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This Is Not Pearl Harbor By EUGENE E. LEACH Sep 13 2001 12:00AM Within minutes of the horrific attack on the World Trade Center, Tom Brokaw of NBC News was declaring war on terrorism. On almost every TV channel, references to Pearl Harbor were flying even before the Center towers collapsed.The daily news has been called the first draft of history. Some people in the news media seem eager to turn in their first draft while events are still going on. This is irresponsible reporting and dangerous history. War fever is never more vicious than when it is unfocused, ...

They sought peace © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com In all the commentary on the attacks, little has been said of the vocations of the men and women who worked in New York's World Trade Center. Their destruction seems to symbolize our present plight, in which traders and financiers work daily to improve our lives and yet are reviled and seen as expendable, not only by foreign killers, but also by the captains of culture, the arts and academia right here in the United States. The two buildings were once glorious, and all the more so because they were constructed not to display the ...

It is clear to all, that without powerful state support, it is practically impossible to organize such attacks, which were hit on USA on the last Tuesday. This fact is confirmed also by representatives of the government of United States, who informed, that attack against USA became possible due to disorder of operation of the satellite system of NASA. Thus, the American experts approve, that attack was directed on satellite system of USA as a whole, instead of on internal system of air defense. It is obvious, that the group, which has prepared massive attack to USA, was armed not ...

NEW YORK -- He does not want his name known, he said, "out of respect for the other police and firemen." Top Stories • Bush to avenge 'act of war'• FBI on trail of terrorist bombers• 'I have to do something'• Powell sets up global anti-terror coalition• Residents: 'How can you not be shocked?'     He was there on that first bloody night under the lights when burly men in tears desperately but gingerly shifted the twisted steel, listening for voices in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.     It is not a rare kind of modesty, not among the thousands of volunteers in the auxiliary police and ...

Amir of supreme military Madzhlisul Shura of mujahideen, Shamil Basayev issued an announcement on Wednesday in connection with air attacks on Washington and New York. The Chechen General, in particular declared. «On behalf of mujahideen, I express condolence with natives and relatives of the lost Americans. The pain, which is experienced today by American citizens, is familiar to us. We sincerely sympathize with them. We know that Russian rockets and bombs, practically each day, since more than two years inflict such a pain of loss in our houses. Multi-Mullion America has lost only ten thousand citizens. One million Chechen people ...

She meant to do it long ago. Julie Goodman wanted to hang Old Glory from the front of her family's Houston home to show love for this country. For many reasons, the young family just never got around to it. Then the unthinkable of improbable tragedies ripped out this country's last remnant of innocence: Terrorists used hijacked commercial planes to level the the World Trade Center's twin towers to dust and to attack the Pentagon. Goodman knew it was time to do something. On Wednesday Goodman and her 2-year-old daughter made a trip to Kronberg's Flags and Flagpoles to buy ...

<p>The most extraordinary news event of the century became an overnight reflection of the American soul as initial media coverage gave way to collective emotional reaction.</p> <p>Stories reverberated with visceral expressions of outrage, anguish, anxiety and fierce resolve from a huge swath of the population: politicians, eyewitnesses, pundits, heartland farmers -- all had their say in what was almost universally billed as "The Day After."</p>

On Doomed Flight, Passengers Vowed to Perish Fighting By JODI WILGOREN and EDWARD WONG They told the people they loved that they would die fighting. In a series of cellular telephone calls to their wives, two passengers aboard the plane that crashed into a Pennsylvania field instead of possibly toppling a national landmark learned about the horror of the World Trade Center. From 35,000 feet, they relayed harrowing details about the hijacking in progress to the police. And they vowed to try to thwart the enemy, to prevent others from dying even if they could not save themselves. Lyzbeth Glick, ...

To: Osama Bin Laden, The Taliban, Sadam Hussein, The Revoultionary Guard From: America's Heartland Re: September 11, 2001 Let us be direct and plain. It is clear that we have sent you the wrong message over the last few years, in fact stretching back into the 1970's when your ilk began to terrorize innocent American citizens. We know, as a result of the misguided policies of a few of our political leaders, that you have gotten accustomed to slaps on the wrist, sanctions and embargoes for your atrocities. This apparently led you to think that you could conduct a massive ...

<p>September 12, 2001 -- THE response to this unimaginable 21st century Pearl Harbor should be as simple as it is swift - kill the bastards.</p> <p>No, I don't mean hunt them, arrest them, extradite them and prosecute them in a court of law.</p>

Afghan pilot says he trained 14 militants to fly Reuters Dubai, September 13: A former pilot with Afghanistan's national carrier was on Thursday quoted as saying that he had helped train 14 Islamic militants, some holding European passports, to fly civilian aircraft. The London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted the pilot as saying from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan that the trainees had left the war-torn country nearly one year ago to undisclosed locations after they completed their training. The newspaper did not say if the trainees were among the hijackers who slammed commercial aircraft into the Pentagon in Washington and ...

Adm. Moorer: Clinton Policies Led to Disaster The catastrophe that struck America was the result of a decade of military cuts and the undermining of U.S. intelligence agencies, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer told NewsMax.com Admiral Moorer served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military official, and brought the Vietnam war to a conclusion. He has served in three major wars. Yesterday’s events brought back memories of Pearl Harbor, he said. Admiral Moorer, then a naval aviator, was present at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Admiral Moorer made the following analysis to NewsMax, his quotes ...

<p>Local teams, as well as sports organizations and leagues worldwide, are planning additional stadium and arena security measures in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.</p> <p>Specific plans have not yet been set, but some combination of metal detectors, bomb-sniffing dogs and enhanced, casino-style video surveillance systems appears likely at hundreds of sports facilities.</p>

WASHINGTON -- The attack on the United States placed intense pressure on the Bush administration Tuesday to expand the war on terrorism from its focus on individual cells to broader campaigns against nations that harbor terrorist organizations.President Bush suggested such a shift is already underway, telling the nation in his Oval Office address, "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

<p>Rescue workers clawing through the ash and scoured concrete at the Pentagon and former World Trade Center towers face situations they have never faced before, a federal official says.</p> <p>"This is unlike hurricane debris. This is concrete and hazardous material that requires a [higher degree of] special handling. And this is huge. In New York, we're confronting the equivalent of ruins from a 285-story building or 28 10-story buildings. This is a massive effort. We've never had to deal with anything of this magnitude or degree," Bruce Baughman, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Planning and Operations Division, said yesterday.</p>

<p>U.S. intelligence agencies are working to track down remaining terrorists and their supporters following Tuesday's attacks, as critics called for increased spying effort against extremists.</p> <p>CIA Director George J. Tenet said that the agency is one of the leaders in the search for the "sponsors of these unspeakable acts."</p>

Soft-Pedaling the Barbarians FrontPageMagazine.com | September 13, 2001 I AM a libertarian. The murderous aggression perpetrated this Tuesday by terrorists therefore incenses me.&nbsp; Make Comments View Comments Printable Article Email Article The most bizarre response to the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania massacres is an attempt by some libertarians to rationalize it as an entailment of American foreign policy.&nbsp; Justin Raimondo, editorial director of Antiwar.com, writes in “Terror: The Price of Hegemony”: Crashing down along with this symbol of capitalism [the World Trade Center], modernity, and civilization is the overweening hubris of a government – and a people ...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - From his hide-out in Afghanistan, terror suspect Osama bin Laden directs a global network that reaches most corners of the globe: from the Comoros Islands to Jordan, from Canada to Australia. The exiled Saudi billionaire can turn to experts in any of these places for tips, such as which countries have the most porous borders or the weakest security. "When these people are captured ... or when a suicide bomber kills himself, there are other volunteers to take their place," said Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of counterterrorism operations for the CIA. U.S. administration officials say ...