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Thursday September 13, 10:29 PM
Angry U.S. prepares for 21st century war
By Alan Elsner and Arthur Spiegelman
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is
gearing up for what it has called the first war of the 21st
century,
naming Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden as a suspect in
twin
terror attacks that stunned New York and Washington and
left about
5,000 either confirmed dead or missing.
At the wreckage of New York's World Trade Centre, rescue
workers pawed through the wreckage in the hunt for
survivors as the
city braced for the worst after spectacular attacks on
Tuesday
brought down the two 110-story towers and surrounding structures.
At the Pentagon -- like the twin towers, hit by a hijacked jetliner --
126 people were
still unaccounted for, not including the 64 people aboard the
commandeered flight that
slammed into one of its famed five sides.
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said that 4,763 people were missing
from the twin
towers, which were struck on Tuesday by two commandeered passenger jets
and
subsequently caved in.
While the official death toll from the World Trade Centre rose to 94,
officials said
body parts were being recovered and ordered thousands of body bags.
Authorities
said 3,800 were injured.
The situation was "horrible and gruesome. I'm sorry that I have to
describe it that way, but that's unfortunately the situation that we're
facing," the mayor said.
NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING
An emotional President George W. Bush said the United States and its
global allies were ready to "whip
terrorism" and declared Friday a national day of mourning for the
victims.
He planned to visit New York that day to show his support for the
thousands of volunteers risking their lives to help others in an
extraordinary outpouring of heroism.
Talking to reporters in the White House, with tears in his eyes, Bush
said, "Now is an opportunity to do
generations a favour by coming together and whipping terrorism, hunting
it down, finding it and holding them accountable."
The nation's air transport system slowly began resuming operations,
although with severe new security
measures in place and warnings of long delays. Officials put an end to such
conveniences as driving up to
terminals in passengers cars and checking baggage in at the curb.
While Defence officials promised "sustained" engagement in what Bush
called the first war of the 21st century, Secretary of State Colin Powell
confirmed that bin Laden was a chief suspect.
He was the first U.S. official to state publicly the exiled millionaire
believed responsible for murderous attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa could
have organised the attacks using hijacked passenger jets on the World Trade
Centre and the Pentagon.
However, bin Laden aides told journalists in Pakistan that the exiled
multi-millionaire had denied involvement in the attacks, which he described
as "punishment from almighty Allah."
U.S. stock markets remained closed and New York's financial district
lay stricken as worries over the
economic impact of the attacks grew. Central banks declared themselves ready
to defend their currencies.
AT LEAST 18 HIJACKERS, OFFICIALS SAY
Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that at least 18
hijackers, all of whom had tickets as passengers, commandeered the four
planes that slammed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a
Pennsylvania forest.
"The total number of hijackers to our best estimate and our best
knowledge given the information at this time in the four planes that crashed
was at least 18," Ashcroft said.
Exhausted rescue crews searched for survivors and extracted bodies from
tonnes of crushed concrete and twisted steel, all that remained of the World
Trade Centre, which had been the pride of the New York skyline.
"The terrible reality of this is we may never be able to recover
everyone, but we are going to try," Giuliani said.
Grieving relatives wandered the city's streets, holding up pictures of
missing loved ones, pleading for
information. Others posted photographs on lamp posts and walls.
Hundreds of emergency workers used everything from heavy machinery to
their bare hands to dig through the wreckage while sniffer dogs searched the
rubble.
"They are sending the dogs in. When the dogs get a hit, they dig," said
Chief Lawrence Cleary of the Fire Department from the scene of the rescue
effort. "But as time goes on, it doesn't look good for finding
survivors."
Knife-wielding hijackers took over three planes and deliberately
smashed them into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon near Washington.
The fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania killing all 45 people on board
after passengers fought the hijackers for control of the plane.
Federal investigators probing that crash said they could not rule out
the possibility that the jetliner with 45 people aboard had been shot down.
"We have not ruled out that," FBI agent Bill Crowley told a news
conference when asked about reports that a U.S. fighter jet may have fired on
the hijacked Boeing 757. "We haven't ruled out anything yet."
The Defence Department has vigorously denied reports suggesting the
U.S. military could have downed the hijacked flight in an effort to prevent
it from reaching a target, perhaps in Washington.
In an NBC poll, 83 percent of respondents said they supported "forceful
military action" against those
responsible, even at the risk of retaliation or the threat of war.
7,000 HUNT THE KILLERS
The FBI committed about 4,000 special agents and 3,000 support
personnel to the investigation and appeared to be making progress, both in
the United States and abroad.
German police said they had detained an airport worker in connection
with the attacks. Police also said two other men believed to be connected
with the attacks had lived in the city of Hamburg, including Mohamed Atta,
33, who was on the passenger list of one hijacked plane.
Equity markets faced a third straight day of paralysis, the longest
shutdown since the market was idled for four months at the outbreak of World
War One.
Trading in Treasury bonds resumed but was thin and choppy with many
traders unable to see prices formerly provided by firms in the destroyed
World Trade Centre.
Europe's central bank pumped fresh money into the system to avoid a
cash crunch, and expectations grew that the U.S. Federal Reserve might again
cut interest rates, by as much as a half a percentage point, to bolster
prospects in the world's richest economy.
Adding to a raft of cancelled sporting and entertainment events across
the nation, the National Football League scrapped all 15 of its scheduled
weekend games.
Both Bush and his father, former President George Bush, pleaded with
Americans not to take out their anger against Arab-Americans or Muslims.
A firebomb was hurled at a mosque and Islamic school in Texas, a day
after windows were shot out at a
similar Islamic centre near Dallas, police said. Damage was slight.
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