(CNN) -- In a conference call with New York Gov.
                                                    George Pataki and
Mayor Rudy Giuliani, President
                                                    Bush said he would
visit New York City Friday to
                                                    view the devastation
from Tuesday's terror attacks.

                                                    He told Pataki and
Giuliani that America was enveloped in
                                                    a "quiet anger" and
said: "We will win this war." After his
                                                    phone call, Bush and
first lady Laura Bush visited some of
                                                    the injured and the
medical personnel at a Washington
                                                    hospital.
(Transcript)

                                                    The president's
comments came as airports across the
                                                    nation reopened and
investigators pressed their manhunt
                                                    for those involved
in the hijacking and crashes of four
                                                    commercial jets on
Tuesday -- two that destroyed the twin
                       towers of New York's World Trade Center and a
third that slammed into the western wall of the
                       Pentagon in Washington.

                       Latest developments

                       • Officials in southwestern Pennsylvania said
they have identified and cordoned off a second
                       debris site about 6 to 8 miles away from the
crash site of United Flight 93, the fourth hijacked
                       plane in Tuesday's terror attack. Cell phone
calls from passengers aboard the plane indicated the
                       hijackers may have had a bomb and also that they
were planning to try to retake the plane from
                       the terrorists.

                       • The Pentagon says that an estimated 190 people
died in the
                       Pentagon crash; the highest ranking officer was a
three-star army
                       general. The figure included the 64 passengers
and crewmembers
                       on the plane. (Full story)

                       • Giuliani says that the number of missing in New
York has now
                       topped 4,760. The mayor said that 94 bodies have
been
                       recovered, 46 of them identified.

                       • Rescuers in New York are searching for a
survivor who
                       contacted authorities via cell phone early
Thursday morning. The
                       survivor is believed to be in the basement of the
northern World
                       Trade Center tower.

                       • One of two brothers who had been identified by
federal
                       authorities as possible hijackers involved in the
terrorist attacks is
                       alive and cooperating with the FBI, sources said.
Federal sources
                       initially had identified Adnan Bukhari and Ameer
Bukhari as
                       possible hijackers who had boarded one of the
planes that
                       originated in Boston. Bukhari's attorney,
however, said that Adnan
                       Bukhari was not involved and that Ameer Bukhari
died in a small
                       plane crash last year. The attorney said that the
brothers'
                       identification had been stolen. (Full story)

                       • New York authorities fear the building at 1
Liberty Street and the
                       Millennium Hotel could still collapse.

                       • Authorities shut down New York's Staten Island
at 8 a.m. on
                       Thursday to begin a "grid search" for a vehicle.

                       • Bomb-sniffing dogs were sweeping through the
Pentagon
                       Thursday morning as employees at the Washington
D.C.-area
                       facility returned to work. (Full story)

                       • German police said they had detained a male
airport worker and have brought in a woman for
                       questioning. (Full story)

                       • Sheriff's officers in Sebastian County,
Arkansas, detained a man who was taken into custody
                       after a massive search by federal agents for a
vehicle that they found Wednesday. A jail
                       employee told CNN the FBI told them not to
comment for "national security reasons." A
                       spokeswoman at FBI headquarters in Washington
said, "We can't comment on that."

                       • Authorities believe they have found the wheel
of one of the planes that crashed into a World
                       Trade Center tower four blocks away from ground
zero.


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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- International
                                                    diplomats, aid
workers and many reporters evacuated
                                                    Afghanistan on
Thursday amid growing fears the
                                                    country may be
involved in retribution attacks by the
                                                    U.S.

                                                    Reuters news agency
also reported that many Arab
                                                    nationals had fled
the country and other residents had
                                                    begun to build
trenches.

                                                    Three United Nations
flights left the capital Kabul on
                                                    Thursday for
Pakistan.

                       On board were three international diplomats, from
U.S., Germany
                       and Australia.

                       They had been in the Kabul trying to secure the
release of eight
                       international aid workers on charges of
converting Muslims to
                       Christianity.

                       Also on board the aircraft were the last of the
international U.N.
                       staff. The U.N. has now completed the evacuation
of 80 staff in
                       total.

                       Before they left they paid off all local
employees and packed key
                       documents, taking them with them.

                       Many overseas journalists who had been reporting
from
                       Afghanistan also boarded the planes.

                       The International Committee for the Red Cross has
also started to
                       pull out its 30 international staff based in the
country.

                       The reduction of all international and overseas
workers by
                       independent non-governmental aid groups is also
under way and
                       expected to be completed later Thursday.

                       'Sad catastrophe'

                       The departures have fuelled apprehension and fear
on the streets
                       about what will happen next.

                       Residents have been listening to Taliban-run
radio where there have
                       been reports of the events in the U.S.

                       Many Afghans, like the Taliban leadership, have
condemned the terrorism attacks and offered
                       their sympathy.

                       But CNN's Nic Robertson in Kabul reports that
they are very concerned about the possibility
                       that they could be involved in retribution
attacks on Afghanistan.

                       The Taliban on Wednesday issued further
statements condemning the terrorism in Washington
                       and New York and appealing to the U.S. not to
attack the country.

                       Taliban officials called the attack a "sad
humanitarian catastrophe."

                       The Taliban appealed to the U.S. not to attack
Afghanistan, saying the Afghan people were
                       already in a great deal of misery.

                       Wednesday's statement came after a meeting
between senior Pakistani diplomats and Taliban
                       officials. Pakistan is one of the only countries
that recognizes the Taliban government.

                       The Taliban was swift to deny any involvement in
the terrorism attacks in New York and
                       Washington.

                       Sanctuary

                       Taliban officials also denied that Osama bin
Laden, the
                       millionaire Saudi fugitive blamed for past
terrorist attacks
                       against American targets, was behind the attacks.

                       Intelligence officials and other sources have
told CNN that
                       bin Laden -- living in sanctuary in Afghanistan
-- or the Al
                       Qaeda group he heads are considered suspects in
the
                       attacks.

                       "There are good indications that persons linked
to Osama
                       bin Laden may be responsible for these attacks,"
an
                       intelligence official told CNN, echoing the
sentiments of
                       some U.S. politicians.

                       The Taliban gave sanctuary to bin Laden in 1996
mainly
                       they say because of his role in war efforts that
led to the
                       withdrawal of Soviet Union forces from
Afghanistan after
                       10-years of occupation.

                       Significantly, the population and leadership are
also concerned that any attacks could open the
                       door for the Northern Alliance -- effectively the
opposition government in Afghanistan which has
                       been engaged in a long running civil war with the
Taliban.

                       The frontline of the conflict is around 30 miles
(48 kilometers) from Kabul and has been more or
                       less static for the past five years.

                       The Taliban fears that a sustained attack by the
U.S. could help push forward an offensive from
                       the Northern Alliance to retake Kabul.




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