Photos of Washington, DC -- the White House, downtown, and the Pentagon -- that I took yesterday after the attacks: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/911-terrorist-attacks.html A sad, touching Userfriendly cartoon: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010912&mode=classic SPOT infrared satellite image of Manhattan, acquired on September 11 at 11:55 AM ET. Image may be freely reproduced with "CNES/SPOT Image 2001" copyright attribution: http://www.spot.com/home/news/NYC-091101.jpg Bin Laden applauds attack but denies involvement, aide says: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/09/12/binladen-happy.htm FBI questioning people in Boston, Massachusetts, and Florida, asks for help in finding two vehicles: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/investigation.terrorism/ Massachusetts police nab at least five men alleged to be collaborators in attack: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/ausattk09122001.htm Boston hotel raided; White House and Air Force one were reportedly targets of attackers; President Bush vows to avenge: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16714-2001Sep12.html http://www.usatoday.com/hlead.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12CND-PLANE.html Terrorists allegedly trained as pilots inside U.S.: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/09/12/investigation_010912 Alleged telephone account of passengers on flight that crashed near Pittsburgh rushing terrorists: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/currentmail.html#eye San Francisco mayor receives don't-travel-to-NYC warning -- eight hours before Tuesday's attacks happen: http:///www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml Blood donation centers list (SF locations): http://4.21.235.79/donating/centers.htm In NYC: http://www.nybloodcenter.org How to find your local Red Cross location: http://www.redcross.org/where/where.html NSA allegedly now needs a fatter budget: http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/12/janes.underfunding/index.html Terror attack linked with computer games (flight simulators): http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/50/21635.html Rebel group, not U.S., apparently responsible for Afghanistan explosions: http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/11/kabul.blasts/index.html Donate money to Red Cross via Pay Pal (thanks to DL and SA for these): http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/relief-outside via Yahoo Pay Direct: http://paydirect.yahoo.com/PD/onePage/onePageRedCrossMoney-drv.pd/ via Amazon: http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/paypage/PKAXFNQH7EKCX/107-8648671-8954909 Jonathan Wallace's account of the 9-11 NYC events, "A Hard Rain": http://www.spectacle.org/0901/wtc.html "The tactical blame falls on the U.S. government, which has grievously failed in its topmost duty, to protect American citizens from harm": http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001105 911 call preceded fiery Pennsylvania crash; http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109120251sep12.story Federal government websites useless in providing info on attacks: http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0910/web-sites-09-12-01.asp Excite poll that says (as of 2:30 pm ET Wed) that over half of self-selected respondents would not give up their freedoms to thwart terrorism: http://news.excite.com/news/poll/ Country-by-country reaction: http://www.sltrib.com/09122001/nation_w/131617.htm Officials finger bin Laden as top suspect: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010912-4268220.htm "Arab leaders have stressed that anti-US feeling is reaching a peak, fuelled by US support for Israel and the belief that its hands-off approach to the conflict was encouraging Jerusalem to crush the (Palestinian) intifada": http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3S0L82IRC&live=true Top government leaders were evacuated to the underground Mt. Weather bunker (article doesn't say this, but that's the "secure government facility 75 miles west of Washington"): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010911/aponline182325_000.htm Background on Mt. Weather (a fascinating, and spooky place -- I've driven by the mountaintop entrance -- the rest is underground): http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/mt_weather.htm "It's essential to point out just how many of the world's more baleful terrorists and mass murderers were born precisely from the kind of operations now advocated by the bomb-and-assassinate crowd": http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/12/blowback/index.html Mailing list "for dealing with the aftermath (political, emotional, etc.)": http://www.megacity.org/mailman/listinfo/wtc-effects U.S. allows limited air service to resume: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1539000/1539877.stm Akamai mourns executive, co-founder who was aboard hijacked airplane: http://www.akamai.com/html/en/nr/press/press292.html Akamai-powered Washington Post photo gallery: http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/front.htm Norman Y. Mineta, secretary of transportation, statement: http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot9301.htm Attacks to "accentuate" bear market: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?guid=%7B8C70CA09-C71D-423B-BEEE-E9E6816DCD70%7D&siteid=myyahoo&dist=myyahoo Federal government's earlier life-value estimate ("those agencies that use a dollar value of life in economic analyses should use $1.5 million"): http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/techadvs/t75702.htm "No country will salute the men who carried out such actions; but many people in the Arab world will be privately rejoicing that America has at last been made to suffer for what most Arabs regards as its blinkered pro-Israel policy": http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001314681,00.html "Bullseye," say Egyptians as they cheer, celebrate Tuesday's attacks: http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010912/world/afp/_Bullseye___say_Egyptians_as_they_celebrate_anti-US_attacks.html Palestinians in Lebanon fire with joy after attacks: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010911/1/1fkyw.html Partial list of victims: http://usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/11/victims-list.htm Oil futures top $30 after attacks: http://www.ftmarketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B9FD7AF3C-8C7F-4782-B1F5-03D85048635B%7D&siteid=mktw ABC, Fox pull terrorist-themed movies after attacks: http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_tech&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_technology&bt=ad_position1_technology&middle=ad_frame2_technology&s= Senate Intelligence committee to probe NSA-CIA's failure to perform: http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20World%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_topworld&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_windex&bt=ad_position1_windex&middle=ad_frame2_windex&s=AO56luh "Mr bin Laden himself recently released a long video, during which he repeated his usual fulminations against America. An Arab journalist with ties to Mr bin Laden's cadres had reported talk of an 'unprecedented' action against America": http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=779127 "Hardball, mideast-style liquidation" is a useful political tool: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-horowitz091001.shtml Terrorist jitters spread around the globe: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/09/12/worldreax_010912 No more survivors expected at Pentagon: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/09/12/pentagon_010912 eBay has imposed a temporary ban on the sale of attack-related items: http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_tech&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_technology&bt=ad_position1_technology&middle=ad_frame2_technology&s= Slashdot's collection of links: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/12/161200&mode=nocomment Time's terrorism cover stories archive: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,174538,00.html IMC coverage: http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature.php3?category=NYC&feature_id=SEPT11 CNN chronology of attacks (very informative): http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/index.html -Declan ********** ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==================> F R E E D O M N E W S <================== ----------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsub: http://www.free-market.net/features/lists/ ... Hijacked passengers ordered to call families ---------- Passengers on board the airliners used in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were ordered by their captors to call relatives to say they were about to die. Among them were Barbara Olson, a TV commentator and wife of the Solicitor General. (09/12/01) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14365-2001Sep11.html Survivors call for help from beneath rubble ---------- As survivors buried under the rubble of New York City's World Trade Center use cell phones to call for help, rescue workers struggle to reach the living and pull them to safety. The death toll is unknown at this time. (09/12/01) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34249,00.html Flag and gun sales skyrocketing ---------- Gun and flag sales peaked across Central Florida as defiant, fearful residents rushed to arm themselves Tuesday and display their patriotism. "It's a concentrated Y2K situation that started since we opened up this morning," said Khaled Akkawe, who sold more than 100 assault rifles and shotguns through his two Shoot Straight gun stores. (09/12/01) http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-locguns12091201sep12.story?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines Feds use attack to push Carnivore ---------- Just hours after what some commentators have dubbed a second Pearl Harbor, federal police reportedly increased internet surveillance. ISPs are reportedly quietly complying with FBI requests to monitor electronic communications. (09/12/01) http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46747,00.html Arab-Americans and Muslims fear backlash in wake of attacks ---------- Fearing blind anger in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Muslim- and Arab-American leaders pleaded with the American public not to take out its anger on their communities. (09/12/01) http://www.dallasnews.com/national/468938_12backlash.html President Bush vows justice for the attacks ---------- In the wake of the bloodiest terrorist attack in history, President Bush vowed that U.S. authorities will find those responsible for the attacks. He warned that the U.S. won't distinguish between those who committed the acts and those who protect them. (09/12/01) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34227,00.html Early evidence points to Bin Laden ---------- While the people behind the bloody attack on the United States have yet to be positively identified, the prime suspect is billionaire terrorist Osama bin Laden. U.S. intelligence intercepted communications between his supporters which acknowledged "a couple of targets were hit." (09/12/01) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34181,00.html Bin Laden happy over deadly strikes, but denies involvement ---------- According to a Palestinian journalist who spoke with Osama bin Laden, the billionaire terrorist congratulated the people who carried out the deadly terrorist strikes in the United States, but denied that he was involved. (09/12/01) http://www.dallasnews.com/attack_on_america/stories/468958_binladen0912e.html World braces for terror as U.S. attacks cast global chill ---------- With the United States reeling from the deadly attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, people around the world more accustomed to terrorism, though not on this scale, stepped up security and wondered whether their cities might be next. (09/12/01) http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010912_455.html ... Battle cry ---------- by Deroy Murdock "American leaders and voters alike should be very careful about embracing measures today that will leave citizens less free in the long run in an effort to catch criminals in the here and now. The Bill of Rights must not collapse with the Twin Towers ... but they should feel no such restraint about retaliating against whatever group or nation perpetrated these acts of war." (09/11/01) http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock091101.shtml Resisting hysteria ---------- by Jesse Walker "This is a time for expert police work. It is a time when the intelligence community can try to make up for its disastrous failure to foresee this assault, by finding the people who did it and bringing them to rapid justice. It is not a time for unfocused ... hysteria." (09/12/01) http://www.reason.com/hod/jw091201.html The price of empire ---------- by Alan Bock Americans fail to understand just how deeply hated the United States is in many parts of the world -- and hated by people ready and able to take desperate and ruthless actions. (09/12/01) http://www.antiwar.com/bock/b091201.html Reaping the whirlwind ---------- by Gene Callahan "Today's events should bring home a simple, clear message: It is time to stop the madness. It is time to refuse to lend any support to the ravaging of innocent lives in the world- domination games of the power-mad." (09/12/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan54.html Wake up America! ---------- by Richard Rieben "People are not their governments. But they are wrong to think that they will not bear the consequences for their governments' actions." (09/11/01) http://www.tbns.net/kelly/articles/art24.html Level-headed response to terrorism ---------- by Steve Farrell "In the wake of the most terrible terrorist attack in this nation's history, every American would do well to insist that our nation's leaders prepare a strong response, and yet an intelligent one, one that punishes our enemies but protects our liberties." (09/12/01) http://www.newsmax.com/commentmax/articles/Steve_Farrell.shtml Imperial paralysis ---------- by Justin Raimondo The hawks are out beating the drums for war -- against somebody, anybody -- to avenge yesterday's tragedy. But, "the only way we can 'win' such a battle is to lose the very values that we want to defend in the first place." (09/12/01) http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j091201.html When will we learn? ---------- by Harry Browne "Our foreign policy has been insane for decades. It was only a matter of time until Americans would have to suffer personally for it. It is a terrible tragedy of life that the innocent so often have to suffer for the sins of the guilty. When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?" (09/12/01) http://www.antiwar.com/orig/browne2.html The unknown enemy ---------- by Joseph Sobran "Foreigners aren't quite real to Americans, and most Americans are unaware of how profoundly their government antagonizes much of the human race. We are easy-going people who generally have no idea how bullying we seem to foreigners. Until now we have had no experience of what the U.S. government has so often inflicted on others. Now, at least, we have an inkling of what it feels like." (09/11/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/sobran/sobran195.html The unending war comes home ---------- by Ryan McMaken "We now have a choice between two options. We can escalate the current low intensity war that the United States is waging against nations of the world from Columbia to Iraq. Or we can pause and re-examine our current imperial adventures around the world and recognize that terrorism against the United States is the natural consequence of trying to tell the rest of the world how to live." (09/11/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken48.html A tribute to trade ---------- by Lew Rockwell "The sight of New York City's twin World Trade Center towers falling to the ground, the result of an act of deliberate aggression, seems to symbolize two points that seem entirely forgotten today: the magnificent contribution that commerce makes to civilization and just how vulnerable it is to its enemies." (09/11/01) http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/tradetribute.html Apocalypse by deed ---------- by Charles Paul Freund The scale of potential terror meets the scope of available media. 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