October 6, 2001 Diary: America Responds

United We Stand

Bush rejects Taliban attempt to use jailed workers as bargaining chips
Saturday, October 6, 2001
(Updated Saturday at 12:16 p.m.) The White House on Saturday rejected Afghanistan's attempt to use jailed foreign aid workers as bargaining chips to pressure the United States to halt its planned anti-terrorist offensive.

Taliban soldiers deploy to mountainsides
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Taliban soldiers in large numbers have taken heavy weapons into the mountains near Kandahar to await any American assault, according to Afghan travelers reaching this border post Friday.

Last rescue crew from Federal Emergency Management Agency leaves World Trade Center site
Saturday, October 6, 2001
(Web Posted Saturday at 6:18 p.m.) The last federal rescue crew left the World Trade Center on Saturday, leaving New York officials to continue the nearly month-old effort to locate nearly 5,000 bodies buried in the rubble.

America on edge in wake of attacks
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Greyhound screeches its bus fleet to a halt. A plane explodes over the Black Sea. A Florida man's rare disease raises fears of bioterrorism. Everywhere, people trying to recover emotionally from the Sept. 11 attacks find new reasons to worry almost daily.

Saudi diplomat say bin Laden calls Taliban shots
Saturday, October 6, 2001
A former Saudi diplomat to Afghanistan was quoted Friday as saying Osama bin Laden — and not the Taliban militia — is the real power there. Abdullah bin Saad al-Otaibi, the former Saudi charge d'affaires to Afghanistan, also said the Taliban themselves were in the dark about the locations of bin Laden's "hidden bases" in the country.

U.S. gains air base access
Saturday, October 6, 2001
President Islam Karimov granted permission Friday for U.S. warplanes and troops to use an Uzbek air base to support President Bush's campaign to root out terrorists in neighboring Afghanistan. The Army dispatched 1,000 infantry soldiers skilled at search-and-rescue, humanitarian missions and helicopter assaults.

Military action not inevitable, signals show
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Administration and European officials are signaling that a major military action may not come anytime soon, even as U.S. troops, warplanes and ships gather in the Gulf region. There were growing signs that the coalition the United States is assembling for the anti-terrorism campaign is still struggling to decide exactly what to do.

Out of a clear blue sky: Watching the aircraft--and the anti-aircraft fire
Saturday, October 6, 2001
(Web Posted Saturday at 12:21 p.m.) They didn't run in panic; after all, they have grown accustomed to this sort of thing. Instead, they stood and gazed skyward--bearded men, young boys, women in veils, watching the airplane and the attempts to shoot it down.

Anthrax claims life of Floridian
Saturday, October 6, 2001
A 63-year-old Florida man died of the inhaled form of anthrax Friday in the first such death in the United States in 25 years. The case raised fears of a biological attack, but health officials said there is no evidence he was the victim of terrorism.

Rare fued pits U.S., Israel
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Responding to an Israeli rebuke, the White House rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's accusation that the United States was appeasing Arabs for the sake of its war against terrorism.

American's remains believed found
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Three members of the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf led the Philippine military Friday to a shallow grave containing remains they claimed were those of an American tourist kidnapped more than four months ago.

Probe into air crash continues
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Salvage workers scrambled Friday to collect wreckage from the Black Sea, gathering evidence that may tell whether a terrorist attack or an errant Ukrainian missile brought down a Russian plane full of Israelis.

National Guard begins patrolling state airports
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Lt. Brian Fuemmeler and 2nd Lt. Steven Stuart, National Guard troops from the 35th military police unit in Topeka, stood alertly in their camouflaged uniforms and sidearms Friday at Mid-Continent Airport as passengers hustled past.

Afghanistan offers to free aid workers if U.S. stops "propaganda campaign"
Saturday, October 6, 2001
(Updated Saturday at 9:18 p.m.) Taliban gunners in Afghanistan's capital unleashed a thunderous barrage at a plane cruising high over Kabul on Saturday as President Bush delivered a stern warning that "time is running out" for the regime to hand over Osama bin Laden.

G-7 ministers pledge cooperation in anti-terrorist, pro-growth campaign
Saturday, October 6, 2001
(Updated Saturday at 7:28 p.m.) The world's major industrial powers pledged on Saturday to work together to boost growth in a global economy badly shaken by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to intensify their efforts to choke off money flowing to terrorist organizations.

America responds: Officials discuss potential response to terrorism
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Local officials will have two opportunities next week to discuss how Douglas County would respond to terrorist attacks.

After a week of good recovery weather, wind and rain at World Trade Center
Saturday, October 6, 2001
(Web Posted Saturday at 12:17 p.m.) Stiff winds buffeted the World Trade Center on Saturday and rain began to fall after workers recovered two more bodies from the site.

Politicians, celebrities throng to WTC
Saturday, October 6, 2001
When Miss America visited the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center, she autographed blank body-identification tags for rescue workers. Martha Stewart's visit inspired her to decorate cookies with the American flag.

White House reiterates warning that war will produce casualties
Saturday, October 6, 2001
The White House issued a fresh warning Friday that Americans remain under threat of terrorist attack and "have to prepare for casualties in this war."

Dole: Heroism is universal
Saturday, October 6, 2001
By Bob Dole

These are the prepared remarks delivered Friday by former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Dole Institute of Politics: Whoever said you can't go home again has never called Kansas home.

6News video report: News from around the world
Saturday, October 6, 2001
Josh Garber reports on news from around the world.

Articles praised
Saturday, October 6, 2001