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 Win McNamee / Reuter President Bush holds the shield of police officer George Howard, during his address to the nation Thursday night. Howard was killed trying to help others following the attack on the World Trade Center.  |
'Freedom and fear are at war'
WASHINGTON - President Bush transformed from consoler in chief to commander in chief Thursday night, nine days after the nation's course was forever changed by terrorist attacks here and in New York City. 09/21/01
Bush vows 'justice will be done' in war on terrorists
WASHINGTON -- President Bush summoned all nations to wage war on terrorism Thursday night and vowed "justice will be done" against those who killed thousands in last week's attacks. With warplanes and ships on the move, he urged an anxious America to be calm, "even in the face of a continuing threat." 09/21/01
Taliban defies Bush, refuses to turn over bin Laden
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Afghanistan's Taliban rulers today again refused to hand over reputed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden without proof and warned that U.S. attempts to apprehend him by force could plunge the region into crisis. 09/21/01
On a war footing, a president again turns to Congress in search of national purpose and patience
WASHINGTON -- Franklin Roosevelt's date-of-infamy address the day after Pearl Harbor spoke of resolve ("We will gain the inevitable triumph"), patience ("No matter how long it may take"), and remembrance ("Always we will remember the character of the onslaught against us"). 09/21/01
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge picked as Bush's Office of Homeland Security
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Gov. Tom Ridge, who saw combat as an enlisted man in Vietnam, has been called by President Bush to help lead the fight against terrorism inside the country. 09/21/01
Tough speech praised
WASHINGTON -- With the soles of his shoes still holding dust from the World Trade Center wreckage site Carl Levin and other senators toured Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman listened to President Bush's address to the nation last night and then praised Bush for warning of a protracted war. 09/21/01
Text of President George W. Bush's speech to Congress
09/21/01
Passenger protest evicts 3 from plane
SALT LAKE CITY -- Three Arab-American Utah residents were kicked off a Northwest flight from Minneapolis Thursday after other passengers refused to fly with them. 09/21/01
U.S. faces a new kind of war
WASHINGTON -- The United States is pouring military firepower into the Persian Gulf area, but Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that President Bush's promised war on terrorism will look nothing like the knockout punch U.S.-led forces delivered in the 1991 gulf war. 09/21/01
N.Y. death toll surpasses 6,300
NEW YORK -- The number of missing in America's worst terrorist attack soared Thursday to 6,333, with hundreds of foreigners added to the list of victims feared dead beneath the crumbled World Trade Center. 09/21/01
N.Y. business limps along
NEW YORK -- The message came into lawyer Joseph Mullen Jr.'s office phone, across the street from the World Trade Center, about the time the towers began to pancake. 09/21/01
Massive federal effort emerges in disaster's wake
WASHINGTON -- Gino Moro and his co-workers usually spend their days busting fishermen for illegally importing spiny lobster or for fishing in the prohibited waters of New England's Georges Bank. 09/21/01
Displaced students back in school
NEW YORK -- The last time 7-year-old Melissa Watt saw her second-grade teacher, the two were holding hands as they fled Public School 89 after two jets slammed into the nearby World Trade Center. 09/21/01
Germany struggles to hunt down terrorists
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Vowing to stamp out global terrorism is one thing, but Germany learned this past week how hard it can be to find terrorists when they're right under its nose. 09/21/01
Iraq remains on the hit list
WASHINGTON -- Tempted to strike at longtime U.S. enemy Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration is weighing whether it should include Iraq sooner rather than later in a wide-ranging battle against terrorists and their sponsors. 09/21/01
No-nonsense lady 'not afraid to die'
Some of those killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist acts: 09/21/01
Kazakstan ready for papal visit
ASTANA, Kazakstan -- Across a broad square from the turquoise, tent-shaped altar where Pope John Paul II is to celebrate Mass on Sunday, Kazak police prepared wide-ranging security measures for one of the most sensitive state visits this young capital has ever seen. 09/21/01
Israel reviews truce after woman killed
JERUSALEM -- When an Israeli mother of three was killed Thursday in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank, U.S. Consul Ronald Schlicher, the Jerusalem-based diplomat who maintains U.S. contacts with Palestinian leaders, quickly called Yasser Arafat to ask what he was going to do about it. 09/21/01
U.S. rejects Afghan proposal that bin Laden leave voluntarily
09/20/01
FBI acknowledges some hijackers' identities are in question
09/20/01
Administration tells Congress improvements to airline security under way
09/20/01
Saudi minister calls for persistent campaign to undercut terrorists
09/20/01
Troops on the move
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Army ready for full-scale land combat
09/20/01
U.S. military sizes up options
09/20/01
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