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...security officials across the country, “America on Alert” is more than a tag line on CNN. It’s the new way of life: the Centers of Disease Control are monitoring anthrax outbreaks, armed National Guardsmen are securing airports, fighter jets are flying combat air patrols over major cities and tall buildings have readied for quick evacuation. Vice President Richard Cheney has been moved to a secure undisclosed location...
...phone lines in the office of Sheriff Bruce Bryant, of York County, S.C., started burning up around 8 p.m. on the night of Saturday, Sept. 15. Helicopters had been seen heading up the Catawba River toward a nuclear power station. Soon two F-16 fighter jets arrived on the scene, and Bryant heard a "tremendous, thunderous noise." A little later, choppers were spotted near the Oconee nuclear plant near Clemson, 90 miles away. Then, shortly after midnight, several more were reported flying over the Savannah River Site, a Department of Energy facility that occupies more than 360 sq. mi. along...
...pass a Koranic school where kids have constructed a row of toy antiaircraft guns to take shots at imaginary U.S. warplanes flying out of the desert sunset. I hope the border guard gets lucky: it might allow those schoolkids to grow up without training their sights on real U.S. fighter jets...
...Noted "The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death." MAULANA INYADULLAH, Afghan mujahedin fighter, on why the soldiers of the Taliban have no fear of a possible invasion by U.S. forces and their allies...
...Nadeem has rejected Islam's more military strains. As an 18-year-old university student, he was recruited for training as a mujahedin fighter in Afghanistan. He lasted two days, then returned home. He won't discuss the experience, other than to say: "Their intentions weren't good." In the past 10 years, six of his college friends trained to fight the jihad in Kashmir; all of them died. "They absolutely wasted their lives," he says. "It's all politics. These groups aren't interested in the system of God." He makes no secret of his contempt for hard-line...