[iwar] World responds to attacks

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Date: 2001-09-11 12:55:30
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By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press

LONDON (September 11, 2001 2:06 p.m.  EDT) - Astonishing terrorist
attacks in the United States quickly found a global audience Tuesday,
with many around the world watching both World Trade Center towers
collapse on live television. 

In the West Bank city of Nablus, thousands of Palestinians poured into
the streets to celebrate, chanting "God is Great" and distributing candy
to passers-by, even as their leader, Yasser Arafat, expressed horror
over the attacks. 

Audiences were transfixed by the awful images from New York and
Washington, and world leaders expressed solidarity with an America that
looked more vulnerable than ever, offering a stream of condolences. 

Key indexes sank on world stock markets and some European airlines
canceled flights to the United States and recalled planes already in the
air. 

Many countries beefed up security at American embassies, and in Oslo,
Norwegians left bouquets of flowers in a park near the U.S.  Embassy. 
U.S.  armed forces in Europe and Asia were put on high alert, and Israel
closed its airspace to foreign flights.  NATO and European Union
institutions also took special security measures, including partial
evacuations. 

"It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured
up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent
people," Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the American
people, calling the attacks "terrible tragedies."

"This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today," said British
Prime Minister Tony Blair.  "It is perpetrated by fanatics who are
utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the
democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight
it together."

Queen Elizabeth II said she watched developments in "growing disbelief
and total shock" and offered her prayers to Americans. 

President Jacques Chirac of France called the attacks "monstrous."

"There is no other word for it," he said in a televised statement. 


Arafat and his top aides followed the events at his seaside office in
Gaza City, gathered around a television set. 

"I send my condolences to the president, the government and the people
for this terrible incident," Arafat said.  "We are completely shocked. 
It's unbelievable."

Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers also condemned the attacks and
rejected suggestions that Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who has been
given asylum in Afghanistan, was behind them. 

The Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said bin Laden
would not be able to carry out such well-orchestrated strikes.  "It is
premature to level allegations against a person who is not in a position
to carry out such attacks," he said. 

The leaders of Northern Ireland's joint Protestant-Catholic government,
Reg Empey and Seamus Mallon, also offered condolences. 

"As a society that has suffered from the effects of terrorism for over
30 years, we have some recognition and understanding of the hurt being
felt by the American people," they wrote.  "It is hard to comprehend
what could motivate anyone to cause such misery, destruction and
deliberate loss of human life."

In Berlin, Foreign Ministry officials huddled in a crisis meeting. 

Virtually all German television channels switched to live coverage. 
"This is pure mass murder," one commentator said. 

"My government condemns these terrorist attacks to the utmost," German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said. 

Airlines including British Airways, Scandinavia's SAS and Belgium's
Sabena canceled flights across the Atlantic and recalled planes that
were already in the air. 

In Puerto Rico, people scrambled for news of relatives and friends in
New York, where an estimated 2 million Puerto Ricans live. 

Groups gathered on the corners of cobble-stoned streets in the colonial
city of San Juan, clinging to strangers in search of more details. 

"Dios mio, have mercy!" exclaimed a whited-haired man, making the sign
of the cross as he watched the second tower explode on television. 

Broadcasters around the world broke into programming to show images of
the disaster.  "It's incredible.  I thought I was watching a Hollywood
movie," Hong Kong school teacher Doris Tang said. 

In the Nigerian capital of Abuja, aghast hotel workers at the local
Hilton stopped their chores to watch. 

"If this can happen in America, then the whole world is not safe," said
one, Augustine Okweche. 


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