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6 January 2001 12:25:06 PM - An Iraqi opposition group has claimed that Saddam Hussein's televised address to the nation used doctored and pre-recorded film.
A spokesman for the London-based dissidents said they still believed the president was unwell and the footage was made before he was taken ill. He said it was a normal government ploy to broadcast the same footage repeatedly and said he suspected from the Iraqi leader's clothes and the appearance of his face that the clip was old. |
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12 Jan 2001 The next US Defence Secretary says the country faces another Pearl Harbour-style attack but this time on its space satellites.
Donald Rumsfeld believes Nasa should take the threat of an attack on its satellite communications more seriously and that its interests in space should be protected. The warnings are made in a report just published by a government commission he headed. |
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Breaking News 11 September 2001 2:41:05 PM
The Pentagon is being evacuated in expectation of a terrorist attack. It is believed a fire has broken out in the building. The White House has also been evacuated. It is believed six people have died in the two crashes at the World Trade Centre and that the number will rise. Thopusands of pieces of office paper was drifting over Brooklyn, three miles from the twin towers. |
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11 Sept 2001 2:52:26 PM
The FBI has evacuated the White House after they received what they said were "creditable threats" against the White House. All airports across the US have been shut down. Paul Begala, a Democratic consultant, said he witnessed a explosion near the Pentagon shortly after two planes crashed into World Trade Centre. "It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball," Begala said. He said another witness told him a helicopter exploded. Later a DFLP official denied responsibility for the attack. The Chicago Stock Exchange has been evacuated. Office paper from the damaged buildings has been found drifting over three miles away in Brooklyn Last terrorism attack on Feb. 26, 1993, killing six people and injured more than 1,000 others. In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog. In Sarasota, Fla., President Bush was reading to children in a classroom at 9:05 a.m. when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered into his ear. The president briefly turned somber before he resumed reading. Asked what he knew about the planes, Bush replied, "I'll talk about it later." There was no immediate word on injuries or fatalities in the twin disasters, which happened shortly before 9 a.m. and then right around 9 a.m. |
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11 Sept 2001 6:40:29 PM
Fighter jets are patrolling the skies above Washington after a jet hijacked by terrorists struck the Pentagon. The West Wing of White House was evacuated after the attack on the Pentagon. An aircraft has crashed on a helicopter landing pad near the Pentagon, and the White House. The Pentagon has taken a direct hit from an aircraft. The nerve centre of the US military burst into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapsed when the plane struck. Secondary explosions were reported in the aftermath of the attack and great billows of smoke drifted skyward towards the Potomac River. Authorities immediately began deploying troops, including a regiment of light infantry. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a large plane, believed to be a Boeing 747, has crashed about 80 miles (130 kilometres) southeast of Pittsburgh. The fate of those aboard is not immediately known and it is not clear if the crash is related to the disasters elsewhere. General Richard Myers, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that prior to the crash into the Pentagon, military officials had been notified that another hijacked plane had been heading from the New York area to Washington. He says he assumed that hijacked plane was the one that hit the Pentagon, though he could not be sure. |
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11 Sept 2001 4:03:06 PM
The State Department was evacuated Tuesday due to a possible explosion or fire amid a rash of explosions in New York and Washington. A senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident appeared connected with the two plane crashes at the World Trade Center, an explosion at the Pentagon and the evacuation of the White House. "Something has happened at the State Department," the source said. "We don't know what yet. We hear it might have been a plane." |
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11 Sept 2001 3:42:43 PM
There are reports that a car bomb has exploded outside the US State Department in Washington. This is the fifth explosion in an hour and a half in a spate of major terrorist attacks on the United States. Tony Blair postponed his TUC speech in Brighton and spoke of the mass terrorism, saying it is "the greatest evil in our midst today". He also expressed sympathy for President Bush and the American people. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have phoned news headquarters in Jerusalem, strenuously denying responsibility for the attack. |
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11 Sept 2001 4:05:16 PM
A second aircraft has crashed into the Pentagon building. It is not known whether this plane was that which was hijacked from Boston airport a short time ago, the fourth such plane to be used in this major attack on the US. Earlier, a small plane had slammed into the building and set it ablaze. It is not yet possible to ascertain the number of dead or injured in the various attacks in America's biggest cities. All flights to and from the US have been grounded, as have all transatlantic flights to and from Canada. |
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