Suspected Terrorist Attack on World Trade Center
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U.S. troops scouting inside Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Friday the United States is "in hot pursuit" of terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks, and a top administration official said U.S. special forces have conducted scouting missions in Afghanistan, where suspected terrorists are hiding. 09/28/01
Pakistanis fail to get Taliban to surrender of bin Laden
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani religious and government figures met the leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Friday but failed to persuade him to surrender Osama bin Laden, a member of the delegation said. 09/28/01
 Doug Mills / Associated Press President Bush calls for a new federal agency to assume the responsibility for airport and airline security.  |
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's $3-billion airport security package adds layers to just about the entire air travel experience -- cockpits fortified with extra-strength doors, security officers supervised by federal employees and cabins with highly skilled marksmen in street clothes. 09/28/01
Fliers praise Bush security plan
ROMULUS -- Mobilizing the National Guard to enhance airport security got a thumbs-up from travelers at Detroit Metropolitan Airport Thursday. 09/28/01
Make security even tighter, airlines ask
ROMULUS -- While the nation's airlines and travel industry officials on Thursday applauded President Bush's new tightened security measures, some said the steps were not strong enough and are unlikely to convince the public to begin flying again at pre-Sept. 11 levels. 09/28/01
U.S. discloses hijacker data
An updated list, released Thursday by the FBI, of 19 men accused of commandeering four passenger planes on Sept. 11 that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania. 09/28/01
Technology may boost jet safety
DETROIT -- President George W. Bush said Thursday he will enlist new technologies to ensure the safety of the nation's aircraft and restore the public's trust in air travel that was shaken by the Sept. 11 hijackings and terrorist attacks. 09/28/01
Algerian was 'top instructor' for four hijackers, prosecutors say
LONDON -- An Algerian pilot arrested in London instructed four of the hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, prosecutors said at a hearing Friday. 09/28/01
Threat forces jet to return to L.A.
LOS ANGELES -- A passenger allegedly uttered an anti-American threat during a confrontation with flight attendants Thursday, prompting an airliner to return to Los Angeles under escort by Air Force jet fighters. 09/28/01
N.Y. missing list drops below 6,000
NEW YORK -- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Thursday that the official number of people missing at the World Trade Center had dropped to 5,960 after multiple lists of the victims were double-checked. 09/28/01
Checklist found in hijacker's luggage
WASHINGTON -- Mohamed Atta, one of the key organizers among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, left behind a five-page handwritten document in Arabic that includes Islamic prayers, instructions for a last night of life and practical reminders to bring "knives, your will, IDs, your passport" and, finally, "to make sure that nobody is following you." 09/28/01
Ashcroft faced danger Sept. 11
WASHINGTON -- The morning sky on Sept. 11 was so crystalline that John Ashcroft and his staff, peering out the windows of the Cessna Citation V jet, could easily pick out other aircraft gliding in the distance. The attorney general, jovial and talkative on his way to Milwaukee, had just finished pointing out Detroit and some of the Great Lakes when the emergency call came through. 09/28/01
Millions of Afghans face starvation
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Trapped inside borders with relief workers gone, supplies dwindling fast and war looming, Afghans who are among the world's toughest survivors now face potential death in large numbers. 09/28/01
Mideast was on brink of peace one year ago
JERUSALEM -- The sudden eruption of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in September 2000 shocked a region that seemed on the brink of a historic final peace agreement. 09/28/01
Belfast violence leaves 14 wounded
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Several hundred Protestants battled police for a second night, injuring 13 officers and one civilian in what the police chief said was the worst violence he'd seen in decades. 09/28/01
Curfew slows down Cincinnati protests
CINCINNATI -- Mayor Charlie Luken clamped Cincinnati under a second night of curfew Thursday, recognizing that the city is still on edge after a judge acquitted a white police officer in the April shooting death of an unarmed black man. 09/28/01
Bush urges states to call up Guard to protect airports
09/27/01
Jackson might meet with Taliban about jailed relief workers
09/27/01
Swiss gunman invades state parliament, kills 13, then himself
09/27/01
Rebuild Trade Center or not?
09/27/01
N.Y. helps victims' families
09/27/01
Capitol looks at bolstering its security
09/27/01
Generals authorized to decide on shooting jetliners
09/27/01
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