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   President George W. Bush said yesterday the terror attacks on the United States which killed thousands were an "act of war". As rescuers searched through the rubble of the obliterated World Trade Centre in New York and the still-burning Pentagon in Washington, heavily armed FBI agents reportedly detained several people at a Boston hotel. Agents were also searching several homes in Florida, after having traced the movements of a group of Arab men down the east coast, the FBI said. The raids were believed to be linked to the attacks. No further details were available. Mr Bush said ...

Did anyone happen to catch Nightline? The first thing that got me mad was their piece involving Arab-Americans and the grief they've been getting over the last couple of days. Fine! I understand that there are Americans of Arab origin who have been unfairly treated because of who they are. But I sensed an ulterior motive in the piece.Then Jim Wooten gets three mintes to inform all of us dummies that are watching that G.W. was WRONG when he said that America was attacked because of it is the greatest example of freedom in the world. Mr. Wooten feels the ...

Let's put our heads together and come up with some unique ideas that helps America AND avenges the deaths of innocent people in NYC, Washington, etc. 1. Everybody invest $100 in the stock market when it re-opens. 2. Let's load all the rubble from the WTC's and 1 Liberty Plaza onto some C-5a cargo planes, fly them over Afghanistan and Iraq, then dump it. Let them lick it up. 3. Occupy and operate all the major oil fields in the Middle East and control the supply for the next 2 years. Keep the profits to fund our war against Islam. ...

In Tribute to the Heros of UA 93 IF God compel thee to this destiny, To die alone, with none beside thy bed To ruffle round with sobs thy last word said And mark with tears the pulses ebb from thee,- Pray then alone, ' O Christ, come tenderly ! By thy forsaken Sonship in the red Drear wine-press,--by the wilderness out-spread,- And the lone garden where thine agony Fell bloody from thy brow,-by all of those Permitted desolations, comfort mine ! No earthly friend being near me, interpose No deathly angel 'twixt my face and thine, But stoop ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 12 — As hundreds of firefighters continued to fight tenacious fires through the Pentagon's slate roof, military and civilian personnel returned to a building where the principal business today was drawing up plans to retaliate. Two-fifths of the Pentagon, the largest federal office building, was shut, with thousands of workers told to stay home and most routine work all but halted. Officials sought to portray a scene of business as usual, but the most feverish activity — besides firefighting — occurred in the building's operations and command centers. "We are, in a sense, seeing the definition ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Brent BozellQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comBrent Bozell (back to story)September 13, 2001Losing ground on dirty language Earlier this month, the New York Times ran a front-page story about the erosion in prime-time television's language standards that is expected to occur during the upcoming season. We won't know exactly how serious that erosion will be until it happens, of course, but it's among the safest of bets that it will take place. Early indications are that many, if not all, of George Carlin's infamous seven dirty words will soon ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Larry ElderQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comLarry Elder (back to story)September 13, 2001Terrorism in America -- retracing our steps No more Mr. Nice Guy. This reflects, quite properly, the sentiment of most Americans in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with the White House and Air Force One themselves as apparent targets. Americans, quite appropriately, expect swift and sure retaliation. Still, one can quite reasonably ask, did it have to come to this? "This is what happens when the United ...

Link to World Net Daily/World Tribune article page Israeli intelligence: Iraq financed attacks Wednesday, September 12, 2001 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 hijackings that downed the World Trade Center and destroyed parts of the Pentagon was too large an operation for any one group. The analysts said the operation was also too big even for a coalition of Islamic terrorists headed by Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden is ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: R. Emmett TyrrellQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comR. Emmett Tyrrell (back to story)September 13, 2001Hollywood fiction becomes New York reality WASHINGTON -- Now again the civilized world has witnessed the true nature of barbarism; not the Hollywood presentation, but the reality. Civilization has witnessed it before: the Nazis stomping the unarmed, the Communists pillaging the bourgeoisie, Middle Eastern terrorists slaughtering unarmed Jews and Christians, and in 1993 Americans in their first atrocities at the World Trade Center. And we are witnessing the true nature of the civilized -- first ...

S T R A T F O R THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY http://www.stratfor.com 11 September 2001 Explosions Cripple American Economy 1940 GMT, 010911 The attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., targeted obvious symbols of American prestige and power: the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The attackers achieved a crippling blow against America's economic infrastructure as well. New York City is one of the richest cities on the globe, independently raking in more annually than all but the world's most advanced states. In 1998, the city's budget exceeded that of some major countries, including Russia. But New ...

Our Generation's Pearl Harbor NASA satellite photo of the smoke plume arisingfrom the wreckage of the World Trade Center. From the Associated Press: Grand total 266 dead on the aircraft. –American Airlines Flight 11: A Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots. This plane took off from Boston at 7:59 AM and crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:45 AM. –United Airlines Flight 175: A Boeing 767. The flight was bound from Boston to Los Angeles. It was carrying 56 ...

<p>BOSTON (AP) -- Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has strong family ties and a group of supporters in Boston, where the two hijacked airliners that demolished the World Trade Center took off.</p> <p>One of bin Laden's brothers set up scholarship funds at Harvard, while another relative owns six condominiums in an expensive complex in the Charlestown section of Boston. Two bin Laden associates once worked as Boston cab drivers, including one who was jailed in Jordan on charges of plotting to blow up a hotel full of Americans and Israelis.</p>

Kabul - In Afghanistan, Kandahar sits as a remote desert town, home of Osama bin Laden, a war room for the Taliban and now a prime target for US reprisals following the destruction wreaked in New York and Washington. With an ethnic Pashtun population of about 200 000 people, it also serves as a vital link with the Taliban's chief supporter Pakistan and an important trade route with the subcontinent, Middle East and Central Asia. And as Afghanistan's most celebrated "guest", Saudi dissident and reported millionaire bin Laden lives there as a close confidante of the Taliban chief, Mullah ...

Privacy, Security Trade-Offs Reassessed

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Steve ChapmanQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comSteve Chapman (back to story)September 13, 2001Why they hate us Americans aren't yet sure who carried out the atrocities that shocked the nation and the world this week. What we do know is that there is no shortage of people with a motive. Plenty of our fellow human beings around the world despise us, our system of government, our economic order, and our way of life -- and some of them have so much hatred that they are ready to kill and to ...

more to come...expecting war.

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Paul Craig RobertsQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comPaul Craig Roberts (back to story)September 13, 2001Can the United States win the terrorist war? On a day filled with so much tragedy and sorrow as Sept. 11, it is too much to expect shocked political leaders to show comprehension of such dramatic events in their public statements. But if we are to avoid more and worse tragedies, we as a people, as well as our government officials, must understand our situation and how it came about. Otherwise, the main impact of ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- About a third of the rifles and other field weapons so far surrendered by ethnic Albanians in Macedonia don't work and may not have been used in recent fighting, military sources said Tuesday. Such a tally would raise questions about the rebels' commitment to disarm and bolster objections from Macedonians who claim the peace accord will fail to cripple the insurgents' ability to battle. NATO spokesman Barry Johnson confirmed some of the rebel weapons were "non-operational." But he set the figure lower: about 5 percent beyond ordinary repair and between 15 percent and 20 percent needing some ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Thomas SowellQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comThomas Sowell (back to story)September 13, 2001A new Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is the only thing in this century that can compare to the terrorist catastrophe that has struck the United States. With all its shock and tragedy, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended our naive innocence about the dangerous world we live in and united a very disunited country. Will this series of attacks unite Americans today? Will it make a dent in the lofty citizen-of-the-world types among the intelligentsia who ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Paul GreenbergQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comPaul Greenberg (back to story)September 13, 2001At war against an invisible enemy Don't tell me there is no such thing as evil in the world. It blares forth from us in the early morning, awakening the nation like a dark sun. Its works are there in the ash-covered streets of Manhattan, in the center of the nation's capital, in the strewn wreckage of a plane outside Pittsburgh, in the panicky calls and useless cell phones and the robotic answering-machine voice that says only, ...