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During
the sixties, I spent quite a bit if time in Lebanon. I
knew a number of Lebanese citizens, and thought that of all
middle-easterners, they were culturally most like Americans
. They are a democtratic-minded people.
Now I see that Lebanon is on most of the lists making the news site rounds; lists of nations we should attack. The terror that flows from Lebanon is PLO and Syrian planned and delivered. These forces conspired to make it appear that Lebanon was in a civil war, then marched in pretending to be peace-makers and conquered the country. The U.S. let it happen in spite of pleas for help from the Lebanese, and when the Syrians and the PLO murdered several hundred of our Marine peacekeepers, we tucked in our tail and went home. In the name of those dead Marines, why don't we start our crusade by making Lebanon free, and at the same time, eradicate a major seat of terrorism? -- Viejo, TX The date of the
attack: 9/11 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 Osama 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 "There will be a great
thunder (collapsing buildings) -- Jay, TX Point taken. But a visitor notes 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 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 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 IN MEMORY OF BARBARA OLSEN, who gave us a lot. -- GS, OH |
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THE DOW INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE CLOSED DOWN 684 POINTS Monday, dropping below the 9,000 mark for the first time since 1998. It was the biggest one-day point loss ever, but not the greatest one day percentage loss. The Dow closed up from its session low, when it was down more than 700 points. Airline stocks were hardest hit: down an average 32-percent; hotel stocks off 18-percent; entertainment stocks were also down. There were fears of a panic selloff in the wake of the World Trade Center tragedy in which the market would go into a freefall, losing thousands of points. That didn't happen. A RECORD NUMBER OF TRADES: Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was more than two billion shares. ALL PASSENGERS ARE SAFE after federal agents and police surrounded an American Airlines jet that landed at Chicago's O'Hare Airport Monday morning carrying what federal officials said were two men and a woman who locked themselves in the jet's lavatories. Luggage that was aboard is being searched. The jet was headed from Austin to Chicago. COULD THE NEXT TARGET OF TERRORIST ATTACKS BE A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT? Russian intelligence says yes. -- The Nation. ALSO: THE FBI SEEMS TO HAVE IGNORED WARNINGS FROM IRAQI-BASED TERRORISTS THAT THEY WOULD INDEED ATTACK A NUCLEAR PLANT, according to one website. US AIRWAYS SAYS IT WILL LAY OFF ELEVEN-THOUSAND EMPLOYEES, about one-fifth of its workforce. And the airline announced Monday it will cut it's flight service by 23-percent. TERRORIST ATTACKS -- WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT TO DO -- from a five-year-old FEMA website. STUDY OF REVENGE -- SADDAM HUSSEIN'S UNFINISHED WAR AGAINST AMERICA. To say that the Clinton administration is blameless in the 2001 World Trade Center tragedy is to say that Chamberlain was blameless in World War II. And if you've been reading TheLatest.Net for the past two years, you know we don't Blame Clinton for everything that's wrong with America, but this angle is startling. Also see: Time magazine's "Inside the Hunt for Osama." 1995: THE YEAR TERRORISM SEEMED SO FAR AWAY. -- The Center for National Security Studies. CONTINENTAL AIRLINES IS ELIMINATING FLIGHTS TO TEN CITIES. This on the heels of an announcement last week that the airline is laying off 12-thousand employees. TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL O'NEILL joined New York police and firefighters in ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Monday morning. Firefighters are walking the floor of the exchange, shaking hands and talking with traders. AN HOUR BEFORE WALL STREET TRADING BEGAN, THE FEDERAL RESERVE LOWERED INTEREST RATES by half a point, to three-percent. MORE THAN 300 FEDERAL AGENTS -- TO BE CALLED "AIR MARSHALS" -- WILL BE ASSIGNED TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION for placement aboard commercial aircraft, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday. All airports -- except Washington's Reagan National, which is closed indefinitely to commercial traffic -- have been reopened, but flights are on limited schedules. THE FBI SAYS THERE "MAY" BE PEOPLE STILL AT LARGE WHO HAVE CONNECTIONS TO THE TUESDAY DESTRUCTION at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. THERE HAVE NOW BEEN FOUR ARREST WARRANTS ISSUED for suspects in the terror attacks, according to the FBI. THE FBI WILL SEEK AUTHORITY TO WIRETAP INDIVIDUALS rather than just certain telephones, Ashcroft said at a Washington news conference Monday. The US will also seek an end to the statute of limitations on terrorist crimes. Ashcroft also said he wants to make terrorism a priority in the criminal justice system, expanding related crimes to make it illegal to harbor a suspected terrorist. The attorney general said he'll ask Congress this week for the new justice powers. PRESIDENT BUSH SAID MONDAY THE US WILL FIND TERRORIST OSAMA BIN LADEN AND BRING HIM BACK "DEAD OR ALIVE," adding, "I want justice." ABOARD THE PLANES THAT DESTROYED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND THE PENTAGON, THE TERRORISTS WERE FLYING FIRST CLASS, paying thousands of dollars for tickets. They spoke in German and bought one-way tickets on the Internet, paying for seven tickets with the same credit card. -- The British Sun THERE IS NEW "INDEPENDENT" EVIDENCE THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS BEHIND THE TRADE CENTER AND PENTAGON ATTACKS, according to Britain's Defense Minister. SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS CONTINUE AT THE FORMER SITE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND AT THE PENTAGON. Simultaneously, workers are attempting to shore up the walls at the damaged portion of the Pentagon. TROOPS ARE MASSING ON THE BORDER BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN. The US has demanded that the Afghan rulers turn mass murderer Osama bin Laden over to American authorities. INDIA HAS PLEDGED "FULLEST COOPERATION" with the US in the war against terrorism, but the Indian press is warning that "war-mongering" is "fraught with danger." ITALY'S DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS HIS NATION'S TROOPS WILL NOT TAKE PART in the US war against terrorism. He adds that use of the term "war" is "inappropriate, it is not a conflict between states..." However, Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's heard from Italian leaders who are sympathetic to the US war on terrorism. THERE WAS A BOMB THREAT AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Monday morning. Employees were evacuated; no bomb found. "THE US MILITARY IS READY TO DEFEND FREEDOM" at all costs, President Bush said Monday. THREATS AGAINST ARAB AMERICANS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED, said FBI Director Robert Mueller Monday. Such "hate crime" attacks will be "vigorously prosecuted," he said. There are already 40 suspected acts of violence against people of Arab descent under investigation, all of which have occurred since Tuesday's World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS ITS RECEIVED 47-THOUSAND LEADS in the search for terrorists in America. PLANNED MEETINGS THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND THE WORLD BANK HAVE BEEN CANCELLED. The two were scheduled to meet in Washington September 29th. THE FBI IS INVESTIGATING WHETHER A SUSPECTED TERRORIST was allowed to visit a Boston Logan Airport control tower just days before Tuesday's terrorist destruction. NATION OF ISLAM LEADER LOUIS FARRAKAHN DENOUNCED the Tuesday terrorist acts, calling those who perpetrated them "wild beasts." CABLE TELEVISION NEWS NETWORKS HAVE RESUMED AIRING COMMERCIALS. CNN, ANN and Fox News Channel suspended commercials just after the destruction of the Trade Center and the Pentagon. ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, AND WHY THE US SHOULD NOT ONLY CAPTURE OR KILL OSAMA BIN LADEN, BUT ALSO LIBERATE THE NATION FROM THE RULING TALEBAN: From Brown University anthropologist William O. Beeman's essay, "Of Bombings In Afghanistan..." from the Brown University Op-Ed Service: "To the north of Afghanistan is one of the wealthiest oil fields in the world - on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in the new republics of the former Soviet Union. American oil companies are involved in an oil boom larger than any in the last 40 years in this region. Untold wealth is at stake, depending on getting the oil out of the landlocked region through a warm-water port." That's why Saudi Arabia and UNOCAL had planned an oil pipeline through Afghansitan -- but abandoned it because of the political instability of the nation. "Enter Osama bin Laden, a sworn enemy of the United States living in Afghanistan. His forces could see that the Taleban would eventually end up in the American camp if things proceeded as they had been. His bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa (since there were none in Afghanistan) was accompanied by a message for Americans to get out of "Islamic countries." By this he specifically meant Afghanistan. "The American response was to bomb bin Laden's outposts while carefully noting that his forces were "not supported by any state." This latter statement was an attempt to rescue the Taleban relationship while giving the Taleban leaders the message that they must ditch bin Laden. For good measure American missiles also took out a factory in the Sudan - a smoke screen for the real target of their action. "Now matters are really in a mess. Iran has actually issued a statement supportive of the U.S. actions. The Taleban are angry, and American citizens across the globe are now the targets of the most fanatical of Islamic militants." "Every time the United States has attempted one of these slick back-door deals, American citizens get burned. What our foreign policy community never seems to learn is that religion and ideology are as strong a motivating force in this region as money or guns. We underestimate these factors every time, and our myopia gets us in trouble every time." -- Mike Shiloh |
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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." |