Washington September 19, 2001: - Dozens of military planes will be "forward deployed" as early as Thursday to bases in the Persian Gulf in support of President Bush's objectives, Pentagon sources said. A second deployment order, not yet issued, could put the number of aircraft involved to more than 100 planes, the sources said. Among the aircraft being deployed are F-15E and F-16 fighters, and B-1 bombers. Also needed are support planes such as AWACS and others that can track objects and vehicles on the ground, and U-2 aircraft that can provide military surveillance. The plan, according to sources, is to move more combat aircraft into the Persian Gulf area for patrols over the southern no-fly zone in Iraq. That would free up the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to move into the Arabian Sea, where it will join the USS Enterprise. The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group is heading to the Mediterranean Sea. The additional aircraft would give Bush the maximum number of options should he decide to take any action against terrorists or their supporters.The operation has tentatively been named "Infinite Justice," according to sources. Meanwhile, Bush said he would address Congress on Thursday to explain last week's terrorist attacks and how the United States will respond.
A leading Republican senator blames "massive failure" by the U.S. intelligence community for last week's terrorist attacks. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, said information on suspects believed to have been involved in the hijackings was passed by the CIA to the FBI and on to the Immigration and Naturalization Service -- but all failed to apprehend the men. President Bush said the war against terrorism won't be waged just against bin Laden and his organization, but against all terrorist activities. He made the comments while meeting in the Oval Office with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, leader of the world's most populous Muslim nation. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf addressed his nation to gain support for helping the United States capture bin Laden. Musharraf faces intense opposition among some Pakistanis, chiefly a coalition of Islamic groups. The opposition coalition warned that civil war would result if Pakistan cooperates with the U.S. against bin Laden.
Rescue and recovery efforts continue at New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, although hopes of finding survivors have drastically dwindled. More than 5,500 people are feared dead in the attacks. The world's largest carrier, American Airlines, announced Wednesday it was laying off "at least" 20,000 employees. The cuts will affect American, American Eagle and TWA. American is the latest airline to announce layoffs in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Industry analysts said some carriers may file for bankruptcy.
Although U.S. stock markets were in negative numbers at the third closing bell since reopening after the terrorist attacks, there was somewhat of a bounce in the final hours of trading Wednesday. The Dow had been down 423 points, but that loss was cut by more than half by the time the market closed.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov met with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in Washington, pledging Russia's cooperation in building a global antiterrorism network.
Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, told a meeting of clerics in Kabul on Wednesday that the United States was using the case against suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden as a "pretext" to destroy the Islamic system the Taliban has established. Omar addressed the group as it deliberated the fate of bin Laden.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday the terrorists behind the attacks likely received support from other governments.
The U.N. General Assembly has formally postponed its annual gathering of world leaders. The 189 countries Wednesday adopted by consensus a motion to delay the event, which was to have started Monday. A new date will be discussed in coming weeks.
Guided by New York Commissioner of Community Assistance Rosemarie O'Keefe, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and daughter, Chelsea, toured the Family Assistance Center set up at Pier 94.
Senior opposition officials in Afghanistan told CNN that contact between the opposition Northern Alliance and the United States have reached "frantic" levels in the last 24 hours. U.S. officials are seeking information on possible targets for a potential military operation. One official said he believed an attack could come in a matter of days.
Boeing Co. says it will lay off between 20,000 and 30,000 workers in its commercial jet unit by the end of 2002 as a result of dwindling orders in the wake of the terrorist attack against the United States.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday his government will consider changing the law governing Japan's self-defense force to allow it to assist any international effort against terrorism.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group will deploy Wednesday from Norfolk, Virginia, headed for the Mediterranean Sea "and perhaps points east" of there, officials said.
CNN's Nic Robertson was asked to leave Afghanistan by the ruling Taliban, who said they could not guarantee his safety if the United States attacks.
Washington/Islamabad September 21st, 2001: - President Bush warned Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to hand over Osama bin Laden and his followers or ``share in their fate'' as he set down his doctrine to avenge last week's attack on America. In a resolute speech punctuated by two dozen standing ovations from a joint session of Congress, he steeled Americans for looming military action and told foreign governments the time had come to take sides in his global ``war on terrorism.'' ``Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,'' Bush said in Thursday's prime-time television address that drew a massive nationwide viewership. ``From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime,'' Bush said. He made clear his 8-month-old presidency would be dedicated to bringing to justice those responsible for the hijacked airliner attacks that left more than 6,500 people dead or missing and ``to the defeat of the global terror network.'' ``I will not forget this wound to our country, or those who inflicted it,'' Bush said. ``I will not yield. I will not rest. I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.''
All evidence gathered so far, Bush said, pointed to Saudi-born bin Laden and his international al Qaeda organization of Islamic militants as responsible for the carnage at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. With the United States rapidly deploying warplanes and aircraft carrier groups to the Middle East and Indian Ocean, Bush delivered a nonnegotiable ultimatum to the Taliban in Afghanistan, where bin Laden has been living as a ``guest.'' He told the Taliban surrender all Qaeda leaders there to U.S. authorities and close bin Laden's training camps. Bidding to stave off a U.S. attack, a council of Islamic clerics in Afghanistan issued an edict at the end of a two-day meeting on Thursday that said bin Laden should be ``persuaded to leave whenever possible'' but did not order his expulsion. Mullah Abdullah Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, told the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press agency the Taliban could not force bin Laden to leave the country. ``If Osama voluntarily leaves Afghanistan, he may,'' Zaeef said. ``The ulema's (clerics') decision was not to forcibly (remove him), or that he must leave Afghanistan. Rather, the ulema's decision was that he should be persuaded to leave.'' The edict, while marking a major policy change by the Taliban, received short shrift from Bush. ``The Taliban must act and act immediately,'' he said. ``They will hand over the terrorists or they will share in their fate.'' Tens of thousands of Afghans, including Taliban officials, have streamed out of major cities for the relative safety of the countryside and for the borders of Pakistan and Iran amid growing expectations of a punishing U.S. military strike. ``People are fleeing because of the U.S. attack and when the Taliban somehow want to provide a type of opportunity to avoid it, America turns it down. I condemn it,'' said a pharmacist in Kabul, reflecting an angry mood among ordinary Afghans at Bush's tough line.
Fears of conflict, coupled with concerns over a global recession, pushed Asian markets down further in early trade on Friday, with Japan's Nikkei index hitting fresh 17-year lows and Hong Kong's Hang Seng down more than 4 percent. But political analysts said Bush's powerfully delivered speech could give U.S. shares a boost when Wall Street opens after a nerve jangling four-day slide to three-year lows. ``He was supposed to deliver a knock-out punch and he did,'' said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer at First Albany Corp. ``I am hopeful this speech will attract some buyers, but I don't know.'' The hijackings on Sept. 11 destroyed the New York World Trade Center's 110-storey twin towers, blew a hole in the Pentagon, and brought down a plane in rural Pennsylvania. Hours before Bush spoke, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani raised the missing toll at the World Trade Center to 6,333. Only five people have been rescued from the rubble that once was the symbol of U.S. financial might, and none since Sept. 12. ``I pray for a miracle,'' said Edward Gonzalez, a New York City transit worker whose crew worked on the 1.2 million tons of twisted steel and pulverized concrete. ``I pray for a miracle. That's all I'd like to say.''
The attacks have pushed an already slowing U.S. economy ever closer to recession and led to massive job losses at U.S. airlines, reeling from the costs of stiff new security measures and plunging demand as a result of the hijackings. Congressional leaders and the White House agreed on Friday on a $15 billion bailout plan for the industry which the House of Representatives was expected to vote on later in the day. Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, said the package included $5 billion in immediate cash aid, with the rest in loan guarantees and provisions for the government to consider paying some claims of victims of the attacks. Bush said he had a message for the men and women of the world's mightiest armed forces. ``Be ready,'' he said to thunderous applause. ``The hour is coming when America will act, and you will make us proud.'' He told Americans to prepare for a lengthy conflict fought with diplomatic, financial and military means that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said would be a ``marathon, not a sprint''. ``Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there,'' Bush said. ``It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.''
Bush also announced the creation of a Cabinet-level Office of Homeland Security, with outgoing Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as its first director. The new office will coordinate efforts by 40 federal agencies and state and local governments to overcome the weaknesses in domestic security laid bare by the attacks. Working to form a global coalition against the threat, Bush met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Thursday and with British Prime Minister Tony Blair whom he presented to the joint session of Congress as a true friend. Blair, stopping in New York on his way to Washington, hailed a ``surging of the human spirit'' around the world and the strengthening of U.S.-British ties following the attacks, in which some 200 Britons are feared to have died. The United States and the European Union pledged to work in ''a broad coalition'' using legislative means, tighter security and intelligence exchanges to combat terrorism. Some allies, while expressing support for a campaign against terrorism, have urged restraint by the United States. The Saudi minister, representing a nation crucial to any U.S. drive for Arab support, said the focus should be on justice. ``We can't fight terrorism by being vengeful,'' he said. Afghanistan's neighbor Pakistan, one of only three governments to recognize the Taliban, has agreed to provide Washington logistical and intelligence support despite strong popular pro-Taliban sentiment. Anti-American protests were expected across Pakistan following Muslim Friday prayers as hard-line religious leaders pressed their opposition to any U.S. attacks on the Taliban. In the restive southern city of Karachi, gunshots shattered the early morning air and radicals were on the streets to force shopkeepers to heed a call for a nationwide strike to protest a possible U.S. attack on Afghanistan. Aiming to head off accusations of waging a war on Islam, Bush called bin Laden's militants traitors to the peaceful teachings of their faith. He also condemned hate crimes against Arab-Americans, Muslims and Sikhs that have occurred since the attacks. ``We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them,'' Bush said. ``No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.''
WASHINGTON September 24, 2001: - President Bush, calling for a ``strike on the financial foundation'' of terrorists, demanded Monday that foreign banks follow America's lead and freeze the assets of 27 individuals and organizations. Osama bin Laden accused Bush of leading a new crusade against Islam ``under the flag of the cross.'' Bush, standing in the Rose Garden, said the order that took effect one minute after midnight applied to ``terrorist organizations, individuals, terrorist leaders, a corporation that serves as a front for terrorism and several nonprofit organizations.'' He conceded they operate primarily overseas, adding that as a result, ``We're putting banks and financial institutions around the world on notice.'' If they fail to assist, he said, the Treasury Department ``now has the authority to freeze their banks' assets and transactions in the United States.'' Bush spoke nearly two weeks after the worst terrorism attack on American soil, when terrorists hijacked jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center twin towers and Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside after doomed passengers apparently struggled with the hijackers. More than 6,000 people are dead or missing.
Halfway around the world, bin Laden urged Pakistani Muslims to fight ``the American crusade.'' The Saudi exile has been named repeatedly by administration officials as the chief culprit behind the September 11 attacks. In a statement dated Sunday and broadcast Monday, he said some Pakistanis died opposing American plans to use Pakistan as a springboard in the battle against terrorism. ``We hope that they are the first martyrs in Islam's battle in this era against the new crusade and Jewish campaign led by the big crusader Bush under the flag of the cross,'' he said of the dead. The statement was broadcast by Al-Jazeera, the Qatar satellite channel. At the same time, the leader of Afghanistan's ruling militia, Mullah Mohammed Omar, said the United States should withdraw from the Persian Gulf and ``put an end to the biased attitude on the issue of Palestine.'' In a faxed statement, he said the death of bin Laden would do little to remove any threat to the United States.
Administration officials indicated a continuing concern about more terrorism directed at the United States. Concerned about possible chemical weapons attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration extended Sunday's ban on crop-dusting from airplanes in domestic airspace. Bush coupled his remarks about the financial network of terrorists with a fresh declaration that he was ``concerned about the shock this had on the economy.'' But he said ``the fundamentals for (economic) growth are strong,'' and added defiantly, ``We'll come out of this and we'll come out of it strong.''
There was at least some sign of optimism on Wall Street, where the stock market opened sharply higher after a week of exceptionally steep declines. Flanked by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, Bush said: ``Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations. Today, we're asking the world to stop payment.'' He called the list ``the financial equivalent of law enforcement's most-wanted list.'' A fact sheet issued by the white House expanded an order put in place during the Clinton administration. It expands the class of affected groups to all those who are ``associated with'' designated terrorist groups, and ``establishes our ability to block the U.S. assets of, and deny access to U.S. markets, those foreign banks that refuse to freeze terrorist assets.'' In his remarks, the president said he recognized that some European countries would probably need to rewrite their own laws to meet America's conditions for choking off the financial network. He said the administration would respond on a ``case-by-case basis'' in determining how to measure compliance. Powell repeated the administration's view that bin Laden was culpable for the September 11 attacks that killed more than 6,000. ``There's no question that this network ... this guy at the head of this network, the chairman of this holding company of terrorism, is the one who's responsible.''
The president's executive order marked the first public step of the financial elements of his declared war on terrorism. He also worked on the diplomatic front during the day, meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien at the White House. Addressing Canadian critics who said he had not mentioned their country's assistance in his speech to Congress last week, Bush said: ``Now is not the time for politics. Now is the time to develop strategy to fight and win the war.'' For his part, Chretien said, ``you have the support of Canada. When you need us we will be there.'' At the same time, American military forces are deploying around the world in anticipation of a strike against bin Laden and his al-Qaida network. Pakistan announced Monday it had removed its diplomats from Afghanistan.
The day's developments, including bin Laden's call for Pakistan's Muslims to fight ``the American crusade,'' underscored that nation's strategic importance in the unfolding struggle. Pakistan has a large Muslim population and has had ties with the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan. Yet the nation's president, Pervez Musharraf, has pledged cooperation with the United States. Demonstrations have been held in the Pakistani cities of Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta by Pakistanis who view bin Laden as an Islamic hero and object to their government's decision to cooperate with the United States in its anti-terrorism campaign.
Washington/Islamabad October 2nd, 2001: - The United States on Tuesday showed its closest allies ``conclusive evidence'' that Islamic militant Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks on New York and Washington three weeks ago, winning support for military action against defiant Taliban rulers of Afghanistan. The 19-nation NATO military alliance formally invoked its mutual defense clause for the first time in its history. The decision gave Washington a green light for whatever military action it deems appropriate against the Saudi-born militant, his al Qaeda network and the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban who are sheltering him and have refused to give him up. As Taliban scrambled to prop up old alliances, woo new friends and retain the loyalty of their own men, President Bush said there was no deadline for U.S. action. ``There's no negotiations. There's no calendar. We'll act on our time. And we'll do it in a manner that not only secures the United States as best as possible but makes freedom in the world more likely to exist in the future,'' Bush told reporters in the Oval Office. Saying ``it's time to start flying again,'' Bush announced a limited reopening of Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. It was the last U.S. airport to remain closed after the attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center and seriously damaged the Pentagon and which left more than 5,700 people dead or missing. The airport is just a few miles (km) from the Pentagon and other potential Washington targets, including the White House. In Brussels, U.S. counter-terrorism coordinator Frank Taylor gave a classified briefing to the NATO council which appeared to convince all those present that Osama bin Laden masterminded the attacks.
NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said, ``It is clear that all roads lead to al Qaeda and pinpoint Osama bin Laden as being involved.'' NBC and the New York Times reported that bin Laden contacted either his mother or adoptive mother in the 48 hours before the attack telling her, ``In two days you're going to hear big news, and you're not going to hear from me for a while.'' There was no official confirmation of the reports. The State Department said it had information about possible attacks on U.S. targets in Italy in the next month. ``The Department has received information that 'symbols of American capitalism' in Italy may be targeted for attack in the next month,'' it said in a public warning. ``We will provide updated information should it become available.''
In Afghanistan, Taliban ministers were moving around the country, some traveling from the capital, Kabul, to confer with their spiritual and supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, in his southern stronghold of Kandahar, and others fanning out to win the hearts and minds of both soldiers and civilians. Defense Minister Obaidullah Akhund was in the east to mobilize Taliban forces and reassure inhabitants. Bush and other Western leaders stepped up the psychological pressure on Taliban, apparently hoping to take advantage of any disunity within the ruling group and its supporters.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair reinforced the message at his Labour Party's annual conference, declaring that the Taliban had run out of chances to give up Osama bin Laden and must now brace for attack and surrender. ``We know those responsible ... Be in no doubt at all. Bin Laden and his people organized this atrocity. The Taliban aid and abet him. He will not desist from further acts of terror, they will not stop helping,'' he said. ``The aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians,'' Blair said.
But Taliban leaders remained defiant, saying any U.S. assault on their country would be an attack on Islam. ``Fight hard against attacks, defend your country,'' Defense Minister Obaidullah said, rallying troops near the Pakistan border. The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said that the only way to end the crisis was for Washington to enter into negotiations, a demand Bush has repeatedly rejected. ``If they want to solve it they should start negotiating,'' Ambassador Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said. Taliban also dismissed U.S.-backed attempts to build an alternative Afghan government through the 86-year-old ex-King Zahir Shah, who has been living in exile in Italy since 1973. Shah and the Northern Alliance, a guerrilla force battling to oust the Taliban, agreed on Monday to convene a grand council, or Loya Jirga, aimed at ousting the Taliban and installing a moderate government. But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday he was not hopeful that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia would collapse under pressure from internal opposition alone. ``I think it would be unwise to cross your fingers and hope that something that pleasant would occur,'' he said, adding that domestic opposition to the Taliban could be useful in U.S. efforts to root out bin Laden.
In Germany, the government said it had frozen a total of 214 bank accounts that were suspected of having links to terrorists that had operated in the country. The Economics Ministry said the affected accounts contained a total of 8 million marks ($3.7 million). In France, a suspect in an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris has told investigators he visited bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan to discuss the planned attack, a source close to the case said on Tuesday. The source said Djamel Beghal admitted under questioning that he had signed a pact with a bin Laden aide to carry out suicide attacks on the U.S. mission and on an American cultural center in the French capital. Afghanistan's neighbor Pakistan, the one country still recognizing the Taliban, has rallied to Bush's war on terrorism despite opposition from Islamic religious parties.
President General Pervez Musharraf said he hoped that any U.S. action against the Taliban would be ``very, very short.''Thousands of Taliban supporters marched through the streets of the Pakistan border city of Quetta on Tuesday, denouncing Bush as a terrorist and Musharraf as a traitor. Secretary of State Colin Powell said a ``considerable'' military buildup was taking place around Afghanistan. ``Administration policy is to go after the al Qaeda network and Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and if the Taliban does not realize that this... might lead to their demise, they will soon come to that conclusion,'' Powell said. In Pakistan, U.N. emergency relief coordinator Kenzo Oshima arrived for a fact-finding trip. Aid workers fear an exodus of hundreds of thousands of Afghans fleeing hunger and war. In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, dozens of expatriates were leaving in response to growing anti-American sentiment ahead of the expected U.S. strike on Afghanistan.
In the top article we are told that the mighty city of Babylon has fallen as a result of the calamities that are quickly piling up because of this well thought out and placed wound on the citadel of capitalism, that thinks of itself as being infallible, and its leaders are just as quickly being made aware of this Godly Prophetic fact! But not so with the masses of the people who are being kept in the dark about these things because there is no widespread publishing of this fact, and secondly there is no dependable place in this world to get an absolute and accurate appraisal of these things! There is no media outlet, religion, or even individual proclaimers of these facts that in any way can reach the masses of the people in this world! I am only one man, whose experience of some 17 years tells of the ceaseless conspiracies going on everywhere to stop the masses from knowing these things! Yet I have not ceased either from trying to get these messages out to them!
In the second article we are told that the "wild-beast" with "two horns like unto a lamb" (which represents the aspirations of the leaders of the US and the UK to completely rule the earth with a Protestant form of dominion such as the Roman Catholic Church had before it started its decline in 1799) "began speaking as a dragon," as so well demonstrated in this speech by Bush to the US Congress, where he encourages the world to rise up to carry on a war against "terrorism," that the US and UK are both overwhelmingly guilty of in the history of those two nations. And so they seek to build an "image unto the wild-beast who hath the plague of the sword and yet did live." So it is a fight against the Most High God and His Christ to the death! But Christ sits "far above every authority, government, power, lordship, and every name being named not only in this age, but also in the one approaching!!" Eph 1:21. All this empty patriotic and war-drum beating insanity of the US reminds some of the words of Mt 8:28-32, i.e., "and going to the opposite side into the region of the Gadarenes there met him two being possessed by demons charging forth out of the tombs so very furious that no one was able to pass along on that road! And Lo! they cried out saying, what hast thou to do with us O Son of God? Dost thou appear here before the time to terrorize us? Now there was at some distance from them a great herd of swine feeding. And the demons implored Him saying if thou dost cast us out send us into the herd of swine. And He said to them Go! and they going forth went into the herd of swine! And Lo! the whole herd rushed down the steep place into the lake, and perished in the waters!!" So it scarcely needs proof where the greatest power is and who the winner of this futile battle will be!!
And in the third article we see the groundwork being laid for the fulfillment of the remaining verses of Rev 13:15-18, which runs for a certain period of time, and will reach its final end after its allocated time has been reached as it was appointed by the Most High God with the number 666!! You can learn much more about this by reviewing this work!
The fourth article speaks of the US having conclusive "evidence" on Osama bin Laden, but who doesn't know of the imperialist "terrorist" atrocities that have been committed all over the world, which George Bush (II) nows stands on while yet demanding "infinite justice" for the unfortunate deaths of a number of this land of "freedom and democracy's" debt plagued wage slaves, which it caused in the first place? From World War I, II (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 27 million Soviet people at the hands of the Nazis they built up) Korea, Viet Nam (napalm), and the worst of all the "Desert Storm" precedent of "infinite justice" in the Persian Gulf against Iraq, etc., etc., ad nauseam! But the US Illuminati Order now seeks to control all powers and privileges for universal justification through its infiltration into the presidency of the US in a questionable election, but is nevertheless in the eyes of the imperialist aggressors of the world its duly elected representative of the "American People," whether they can swallow that or not! All the subject nations of this barbaric imperial throne in Washington DC are not authorized to exercise any matters involving seeking justice outside of this imperial dominion without its approval and permission, on pains of suffering its almighty wrath! Looks like the Jews in Palestine took a step down to me, and we now have a new group of "chosen people" who are "Christians!!"
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