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The Unasked Question of 9-11: What Was the Motive? by Gary North When the attack on the Trade Towers first reached the media, I was videotaping an event that could not easily be re-scheduled. I had to remain on the job for the rest of the day. So, I did not spend the day in front of a TV screen. Maybe I missed something. After work, I viewed perhaps two hours of replays on the now unforgettable date of 9-11. Not once did I hear any commentator ask the obvious question: What was the motive? They chattered on for hours, ...

Story Index | ForumNASHUA - The local division of BAE Systems is rushing infrared sensors through their production process so that they can be used to find survivors in the World Trade Center rubble.The first sensors from BAE should have been in the hands of rescue workers last night, said Al Dirsa, manager of BAE's Lexington, Mass., plant. More will arrive today and in the following days. The plant is part of Nashua-based BAE Systems Information and Electronic Warfare Systems.Several of the infrared cameras used by the New York City Fire Department were lost when the towers collapsed on the ...

DAY OF INFAMY 2001 Cohen: 'It's not over' Former defense secretary predicts more terrorism By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Should America expect business as usual?your opinion! Former Defense Secretary William Cohen has said he believes terrorist attacks against the United States are far from over, and has predicted that more attacks are forthcoming, perhaps with chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons. "It's not over. There's more to come," Cohen told NBC's "Today" show today. His comments come a day after the worst attack against the U.S. in history. Yesterday, terrorists hijacked four airliners, crashing most of them into two ...

This is a call to all AMERICANS! Beginning today we must display our unity to the world as result of this act of war. A few suggestions for FReepers to spread the word! Show the American Flag on your car, house or where every you can display it, urge your neighbors to do the same. Push for next Tuesday at 15:00 five minutes of silence around the USA for the victims of this tragic event. EAGLES UP!

<p>After the horror of Tuesday's terrorist attacks sank in, the first thing that flashed through anarchist-writer Daniel Burton Rose's mind was the security crackdown sure to follow.</p> <p>"This type of terrorism only strengthens our enemies," says the San Francisco Bay Area political activist and veteran demonstrator from numerous anticorporate protests. "The national-security state appreciates this. They're always looking for new threats to justify their existence."</p>

<p>Harassment of Islamic Americans escalated amid reports that federal authorities were investigating whether associates of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden played a role in Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.</p> <p>Islamic groups in Los Angeles and Washington received threatening phone calls and, in Irving, Texas, outside Dallas, bullets shattered the windows of the Islamic Center of Irving, although no injuries were reported. Meanwhile, in Alexandria, Va., employees at the Old Town Islamic Bookstore came to work Wednesday morning and found threatening notes attached to bricks that had been thrown through the shop's windows. "They said 'Death to the Arabs,'" store manager Hazim Barakat said.</p>

Why Did It Happen? by Rob Moody Crisis is the rallying cry of a tyrant. ~ James Madison As I followed the coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Tuesday, a number of thoughts occurred to me. I have seen very little, if any, coverage of these items by the mainstream media: The intelligence failure by the federal government was total and complete. The primary raison d’etre given for the State is that it protects us from those who would do us harm. But in this case, it couldn’t even protect the headquarters ...

Okay here is an idea.. while the world watches the clean up of WTC let them see American flags flying all around. From the window of nearby buildings. Stickers for rescue workers helmets, etc... I need help organizing this. Anyone have ideas or contact people in the area of WTC that could help? I have a couple of extra flags... God bless America

<p>BEIJING -- While other major powers largely shun Afghanistan's Taliban, China is quietly building ties to the hard-line Islamic group, hoping to cut off a source of support for militant Muslim separatists in China's western regions.</p> <p>Over the past year, China has quietly broadened both political and economic ties with the Taliban, which harbors Osama bin Laden, the militant Arab leader some suspect is behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. China has periodically dispatched diplomats to the Afghan capital, Kabul, and stepped up meetings with Taliban representatives in Pakistan. The two governments have agreed to exchange reports from their official news agencies. At least one Chinese company is building a phone network in Kabul, and Chinese experts are advising the government on rebuilding a dam and other parts of its devastated infrastructure, according to Asian and Western diplomats and Chinese security analysts.</p>

In the Aftermath of Slaughter by William L. Anderson About 90 minutes from my home is the Civil War battlefield at Sharpsburg, Maryland, where desperate Union and Confederate troops massacred each other at a place called Antietam Creek. At the end of the day, September 17, 1862, 4,700 men were dead and scores more wounded. Until September 11, 2001, it was the greatest loss of life ever by Americans in one day. We don’t know yet how many Americans were murdered Tuesday in terrorist attacks, but it seems that the politicians are already at work murdering what is left of ...

Identifying Our Enemies by Michael Peirce Like everyone else I watched in horror as a jet airliner crashed into the World Trade Center. A few long minutes later, the towers collapsed and I knew I had probably seen somewhere around ten thousand Americans die. I sent my staff home as I realized that the attacks were continuing – the Pentagon was hit next. Our Rapid Deployment Force headquarters being in Atlanta, it seemed like a fair precaution. When the dust had begun to settle the interviews began. I’d had a small whiskey to settle my stomach but nothing could ...

This is an act of war, worse than Pearl Harbor, right? Maybe 40,000 folks have died. Yet we haven't seen a body. I'm not in favor of gore (lower case, no pun intended) and mayhem for it's own sake.....yet at Pearl Harbor we saw the rows of bodies laid on the tarmacs, we saw the burned bodies floating in the water..here, we see pictures of shoes, cell phones, and piles of documents...and it helped to fuel the rage and passion of the American people.

A few unorganized thoughts regarding the events in New York: (1) We lost. Our moral posturing about our degradation is merely embarrassing. We have been made fools of, expertly and calculatedly, in the greatest military defeat the country has suffered since we fled from Viet Nam. The Moslem world is laughing and dancing in the streets. The rest of the earth, while often sympathetic, sees us as the weak and helpless nation that we are. The casualty figures aren't in, but 10,000 dead seems reasonable, and we wring our hands and speak of grief therapy. We lost. (2) We cannot ...

ABC radio is reporting that two Amtrak trains have collided in Utah. Nothing more yet ..

Terrorists are made, not born Indiscriminate bombing? Dirty tricks? They're part of the problem, not the solution. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Bruce Shapiro Sept. 12, 2001 | "How much anger can prompt a group of people to do this?" asked my friend David Handschuh, a New York Daily News photographer, after firefighters pulled him, legs shattered, from the rubble at the World Trade Center. With President Bush talking of war and "a monumental struggle between good and evil," motivation may seem beside the point. But David's anguished query is the right ...

With city officials having finished their certification of petition signatures this week, voters will get their say in November on a charter referendum to decide whether the city should ban health benefits to same-sex domestic partners. News of the certification was met with skepticism from opponents of the measure, who said they will challenge the validity of the signatures in hopes of keeping the measure off the ballot. City Secretary Anna Russell said her office confirmed that 21,028 signatures on the petitions corresponded to registered city voters. Supporters needed 20,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot. "We have ...

Where does the money for terrorism come from? Basically, from your wallet and mine, every time we fill up with gas. The one thing we could do which would hit these idiots hardest would be to stop purchasing oil from them. No stone should be left unturned in the search for energy self-sufficiency. The Alaskan oil resources should be exploited and brought on line with all possible dispatch. Klinton's executive order making the low-sulfur coal regions of Utah into a national park should be rescinded and that trillion dollar resource should be exploited. Fuel-saving technologies and inventions which our oil ...

In the wake of the most horrific act of war ever committed on American soil, it is brutally ironic to note that this December 7th will be the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. That far off morning, like this one, caught America sleeping. On that day, like this one, millions of Americans were going about their own business, bothering no one. On that day, like this one, a peaceful America was attacked, civilians slaughtered, by a vengeful enemy who brooked no quarter. However, in 1941, we knew that a militaristic Japan was on the march in ...

Business executives in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to Osama bin Laden, accused of the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. Senior U.S. intelligence officials say the money transfers began more than seven years ago and have been used to finance several attacks by bin Laden, including an attempted assassination in 1995 of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia. The United States Thursday said it would continue to meet Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to discuss demands for the expulsion of Saudi-born bin Laden, but officials cautioned that they expected no dramatic moves ...

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: A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES America: The Good Neighbor. "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 by the Americans who poured in billions ...