Re: Here we go!

Fascinating how they claim this comes out of nowhere, and then within 24 hours
"intelligence" knows exactly who is responsible.



At 05:21 PM 9/13/01 -0400, you wrote: 

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> New York Times
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> September 13, 2001
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> Bush Says Attack Was 'First War of the 21st Century'
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> By JAMES BARRON
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> Secretary of State Colin L. Powell today identified Osama bin Laden, the
> Islamic militant who has taken refuge in Afghanistan, as a prime suspect in
> engineering the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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> Although Islamic extremists have been mentioned as possible suspects in the
> attacks, and State Department officials have privately pointed the finger at
> Mr. bin Laden, Secretary Powell's announcement was the first public
> accusation of the Saudi exile by a top administration official.
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> Attorney General John Ashcroft said today that investigators were making
> progress in tracking down those involved in the attacks. He also said that
> the hijackers had "significant ground support" and that the "number of
> associates was significant." although he provided no details. Deputy Defense
> Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spoke, too, of a "campaign, not a single action"
> against terrorists and their sponsors.
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> In Germany, prosecutors said they were investigating what they described as
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> an Islamic terrorist cell in Hamburg that could have been involved in the
> terrorist strikes in the United States.
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> As rescuers in New York continued their somber searches in the
> still-smoldering rubble of the World Trade Center, President Bush declared
> today, "We have just seen the first war of the 21st century."
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> "Now that a war has been declared on us," the President said after speaking
> by telephone with Governor George E. Pataki and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani,
> "we will lead the world to victory, to victory." ....
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> Elson Boles, Ph.D.
> Dept. of Sociology
> Saginaw Valley State University