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September 12, 2001 In a six-minute press briefing held aboard Air Force One en route to Andrews Air Force Base, White House representative Ari Fleischer said President George Bush had met with his national security team via live teleconference from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska before 5:30 p.m. According to Fleischer, Bush told advised the team to, "... find these people and they will suffer the consequence of taking on this nation. No one is going to diminish the spirit of this country." Although still unfolding, the tragedy which struck and virtually immobilized the eastern seaboard yesterday, has some known facts. American Airlines Flight 11 departed Boston for Los Angeles. Hijacked by suspects armed with knives, the plane crashed into the World Trade Center. United Airlines Flight 175 departed Boston for Los Angeles, was hijacked and also crashed into the World Trade Center. In addition, American Airlines Flight 77 which departed Washington-Dulles for Los Angeles, was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon. United Airlines Flight 93 departed Newark for San Francisco, was hijacked and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. As a result, crime scenes have been established by the federal authorities in New York, in the Washington, D.C. area, in Pittsburgh, in Boston, and in Newark. The full resources of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Attorneys Offices, the U.S. Marshal's Service, the Bureau of Prisons, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Office of Justice Programs, are being deployed to investigate the attacks and to assist survivors and victim families. Thousands of FBI agents in all the field offices across the country are cooperating in this investigation. It has also established a website where people can report any information about these crimes. That address is:
www.IFCCFBI.gov . Individuals are asked to report any information they know about these crimes to White House sources say that the President has gained the support of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and a host of additional nations, all of whom have expressed their outrage at the attack, and who have assured the American people that the international community stands with America. Last night's Presidential message to the American people, and indeed to the world was one of both resolve and reassurance. "These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat," said President Bush. "But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people have been moved to defend a great nation." Although Fleischer refused to discuss any of the intelligence information that's been provided to the President, he did say that as a matter of security, the President traveled around the country in the manner that he did to allow the national security community to assess the ongoing nature of a threat before he returned to Later that day, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, "Today America has experienced one of the greatest tragedies ever witnessed on our soil. We will not tolerate such acts. We will expend every effort and devote all the necessary resources to bring the people responsible for these acts, these crimes, to justice." Both he and Bush said called for unity and calm. "Now is the time for us to come together as a nation to offer our support, our prayers for the victims and for their families, for the rescue workers, for law enforcement officials, for every one of us that has been changed forever by this horrible tragedy," he said.
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