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House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) today issued the following statement regarding the attacks in London, England: "Today the American people stand with our friends in Britain, as they have stood with us in many of our darkest hours. "The terrorists attack those who stand for freedom and tolerance, as we in the U.S. experienced in the starkest terms on September 11, 2001. "Now, as then, America stands against these cowardly attacks on innocent people, and we will not falter in our efforts to rid the world of this ideology of hatred. "Our thoughts are with the victims and their...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting for later Thursday when it was expected to pass a resolution condemning the London terrorist attacks, an official said. Greece's U.N. Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, the council president for July, requested the meeting soon after the four blasts rocked London, his spokesman said. Police officials say at least 33 people were killed in the explosions. The spokesman, Theodossis Demetracopoulos, said the council would probably pass a short resolution condemning the attacks. Britain has one of five permanent seats on the 15-member council. Similar resolutions were passed after the Sept....

If it looks like a dog, smells like a dog and barks like a dog, it probably is a dog no matter how its owner tries to disguise it. Or, as Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo,, recently observed "There is a little more lipstick on this pig than there was before, but it's most certainly the same old pig." THe "pig" referred to by Tancredo is a bipartisan immigration reform bill introduced on May 12 by Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. The bill, if passed, would clear the way to allow many of the estimated...

Fewer terrorist attacks in 2004, more warnings In contrast to the drop in casualties from suicide bombings, the number casualties from kassam rocket and mortar attacks rose sharply. Daniel Koren 24 Jan 05 17:02There were fewer terrorist attacks, but more warnings in 2004. Israel suffered 15 suicide bombings last years, down from 26 in 2003. The decrease in suicide bombings, which frequently cause heavy casualties, also led to a sharp 45% drop in the number of deaths, from 214 in 2003 to 117 in 2004, and to a 41% drop in the number of wounded, from 1,004 to 589. In...

In a movie that's being described as "the feel-good al-Qaida date flick of 2005," Bush-hating actor Sean Penn will star as a suicidal hijacker who tries to crash a commercial airliner into Bush's official residence, the White House. The Penn presidential assassination movie is fiction, of course, as clearly indicated by the title: "The Assassination of President Nixon." Still, Penn's decision to make a film that parallels the only part of the 9/11 attacks that wasn't successfully executed (thanks to the brave passengers aboard United Flight 93) has even Bush-hating Hollywood nervous. "It was very hard to find distribution for...

State Department Tried to Stop Airing of Bin Laden Tape WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department on Friday urged the government of Qatar, which finances Al-Jazeera, not to broadcast a videotaped speech by Osama bin Laden, a senior State Department official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the State Department spoke to officials in Qatar before Al-Jazeera showed a portion of the tape. In it, the al-Qaida leader said the United States can avoid another attack if it stops threatening the security of Muslims. The request to the Persian Gulf government, which is considered an ally...

CNN special reports on 9/11.

The White House in the early days of the Bush administration was fully aware a terrorist attack in America was possible, and terrorism was a major concern for the president, Secretary of State Colin Powell told members of a special commission here today. Powell told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States that the president knew terrorism would be a major concern, just as it had been for the Clinton administration. "Early on, we made clear to the Congress and to the American people that we understood the scope and compelling nature of threat from terrorism," Powell...

Nov. 20, 2003 British Ambassador: "My family and I will be staying in Israel" By JPOST.COM STAFF British Ambassador Simon Macdonald said Thursday night that the British Foreign Office had issued him with new security instructions following today's attack on British targets in Istanbul. At least 27 people were killed at over 450 wounded in double suicide truck bombings Thursday morning in a busy commercial center on northern Istanbul. British Consul-General Roger Short was one of sixteen killed in the attack on the British Consulate. The attacks were timed to coincide with US President George W. Bush's visit to England,...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 — The federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks stepped up pressure on the Bush administration to cooperate by issuing a subpoena on Friday to the Pentagon. Members said they were still weighing a subpoena to the administration for Oval Office documents President Bush received in the days before Sept. 11, 2001, although the panel chose not to issue one today. The 10-member panel said in a statement that it had encountered "serious delays" in obtaining information from the Defense Department. It voted to subpoena the Pentagon for documents, tapes and transcripts involving the actions of the...

Hezbollah Vows Anew to Target Americans Bush officials, fearing attacks, debate whether to go after the group and backers Iran and Syria. By Josh Meyer Times Staff Writer April 17, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Hezbollah, a militant Islamic organization backed by Iran and Syria, has issued a new call to arms against Americans in the Middle East, touching off fears of terrorist attacks and debate withinthe Bush administration over whether to move more aggressively against the group and its key sponsors. The military wing of Hezbollah, long considered by the U.S. to be among the world's most dangerous terrorist groups, has...

<p>Former President Bill Clinton yesterday said he had been "demonized" for trying to change the nation's health care system, and called for an attempt to find a "bipartisan solution" to improve health care in the country.</p> <p>"I think it's quite interesting that the worst congressional losses that the Democrats suffered in the last 60 years was the midterm for Harry Truman and my first midterm, and it both happened after we tried to fix health care and we were demonized" for trying to have the government pay for it, Mr. Clinton said.</p>

<p>Sen. Paul Wellstone, Minnesota Democrat, has withdrawn a fund-raising ad from a Web site that denigrates President Bush's response to the terrorist attacks on September 11.</p> <p>The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Democrats.com, a Web site co-founded by a former staffer in the Clinton White House, reproduced a picture of Mr. Bush talking on the phone on September 11, and sponsored a contest for the best caption indicating what Mr. Bush may have been saying.</p>

LibertyNews.org has re-enabled the mirror of the 9/11 Image and Video archive that was compiled by Eric Krout on 9/11. In a fit of patriotism, and in the interests of history I have decided to permanently reenable the archive. I no longer have any links to the original or any of the other mirrors (there were several of us). The archive includes images, screen-captures and several videos in .avi format.

Recent threads have informed us (freepers) of the video tapes found containing plots for kidnappings, raids, and assassinations. It was to my great surprise when I found that there were some fellow freepers who were skeptical about it. A few did not even seem to be concerned. Some commented that these (very informative, in my opinion) threads were not worthy of being called "breaking news". I can't help but wonder--if it's not breaking news now then when will it be? When terrorrists invade our homes, schools and offices and perform residential assassinations? When they convert our neighborhoods into a mass...

Nickles criticizes Clinton on attacks 2002-05-26 By Chris Casteel The Oklahoman WASHINGTON -- Any investigation of the Bush administration's response to terrorist threats should include an examination of the attacks launched against the United States during Bill Clinton's presidency, Sen. Don Nickles said. Nickles, R-Ponca City, said he was "furious" when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton recently gave a speech on the Senate floor and quoted a New York City tabloid questioning what President Bush knew before Sept. 11 about possible terrorist activity. "I just thought it was very inappropriate," Nickles, the assistant Republican leader, said last week. The United States...

NEW YORK -- Thomas Beller is the scruffy, scattered personification of West Village cool. He's written a pair of acclaimed books of fiction, runs an avant-garde literary magazine, and edits a website, which publishes true stories set all over the city's five boroughs and has tapped into the zeitgeist in a way that few media outlets have done since Sept. 11. His hair is often a mess, and his unbuttoned collar flapped in the spring breeze Thursday as he talked about being a New Yorker put, once again, on "terror alert" by his government. "There was a moment - the...

Research Suggests People Found Ways to Channel Anger After Terrorist Attacks, but No Closure By Will Lester Associated Press Writer Published: May 18, 2002 ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Americans found ways to channel their anger over the Sept. 11 attacks and dealt more effectively with their emotions than people did after President Kennedy's assassination, researchers have found. Many, however, have yet to regain their sense of security as they balance new terror warnings from the government with encouragement that life will "return to normal." Researchers, who discussed the findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for...

Each spring, the Saint John's University Alumni Association Board of Directors selects four Johnnies to receive the Alumni Achievement Award. The award recognizes alumni for outstanding career success and/or outstanding volunteer service to church and community. This year a fifth alumnus, Thomas F. Burnett, Jr., '85, has been selected for his heroic action on September 11, 2001.Tom was a victim of the September 11th terrorist hijacking and crash of United Airlines Flight 93 near Pittsburgh. He is survived by his wife, Deena, and three young daughters. During the hijacking, he called his wife at their home in San Ramon, CA,...