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America Under Siege.(attack on the World Trade Center, 2001)

The New American

| October 08, 2001 | Grigg, William Norman | COPYRIGHT 2001 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Terrorists have struck hard at the heart of our great nation. The challenge now is to deal swift, sure justice to the perpetrators while preserving our essential freedoms.

Within a few hours on September 11th, our nation was struck by four terrorist attacks that may eventually yield tens of thousands of casualties. Although the identity of the assailants is unknown at the time of writing, our country has endured a murderous act of aggression that simply cannot go unpunished. The carefully orchestrated terrorist strike, in which civilian jetliners were converted into weapons of mass destruction and aimed at the symbols of our nation's military and financial power, ...

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