:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 9.11.2006 ::
:: "Americans to mark 9/11 attacks five years on" ::
Reuters.uk
By Tabassum Zakaria
NEW YORK - Americans will mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Monday with sombre ceremonies across the country and at the sites of the devastation in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
The milestone has revived traumatic memories of the day when nearly 3,000 people were killed by al Qaeda and has sharpened an election-year debate over whether America, caught in a vicious conflict in Iraq, is any safer.
His approval ratings weighed down by the unpopular Iraq war, President George W. Bush planned to attend the ceremonies at the sites and use the anniversary to renew his vow to pursue the war on terrorism.
"There's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict the same kind of damage again," Bush said on Sunday after visiting Ground Zero in New York where the World Trade Center's twin towers had stood.
He said the anniversary was "also a day of renewing resolve."
The hijacked airplane attacks on a crisp late summer day transformed Bush into a war president and he initially received high marks from Americans by attacking al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
But the warm glow cooled as American casualties mounted in the Iraq war and the hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden foundered.
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