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to travel and to live in our countries to all persons? Or should we step back a little and exclude people whose cultural level is too different from ours? -- Bohm I'm from the Mideast and I can tell you Afghanis are stupid people, but good fighters. If we set our minds to it, we can defeat the Taliban and liberate the people from a fanatical, murderous regime. -- AL, CA 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 Urban legends. -- MS 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.
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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 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 INDUSTRIALS CLOSED DOWN MORE THAN 140 POINTS after dropping nearly 400 midday on war jitters and profit warnings from major companies like McDonalds. Trading is heavy: more than a billion-and-a-half shares changing hands. The Nasdaq is down 88 points, or about six-percent. And the S&P 500 has dropped below the benchmark 1000 mark. CONGRESS IS WORKING ON AN ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE to help repair damage to the economy brought on by recent terrorist attacks. President Bush is meeting with Congressional leaders Wednesday afternoon to address details of the stimulus package. AMERICAN AIRLINES IS LAYING OFF 20,000 EMPLOYEES. HONEYWELL SAYS IT'S LAYING OFF 12,000 EMPLOYEES; America West is laying off 2,000. PRESIDENT BUSH WILL DELIVER A TELEVISED ADDRESS TO CONGRESS Thursday night at nine Eastern. THE US HAS ORDERED MORE THAN 100 WARPLANES -- ALONG WITH TROOPS AND WEAPONS -- TO THE PERSIAN GULF REGION as part of Operation Infinite Justice. The military jets could head out as soon as tomorrow. It may be a month before America's first assault begins. LAST TUESDAY'S ATTACKS WERE "PART OF A LARGER PLAN WITH OTHER TERRORISM ACTS, NOT NECESSARILY HIJACKING OF AIRPLANES," according to Senator Bob Graham of Florida. September 22nd has emerged as a date on which more terrorist acts may take place. THREE MEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN DETROIT for misuse of visas. The three work in food service jobs at a Detroit airport, but officials say they may have a connection to terrorists. OSAMA BIN LADEN MAY BE HIDING IN TUNNELS IN AFGHANISTAN THAT WERE BUILT BY MONEY FROM THE CIA. THE WHITE HOUSE REFUSES to negotiate with the ruling Afghanistan government over Osama bin Laden. NEW YORK MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI SAID WEDNESDAY THE NUMBER OF MISSING IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TRAGEDY IS NOW MORE THAN 5,200, WITH 233 PEOPLE CONFIRMED DEAD, 170 HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT says the US cannot rule out that some Middle Eastern states sponsored the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. THERE'S NEW INFORMATION THAT IRAQ AND A RELATIVELY OBSCURE GROUP OF TERRORISTS WERE BEHIND THE NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON BOMBINGS. IRAQ OFFERED CONDOLENCES Wednesday over last Tuesday's terrorism. WHEN TWO JETS SLAMMED INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, there were fighter jets en route -- and they were just eight minutes away. THE TRADE CENTER ATTACK WILL LIKELY COST AT LEAST 14 BILLION DOLLARS. BOEING SAYS IT'S LAYING OFF 30,000 WORKERS over the next year -- 30-percent of its workforce -- because of an expected decline in demand for passenger jetliners. UNITED AIRLINES WILL LAY OFF 20,000 EMPLOYEES, about 20-percent of its workforce as the airline industry continues to cut back after projecting greatly diminished air travel during the coming months following the suicide-destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, CNN reports. This, on the heels of announcements that Continental Airlines is cutting 12-thousand jobs and may file for bankruptcy and US Airways expects to lay off eleven-thousand employees, all within one week. Two United planes were involved in last week's terrorist acts. BOTH AMERICAN AND NORTHWEST AIRLINES ARE EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE LAYOFFS by the end of the week. Airlines, with falling air travel even before last Tuesday's terrorism and new pay increases to union pilots and flight attendants, are clamoring for billions of dollars in federal aid and loan guarantees in order, they say, to stay in business. PHILIPPINE AUTHORITIES WARNED THE FBI SIX YEARS AGO of possible terrorist attacks aimed at hijacking airliners and slamming them into the Pentagon, according to CNN. Philippine authorities found out about the plot after a fire at an apartment belonging to Ramzi Yousef, later caught and convicted for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. THE US IS FACING A SHORTAGE OF ANTHRAX VACCINE just as it prepares to go to war against nations that are suspected of having biological weapons containing the deadly virus. PALESTINIAN LEADER YASSIR ARAFAT IS OFFERING TO JOIN an anti-terrorism task force, perhaps to remove suspicion that he is suspected of having a role in terrorist activities. ARAFAT TUESDAY ORDERED PALESTINIANS NOT TO FIRE ON ISRAELIS, EVEN IF FIRED UPON FIRST. In response, Israel pulled troops out of some Palestinian areas. THE PILOT OF THE FIRST JET TO STRIKE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER LAST WEEK MET EARLIER THIS YEAR WITH THE HEAD OF IRAQI INTELLIGENCE, providing a link between the terrorism and Saddham Hussein, according to CBS News, citing US intelligence sources. THE UNITED STATES WAS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH IRAQ, PREPARING FOR WAR EVEN BEFORE THE TERRORIST BOMBINGS. See TheLatest.Net, September 8, 2001. INSURANCE COMPANIES SAY THEY CAN HANDLE THE PAYOUT OF 30-BILLION DOLLARS in expected insurance claims as a result of the destruction of the World Trade Center. Insurance premiums are expected to rise for businesses located in highrise buildings. ON WALL STREET, stocks stabilized after big selloffs Monday and made modest gains Tuesday but the Dow closed down just 17 points at 8903. The Nasdaq was down 24 at 1555. THE CHANCE OF ANYONE STILL BEING ALIVE AMONG THE RUBBLE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IS VERY, VERY SMALL, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani admitted Tuesday. THE FBI IS WARNING COMPUTER USERS OF A NEW WORM THAT COULD WIPE OUT ENTIRE WEBSITES. Dubbed W32.Nimda, the worm infects servers and computers using Microsoft's Internet Information Server software used to manage Internet pages. The virus attacks 16 points of vulnerability in the software, aggressively embedding itself in files and transferring itself to other servers. It can be spread by Email and could allow hackers access to servers. The FBI notes the worm is unrelated to last week's terrorism. If a computer's Outlook program hasn't been given the March Microsoft patch, the operator's simple opening of an Email containing the worm activates it. AFGHANISTAN'S RULING TALIBAN IS SETTING TERMS FOR TURNING MASS MURDERER OSAMA BIN LADEN OVER TO THE UNITED STATES: They want bin Laden to be tried in an Islamic country. And they want "proof" that bin Laden was behind the Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks. AND THE TALIBAN ARE CLAIMING THEY'LL LAUNCH A HOLY WAR AGAINST AMERICA if the US attacks, but experts say Taleban doesn't have that strong a hold over its people. THE US HAD PLANNED TO OVERTHROW THE RULING GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANISTAN even before last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, a former Pakistani diplomat tells the BBC. And the US was planning to take out mass murderer Osama bin Laden in the process, by mid-October -- before the Afghani snows begin to fall -- at the latest. FBI INVESTIGATORS ARE QUESTIONING A SAN ANTONIO DOCTOR whom they say has close ties to two men detained at a Fort Worth, Texas Amtrak station. Those two men are in custody of federal agents and are reportedly being questioned in New York. ITS POSSIBLE MORE THAN FOUR PLANES WERE SUPPOSED TO TARGET AMERICAN LANDMARKS in last Tuesday's attacks, according to Attorney General John Ashcroft. The FBI is investigating whether terrorists were aboard a fifth flight that was to leave Boston Logan Airport last Tuesday morning, but was cancelled because of mechanical problems. Ashcroft also said Tuesday that the FBI has received 96,000 tips about suspected terrorists. REVEREND JERRY FALWELL HAS APOLOGIZED FOR REMARKS MADE LAST WEEK THAT INDICATED THE TRADE CENTER DISASTER SHOWS AMERICA HAS "LOST" THE PROTECTION OF GOD. IN TEXAS, A NEW POLL SHOWS PEOPLE FULLY EXPECT MORE TERRORIST ATTACKS AND ARE WILLING TO GIVE UP FREEDOMS IN EXCHANGE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY. The Dallas Morning News reports one University of Texas professor as saying, "Wary trepidation is our mindset." A FEDERAL GRAND JURY is convened in New York to investigate the suicide bombings of the Trade Center. CONGRESSWOMAN MARY BONO IS WARNING THAT A NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION CARD MAY BE NEEDED, and of the risk that terrorists may retaliate against American citizens. RUSSIA'S VOICE OF RUSSIA WORLD SERVICE HAS JOINED AMERICAN COLUMNISTS AND TV ANCHORS IN CRITICIZING PRESIDENT BUSH for showing what they call uncertainty in what to do in the moments following terrorist attacks a week ago. The Russian "news service" calls Bush "stupefied" during those moments and even paints Russia as a fatherly type, "advising" Bush to "attain perfect unity of understanding" that will lead to "unity of action." -- WorldNetDaily.com ON MONDAY'S LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN -- which returned to television Monday for the first time since last week's terrorist attacks -- CBS anchorman Dan Rather cried after reciting the portion of "America the Beautiful," "Thine alibaster cities' gleam undimmed by human tears," adding with tears that "We can never sing that song the same way again." Sympathetic, Letterman was moved to point out that Rather is a human being in addition to being a television icon. BIN LADEN HAS ISSUED A DECREE TO KILL AMERICANS because of President Bush's decree to launch air strikes on his home nation, Afghanistan, the Hindustan Times reports. AFGHANISTAN'S TALEBAN LEADERS LAUNCHED A MAJOR OFFENSIVE on Northern opposition forces Tuesday, the biggest such attack in months, according to opposition leaders. TALEBAN'S MILITARY IS CONDUCTING MILITARY EXERCISES as leaders have declared a national emergency. Students are being armed and seminaries closed down. THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS LIKELY TO LOWER INTEREST RATES yet again when the Open Market Committee meets again October 2nd. PRESIDENT BUSH IS MEETING WITH HIS ECONOMIC ADVISORS TODAY in an effort to get the economy under control in the aftermath of terrorist attacks a week ago. 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 report. 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." -- Mike Shiloh |
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OSAMA BIN LADEN: From Brown University anthropologist William O. Beeman's 1996 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." |