The Bush administration is struggling with its first high-level quarrels over the scope and timing of its military response.
President Bush ordered heavy bombers and other aircraft to within easy striking distance of Afghanistan today.
The White House said this morning that the clerics' edict "doesn't meet America's requirements."
Options under consideration include more powerful, sustained attacks.
The attack cost the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey nearly $1.3 billion in damage and will cost $1.1 billion more in enhanced security measures.
City, state and federal officials are jockeying over who should control the rebirth of Lower Manhattan.
Thousands were evacuated safely before both of the buildings collapsed.
Siding with those of his advisers who favor the broadest possible campaign against terrorism, President Bush told Congress, the nation and the world last night that the forthcoming American effort would not cease "until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated."
The Justice Department today released the names of 19 individuals it believes were the hijackers.
All but one of the people taken into custody on Thursday at Kennedy International and La Guardia Airports have been released.
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