News just in- I understand arrests are currently being made in a hotel in Boston and somewhere in Florida; strong indication that these are directly connected to yesterday.
Seeing the pictures from Boston now; looks like half the FBI's anti bomb-squad is there.
Meanwhile, in Europem, the NATO countries are drafting a statement saying that the attack on the US will be considered an attack on ALL NATO countries.
This is a first. NATO has never before considered itself under attack. And it will mean big things.
The announcement is expected inside 30 minutes.
Oh thank God we finally got a call from my god mom. She's fine, she was 70 blocks away from the World Trade Center, she's holding up at a friends apartment. They are saying that Battery Park (that's where she lives)is fine, it's covered in dust and debris, the power is out, but from what she hears, her building is still standing. She is in shock to say the least, but the people in NYC are sticking together, and helping out and really comforting each other. She is worried about her neighbors and many of the people who work in the shops around The World Trade Center, she does her shopping there, and the people who work there have become her friends she said. She is worried about her 2 cats and hopes she'll be able to come home before they starve. She said when she looked south towards lower Manhattan, she couldn't believe it, normally where there would be two huge buildings theres blue sky and the river. She's in shock. I hope other people with relatives are as lucky as I.
at last some good news
btw does anyone else think that the stuff left at boston airport has been planted there, it seems a little convenient to me for the fbi to find a copy of the kuran, an arabic flight video and flight instructions in arabic, this whole thing seems to well planned for these things to be left around where the fbi can find them, i also find it strange that of all the phone calls that were made from the planes no one has mentioned the nationality of the terrorists.
well the steel bars in the buildings reached over 300 degrees celcius due to the fire and they loose there supporting abilities at this heat so they collapsed. And when about 10 storries collapsed its hard for the stories beneath to be able to support or withstand the weight, then you got your chain reaction.
More news.......
Germany Holds Airport Worker in Terror Probe
By Erik Kirschbaum
Reuters
HAMBURG, Germany (Sept. 13) - Germany has detained an airport worker in connection with Tuesday's U.S. terror attacks and three of the suicide hijackers may have belonged to a Hamburg-based extremist group, authorities said on Thursday.
Police declined to identify the detained man and did not say what his job had been or where he worked. He was in investigative custody because he was in an apartment that was used by several suspects, they said.
The Federal Prosecution Office said it was investigating an extremist Islamic group that had been active in Hamburg since the start of the year. One suspect with Arab links was known to them but had not been detained yet.
''These people were of Arabic background and lived in Hamburg and were Islamic fundamentalists and they formed a terrorist organization with the aim of launching spectacular attacks on institutions of the United States,'' said Kay Nehm, Germany's Federal Prosecutor.
''They are being investigated on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, murder and launching an attack on air traffic,'' he said. ''We suspect that at least since the start of this year these people lived in Hamburg.''
Nehm said no evidence had been found yet connecting the suspects with Saudi-born exile Osama bin Laden, who several western intelligence agencies believe may be behind the attacks. He is said to have denied any involvement.
LEADS FOR THE U.S.
The developments should provide important leads to U.S. authorities trying to identify the mastermind behind the hijacking of two planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday.
U.S. agents served warrants on homes and searched businesses in southern Florida on Wednesday. The passenger lists of the four hijacked jets included the names of at least four Florida residents suspected of being supporters of Bin Laden.
The northern port city of Hamburg is home to about 80,000 Muslims of various nationalities. Security experts say Germany is regarded as a safe haven for Islamic extremist groups.
Authorities said three of the suspected hijackers who had been on the passenger lists were members of the Hamburg-based group. Two of them and a further suspect had studied electronics at the Technical University in the city's Harburg district.
A Hamburg state police chief, Gerhard Mueller, said: ''We have in the search for a suspect of Moroccan origin searched an apartment in Hamburg and provisionally detained one person, a man.''
ON THE PASSENGER LISTS
He said it was too soon to say if the detained man would remain in custody. Mueller said the man had been living in Germany legally.
Hamburg's interior minister, Olaf Scholz, said police had searched four apartments on Wednesday night and questioned a number of people in the city after getting leads from media reports and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Scholz said Mohammed Atta, 33, whose name had been cited in media reports as a suspect and who was on the passenger list of one of the hijacked planes used in the attack, had lived in Hamburg in one of the apartments that were searched.
He was registered as being from the United Arab Emirates, as was Marwan Yusef Mohammed Al-Shehhi, 23, who Scholz said was on one of the other attack planes.
Al-Shehhi had also lived in Germany, sometimes in the same apartment as Atta, Scholz said. He left Germany for the United States on May 2.
''It is evident that they avoided doing anything that would bring them to the attention of police or the immigration authorities,'' Scholz said. He said police had interviewed a number of people but made no arrests.
Scholz said police had checked eight apartments in the city and searched four.
''In one of the apartments, the people who were registered as living there were not found, but one woman was taken from the building to the police station as a witness.''
Scholz said: ''We have gathered a lot of information that will be very useful for the further investigation of the Federal Criminal Office but of course will also be of great significance for the FBI.''
''Hopefully we have made a meaningful contribution to clearing up these dreadful attacks.
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And we should have taken this guy out before.....
Saddam: 'Evil' U.S. Policy to Blame for Attacks
Reuters
BAGHDAD (Sept. 12) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said Wednesday that devastating attacks on the Pentagon in Washington and the World Trade Center in New York were the harvest of the "evil policy" of the United States.
"Regardless of ... human feelings on what happened yesterday, America is reaping thorns sown by its rulers in the world," the Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted Saddam as saying in his first directly reported comment on the attacks.
"He who does not want to reap evil should not sow evil," Saddam said at a meeting with the minister of military industrialization, Abdul Tawab Mullah Hwaish, and a group of engineers.
Thousands of people are feared dead after hijacked airliners demolished the twin towers of the World Trade Center and caused carnage at the Pentagon, heart of U.S. military might.
The United States is exporting evil, corruption and crime, not only through its armies deployed in various parts of the world, but also through its movies, Saddam said.
He also referred to "current criminal acts, backed by criminal, racist Zionism, against our Palestinian people."
Saddam did not rule out that Tuesday's attacks were carried out by American nationals.
"If what happened to America is an internal affair, the Americans are best placed to diagnose the ailment," he said.
Iraqi state television Tuesday hailed the attacks as the "operation of the century," which the United States deserved for its "crimes against humanity."
President Bush has pledged the United States will hunt down the attackers and make no distinction between terrorists and their hosts.
U.S. and British warplanes conduct virtually daily flights over large swathes of northern and southern Iraq to prevent Iraqi forces from conducting operations against anti-Baghdad peoples in the regions.
14:58 09-12-01
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http://www.taleban.com/
You get the general idea. They hacked the Taleban web site.
The next hacking should be done with axes
There does, right now, appear to be the possibility of Taleban co-operation if it WAS Bin Laden.
BTW, pictures today of Palestinians coming out and holding services in memory of the dead far outweigh the pictures of some them them celebrating the events.
Part of the shock of all this is that a large part of the US did not quite realise just how much they were reviled and loathed out there.
The other tragedy, of course, is that Bin Laden was armed and brough to power by the US for use against the Russians. There is a lesson to be learnt there as well.
There is a lot to learn from all of this.
I'm still hoping they find more alive in there. I hope to God there are ore than five survivors, esepcailly after all those rescue workers lost their lives.
You have to take into consideration the hell the Middle Eastern people living in America are being put through right now. There are three girls from the Middle East who do the whole cloth-around-the head thing and today thay had food thrown at them. I personally think that was uncalled for. It's reminiscent of when the Japanese-Americans were put into camps during WWII.