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Like everyone else in America, I am devastated and wondering what I can do to help in this unprecedented times. I have decided there is one small thing I can do to show my trust, faith and support in my country. That is to not panic and pull my personal investments out of the market. If each of who have a portfolio, large or small, simply ride it out when Wall Street reopens we will be making a statement that we support and believe in America and her ability to survive.

So after pulling guns and ammo off the shelves for a day "for the safety of [its] customers and employees," Kmart has decided to put them back. As was the case with Citibank last year and Bank of America a few months ago, many will say, "OK, they've retreated, they've seen the light, we taught them a lesson. Let's reward them for their good behavior, and show our forgiveness." Now, maybe eight years under Clinton have conditioned the country to forgive outrages after denials, apologies, or reversals -- "it's time to move on" -- but not me. These people ...

A military man will tell you: You must orient yourself to the field of action, then observe until you grasp the nature of the enemy and the conflict. Only then can you decide on your own objectives, and only then can you act. I. Threat Assessment: Yasser Arafat, leader of the "Palestine" Liberation Organization and titular head of the "Palestinian" irredentist forces, proclaimed himself "completely shocked" by the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That was what he said in English, in front of reporters. No one knows what he said in Arabic, to his lieutenants and ...

One of the most irritating peeves, that has disturbed me for years, is the inability to see a clear blue sky. There’s always one, and often times several of those darn condensation trails from jets flying high in our atmosphere. But yesterday there wasn’t. All I saw yesterday was the clearest, bluest sky that I’ve ever seen. I mused at it in wonderment. I can’t tell you how bad I feel about it, wishing for such a moment. And never has the adage ‘Be careful what you wish for’ been truer, or more painful. This is my hope, and not ...

China Strengthens Ties With Taleban by Signing Economic Deal John Pomfret Washington Post Service Thursday, September 13, 2001 BEIJING In a sign of Beijing's increasingly close ties with the Taleban regime in Afghanistan, China has signed a memorandum of understanding for economic and technical cooperation with Kabul, press reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan said. . The agreement was reported Tuesday, the same day terrorists hijacked four planes in the United States and drove them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A Chinese delegation signed the deal in Kabul with the Taleban's minister of mining, Mullah Mohammed Ishaq, the ...

Larry Killen Normal 1 33 2001-09-13T13:04:00Z 1 408 2330 The Killen Family 19 4 2861 9.4402 Print 2.85 pt 2 Has Gary Condit gotten the biggest “Get out of jail” card he could ever hope for?  Are there any news cameras outside the Levy’s home today?  Would the Levy’s get ten seconds air time if they spoke?  If Chandra’s corpse were found, would it be get coverage now?  If more leads pointed towards Condit, would the DC police and FBI have the resources or will to pursue them? Bill Safire said that their had to be a breach of ...

My friends, I had intended to remain silent to allow a decent period of mourning, in the aftermath of the American tragedy that is now, evidently, a well-planned lethal foreign attack against Americans on 911 Tuesday, America's second Day of Infamy. But I just saw Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson being interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox News, and she was suggesting that it was "ridiculous for Americans to have to go into protective mode" when they board an aircraft. She wants us to sit quietly when we board, secure in the knowledge that there's a sky marshall on board. ...

My friend and I raised money for the Bush campaign this way, no reason not to do so now for our fellow Americans. Let us know what you think! (Money raised goes to Salvation Army and the Red Cross)

Wednesday, September 12, 2001No Time for Fake Passions in Fighting Real TragedyBy: Hugh Hewitt, TCS CorespondantWhen Congressman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., declared unqualified support for President Bush and his actions on Tuesday, I knew that the attack on the country had changed Washington in profound ways. Some in the leadership of the elite media, including Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, and Peter Jennings, are holdouts in the instantaneous and almost unanimous decision of Americans to back the president to the hilt, but if even a hardened partisan like Waxman lines up behind President Bush, then Congress will do what he asks it ...

To see black holes, those gravitational whirlpools that suck in matter and even light, you need not just a powerful telescope but a bit of imagination. You can't observe the holes themselves, just the bad effects they have on their neighborhoods: gobs of stellar matter screaming out radiation as they are pulled toward what appears to be an omnivorous, bottomless pit. It is comforting to think that something so voracious is so far away. But there are times when physicists wish that they could take a closer look. Some of the newest ideas in high-energy physics suggest that this may ...

I was just wondering. Are there any FReepers that have made preparations in case this war gets worse than it already has? I'm talking about buying survival gear, informing family of actions and contingency plans, thinking out all possible scenarios, etc. I'm going to my place of employment with my Wife and Son. With my firearms, we'd have an ample supply of food, water and resources. It's easily guarded and HUGE!

They just broke into the national coverage here to report that someone who had attended the pilot school in Florida had just been detained in Ft. Smith Arkansas. He was driving a red van with FL plates at the time he was arrested. At his home, apparently in Florida, a search turned up evidence of his involvement with the NYC and DC incidents on his computer. Sloppy for a terrorist, but that's our good fortune. My apologies that I don't have a link--this story is not yet on any of our local news sites. When it comes up, I'll add ...

DO NOT POST ANY MILITARY INFORMATION YOU HAVEIt is imperative during this time period that no one and I mean no one post any information they have about our military except to report on the crash of the plane at the Pentagon. There have been several postings tonight giving information about bases near where they live -- please do not discuss your local bases on the open forum. Use freeper mail to people you know. Our men and women of the Armed Forces will most likely be put in harm's way soon enough without our telling people what is going ...

Israel Television correspondent Oded Granot reported this evening that Yasser Arafat's Tanzim have kidnapped the Palestinian cameraman who shot a report for a major news agency showing Palestinians in Ramallah celebrating the attacks against the United States. The report includes footage of Palestinian Police firing their assault rifles in the air in celebration as hundreds cheer. Granot said that the news agency was warned that the cameraman would be killed if they dared to air the item. GAMLA has gathered together several of these pictures, along with a couple of articles on both the Paletsinian celebrations and Egyptians talking to ...

Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become painfully clear that most Americans simply don't get it. From the president to passersby on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy, which must be answered with overwhelming force - just as soon as someone can construct a credible account of who was actually responsible. Shock, rage and grief there has been aplenty. But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, ...

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It will take a long time for the dust to settle and for all the dead to be buried. It will take even longer for the US - and the entire world, for that matter - to return to some semblance of normalcy. And yet, even now, officials in the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, and other US government agencies are beginning the agonizing analysis of what went wrong, what should be done to rectify past mistakes, and above all, what action should be taken against the perpetrators of this, the most evil and dastardly deed imaginable. The first question ...

By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Thursday the hijackers who steered commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Tuesday had "significant ground support." "(To have) operated with technical proficiency to target and to land an aircraft of that size with the deadly accuracy of these acts of war, was something obviously that resulted from a complex organization with significant ground support," Ashcroft said. In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" program, he said there had to have been extensive ground support and coordination for the hijackers to ...

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Reports on Islamic Terror Links The KLA's main staging area is in the vicinity of the town of Tropoje in northern Albania [Jane's International Defense Review, 2/1/99]. Tropoje, the hometown and current base of former Albanian president Sali Berisha, a major KLA patron, is also a known center for Islamic terrorists connected with Saudi renegade Osama bin-Ladin. [For a report on the presence of bin-Ladin assets in Tropoje and connections to anti-American Islamic terrorism, see "U.S. Blasts' Possible Mideast Ties: Alleged Terrorists Investigated in Albania, Washington Post, 8/12/98.] The following reports note the presence of foreign mujahedin (i.e., Islamic holy ...