Statements...
"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war" - President Bush
"This battle will take time and resolve, but make no mistake about it, we will win." - President Bush
"Evil and death will not have the last word" - Pope John Paul II
"A lot of innocent people were killed by an evil force and we're going to stand together against it until justice is done, accountability is had" - former US President Clinton
 "[Telegram] Dear George. Such an inhuman act must not go unpunished" - Russian President Vladimir Putin
"On behalf of the European Union, [we] condemn in the strongest possible terms this type of cowardly attack on innocent civilians" - Guy Verhofstadt, the prime minister of Belgium
"The United States of America is face to face with one of the greatest tragedies in its history, something that could affect the entire world" - Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit
"We are completely shocked. It's unbelievable. We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American administration, not only in my name but on behalf of the Palestinian people" - Yasser Arafat
"The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness" - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
"I believe the American president should and will lead whole world, the UK, Europeans, Russia, Israel, the whole world should focus effort putting an end to it" - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
"We will go after them" - Secretary of State Colin Powell
"We're at war. We just don't know with who" - Gaillard Pinckney, Columbia, S.C.
"The 11th of September, 2001, will go down for us all as a black day in history" - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
"In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America" - European Commission President Romano Prodi
"Irrespective of the conflict with America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people, and be with them at these horrifying and awesome events which are bound to awaken human conscience" - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
"There has never been such a trauma in terms of casualties in the history of the United States since the Civil War in the middle of the 19th century" - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
"It's better to have too high security level than too low" - Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
"I must have come across body parts by the thousands" - said Angelo Otchy, a mortgage broker who came in with a National Guard unit from Dover, N.J.
"I am extremely worried that what has happened ... will result in a more closed world, that it will be more difficult for us to meet across borders" - Prime Minister Goran Persson
"It's not easy to warn the United States in such a situation, [but] we must hope there won't be an irrational revenge" - Norway's Foreign Minister Thorbjoern Jagland
"The decision to hit back will be taken with circumspection because, in the job we do, one always has to think about the attack after that. If an act of retaliation leads to a new destabilization, you haven't won anything at all" - French Defense Minister Alain Richard
"I can't find anybody from five rescues and seven squads. It's a devastating thing. The fire department will recover, but I don't know how" - New York Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen

Civilians:
"I lost count of all the dead people I saw. It is absolutely worse than you could ever imagine" - firefighter Rudy Weindler
"There's two feet of soot everywhere, and a lot of the vehicles are running over bodies because they are all over the place. There were people running up to us who were totally burned — no hair, no eyebrows" - City paramedic Louis Garcia
"[Another terrorist attack] could happen in Japan, too, since we're allies with America" - bus driver Kohei Suzuki, Japan
"I wish I could go and dig myself. He could be dying, and I'm not there to hold his hand. He could be in pain, and I can't help him" - woman whose missing husband worked in one of the upper floors of a World Trade Center tower
"I can think of only one person who could pull this off — bin Laden. When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that will have to be put into place to ratchet up security in the United States, it's monumental. This opens up a new era in the history of terrorism " - Harvey Kushner, a terrorism expert at Long Island University, N.Y.

Sponsors of terrorism:
"Now, America is gaining the fruits of its worldwide crime" - al-Iraq newspaper
"In the hours after the attack, Iraqi television played a patriotic song that began "Down with America!" as it showed the towers collapsing" - CBS News
"As the scale of the U.S. attacks sank deeper in one day on, even old enemies like Syria, Cuba, Libya, Iran - with Iraq the exception" - CNN News
"[Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden] thanked Almighty Allah and bowed before him when he heard this news" - Palestinian journalist
"I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans" - bin Laden
"No doubt this is a result of injustice the U.S practices against the weak in the world" - Sheikh Yassin, leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas
"What happened in the United States today is a consequence of American policies in this region" - Gaza, Islamic Jihad official Nafez Azzam

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