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Friday, September 13, 2002
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ALERT
- Possible terrorist plot against South Florida (WSVN-TV Ft. Lauderdale FL)
- Cross-state highway Alligator Alley closed; 3 detained in Florida security check (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Chicago-area man surprised by link (Chicago Tribune)
- Federal investigators checking 3 men who reported ``America would cry on 9/13.'' (Miami Herald)
- Family members defend Florida detainees (KPLC-TV Lake Charles LA)
IRAQ
- Massive world recession to occur if Iraq attacked: Economist (Zawya)
- US must finish al Qaeda before striking Iraq: Albright (Australian Broadcasting Company)
- Iraq would "teach US lesson" if attacked: Aziz (Agence-France Presses)
- Britain to deploy armor to Kuwait (Washington Times)
- RECOMMENDED READ: How Saddam hid his deadly bio arsenal (London Times)
- Russia warns Iraq to comply or face consequences (Washington Post)
- Pilots dodge shots in Iraq airspace (Washington Post)
CULTURE OF TERRORISM
- Report: SW Portland mosque one of most radical in US (KATU-TV)
TERROR SUSPECTS
- Virginia seeks Nov. 7 execution for Kasi (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
- Two charged in plane diversion, charge against third man dropped (Reno Gazette-Journal)
- Cleared terror suspect angry at US (Dawn)
- Pakistanis held in Italy had false documents (Hindu)
- Dutch arrest Kurd suspected of bin Laden link (Washington Post)
INTERVIEW WITH TERRORISTS
- Al-Jazeera offers accounts of 9/11 planning (CNN)
BIOTERRORISM
- Senator eyes terrorists for W. Nile (Intelligencer News)
- The reality of bioterror (National Post)
TALIBAN
- Taliban will rule again, fugitive leader vows (Ireland Online)
- Afghans say Taliban taking advantage (Guardian)
OSAMA BIN LADEN
- Let tourists dig up Osama, cracks Musharraf (South Africa Independent)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Court-appointed defense lawyers oppose playing cockpit recordings in Moussaoui case (Hampton Roads Daily Press)
INVESTIGATION
- Explosives threat solved, officials say (Austin American-Statesman)
- Al Qaeda ties to Oregon? (KATU-TV)
OPINION
- Call to arms by Jacob Sullum (Reason)
- Germany and Saddam (Washington Times)
TERRORIST THREAT
- Delta plane diverted at Hartsfield (Miami Herald)
- Officials: Radiation from nature (Washington Post)
- Embassies threats raises questions (Guardian)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Government keeps threat-alert status at orange (Fox News)
- Apartment communities improve background checks after 9-11 (Boca Raton News)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- RECOMMENDED READ: Mysterious trip to Flight 77 cockpit (Washington Post)
Pietro 7:00 AM
Thursday, September 12, 2002
INCIDENT - TERRORIST ATTACK
- Explosion in Ethiopian hotel kills one (Guardian)
- Shots fired at the funeral of slain Indian minister (Reuters)
WAR ON TERROR
- President's remarks at the Pentagon (White House)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Israeli hero of Flight 11 - Daniel Levin - murdered while battling hijackers on September 11th (IMRA)
- On path to the US skies, plot leader met bin Laden (NY Times)
DISGUSTING VIEWS
- Nelson Mandela: The United States is a threat to world peace (MSNBC)
WHAT THE?!?!?!
- NY Lottery draws 9-1-1 on 9/11 (AP)
- Trader puzzled at eerie 911 closing of S&P futures (AP)
- S'pore police send Saddam impersonator to mental hospital (Malaysia Star)
TERROR SUSPECTS
- 6 in custody in terror probe in Baltimore (Washington Times)
- Italian police arrest Pakistani al Qaeda suspects (Reuters)
- Sheriff says man in custody in explosives investigation (Houston Chronicle)
- Arrest turns eyes toward mosque (Oregonian)
- Terror alert stooge, a major al Qaeda insider (Fox News)
ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION
- FBI agents return to do more investigative work at Hatfill's home (Boston Globe)
OPINION
- Dems' huge gift to W by Dick Morris (NY Post)
IRAQ
- Pakistan wants no part of attack on Iraq (NY Times)
- Norway will pressure Iraq, people say no to war (Aftenposten)
- French leader offers formula to tackle Iraq (NY Times)
- RECOMMENDED READ: In Iraqi Kurdistan (New York Review of Books)
- Bush urges UN to compel Iraq to disarm (NY Times)
- Bush's speech to the United Nations (Washington Post)
- Report: Saddam says he will 'destroy' Qatar if it allows U.S. to attack Iraq from its territory (Al Bawaba)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Palestinians welcome cabinet change (Guardian)
TERRORIST THREAT
- Some US embassies still closed (WFTV-TV, Orlando FL)
- Kuwaiti tells of Asia embassy attack plan (ABC News)
- Ship searched for nuclear material (UPDATED) (MSNBC)
- Cincy airport terminal evacuated (Miami Herald)
AL QAEDA
- Qaeda fighters said to return to Afghanistan (NY Times)
- Report: Bin Laden top aide marries (ABC News)
SHOE BOMBER RICHARD REID
- FBI: Shoe bomb suspect assailed America, Israel (Boston Herald)
WAR ON TERROR
- US Afghan forces ordered to shave (ABC News)
- PAKISTAN: Pakistan deepens al Qaeda search (Guardian)
TERROR TAPES
- CIA believes bin Laden tape is old (Aberdeen News)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- SF has dramatic new plan to prevent terrorism (KPIX-TV SF CA)
REMEMBERING 9/11
- The memorial in microcosm (North Jersey News)
Pietro 10:30 AM
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
SEPTEMBER 11, ONE YEAR LATER
- US attacks musical gets 11 Sept debut (BBC)
- Tattoos offer respect for those killed in twin towers (London Times)
- Time to put the emotions aside by Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)
- Crown prince sends message to America (PRNewswire)
- Pope asks God to show mercy on Sept. 11 attackers (Reuters)
- No time for the mawkish by Jennifer Harper (Washington Times)
- So we fight by George Will (Town Hall)
- Feeling 9/11 overload is understandable, too by Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times)
- "My thought was 'get out'" (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Judge refuses to block 9/11 prayer (Chicago Tribune)
- Silence, prayer commemmorate Sept. 11 around the globe (Bloomberg)
- A tear falls, but president holds tightly to his image (NY Times)
- Bush begins 9/11 commemorations with private prayer (Forbes)
- Remembering the unforgettable (Canadian Press)
- Web sites commemorate Sept. 11 (CNET)
- Iran expresses solidarity with 9/11 victims, but looks for U.S. policy change (Al Bawaba)
- Arabs count cost a year after Sept. 11 (Reuters)
- Victims' names read at Ground Zero (Guardian)
- Fighting to live as the towers died (NY Times)
- 'I think it brought people together' (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)
- Britain handed Union Jack from Ground Zero (SABC News)
- 40 heroes a thousand flags (Port Huron Times-Herald)
- Our spies failed us by Eugene H. Methvin (National Review)
- Renewal by Patti Davis (National Review)
- "I will never forget" (National Review)
- Travel journal: Flying on the anniversary of 9/11 (Florida Today)
- The year behind us (ABC News)
- 'God be with you' by Tommy Dunn (ABC News)
- A date with history (Newsweek)
- Two survivors struggle to move on (Fox News)
- Pentagon families preserve, reflect (Fox News)
- How it was in Greenwich Village (Fox News)
- A corner still not turned in America's story by Brad Knickerbocker (Christian Science Monitor)
- Reliving 9/11 again and again and... by Tresa McBee (Jewish World Review)
- The world pours out its heart (CBS News)
- At the Pentagon, contractors' goal was 'to show them what America was made of' (Stars and Stripes)
- Just don't call 'em 'heroes' by Steve Dunleavy (NY Post)
- Sharon at 9/11 memorial: The attacks on America showed terrorism knows no bounds (Jerusalem Post)
- US Navy marks Sept. 11 with rallying cry (Ananova)
- Sept. 11: The bedrock at Ground Zero by Joe Bob Briggs (Jewish World Review)
- Daytona woman's niece fought hijackers before crash (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
- Retailers unsure about 9-11 impact (AP)
- Flight 93 'heroes' honored with tears, gratitude (Mercury News)
- Perry unveils Texas 9-11 memorial (KXAN-TV Texas)
- Sept. 11 + one by Joe Snyder (North Missourian)
- Michiganians remember Sept. 11 with memorial events (Detroit News)
- Californians remember Sept. 11 at memorials throughout state (Press-Enterprise)
- Learning to live with ghosts (Newburyport Daily News)
- Flight 93 story taught travelers to fight back (Mercury News)
- Silence marks anniversary at Logan airport (Boston Globe)
- Celebrities reflect on 9/11 (USA Today)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Airline denied Atta a paradise wedding suit (World Net Daily)
- Elusive schemer called key to Sept. 11 (Miami Herald)
- A refined view of how the terror scheme unfolded a year ago today (Peoria Journal Star)
- Prior knowledge of Sept. 11 not just urban legend (Insight on the News)
IRAQ
- Democrats unconvinced on Iraq war (Washington Post)
- Blair to meet party leaders over Iraq (Guardian)
- Iraq buying arms in East Europe's black markets (Christian Science Monitor)
- Iraq: Attacks were a 'punishment' (Washington Post)
- Helping Iraq shoot down our planes (AIM)
- Iraq's immediate threat is biological weapons, Pentagon says (Bloomberg)
- In hot pursuit (ABC News)
- In mixed signals, Iraq calls on Arabs to 'confront' America (Fox News)
WAR ON TERROR
- US to move Central Command HQ to Qatar (Fox News)
- AFGHANISTAN: Police raid suspected al Qaeda hideout, kill and capture militants in three-hour gunbattle (Tampa Tribune)
- AFGHANISTAN: US army bases hit ahead of Sept. 11 ceremonies (S. Africa Independent)
- PAKISTAN: Karachi shootout amid tight security (BBC)
OSAMA BIN LADEN
- Arab station airs bin Laden tape (AP)
- Carlos the Jackal likes bin Laden (Guardian)
TERRORIST THREAT
- Why Hollywood remains a target (Hollywood Reporter)
- FBI seeks driver of white 1990 truck (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Europe's top anti-terror fighter says he's more worried than ever (Tampa Tribune)
- German police raid mosque near Sept. 11 plot venue (Reuters)
- Terror suspicion leads police to stop Amtrak train (NBC-5 TV, Illinois)
- Police foil plan to attack US fast food outlets in Karachi (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
- Northwest jet from Memphis makes security stop at Fort Smith (EW Scripps)
UPDATE: Airliner diverted after suspicions (Washington Post)
- Police investigate suspicious truck in Palm Bay (Florida Today)
- US military on highest alert in Mideast (Reuters)
- German Intelligence: Al Qaeda preparing to attack western computer systems (OSAC)
- Authorities: Texas company slowing missing explosives probe (KSAT-TV San Antonio TX)
- Al Qaeda 'ready to hit Europe' (BBC)
- State office tower evacuated in Ohio capital after dog detects scent of explosives (Boston Globe)
- Two men arrested in security incident at IAH (KTRK-TV Houston TX)
UPDATE: Drama at Bush airport may have been attempted hijacking (Houston Chronicle)
- Letters containing suspicious powder delivered to US embassies, consulates across Europe (USA Today)
- Al Qaeda money man the source of secret info (Fox News)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Feds examine cargo container for radioactivity (Star-Ledger)
UPDATE: Ship with radiation in cargo hold ordered back out to sea (Fox News)
- Post-9/11, 'sanitized' sites aim to shield data (CNN)
- Cheney at secret location for Sept. 11 anniversary (Reuters)
- How safe are our borders? (ABC News)
- SS ID numbers don't always add up right (Houston Chronicle)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Arafat sets Jan. 20 for Palestinian elections (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
TALIBAN
- Ex-Taliban official says no chance of a comeback (Reuters)
CULTURE OF TERRORISM
- Georgia player tries to escape father's link to terrorism (Olympian)
- Radical British Muslims defend Sept. 11 attackers (Reuters)
OPINION
- Who's next? by Richard Lessner (Weekly Standard)
TERROR SUSPECTS
- US forces capture suspected al Qaeda financier (CNN)
- Saudis refuse to hand suspects to US (UPI)
- Man linked to mosque under FBI scrutiny (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- US declares teen 'enemy combatant' (Toronto Star)
Pietro 6:15 AM
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
TERRORIST THREAT
- Prosecutor: Terror goes 'free-lance' (AP)
- Al Qaeda captive warns of attack, US says (Globe and Mail)
GITMO DETAINEES
- No choice but to detain al Qaeda suspects: US (ABC News)
Pietro 12:45 PM
SEPTEMBER 11 STORIES
- Sept. 11 ripples leave us rattled (Delaware News Journal)
- Soldiers in Afghanistan discuss Sept. 11 memories (Anchorage Daily News)
- A songful prayer for victims of 9/11 (Baltimore Sun)
- Bartonville couple in pilgrimage (Peoria Journal Star)
- Searcher recalls WTC rescue (McAlester News-Capital)
IRAQ
- No war on Iraq unless the United Nations allows the use of force, top Vatican official says (AP)
- Bush: Post-Saddam Iraq not US job (UPI)
- Iraq urges revenge attacks on Americans (BBC)
- US not claiming Iraqi link to terror (Washington Post)
- Iraqi link with terror 'thin' (Scunthorpe Telegraph)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- US deploys antiaircraft missiles in Washington (Reuters)
- Airport sweep nets 143 arrests (Houston Chronicle)
- Israeli security firm training Northwest air crew (Forbes)
- Redding police department gears up anti-terrorist team (Redding Record Searchlight)
- Lawmakers call for shutdown of nuke plants (WNBC-TV NY)
CLINTON AD NAUSEUM
- Clinton's warning on eve of September 11 (Sydney Morning Herald)
OPINION
- America's debt to Iraq (Front Page Magazine)
- A shattered diamond by Victoria Toensing (Washington Times)
- Sept. 11 shouldn't be the focus of entire school day (Californian)
- The death of dreams by Michael S. Malone (ABC News)
CULTURE OF TERRORISM
- Book predicting end of US is PA best seller (Jerusalem Post)
TERROR VIDEOS
- Hijack plot bared on al Qaeda video (NY Daily News)
INVESTIGATION
- Accounts in Israeli banks used for terror, central bank believes (Ha'aretz)
TERROR SUSPECTS
- TNT traces in cleric's bags, feds say (Seattle Times)
- Germany detains four on possible Sept. 11 links (Reuters)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Arafat's Fatah movement to prevent attacks on Israelis (Ananova)
TERRORIST THREAT
- FLASH: Terrorist risk level raised to 'high' (MSNBC)
- Asia braces for Sept 11, US Jakarta embassy shut (Reuters)
- FBI warns of potential threats (Miami Herald)
- Philippines heightens security over report of new threat from jailed Canadian (National Post)
- State Dept. warns Americans abroad on 9/11 (Fox News)
- Fighter jets force down plane in Charlotte (Charlotte Observer)
- What are the real risks of cyberterrorism? (ZDNet)
- FBI warns Houston of impending threat (MSNBC)
- Explosive stolen from storage site (Austin American-Statesman)
AIR SEYCHELLES ATTEMPTED HIJACKING
- Air stewardess foiled mid-air hijack attempt (Ananova)
WAR ON TERROR
- CHINA: US, China pledge increased efforts to battle terrorist financing (Boston Globe)
- AFGHANISTAN: US strikes again at al Qaeda forces (Oklahoman)
- PAKISTAN: Pakistan claims 402 al Qaeda arrests (Newsday)
- AFGHANISTAN: RECOMMENDED READ: The last battle: Exit Osama, enter Hekmatayar (Asia Times)
TERRORIST 'THREAT'
- High drama as men take can of petrol on jet (Edinburgh News)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Detainees reveal bin Laden's reaction to attacks (CNN)
- Al Qaeda records solve many 9/11 puzzles, but others linger (Greenville News)
- Killers in the cockpit: Who and why? (Washington Times)
- Terror suspect at end of road (Pioneer Press)
- On path to US skies, plot leader met bin Laden (NY Times)
- Moussaoui remains mystery man of Sept. 11 probe (Minneapolis-St. Paul Tribune)
GITMO DETAINEES
- UK court hears case of British Guantanamo captive (ABC News)
Pietro 6:25 AM
Monday, September 09, 2002
FLASH - HEADLINE
- September 11 mastermind arrested in Karachi
INCIDENT - ATTEMPTED TERRORISM
- Hijack suspect arrested off India (AP)
SEPTEMBER 11 INVESTIGATION
- Al Qaeda 'plotted nuclear attacks' (BBC)
- Exclusive: The informant who lived with the hijackers (MSNBC)
- RECOMMENDED READ: Terrorist web's patient planning paid off at last (Mercury News)
SEPTEMBER 11 AFTERMATH
- Since September 11, it's no longer business as usual for agriculture aviation industry (Boston Globe)
- Did the world really change on September 11? (Reuters)
- RECOMMENDED READ: After the fear, a new normalcy for workers in Sears Tower (Chicago Tribune)
- US State Department unveils Sept 11 websites (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Pilot a Sept. 11 'victim' (Stuff NZ)
TERRORIST THREAT
- 'Staking' arouses terror suspicions (Washington Times)
- Al Qaeda ready with attacks for 9/11: report (Hindu)
- CNN: Al Qaeda plot against US embassy in Manila (Miami Herald)
- Al Qaeda and its allies still threaten Europe (Reuters)
- Small planes flying below US radar (Fox News)
- FBI warns of anniversary threats (CBS News)
- London put on terror alert (This is London)
AFGHANISTAN ATTACKS UPDATE
- GIs slay assassins to save Afghan prez (NY Post)
NOVEMBER 17
- Terror fugitive hid on nudist beach (AP)
IRAQ
- Blair says Iraq has 'one last chance' (Independent UK)
- Canada won't back US strike on Iraq - Manley (Reuters)
- Britain and US are ready to fight alone - Blair (Guardian)
- US says Hussein intensifies quest for A-bomb parts (NY Times)
- What does Saddam have? (Time)
- US reprisal to be 'annihilation' (Washington Times)
- Think tank warns of Iraq's abilities (Guardian)
- Saddam and the world: Time is not on our side (In The National Interest)
- British peace activists to serve as human shields for Baghdad (Daily Telegraph)
- Iraq linked to 9-11 and Oklahoma City bombing (NewsMax)
CULTURE OF TERRORISM
- London to host Islamic 'celebration' of Sept. 11 (Daily Telegraph)
- Saudi schools teaching hate? (CBS News)
- Study: Future terror tied to teen views (UPI)
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Air patrols resume over NYC and DC (CBS News)
- 9/11 prompts new caution in skyscraper design (NY Times)
- Broward billboards urge citizens to tip police on terrorism (Miami Herald)
THE QUESTION 'WHAT IF?'
- Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy, and the warning of September 11 that was ignored (Independent UK)
CLINTON AD NAUSEUM
- Clinton, then and now (Washington Times)
OPINION
- Captured teen not 'Canadian' by Peter Worthington (Toronto Sun)
- 9/11 "overkill" by Jonah Goldberg (National Review)
- RECOMMENDED READ: On hallowed ground by Dave Barry (Miami Herald)
- Death to America by Daniel Pipes (NY Post)
- Outside view: Who lost Boston? by Paul M. Weyrich (UPI)
REMEMBERING 9/11
- Terrorists took Olson's life, but the memories remain (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
- RECOMMENDED READ: What we saw the day time stood still (The Street)
- Candlelight march in memory of US tragedy (Daily Nation, Barbados)
- From laughter to the other side of history (ABC News)
- RECOMMENDED READ: A stunning tale of escape traps its hero in replay (Christian Science Monitor)
- Karzai heads to US for 9/11 (AP)
- Voices of 9/11 (Detroit Free Press)
- Museums mark September 11 anniversary (CNN)
- NY mayor thanks Israel for post-Sept. 11 support (CNS News)
- One year later: The faces of September 11th (DVD Talk)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- Arafat condemns acts of terror (Chicago Tribune)
TERROR TRIALS
- Egypt military court jails 51 Islamic militants (Reuters)
AL QAEDA
- Threat of al Qaeda unclear (Mercury News)
TERROR SUSPECTS
- Arrest of terror suspect was delayed by red tape (Baltimore Sun)
BIOTERRORISM
- UT Southwestern researchers develop vaccine against deadly bioterrorism toxin ricin (Science Daily)
WAR ON TERROR
- War on terrorism only half complete (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- US terrorism experts focus on five spots in search for al Qaeda (The Age)
- Archaic computer systems hamper war on terror (Mercury News)
SEPTEMBER 11 TRIAL
- Moussaoui given prosecution documents by mistake (CNN)
WHAT THE?!?!?!
- Aliens were definitely involved in September 11 attacks (Pravda)
Pietro 8:17 AM
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