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FC: Politech photos of DC after attack, and many, many links


From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:08:48 -0400

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

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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
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   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

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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
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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
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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
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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. (09/11/01)
http://www.reason.com/hod/cf091101.html

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