Tuesday, May 5


Bullet causes pipeline to gush gallons of oil

The Associated Press Alyeska Pipeline Service spill response personnel dressed in environmental protection suits work to remove a giant hydraulic clamp used to stop the flow of oil from a bullet-hole in the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Read more...




Statement by President Bush

Courtesy of the White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) 1:00 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon.  On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.  These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations, and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime. Read more...


U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Statement

Transcript courtesy of the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/international/07BLAIR-TEXT.html) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR: As you know from the announcement by President Bush, military action against targets inside Afghanistan has begun. Read more...


Osama bin Laden’s statement

Following is the text of a videotaped statement made by Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden and broadcast on Qatar-based al-Jazeera television on Sunday: "Here is America struck by God Almighty in one of its vital organs, so that its greatest buildings are destroyed. Read more...