In a brief statement to the press given while visiting an elementary school, President Bush called the crashes a terrorist attack and vowed a full investigation. He is flying back to Washington, DC immediately for a meeting of the National Security Council.

CNN also reports that there is a fire at the Pentagon and on the Washington Mall. 

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Reports from Washington say that the Pentagon has been hit by a small plane or helicopter, starting a fire and forcing the evacuation of the building. There is also a fire of unknown origin on the Mall.

Other major government buildings -- including the White House, State Department and Capitol -- were evacuated around 9 A.M.

The FAA suspended all commercial flights throughout the country following the attacks.

One plane, said to be a 767 or 757, crashed near Pittsburg. Another is reported to be heading for the Pentagon.

Air Force planes, including the F-16 single-seat fighter, have been seen scrambling over Washington and New York.

Editor's note: Although we now know the information reported here was inaccurate, we are keeping this article in the archives as a historical curiousity.

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Scuffle breaks out aboard Chicago-bound flight
F-16 fighter jets intercept
Posted 10-08-2001, 17:29
by Richard Goldberg

Chaos broke out aboard an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Chicago as a man attempted to enter the cockpit, authorities said. Passengers on AA Flight 1238 immediately overpowered the man, whose father said has a history of mental illness.

After the captain declared an emergency, U.S. Air Force scrambled F-16 fighter jets to intercept the passenger airliner and escort it to O'Hare International Airport.

Read more about this breaking story here.

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If you have any humanity, the answer is "yes."

Do you pay the salary of a former terrorist?

If you attend Northwestern, the answer is also "yes."

Bernardine Dohrn is a bona fide veteran of the FBI's Most Wanted list who spent years in hiding to avoid charges of inciting riots and conspiring to bomb police stations and other government buildings. She is also the head of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.

During the 60s and 70s, Dohrn and her husband, Bill Ayers, were part of a group called the Weathermen. This revolutionary group bombed several buildings, including the Pentagon. Far from being apologetic about their terrorism, Ayers has even bragged about it to the New York Times, saying, "I don't regret setting bombs ... I feel we didn't do enough."

Although Dohrn herself has been more discreet than her murderous husband, she has done nothing to distance herself from him and shown no repentance for her past actions, which include signing a "declaration of war" against America.

The half-apologies she has offered are ludicrously weak. At a rally, she once endorsed Charles Manson's murders, saying "Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach." Later she claimed those remarks were a "joke." Right, and so was David Duke joining the Klan.

The Wall Street Journal has even gone so far as to say that the September 11th attacks are not the beginning of a new era of terrorism; rather they are the climax of a general trend of attacks on America, beginning with smaller acts such as those perpetrated by the Weathermen.

We may never know if the WSJ is correct, but the Chronicle thinks everyone can agree that it is an ironic twist of fate to put a former terrorist who evaded justice in charge of the Children and Family Justice Center.

The Chronicle contacted Dohrn's office 12 times, but she did not honor our request for an interview. The following is a list of the questions we were going to ask:.

1. Could you tell me how you got your job as director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University?

2. What exactly do you do in that position?

3. Do you still have the same grievances with the U.S. government that you had in the past, in your days with the Weathermen?

4. Do you think that the actions of the United States, domestically or around the world, make the acts of Sept. 11 understandable?

5. Did seeing some of the actions of recent domestic terrorists like Tim McVeigh or the Unabomber make you rethink the choices of your past?

6. Do you see the motivations of those people or even the people who committed the September 11 terrorist attacks as similar to those that the Weathermen had when they were active?

7. How did the Weathermen choose their targets?

8. Have the actions of domestic terrorists like Timothy McVeigh made you rethink your own beliefs about waging war on the government?

9. What about the terrorist attack on Sept. 11? They are fighting for many of the same things that the Weather Underground was fighting for, do you sympathize with them at all?

10. How is it that you do not define youself or your comrades as terrorists even though your methods included the bombing of government installations and possibly the deaths of government officials and employees?

11. How would you have justified those deaths in terms of your cause?

12. There is a famous quote attributed to you "Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach." Did you ever say this, and if not, do you know where it originated?

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