Authorities in Massachusetts have arrested at least five Arab men as suspects in yesterday?s terror attacks launched from Logan International Airport in Boston. As with the earlier bombing of the World Trade Center, evidence centers around a rental car.

Authorities seized a car parked in the airport parking garage that had Arabic-language flight training manuals inside it. Two of the men who were arrested were brothers who had passports from the United Arab Emirates, and one of them was a trained pilot. At least two other suspects flew to Logan yesterday from Portland, Maine, where authorities believe they went after crossing over from Canada recently.
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Yasir Arafat and the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan have both condemned terrorist attacks on the United States. From Kabul a Taliban spokesman said that Osama bin Laden, the Saudi Dissident, “could not have been responsible for the attacks on the United States.” He said that “this could have been the act of internal enemies of the United States or its foreign rivals.”

However, Palestinian youths were celebrating in the streets in Israel, and there are strong suspicions that the conflict in the middle east is the reason for the attack. It was the most sophisticated and damaging terrorist attack in history, and must have involved the support of many skilled professionals, including pilots capable of taking over and guiding the planes to their destruction.
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Fires are now spreading in lower Manhattan, as a severely crippled New York City Fire Department sends out urgent calls up and down the East Coast for support. At least a dozen people jumped from the upper floors of the World Trade Center before the buildings collapsed. More than two hundred New York City firemen are unaccounted for as of this hour in the World Trade Center catastrophe, and the Fire Department is having serious organizational and communications problems.

It is believed that the fires will be contained in lower Manhattan. New York City fire codes are among the most stringent in the world, and many buildings are sprinkler-equipped and fire resistant.
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The Prayer Group will respond to the terrorist catastrophe with continuous prayer for peace. On this terrible day, we must bring into our hearts the suffering and those who have just lost their lives. We must also pray for our beautiful country, and for our leaders, who will need all of their wisdom and capability in the times to come. To participate in the Prayer Group, click here.

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