wein, an ...