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Karim Khudairi, a representative of the Islamic Council of New England, emphasized the importance of waiting for the FBI investigations to finish before “passing judgement” on Arab-Americans. He compared Tuesday’s attack to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, and urged the audience to remember the lessons of the past...
...finally extinguished and the survivors are pulled from the ash piles where the World Trade Center once stood, we must confront the terrible reality that an act of war has been committed on American soil. When the last comparable atrocity came screaming out of the sky over Pearl Harbor, the United States responded with a political and military campaign that resulted in nothing less than the destruction of the system that produced the attack. Surely a response of equal gravity is needed today: we must combat the threat of terrorism and do whatever is necessary to safeguard the security...
This mission will require serious rethinking of our policy towards states in which terrorists are known to operate—states that, in more peaceful times, the United States has often ignored. President George W. Bush has said that we will make no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them. Whenever the hosts of the evil men who plot against us support their efforts, this policy is certainly appropriate. But we must also recognize that different situations will require different responses—terrorists may operate within failed states or strong states, enemies or allies...
Investigators were gathering evidence that the terrorist cells may have had prior involvement in earlier plots against the United States, and may have been involved with Saudi exile Osama bin Laden—including ties to the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole bombing in a Yemenite harbor last fall and the foiled attack on Los Angeles airport during the millennium celebrations...
...plans for military action have been publicly outlined by the Bush administration, officials say they will wage “a campaign, not a single action” to destroy the terrorist groups responsible for Tuesday’s attacks, as well as to bring down the governments that harbor them...