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 September 11, 2001 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
The attacks are almost universally referred to as terrorist attacks, and certainly fall under the two most-used definitions, both "political violence by non-state actors" and "political violence against civilians".
On September 20, 2001, the president spoke before the nation and a joint session of the United States Congress, regarding the events of that day, the intervening nine days of rescue and recovery efforts, and his intent in response to those events.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks   (7102 words)

  
 Terrorist Attacks, September 11 2001
The graph of data from the formal prediction for September 11 shows a fluctuating deviation throughout the moments of the five major events, during which ever-increasing numbers of people around the world are hearing the news and watching in stunned disbelief.
During most of the 11th, 12th, and 13th there is a strong trend indicating correlated behavior among the eggs.
The terrible events of September 11 were a powerful magnet for our shared attention, and more than any event in the recent memory of the world they evoked the extraordinary emotions of horror and fear and commiseration and dismay.
noosphere.princeton.edu /terror.html   (5372 words)

  
 Asean News Network: September 11, 2001 attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The attacks were the most lethal ever carried out in the U.S. The death toll of 2,986 exceeded the toll of 2,403 dead after the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, known as the 9-11 Commission, released its report on July 22, 2004, concluding that the attacks were conceived and implemented by al-Qaeda operatives.
The September 11th attacks were consistent with their campaign against the United States, undertaken because of perceived American support for Israel's oppression of fellow Arab Muslims in Palestine, and American support for dictatorial regimes in the Middle East which al-Qaeda opposes (e.g.
www.aseannewsnetwork.com /2001/09/september-11-2001-attacks.html   (2755 words)

  
 Quick Response Report #140 - The Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001: Immediate Impacts and Their Ramifications for ...
The recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon are horrific events, of a scale and type never before seen in the U.S. or in the world.
On Tuesday morning, September 11, at the time of the first attack on the World Trade Center, at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Agency's emergency coordinator, Jim Makris, and his deputy were engaged in a previously-scheduled briefing for the EPA administrator about the Agency's emergency management system and capabilities.
As a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center and all of the media attention given to it, an unusually large number of charities formed in addition to the major ones already in existence, such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, and an unprecedented amount of donations were received.
www.colorado.edu /hazards/qr/qr140/qr140.html   (6555 words)

  
 EU action in response to 11th September 2001: one year after
October 2001 European Council in Ghent reiterated the importance of effective measures to combat the funding of terrorism by formal adoption of the Directive on money laundering and the speedy ratification by all Member States of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.
In the event of a terrorist attack the public health response is critical in identifying the nature of the attack and the appropriate response.
Two studies have been launched by the Commission: a prospective study on EU vulnerable sides and weaknesses in front of potential bio-chemical terrorist attacks, and a Pilot study on the relationship between scientific advice on bio-chemical terrorism and society at large.
ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/110901/me02_187.htm   (3360 words)

  
 CNN.com - 9/11 commission faults U.S. intelligence - Apr 15, 2004
The 9/11 commission cited fragmented intelligence-gathering prior to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The report, examining the performance of the intelligence community, described a "loose collection" of intelligence agencies that often operated independently of one another with little communication or cooperation.
During his testimony, Tenet said that the agency's failure to stop the September 11, 2001, terror plot "haunts all of us to this day."
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/14/911.commission/index.html   (1064 words)

  
 The Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001: Immediate Impacts and Their Ramifications for Federal Emergency Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is not possible to overstate the dramatic changes in political culture, attitudes, and philosophy of the federal government regarding emergency management and counter-terrorism that have resulted from the September 11 attacks.
The FBI Atlantic Strike Team had some initial trouble getting communications set up because their system was dependent on access by a self-contained van unit which could not navigate the rubble-covered streets.
Given the short time available to prepare a Quick Response report and the vast complexity of the attacks and their aftermath, the authors are at work on a Counter-Terrorism Time Line: Major Milestone Events and Their U.S. Outcomes (1988-2001), which will augment the existing Disaster Time Line.
www.e11th-hour.org /public/terror/NHC2.html   (6965 words)

  
 9/11 war games before and during the attacks
Just before September 11, the UK had put together what was billed as the "largest armada since the Falklands War" and had it steaming towards Oman, where now 23,000 UK troops are on maneuvers.
On September 11, 2001, Richard B. Meyers, the acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has thus far claimed he was in a meeting with Senator Max Cleland, and was “unaware” of the ongoing 9/11 attacks until after the Pentagon was struck.
The exercises differed from the Sept. 11 attacks in one important respect: The planes in the simulation were coming from a foreign country.
www.oilempire.us /wargames.html   (14191 words)

  
 The Enterprise Mission
“During the period of the Crusades, many of the ideas and practices of the Muslim groups were adopted by the European Christian warriors.
According to our system, the only stars of significance for the fulfillment of these rituals are Sirius, which represented the goddess Isis in the ancient Egyptian stellar religion; the three belt stars of Orion, which represented Osiris, her brother and husband; and Regulus, the "heart of the lion" of the constellation Leo.
We think the specific numerology of these attacks —- the date, their timing, the flight numbers of the planes chosen, even the number of passengers and crew aboard each flight  -- was an encoded message Â… and a warning from bin Laden to his Templar opponents.
www.enterprisemission.com /tower2.htm   (8899 words)

  
 An Interesting Day: President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11
On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked: “How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?” Bush replied, “I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower—the TV was obviously on.
He did not know who (or which country) was attacking, whether there would be more attacks, what military plans had been taken, what military actions should be taken—indeed, he knew virtually nothing about what was going on outside the room.
But around September 11, 2002, the heavily publicized first anniversary of the attacks, there was an obvious attempt to further rewrite the story.
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 rediff.com: America's War on Terror
18 Christians were massacred in the worst-ever attack on the nations community, when six men on three motorcycles forced their way into the St Dominic church at Bahawalpur and opened fire indiscriminately.
The US also attacked frontline Taleban positions, north of Kabul, apparently paving the way for the entry of Northern Alliance forces into the Afghan capital.The Taleban claimed that the US bombs had hit a mosque in Heart, killing scores.In US, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams confirmed that two postal workers died due to inhalation anthrax.
Osama bin Laden warned of attacks on American interests anywhere, and the anthrax scare spread to Montreal, with a letter suspected to contain the deadly spores being examined by the authorities.
www.rediff.com /us/usblasts.htm   (3574 words)

  
 NEJM -- A National Survey of Stress Reactions after the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Knowledge of heart attack symptoms in a population survey in the United States.
Ai, A. L., Evans-Campbell, T., Santangelo, L. K., Cascio, T. The Traumatic Impact of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks and the Potential Protection of Optimism.
Events of 11 September 2001 significantly reduced calls to the New Zealand Quitline.
content.nejm.org /cgi/content/full/345/20/1507?maxtoshow=&HITS=&...   (4867 words)

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