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I'm afraid, once again, we are planning too little, too late.  Destroying training camps and killing a few leaders won't do the job.  Ruthlessly conquering rogue nations, such as Yemen, Libya, Syria, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, etc, and providing full support for democratic elections will. It's now a small world, and we have no choice but to be involved.  

And what will we do about the US citizens (and legal immigrants) who support IRA and PLO terror?  Will we prosecute them with the same vigor?  Are we really going to wipe out terrorism?  Or is this just another case of frustrated anger that will burn out after hanging an example?

By the way, you were correct about the gas prices. I believed CNN, who published reports of price gouging as actually happening.  Turns out they were wrong, you were right.  Good job. --Viejo, TX

We cannot let them go unpunished for what they did to the innocent. -- Ricardo 

GOD BLESS ALL WHO DIED. -- Sadd, UT

This wasn't terrorism, this was war. Why isn't Bush doing anything yet? -- Dimmie, MO

Usama bin Laden reminds me of Lee Harvey Oswald, a patsy for a great crime who was set up by forces much larger than he can imagine. -- KillLaden, IL

Buy a flag and remember those who died. -- DL, AL

The military have our full support. Go. -- xx, FL

TheLatest: Thank you for your consistent coverage of this.  -- Julanny, AK

Nostradamus, 1654:

"In the year of the new century and nine months
From the sky will come the King of Terror
The sky will burn at 45 degrees
Fire approaches the great new city...

"There will be a great thunder (collapsing buildings)
Two brothers (The World Trade Center) torn apart by Chaos, 
While the fortress (America) endures. 
The great leader will succumb. 
A third great war will begin when the big city (New York) is burning."

-- Jay, TX

Point taken. But a visitor points out that Nostradamus died in 1566. -- MS

Interesting to see how much New York and the rest of America had tied up in those two buildings (the World Trade Center). -- ToneR, AZ

This is apocalypse. -- Martovina, UT

There's got to be a way anyone's alive in the debris (of the World Trade Center) -- Moll, AZ

To Jolly, who worked in the TC, Please be alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Alga, PA

Congress should pass an emergency law freezing gas prices at $1.25 a gallon and should do so immediately. Let the greedy bastards that are profiting from this nation's misery suffer for a year or two. -- Viejo, TX

BOMBS AWAY -- JX, FL

Timothy McVeigh would be proud. -- Johnson, AL

Has it occurred to anyone that this whole thing could be a setup by the gubment to put us into a war and put lots of money into the pockets of oil companies? -- AxToGrind, NM

Buy gold. -- xx, FL

Buy stocks. -- MS

Buy oil stocks. -- JO, TX

By golly, buy bonds. -- MS

IN MEMORY OF BARBARA OLSEN, who gave us a lot. -- GS, OH

Author Barbara Olsen was aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, but she wasn't supposed to be on that plane. She was set to go to Los Angeles, but took a different (fatal) flight in order to have breakfast with her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, on his birthday. Barbara Olson is the author of a new book about the final days of the Clinton administration, always had the excesses and transparencies of the Clinton administration nailed. Please get her new book, The Final Days, to remember her brilliance.   --  MS

 
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TWO MEN DETAINED, TWO MEN IN CUSTODY FOR TUESDAY TERROR

LINK TO COLE BOMBING ESTABLISHED, FEDS SAY

TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN FUNDED BY DRUG MONEY?

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FEDERAL AGENTS HAVE DETAINED  TWO MEN at an Amtrak station in Fort Worth in connection with Tuesday's World Trade Center tragedy. The two men had up to ten-thousand dollars in cash, hair dye and boxcutters similar to those used to hijack planes that downed the World Trade Center.
The FBI said the men, initially arrested on suspicions of drug trafficking, provide "the strongest possibility we have yet" in gaining background on the Trade Center and Pentagon destruction.

TWO OTHER MEN ARE NOW IN CUSTODY IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRADE CENTER TRAGEDY. Information about one of the men was reportedly obtained from the two men detained in Fort Worth (see above) who are now being questioned in Washington. 

A MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A HIGH-RANKING OPERATIVE OF MASS MURDERER OSAMA BIN LADEN -- AND WHO TRAINED AT FLORIDA'S EAGAN FLIGHT TRAINING SCHOOL -- IS BEING SOUGHT.

INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS IN ISRAEL WARNED THE US CIA LAST MONTH OF LARGE-SCALE ATTACKS BY TERRORISTS. -- The London Telegraph. Two such experts went to Washington in August to warn the CIA that a "cell" of as many as 200 terrorists were planning a "big operation" in the US -- but there weren't enough specifics to prevent Tuesday's attack. The CIA has a history of being "overcautious" about Israeli information, the Telegraph reports. 

         "For years," the Telegraph goes on, "staff at the Pentagon joked that they worked at "Ground Zero", the spot at which an incoming nuclear missile aimed at America's defences would explode. There is even a snack bar of that name in the central courtyard of the five-sided building, America's most obvious military bullseye." 

(The joking has stopped. Major news media are now referring to the rubble of the World Trade Center as "ground zero," an inappropriate and chilling term in this new war against terrorism. "Ground Zero" has always been the military term for the explosion point of an atomic bomb. We have yet to know whether terrorists have access to atomic weaponry. -- Editor)

THE FBI BEGAN LOOKING FOR SUSPECTS IN WHAT WAS BELIEVED TO BE A SOON-COMING TERRORIST ATTEMPT TWO WEEKS BEFORE TUESDAY. The Los Angeles Times reports terrorist suspects may have entered the US in California. 

FEDERAL AUTHORITIES SAY THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED A DIRECT LINK BETWEEN TUESDAY'S DISASTERS AND THE BOMBING OF THE USS COLE, THE SHIP IN WHICH A HOLE WAS BLOWN LAST YEAR -- AND A LINK BETWEEN THE FUNDING OF TERRORISTS AND THE SALE OF DRUGS!

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITY THAT MASS MURDERER OSAMA BIN LADEN AND ASSOCIATES MAY HAVE MADE BIG MONEY ON FINANCIAL MARKETS BY "SHORT SELLING" ON REINSURANCE COMPANIES THAT MYSTERIOUSLY LOST STOCK VALUE IN THE WEEK OR SO BEFORE TUESDAY'S TRAGEDY.  (The "irony" of this and so many other aspects of what terrorists have done in the Tuesday tragedies, and before and since, is that they have carefully, fanatically and cynically used the tools of American capitalism to destroy hundreds of thousands of lives -- killed many thousands, destroyed the lives of those many, many thousands who were close to them -- in perhaps the most peaceful nation on earth, with the stated goal of increasing materialism for Islam and the remnants of the Persian Empire.  In other words, they used the best of America against America. -- Editor)

"STAND UP AGAINST TERRORISM" BUT RETURN TO YOUR NORMAL LIVES. That was the message from President Bush during his regular Saturday radio address. Bush is meeting with national security advisors at Camp David this weekend under beefed-up security.

PAKISTAN HAS AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO COOPERATE WITH THE US in the war against terrorisism, allowing the use by the US of Pakistani airspace and for the sealing of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent the escape from Afghanistan of terrorists, if those terrorists haven't escaped already.

THE MAJORITY PARTY IN AFGHANISTAN IS PLEDGING TO WAGE WAR AGAINST THE US if it attacks the nation that has been harboring mass murderer Osama bin Laden. International analysts are trying to understand how Afghanistan can respond militarily to, well, anything.

THE TALIBAN, RULERS OF AFGHANISTAN FOR NOW, IS  THREATENING TO INVADE PAKISTAN. International analysts are chuckling at this bizarre threat.

A MAN IN PRISON FOR THE 1993 BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER was found, when arrested, with plans for a coordinated series of suicide commercial plane hijacking-crashes. That man is Ramzi Ahmed Yusef, and some say Tuesday's attacks were the fruition of his original plans. -- WorldTribune.com

AT LEAST 187 PEOPLE ARE PRESUMED DEAD in the explosion that followed the crash of a jumbo jet into the Pentagon Tuesday.

THERE ARE REPORTS THAT TERRORISTS IN FRANCE were -- or are -- targeting the American embassy there.

OPEC HAS PLEDGED TO KEEP THE FLOW OF OIL GOING DURING A PROPOSED WAR AGAINST TERRORISM. It'll be interesting to see whether such a pledge is kept under circumstances. 

WHAT'S BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A PASSPORT OF ONE OF THE SUSPECTED HIJACKERS WAS FOUND AMONG THE RUBBLE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. It's being examined by federal authorities.

THE US IS PLEDGING TO GIVE FINANCIAL HELP TO AIRLINES FOR THE ALMOST FIVE DAYS AIRPORTS WERE CLOSED BY THE FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY. 

CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, ALREADY PREPARING TO LOSE MONEY (BECAUSE OF THE FALTERING ECONOMY) BEFORE TUESDAY'S TRAGEDY, is looking at a considerably reduced profit margin in the next few months as Americans fear air travel -- and is laying off 12,000 employees. The company seems intent on misusing the word "furlough" when describing its intentions for its soon-to-be ex-employees.

Northwest Airlines is also cutting back its flight schedule, even when it gets back up to speed this week. 

SO WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADLINES ABOUT GARY CONDIT  AND ROBERT BLAKE? (which TheLatest.Net always called "MEDIA HYPE"): "WE LIVE IN A DIFFERENT AMERICA TODAY...This week's nightmare...has awakened us from a frivolous if not decadent decadelong dream... The dream was simple -- that we could have it all without having to pay any price, and that national suffering of almost any kind could be domesticated into an experience of virtual terror akin to a theme park ride." -- Frank Rich, The New York Times.

IN 1999, OSAMA BIN LADEN WROTE HIS PLAN FOR WORLD WAR THREE: He's now being called the "Architect of New Global Terrorism." -- The Washington Post.

THE US IS RULING OUT IRAQ AS A SPONSOR OF THE TUESDAY TERRORIST ATTACKS, according to US intelligence sources, quoted in WorldTribune.com. This, despite intelligence information from Israel saying, "All the (terrorism) steps lead" to Osama bin Laden and of all the countries, Iraq seems the most reasonable" candidate for sponsoring Tuesday's attacks.

US OFFICIALS ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER A COALITION OF IRANIAN, PALESTINIAN AND LEBANESE TERRORISTS WERE BEHIND TUESDAY'S TERRORIST ATTACKS. WorldTribune.com reports officials believe the effort was coordinated and sponsored by mass murderer Osama bin Laden.

THE DEVELOPER WHO BOUGHT THE 99-YEAR LEASE TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS AGO SAYS THERE ARE PLANS TO REBUILD.

MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR AUTHOR AND TV PERSONALITY BARBARA OLSEN were held Saturday in Washington. 

A US MISSILE CRUISER HAS LEFT ITS HOME PORT IN JAPAN headed for an classified destination. Meanwhile, six British ships have passed through the Suez Canal.

WHAT KIND OF WEAPONS MIGHT THE US USE IN A WAR AGAINST TERRORISM? Writers Sean Hoare and Barry Keevins have compiled an illustrated list. -- News of the World.

WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC OVERVIEW OF TUESDAY'S TRAGEDY? See The Washington Times.

THE PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED A PRESIDENTIAL ORDER DECLARING A STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

PRESIDENT BUSH ATTENDED MEMORIAL CEREMONIES IN WASHINGTON Friday morning for those who died in the terrorist acts. Also in attendance: all living former Presidents (except Ronald Reagan, who's ill) and top US leaders. Among the speakers: Rev. Billy Graham.

BUSH WAS IN NEW YORK FRIDAY SURVEYING THE DESTRUCTION in the wake of the World Trade Center collapse and meeting rescue workers, who broke into an impromptu chant of "USA, USA!" Bush also met with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The president is set to return to Washington shortly.

THE PRESIDENT HAS OKAYED THE CALLING UP OF 50-THOUSAND MILITARY AND NATIONAL GUARD RESERVISTS, though that many won't be needed immediately, officials say. 

A NEW WASHINGTON POST-ABC POLL shows 86-percent of those asked approve of the job Bush is doing as president.

PARTISAN ATTACKS AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH BY THOSE IN THE NEWS MEDIA CONTINUE EVEN DURING THIS CRISIS. -- NewsMax.com

RESCUERS CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR SURVIVORS AMONG THE RUBBLE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER; none have been found since Wednesday morning.

ATLANTA WAS A TARGET OF TERRORISTS TUESDAY, according to FBI officials who have identified those close to the hijackers as reported by Fox News.

EXTREMISTS LINKED TO OSAMA BIN LADEN PLANNED TO HIJACK A PLANE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND TAKE IT TO THE US MAINLAND (TO CALIFORNIA?) JUST MINUTES AFTER THE DISASTER AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, the Philippine Star reports. No word on where the terrorists were planning to take the plane or what went wrong with the plan. Local and US officers raided a Philippine hotel Thursday night; its unclear what happened.

ABOUT 65-PERCENT OF THOSE ASKED IN ANOTHER POLL SAID THEY DON'T WANT THE US TO ATTACK OSAMA BIN LADEN because it could lead to a wide Middle East war. In a new Time-CNN poll, 92-percent believe bin Laden was personally involved in Tuesday's attacks, but only 10-percent think bin Laden should be targeted.

GERMAN POLICE CONFIRM THAT A MAN CALLED THE US, WARNING OF TUESDAY'S TERRORIST ATTACKS, according to The Drudge Report.

OFFICIALS IN INDIA SAY THEIR INTELLIGENCE INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATION ABOUT AN UPCOMING TERRORIST ATTACK ON THE US several days before the attacks Tuesday. They say the communication mentioned that The White House would be included in the attack.

TELEVANGELISTS PAT ROBERTSON AND JERRY FALWELL say the terrorists' action and the resulting devastation prove that America has angered God and lost the protection of heaven.

MAYOR GIULIANI CALLED FOR NEWS MEDIA ACCURACY after wide-ranging Thursday reports that ten people were believed trapped alive under the Trade Center debris. The sources of the reports were rescue workers at the scene, not officials who, as TheLatest.Net pointed out, denied the reports from the beginning.

ALSO:  ALL BUT ONE OF A DOZEN PEOPLE DETAINED AT NEW YORK AIRPORTS THURSDAY HAVE BEEN CLEARED, authorities say. Senator Joseph Biden, who called attention to the arrests by calling the suspects "a second team" of terrorists, apologized for jumping the gun. The one suspect still in custody may be released soon. One of those detained was suspected of possessing a false pilots licence.

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAS RELEASED THE NAMES OF THE HIJACKERS in Tuesday's terrorism. They now say there were 19 hijackers involved. And those hijackers are reported to have frequented bars in Florida, guzzling alcohol and buying rounds for barflys. One of the later-terrorists was reportedly even arrested for DUI -- hardly expected from what were believed to be holy, "god"-serving Islamic fundamentalists dedicated to the Islamic Jihad (war) against the "Great Satan." 

THE FBI SAYS IT'S RECEIVED 36-thousand leads from US citizens who want to aid the capturing of terrorists and head off further terrorism.

RUSSIA'S FORMER MILITARY BASES MAY SERVE AS STAGING AREAS FOR UPCOMING US ATTACKS, The New York Post reports.

THERE WERE PRAYER VIGILS ACROSS THE NATION, BRITAIN AND EUROPE FRIDAY, called by President Bush a National Day of Prayer in remembrance of those killed in the terrorist attacks. Children brought out candles to remember the dead. Hillary Clinton, who has built her political career on exploiting the sentimental evocation of doing things "for the children" was, we're sure, proud. Though probably jealous that she didn't implement the event. 

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday approved 40-billion dollars to aid the cleanup effort at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as well as funding the upcoming military effort. The Senate has already approved the funding. This money is in addition to the rest of the budget for the fiscal year that ends September 20th. Congress has also approved the use by President Bush of all necessary force in finding and bringing to justice those responsible for Tuesday's attacks.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN BRIEFING SENATORS on terrorist investigations, but the briefings may not go on much longer, since some Congressmen have been leaking secret information to the news media.

THE TUESDAY TERRORIST ATTACKS MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR FIVE YEARS, according to the Boston Globe. Investigators are reported to have evidence that some of the terrorists took advantage of the special relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US by posing as students who are routinely allowed into the US. One of the terrorists had links to a 1986 bombing in Israel.

THE ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN AIRPORT WAS CLOSED FOR TWO HOURS EARLY FRIDAY MORNING for what officials there call movement of military equipment. No further details reported. The US has been negotiating with the Pakistani government to close off borders with Afghanistan to keep terrorists from crossing over, and so that the US may use Pakistani airspace during an attack on terrorists.

THREE AIRLINE EMPLOYEES INTENTIONALLY BREACHED SECURITY at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport to prove a point: that there are still gaps in security even after renewed efforts to secure air flights just a few days after the Trade Center attacks.

THE US MILITARY HAS STEPPED DOWN from its highest level of alert to "Charlie," the second-highest alert level.

THE US CAPITAL REMAINS on high security status.

GAS MASKS ARE SELLING WELL among a terrorism-jittery Los Angeles public.

THERE IS A LARGE INCREASE in the amount of asbestos and dioxyn in the New York City air, officials say, but Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday there is no cause for alarm. -- TheDrudgeReport

AMERICAN TRAVELERS WERE BACK IN THE SKIES Thursday for the first time since the Tuesday terrorist attacks, but flights were severely limited. Federal agents were present as airports reopened, as were elite Delta Force commandoes.

REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT in Washington is still closed to passenger plane traffic. Boston's Logan Airport is reopening. 

AN AFGHAN PILOT, along with a retired Pakistani general, trained Muslim radicals to fly civilian planes.

THE MAJORITY, if not all the terrorists who launched Tuesday's assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon lived in comfort in the US, immigrating by posing as businessmen and students, US officials say.

WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WARN that plans for retaliation against terrorists and the nations that harbor them include many long-range actions, some of which may not begin for days, weeks and even months. In addition, Americans must be prepared to see foreign civilian casualties in news reports about the US military effort. "We're building a global assault against terrorism," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday.

THERE WERE AS MANY AS 50 FOREIGN NATIONALS in America who were involved in the explosions that destroyed the World Trade Center. The FBI says almost all of them have been identified. Ten of those suspects are still on the loose.

CONSUMERS HAVE BEEN ON A BUYING SPREE since the Trade Center attack, stocking up on essentials and luxury items, anticipating a shortage when the US launches airstrikes or should there be more terrorist attacks.

THE FBI IS SEARCHING TEXAS for an Islamic man, described as a "spiritual leader" with connections to terrorist Osama bin Laden.

AT LEAST ONE HIJACKER ON EACH PLANE HAD A RAMP PASS, according to reports, allowing total access for the hijacker to smuggle practically anything onto the jet.

IN UNION CITY, NEW JERSEY, five people are said to have trained a video camera on the World Trade Center just before the explosions, taped it, the howled at the explosions and congratulated each other. No world on how authorities know this.

FOR ANALYSIS ON THE WAYS THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION MAY HAVE HELPED OSAMA BIN LADEN and his accomplices accomplish the Trade Center disaster, see WorldNet.com.

THREE PASSENGERS ABOARD A FLIGHT THAT CRASHED IN PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday morning may have overwhelmed hijackers  and crashed the plane rather than allow it to destroy the White House, a plan which terrorists announced aboard the plane. If so, those passengers are being hailed as heroes. The passenger who called in the report of the airborne insurgency: Jeremy Glick.

THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE will reopen Monday.

-- Mike Shiloh

 


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IRAQI STATE TELEVISION'S VIEW OF THE TRADE CENTER HORROR, as reported by WorldTribune.com:

"The massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of U.S. politicians to stop their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on peoples.

"It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have broken through all U.S. security barriers to carry the operation of the century and to express rejection of the reckless U.S. policy."

"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."

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