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Tiga Bulan Selepas September 11

(America Remembers)

Oleh; Joel Roberts

Tiga bulan sudah berlalu, selepas serangan ngeri di Pusat Dagang Dunia. Hampir setengah timbunan runtuhan yang dianggar 600,00 tan berupa keluli, batu-batan dan debu, telah pun dipindahkan daripada Lower Manhattan. Usha mencari mayat dan serpihan badan yang mungkin ada masih diteruskan tanpa henti, seperti kelakuan seluruh negara yang masih mencari jawapannya.

Di New York City, para petugas bomba, dan pekerja binaan berhentikan kerja dan segala alat jentera mereka SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> untuk menghormati satu majlis bertafakur pada 8.48 pagi. Majlis itu dimulakan dengan nyanyian 'Let there be peace on Earth' oleh William Michael. Kemudian diikuti dengan upacara keagamaan oleh ketua agama Kristian, Muslim dan Yahudi.

Upacara yang sama sudah dirancang di lebih 70 negara, menjelajah sehingga stesen angkasa antarabangsa, di mana angkasawan Russia dan Amerika akan begabung memberi penghormatan mereka.

Sebalik ulangan-tayang mengingatkan peristiwa ngeri itu, terdapat banyak kemajuan untuk dilapurkan mengenai peperangan membasmi keganasan yang berjalan sejak tiga bulan yang lalu. (catatan: tengok orangputih menipu, serangan keatas Afghanistan hanya bermula pada 7 Oktober, dan dia kata perang sudah masuk tiga bulan. Inilah yang mesti difahami oleh orang Melayu jangan mudah tertipu selalu, semacam ditipu oleh seorang diktator tua!!!!)

Puak Taliban telah dinafikan kuasa mereka di Afghanistan dalam masa lapan minggu selepas Presiden Bush melancarkan serangan udara yang pertama. Walaupun satu kerajaan baru Afghan ebrsiap sedia untuk mengambil alih kuasa tidak pula diketahui di mana perginya musuh utama Amerika yang paling dikehendakki - Mullah Omar dan Osama bin Laden.

Minggu yang berlalu sudah merakamkan kemalangan yang membabitkan kematian pertama (hik.hik.hik... yang lain siapa? - Russia?) seorang pegawai CIA yang mati di penjara Mazar-e-Sharif dan tiga orang komando disebabkan tembakan pihak kawan berdekatan Kandahar. Begitu juga dengan satu kisah anih membabitkan seorang anak muda kelas atasan California yang tertangkap berjuang bersama puak Taliban.

Kalau ada pun berita baik yang muncul daripada NewYork, berita itu adalah mengenai angka kematian yang menurun begitu drastik daripada anggaran 6,000 kini menjadi& bsp; hampir 3,000.

Kini, bandaraya itu teruskan hidupnya dengan kemunculan satu datuk bandar yang baru, Mike Bloomberg yang akan menggantikan Rudi Gulliani.

Begitu juga dengan ancaman anthrax yang nampaknya semakin berkurangan tanpa sebarang serangan baru selepas kematian seorang wanita berusaia 94 tahun di Connecticut yang tersentuh bakteria yang be bahaya. Setakat ini belum diketahui saya yang merencana serangan itu dan mana datangnya spora anthrax dan bagaimana cara sebeanar ia merebak.

Lima orang sudah mati disebabkan serangan anthrax dan 13 orang telah dijangkiti di Amerika Syarikat (kebanyakannya orang kulit hitam dan Hispanik - penterjemah), sejak surat pertama mengandungi anthrax didedahkan pada bulan Oktober. Dewan Capital Hill masih ditutup sejak sepucuk surat mengandungi racun itu diterma dan pegawai Federal Reserve di Washington , tempat yang paling terbaru menerima surat itu, masih meneruskan pencarian mereka.

Selama tiga bulan, Kongres telah menangani serangan pengganas dengan beberapa perundangan baru di Amerika, termasuk peningkaan kawalan keselamatan di lapangan terbang dan pesawat udara. Yang masih tertanggung disebabkan perdebatan yang berpuak-puak, ialah satu cadangan pekej pemulihan ekonomi yang semakin tenat dan mencungap sejak September 11, dan menyhebabkan ekonomi negara merudum seja itu.

Sementara itu Bush sudah bertindak menyekat penyaluran bantuan kepaa pertubuhan yang dikataknnya menyokong aktiviti keganasan (termasuk pertubuhan amal islam yang menerima bayaran zakat di Amerika, bodohnya presiden haprak!!!), Dia juga menandatangai satu undang-undang membenarkan penubuhan mahkamah tentera mengadili merka yang disyakki pengganas.

Tiga bulan selepas September 11, Amerika memasukki ambang percutian sambil mengawasi kemungkinan munculnya serangan baru.

Tamat.

Asal

America Remembers Terrorist Attack On U.S. Took Place Three Months Ago

By CBSNews.com's Joel Roberts

NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2001 (CBS) Three months after the suicide hijacker attacks on the World Trade Center, about half the debris, some 600,000 tons of steel, dirt and rubble, has been removed from the lower Manhattan site. But the search for bodies and remains continues nonstop, as does the nation's search for answers.

President Bush led a worldwide observance of the three-month anniversary of the attacks on America at the White House playing the national anthem at 8:46 a.m. EST, the precise moment the first airliner crashed into the first trade center tower on September 11.

"Every death extinguished a world," Mr. Bush said after the Star Spangled Banner played in the East Room of the White House. "It's a memory of shock and loss and mourning."

Solicitor General Ted Olson, whose wife, Barbara, died in the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon, spoke at a Justice Department ceremony.

"We will never forg t our loved ones who died or who were wounded on Sept. 11," he said somberly. "We will fight this evil for as long and as patiently as it takes. We will prevail. We will comfort and care for those who have suffered. We will not forget."

At the Pentagon, where a hijacked plane struck an hour after the New York crashes, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld led a memorial ceremony.

The terrorists want to extinguish the memory of those who died in the attack, he said. "We will remember ... until freedom triumphs over fear, over repression and long beyond."

In New York City, firefighters and construction workers stopped work and shut down their heavy machinery to observe a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. at ground zero.

The program began with Broadway performer William Michael singing "Let There Be Peace on Earth." As a light drizzle fell, prayers were offered by Christian, Muslim and Jewish clergy.

Similar events were planned in more than 70 countries, extending as far as he orbiting International Space Station, where U.S. and Russian astronauts will pay their respects.

Along with the grim recounting of that terrible day's events, there is notable progress to report in the war on terrorism in the past three months.

The Taliban have been swept from power in Afghanistan just eight weeks after President Bush launched the first U.S. air strikes. But even as a new Afghan government prepares to take control of the country, the whereabouts of America's most wante criminals, Taliban leader Mullah Omar and terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden, remain unknown.

Recent weeks have also seen the first U.S. combat casualties - a CIA officer killed in a prison uprising at Mazar-e-Sharif and three Green Berets killed by an errant U.S. bomb near Kandahar - as wel as the strange case of a young, upper-middle-class California man captured fighting alongside the Taliban.

If there's some good news in New York, it's that the number of dead has dropped sharply from earlier estimates of as much as 6,000 down to the present figure of closer to 3,000.

And the city is going about its business, with a new mayor, Mike Bloomberg, waiting in the wings to take on the daunting role of replacing Rudy Giuliani in leading New York's recovery.

As well, the a thrax scare appears to have abated, with no new confirmed cases in the three weeks since a 94-year-old Connecticut woman died from contact with the bacteria. But authorities still claim to have few ideas about who is behind the anthrax-by-mail attacks, where the anthrax spores came from, or exactly how they spread.

Five people have died from anthrax and 13 have been infected in the United States since the first anthrax letters were found in October. A Capitol Hill office building where a tainted etter was received remains closed and officials at the Federal Reserve in Washington, the site of the most recent positive discovery, continue to search for the source of the contamination.

In the past three months, Congress has responded to the terrorist threat by passing legislation to grant police expanded powers to track down terrorists, drawing the ire of some civil rights groups. It has also approved a plan to upgrade security for airports and airlines. Still unsettled and bogged down in pa tisan bickering is a stimulus package to revive the nation's economy, already struggling before September 11 and sent into a full-blown recession in the months since then.

President Bush, meanwhile, has taken steps to choke off financial support for terrorist organizations, signing an executive order freezing U.S. assets of dozens of groups and individuals with suspected terrorist links. He also signed a controversial order to allow the prosecution of suspected terrorists before military tribunal .

On the diplomatic front, the president, who continues to enjoy remarkably high approval ratings, has met with a wide spectrum of world leaders, and won at least tacit support for the U.S. anti-terrorism efforts from most, including his new best buddy, Russian President Vladimir Putin.