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Posted By	Discussion Topic: ***Official Update Thread On The News (National)***
GonzoStyle	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 12:26 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	In order to try to create some order so people don't go nuts looking through 50 posts, i am gonna create several "OFFICIAL" threads so people can post each subject in each seperate thread, to condense the number of posts. If you have a subject you feel i missed please feel free to start an OFFICIAL one like "Official Update Thread" "Official Local Updates" etc etc ***Latest On the people arrested at the airport today from ABC news is 9 men and 1 woman were arrested with the same fake id's and with information from a florida school on flight navigation. They showed some of the men being taken away they looked mid 30's to 40's and of arab descent. If they had weapons was not said but they were arressted today at newark and JFK airports. "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling May God Have Mercy On thier Souls. Beacuse We Will Not. -- John McCain 9-12-01 She-Mail Me Here This message was edited by GonzoStyle on 9-14-01 @ 1:35 AM
GonzoStyle	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 12:55 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	Authorities Raid Hotel in Manila TOKYO (AP) - U.S. and Philippine authorities raided a hotel in the Philippines Friday in connection with the terrorist attacks in the United States, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo said. Arroyo, speaking at a Tokyo news conference, said the ``joint action'' was taken at the Bayview Hotel, which is near the U.S. Embassy in Manila. Arroyo, who was on an official visit to Japan, did not elaborate. In 1995, a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was arrested at the Bayview. Arroyo said evidence from that case has been handed over to the United States, but it was unclear whether there was any connection. "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling May God Have Mercy On thier Souls. Beacuse We Will Not. -- John McCain 9-12-01 She-Mail Me Here
JohnSlack	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 10:15 AM
Psychopath Registered: May. 01	Sen. Biden Says Arrests Not Linked to Attacks WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. senator said on Friday there was no connection between airport arrests in New York and the hijackers who smashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon (news - web sites). ``The reports this morning are erroneous over who was arrested, what they had in their possession and why they were arrested,'' said Sen. Joseph Biden (news - bio - voting record) of Delaware, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee. ``I have spoken at length with the FBI (news - web sites) and the CIA (news - web sites) and the truth of the matter is there were no box cutters, there were no knives,'' said Biden in an interview with NBC's ``Today'' show. Biden said people had to ``calm down'' and that the detentions overnight at JFK airport in New York were not linked to Tuesday's terror attacks. ``There was no connection to the networks that have done the trade towers and the Pentagon,'' he said.
JohnSlack	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 10:19 AM
Psychopath Registered: May. 01	Black Boxes found at Pentagon (ABCNEWS.com)   By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Searchers combing blackened rubble at the Pentagon (news - web sites) found on Friday the key electronic flight data and voice recorders -- the so-called ``black boxes'' -- from a hijacked jetliner that hit the massive building, a defense official said. ``The flight data and voice data boxes were recovered at approximately 4 a.m. and are in the possession of the FBI (news - web sites),'' Pentagon official Bryan Whitman told Reuters. He said the recorders were at a National Transportation Safety Board (news - web sites) laboratory in Washington, where the board was giving technical assistance in reading the data information. The boxes could be instrumental in getting information about the brief flight of an American Airlines jetliner that was commandeered by hijackers after it left nearby Dulles International Airport en route to Los Angeles on Tuesday. It crashed into U.S. military headquarters with 64 passengers and crew on board. More than 100 people on the ground were missing. The voice box electronically records cockpit conversations and the data recorder keeps track of speed, altitude and other information on the aircraft flight. The jetliner was one of four commercial passenger planes hijacked at virtually the same time. Two others crashed into New York's World Trade Center, demolishing it, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. Only the data recorder has been found from the Pennsylvania crash site. Both the flight data and voice recorders are missing from the other two planes. POSSIBLE DEATH TOLL OF 190 The Defense Department said on Thursday that 126 people were still unaccounted for after a hijacked airliner slammed into the Pentagon, suggesting a possible death toll of about 190 including the 64 people aboard the commandeered flight. The highest-ranking victim appears to have been a three-star general who was the Army's personnel chief, a defense official said. Photos Reuters Photo The Navy said its operations center -- likely to play a key role in any U.S. military response to what President George W. Bush (news - web sites) has called ``acts of war'' against the United States -- had been damaged in the crash. ``We have reestablished our operation center, and it is functioning,'' Adm. Vern Clark, the chief of naval operations, told a Pentagon briefing. He declined to say whether it was still housed in the Pentagon or had been moved elsewhere. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, Bush's choice to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said 20 percent or less of the building was out of commission. ``There is a wedge taken out of the building,'' he told the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) considering his nomination. ''Roughly 20 percent of the square footage is out of commission.''
IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 12:46 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	ISLMABAD (Reuters) - The leader of Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s ruling Taliban movement on Friday defended Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) against accusations he masterminded the devastating terror attacks on the United States. Mullah Mohammad Omar said in a statement released in neighboring Pakistan that neither bin Laden nor Afghanistan had the capacity to train the suicide pilots who crashed hijacked aircraft into landmarks in New York and Washington, killing thousands of people. ``The event in America itself is indicative to the acquittal of Osama because Osama has no pilots...,'' he said in the statement, read at a news conference by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan. ``Training of pilots is the work of a running government and only such (a) government has the capacity to do so,'' he said. ''...Osama has no pilots, and where did he train them? In Afghanistan, there is no such possibility for the training.'' The statement from the reclusive Taliban leader is the first he has made since Tuesday's devastating attack. He rarely gives interviews, has never to have been filmed or photographed and reputedly has met only two non-Muslims in his life. The Taliban's ambassador, commenting on expectations of a U.S. strike against bin Laden and Afghanistan for giving him shelter, said Washington should not act in haste. ``The Americans should not hurry. They should be patient,'' he said, adding that there should be thorough investigation to find out who was responsible for the attacks. ``I don't expect Americans will take such a hasty action without evidence,'' Zaeef said. He told a questioner that Pakistani authorities had talked to the Taliban about the situation emerging from the terror attack, but he said he had no details. Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has assured President Bush (news - web sites) of Islamabad's ``unstinted cooperation'' to fight terrorism, and he was chairing a special meeting of army commanders on Friday to discuss the situation. Pakistan is one of only three countries which recognizes the Taliban, which controls about 95 percent of the war-torn country and is accused by an anti-Taliban alliance of giving military support to the radical Islamic movement. Islamabad denies this. Zaeef flatly rejected requests from foreign journalists attending the news conference for visas to visit Afghanistan, saying there was no accommodation available for them. ``There are no places ... all houses are full,'' he said. ''When the houses will be vacant, we will permit you.'' Zaeef said there was now a ``temporary restriction'' on issuing visas for Afghan visits, but that border with Pakistan had not been closed. As I've said in other threads- we are so quick to blame Bin Laden because of what he's done before but it's not like a terrorist not to take blame. I honestly feel that there's a chance there's a new player in town whose name we don't know. "Drop the Bomb, Exterminate them all"- Colonel Kurtz
MomYou'dLikeToF'	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 12:59 PM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 01	He's not taking the blame because that will allow us to start bombing w/support. Taliban said they'd hand him over IF we could prove his guilt, but the fact is they don't want to hand him over, and they want us to bomb w/o "evidence" so they can take revenge on us.
IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 1:04 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	Do you honestly think they'd hand him over even if we had tons of evidence? NO!!! They'd say it's not good enough. And I'm not saying he DIDN'T do it but I'm just saying that he might not have. We're so quick to blame the usual suspects, so used to knowing all the names in the world game but remember everyone needs their debut. "Drop the Bomb, Exterminate them all"- Colonel Kurtz
MomYou'dLikeToF'	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 1:08 PM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 01	I agree-they'll never hand him over. My point was only that just because he didn't admit it, doesn't mean he didn't do it, and that he has good reasons for not admitting to it.

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