Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said today that his department knew elements of the threat to aviation before last week's terrorist attacks but could not have pieced them together to avert the plot.
President Bush demanded that Afghanistan's leaders immediately deliver Osama bin Laden and his network and close down every terrorist camp in the country or face military attack by the United States.
It is in times like these that moral philosophers, theologians and others who study the ethics of modern warfare begin to worry.
The number of people listed as missing and feared lost could fall significantly.
At the heart of the debate is whether Tom Ridge will simply coordinate the efforts of these agencies or actually command them.
An outline of the plane's path and passengers.
Americans are dealing with continued threats.
For some, the ultimate legacy of last week's events will be memories that gradually turn malignant.
Story about Afghanistan Americans coping in the United States.
They came yesterday in streams of thousands.
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