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DAY OF INFAMY 2001 U.N. child summit scrubbed Security precautions spell end of controversial conference By Mary Jo Anderson © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com UNICEF, the sponsoring secretariat for the United Nations Special Summit for Children, announced yesterday that "in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States" the summit has been canceled. No rescheduled date for the conference, which was set to open Sept. 19 in New York City, was announced. The summit was expected to host 75 heads of state. The controversial conference faced opposition from the U.S. over erosion of parental rights, abortion "rights" for children and intrusion ...

DAY OF INFAMY 2001 Churches respond to crisis Congregations mobilize relief efforts, focus on prayer By Joel Miller © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com While most Americans are still reeling in disbelief two days after the most brutal terrorist attack in U.S. history, many religious leaders are bringing faith and works together as they mobilize to alleviate the nation's suffering. "There is so much to be done," said Clive Calver, president of World Relief, the assistance arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, "not just now, but in the days and months that lie ahead. While many may not always remember, the victims and ...

Macedonia Blasts "Demonic" Forces of TerrorismSKOPJE, Sep 12, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski sent condolences to the American people Tuesday and blasted the "demonic" forces of international terrorism. "This shows the need for a very decisive fight against terrorists, to completely destroy it. Those who continue with terrorism and only be described as demonic," he said in a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush. "If the United States is not protected from terrorism, then no-one is safe," he added. NATO forces including U.S. troops, are currently in Macedonia to implement Operation Essential Harvest, to collect ...

Govt adopts 6-point plan to assist U.S. relief effort Yomiuri Shimbun The Security Council of Japan decided Wednesday to adopt a six-point plan concerning the terrorist attacks against the United States, including dispatching a 90-member team to assist with the relief effort. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi heads the council, which met at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. The government has readied its two official airplanes at Haneda airport in Tokyo to assist with the repatriation of Japanese nationals from the United States, officials said. Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama reportedly told the council that she had ordered the ...

<p>This, for me, is the unforgettable image of the day: the fine gray ash that covered everything downtown, all the people and buildings and cars; the ash that flew into the air in the explosions and the burning and that settled over half the city. It was just like Pompeii, which also was taken by surprise and also was left covered top to bottom with ash, fine gray ash.</p>

How Could This Happen - What Must Be Done by Liz Michael ( www.lizmichael.com ) How could this happen? That's actually a really stupid question. Aside from the timing of this particular event, hijacking a plane in the United States is easy as pie. I could do it with one hand tied behind my back it's so easy. I never would, because I have a love of the American people, and a certain level of Judeo-Christian ethic of life, not only for the lives of innocent citizens, but for my own life. All of United States airline security is focused ...

U.S. bases in Pacific to remain on highest state of military alert Stars and Stripes U.S. military bases in the Pacific continued to clamp down on security Wednesday. Force Protection Condition Delta — the highest state of military alert — will remain in effect "for as long as there’s an imminent threat out there, whether that is hours, days or weeks," said Air Force Capt. Michael Braibish, spokesman from Yokota Air Base, Japan. "That will be determined by intelligence sources." Most non-mission essential services were shut down from Misawa to Seoul, and only mission-essential personnel were asked to report to ...

For those who have never been to New York and the World Trade Center, please go to World Trade Center.I took my niece to the top about 4 years ago. It was quite an experience and the views were breathtaking. We stayed up there a long time and I must say that the thought did enter my mind that something could happen to the buildings someday. But, I was thinking of such things as an earthquake, lightening, hurricane force winds, a gas explosion,...all natural disasters. I was not imaginative enough to consider what would happen on September 11, 2001.

We the people of The United States America to those responsible for the World Trade Centre terrorism: You will NOT dampen our spirits, steal our freedoms, weaken our position or cause us to run or hide in any way. Today we were an easy target for cowards such as you because we stand tall, hold our heads high and allow ourselves to be seen and heard across the nations. We do not cower like spineless jackals as you do, hiding under the slime of cowardice,waiting until no one is looking to strike like a slithering snake. You may think you ...

<p>For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel.</p>

MIAMI -- Law enforcement officials said that a Vero Beach man is now in custody at the FBI regional office in North Miami Beach. The man, of Arab descent, may be connected to the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., but he has not been arrested. FBI Issues A "Be On The Lookout" Notice The FBI Terrorism Task Force has issued a BOLO -- 'be on the lookout' -- for a man they are saying is armed with an AK-47 and is extremely dangerous, according to WPLG. The BOLO lists two names for the man: Amer ...

<p>Mr. Rumsfeld: First, we currently believe and are certainly hopeful that the number of casualties being reported in the press is high. ... But from everything that we currently know, the estimate that's been widely reported is considerably high, and we certainly pray that that's the case....</p>

KABUL, Sept 13 (AFP) - The United Nations, Red Cross and other groups were closing their offices or reducing their presence here Thursday amid fears of US retaliation for the terror strikes in New York and Washington. Without explicitly referring to Tuesday's deadly attacks in the United States, the Pakistan-based office of the UN coordinator for Afghanistan said Wednesday its international staff were "temporarily relocating." "Due to the circumstances prevailing internationally, the United Nations system in Afghanistan is temporarily relocating international United Nations staff working in Afghanistan," it said in a statement. "The relocation of up to 80 international staff ...

Wednesday September 12 09:47 PM EDT THIS IS WAR By Ann CoulterBarbara Olson kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers herding passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone and called her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States. She informed him that he had better call the FBI -- the plane had been hijacked. According to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted when her plane plunged in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon.Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist ...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - A school bus carrying Muslim children was stoned in apparent retaliation for terrorist attacks in the United States, officials said Thursday. Queensland state Islamic Council chairman Sultan Deen said stones and bottles damaged the side of the bus Wednesday in the northeastern city of Brisbane. Nobody was injured. "The children are quite shaken up," Deen said. He said public outrage over the U.S. attacks has also led to abusive phone calls to mosques. Suspicion for the attacks has fallen on terror suspect Osama bin Laden. "It is very disturbing. They are saying things like, 'You ...

<p>The images of destruction, fear and unimaginable loss that dominated Tuesday's terrorist attacks gave way yesterday to a different sight around the metropolitan area. The American flag -- hung at half-mast, draped from windows and planted in yards -- was on defiant display.</p>

<p>President Bush's words to the American people Tuesday night contained a warning to countries which serve as staging areas for terrorists. He said that America "will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbored them." Mr. Bush's warning was incomplete because it omitted an important third party: How about the country which first supplies the essential knowledge and training of future terrorists against the West and against the United States? Harboring and training go together but they need not necessarily be in the same territory or sovereign nation-state.      To take off and land a modern jetliner takes skill, years of training and an ability to read and understand the instrument panel. But to fly either a Boeing 737, 757, 767 or for that matter any modern passenger jet once it is airborne and weather conditions are "cavu" (ceiling and visibility unlimited) is no big deal. Anybody with a little training can engage the autopilot of a hijacked plane to go to the GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates for the World Trade Center towers – and the target is in your gunsights.       Even better training would be assured if it included a simulator. In fact, simulator training would be an essential "fail-safe" asset once the plane were hijacked. The simulator, an expensive piece of machinery, is a ground cockpit with a wide-screen visual technology which simulates with startling realism the sensation of motion – take-off, cross-country flight, landing, emergencies, night flight, bad weather, fuel management, wind shear – in short everything a pilot could possibly experience. Every transport pilot, whether employed by an airline or a private corporation, has simulator time in his logbook. Such simulator training would be invaluable in case of low visibility.       Now the question: Who could have access to a simulator and supply a trained simulator operator? Could Osama bin Laden in his Afghani lair provide the kind of training not merely for hijacking a plane but also for learning when and how to pick the right time to steer the hijacked plane to a new destination, one different from the original flight plans filed by the four jetliners and know to keep it on course and altitude? Simulator training time in the hidden valleys of Afghanistan? Surely not.       The only place where the pilot-saboteurs could get such training would be in a country like Iraq or Iran where there is a pool of young men, some of them pilots, who might willingly accept martyrdom or who could be coerced into accepting such a mortal role. Let us remember that Ramsi Yussef, a Pakistani who was at the center of the effort to bring down the World Trade Center in 1993, was traveling on an Iraqi passport. And Iraqi television on Tuesday officially cheered the bombings in these words:       "The American cowboy is reaping the fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life . . . The collapse of U.S. centers of power is a collapse of the U.S. policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the Palestinian Arab people and implement U.S. plans to dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are the fruits of the new U.S. order."       Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein exemplify an observation uttered by Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian statesman, uttered more than a century ago:       "We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity."      Never were truer words spoken. In light of at least four aggressions against the United States and its citizens probably by the allied forces of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein – the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania, the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen and Sept. 11, 2001, a day in the 2lst century that will live in infamy – isn't it time for a little audacity as well as moral scruples? Arnold Beichman, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is a Washington Times columnist.</p>

STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE UPDATE The sophisticationof the attackers Coordination, planning, secrecy show high operational level Editor's note: In partnership with Stratfor, the global intelligence company, WorldNetDaily publishes daily updates on international affairs provided by the respected private research and analysis firm. Look for fresh updates each afternoon, Monday through Friday. In addition, WorldNetDaily invites you to consider STRATFOR membership, entitling you to a wealth of international intelligence reports usually available only to top executives, scholars, academic institutions and press agencies. &copy;&nbsp;2001&nbsp;WorldNetDaily.com Some questions have arisen as to the sophistication necessary to carry out yesterday's attacks in New York and ...

Navy warships patrol West Coast Military jets circle skies in region By James W. Crawley STAFF WRITER September 12, 2001 Navy warships armed with anti-aircraft missiles have been ordered to patrol the West Coast, guarding San Diego and other major cities from further airborne terrorist attacks, military officials said yesterday. It was the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 that warships, guns and missiles at the ready, were posted off the American coast. Meanwhile, military jets circled near San Diego -- which has the largest concentration of military facilities in the nation -- and Los Angeles ...

The hunt for suspects in Tuesday's terrorist attacks has moved online. On Wednesday, both America Online and EarthLink acknowledged that they are working with the FBI to turn over specific information that may be relevant to the case. "We are cooperating with them in this ongoing investigation," said Nicholas Graham, spokesman for Dulles, Va.-based AOL, a division of AOL Time Warner. Although Graham wouldn't provide details, he denied reports that the company had agreed to install a Carnivore surveillance system. "We are able to provide them with information on an immediate basis," he said, stressing that such an ability made ...