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AMERICA GOES TO WAR
MONDAY.OCT.8,2001
Bin Laden: America not secure until troops leave Middle East
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden praised God for the terrorist attacks that toppled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon and said the United States was "full of fear," in a videotaped statement after the strike launched by the United States and Britain against Afghanistan yesterday.
"America was hit by God in one of its softest spots. America is full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God for that," bin Laden said in the video shown yesterday on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite station.
The taped comments appeared to be made in daylight, which would mean the video
was made before last night's attack on Afghanistan.
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"I swear America nor the people who live in it will dream of security before we live it in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad, peace by upon him,"仁贝兰萨 said.
bin Laden said.
bin Laden: says America is full of fear
After the attacks had begun, an official from Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia said both bin Laden and Taliban leader
Mullah Mohammed Omar had survived the initial wave of the attack.
It was the first time bin Laden has spoken himself about the Sept. 11 attacks, though he has issued denials of responsibility through intermediaries.
The video opened with an aide, the spokesman for bin Laden's al-Qaida group, reading an opening statement.
"What happened in the United States is a natural reaction to the ignorant policy of the United States," said the alde, Suleiman Abu Gheit.
"If it continues with this policy, the sons of Islam will not stop their struggle. The American people have to know that what is happening to them now
"America was hit by God in one of its softest spots."
Osama bin Laden al-Qaida leader
is the result of their support of this policy," the statement said.
The Qatar-based independent TV network has been frequently airing exclusive footage of bin Laden, prompting the United States to raise concerns about Al-Jazeera's coverage during a meeting with the emir of Qatar in Washington on Wednesday.
Relief, apprehension surround strikes
The Associated Press
Cheers of "USA! USA!" echoed through the Atlanta Falcons' football stadium after news was announced that U.S. forces had launched strikes in Afghanistan.
Across the nation, widespread support for counterstrike against terrorism was coupled with worries.
At a general conference, the president of the Mormon church was handed a note about the U.S. strikes and became choked up as he reported the news to a congregation of the faithful in Salt Lake City.
"We are plunged into the state of war — the first war of the 21st century," said Gordon B. Hinckley."This is not a matter of Christian against Muslim. ... Do not become a party in any way in the persecution of the innocent."
tens of thousands of Americans heard the news while packed into stadiums for National Football League games and the close of baseball's regular season.
The start of the Philadelphia Eagles' NFL game against Arizona at Veterans Stadium was delayed nine minutes as President Bush's announcement of the strikes was shown on the big screen.
The crowd of more than 64,000 cheered when they saw images of the military action.
At Miller Park in Milwaukee, baseball fans didn't get the opportunity to see Bush on the
scoreboard, but subdued players watched on clubhouse televisions.
"We all knew it was going to happen," said Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Mike De Jean. "Baseball has been secondary since Sept. 11. I think we all want to get home and be with our families in times like this."
In Chicago, Nora Murray, 30,
got the news while on the way to
an opera matinee.
She worried the U.S. strikes
she draw retaliation.
"There's more to come," she said. "I think fighting Afghanistan is going to be very difficult."
Residents of the nation's largest Afghan community, in Fremont, Calif., reacted with a mix of joy and apprehension.
Osama Bin Laden is widely loathed there, but many Afghan immigrants fear relatives in their homeland will suffer during the conflict.
"The good thing is I am happy they started," said Homayoun Khamosh, owner of the Pamir Food Mart. "And the bad thing is I don't want civilians dead for nothing."
In Atlanta, Vietnam veteran William McGill said the United States "should have gone in a long time ago and taken care of business."
"Even at my age I am willing to go," said McGill, 55. "I believe in my liberty and my freedom. If they need me, I'm there for them."
Clerics say attacks could lead to holy war
The Associated Press
Pakistan's government, which has thrown its support behind the U.S.-led coalition against terrorism, said it regretted that diplomatic efforts did not succeed and called for the U.S. action to remain "clearly targeted."
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Several influential Pakistani clerics swiftly denounced U.S. and British attacks on Afghanistan late yesterday, calling them an attack against Islam and grounds for holy war.
The influential Afghan Defense Council, which is sympathetic to the Taliban, issued a call for holy war.
"It is the duty of every Muslim to support their brothers in this critical hour," said Riaz Durana,
the council's central leader. "We will support the Taliban physically and morally against the aggression of America."
Manawar Hassan, deputy chief of Pakistan's most powerful religious political party, called the strikes on the Afghan capital, Kabul, "an attack against Islam." He warned of "serious backlash" within Pakistan's military against Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, whose decision to support the U.S.-led coalition has angered some Pakistanis.
Pakistan shares a border of more than 1,050 miles with Afghanistan.
Languages, ethnicities and family ties overlap, and many Pakistani, even those with no sympathy for the ruling Taliban
militia, are reluctant to see Afghanistan attacked.
"It is terrorism against terrorism, and that will solve nothing," said Amin Shinwari.
Heavily armed police and paramilitary troops were stationed for nearly 20 hours yesterday at the home of Maulana Fazal-ur Rehman,a prominent supporter of the Taliban.
Rehman has been fiercely critical of Musharraf's promise to help the United States in its crackdown against terror suspect Osama bin Laden's network, run from Afghanistan.
A statement from officials in North West Frontier province said Rehman had been detained because he planned to lead an anti-American rally yesterday in Multan, a province 270 miles
southwest of the capital, Islamabad.
The Punjab provincial government had banned his entry, but an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 people showed up for the rally. They burned an American flag and an effigy of President Bush
President Bush, who had warned the Taliban time was running out, emphasized that the United States has no quarrel with Islam, only with terrorists and those who harbor them.
"The United States of America is a friend to the Afghan people, and we are the friends of almost a billion worldwide who practice the Islamic faith," Bush said yesterday. He said the United States will also drop food, medicine and supplies in Afghanistan.
NATO receives early warning of air strikes
Countries pledge forces, access to airfields
airfields
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — NATO was informed in advance of yesterday's U.S. and British strikes on Afghanistan, but the alliance is not directly involved in the action, officials said.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said security had been upgraded at alliance headquarters in Belgium in the light of the attacks but was not at its highest alert status.
The officials declined to give further details and said no formal statement was expected from the alliance yesterday.
Although alliance structures
are not involved, President Bush said that in addition to Britain, fellow NATO allies Canada, Germany and France, as well as Australia, have pledged forces "as the operation unfolds."
On Thursday, Washington's 18 allies in NATO made good on their pledge of solidarity by granting the United States automatic and unlimited access to their airfields and ports.
lney also agreed to deploy ships and early-warning radar planes in support of the anti-terrorism campaign and to plug any holes in NATO manpower if U.S. troops are pulled from Europe for duty against terrorist targets.
NATO on Tuesday invoked its founding treaty to declare the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States an attack against all 19 members.
Sept. 11 attack reminiscent of USS Cole sinking
Exactly a year later, victims of an earlier act of terrorism will be honored
The Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. — Watching the devastation at the World Trade Center, Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Regal had a flash back of last fall's blast in Yemen that ripped open the USS Cole, killing 17 sailors and injuring 37.
"When I saw it on TV, it was just, like, exactly what we went through, of course on a grander scale," said Regal, 32, who was a hull maintenance technician aboard the destroyer.
On Friday, a year to the day the Cole was bombed, a memorial to the victims will be dedicated at the Norfolk Naval Station. The memorial, featuring a 10-foot-tall monolith encircled by 17 granite slabs, pays tribute to crew members who saved the Cole from sinking.
The city of Norfolk also plans to hold a candlelight vigil, much like the one it held after the Cole was attacked.
"The common thread that runs between the Cole and the events of Sept. 11 is that these were acts of terror, apparently committed by the same group of terrorists," said Mayor Paul Fraim, referring to the network headed by Osama bin Laden.
Gary R. Edgerton, chairman of the communication and theater arts department at Old Dominion University, thinks last month's terrorist acts have raised the Cole's profile.
"It was seen not as an isolated event but now as one within a series."
Gary R. Edgerton
Old Dominion University
department chairman
"What happened on Sept. 11 gave an added relevance after the fact to the Cole," said Edgerton. "The Cole has gotten back on the radar screen. It was seen not as an isolated event but now as one within a series."
The Cole, one of the Navy's most advanced combat ships, was refueling at Yemen's Aden port when an explosives-laden suicide boat blasted a 40-by-40-foot hole in its side.
Most of the crew of about 300 stayed with the ship, getting the wounded to a hospital within about 90 minutes and working to save the ship from sinking.
"Mass hysteria. Confusion. No lights, no power, absolutely nothing," said Regal, recalling the scene.
He said he was still sometimes overcome by sadness at the loss of his friends.
Regal also feels angry, wondering whether the Sept. 11 attacks could have been prevented if more aggressive, immediate action had been taken against the terrorists who crippled the Cole.
"What happened to us was just a test, how they bombed us and got away with it," Regal said. "They knew they could get away with it, so they went for a grander scale."
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