As New York began accepting applications for death certificates from relatives of the people reported missing in the World Trade Center attack, military officials continued to release identities of those who died in the Pentagon attack.
While U.S. officials at the State Department and the Pentagon said the attack was a violation of the armistice that ended the fighting between the North and South in a stalemate in 1953, Crowley and the Pentagon's spokesman said it did not appear that North Korea intends a renewal of war.
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The attack on the Pentagon took out 70% of the U.S. Navy's technological infrastructure there.
By any other comparison, the attack on the Pentagon would probably have counted as America's worst disaster.
The United States has taken unprecedented steps to keep Israel out of any conflict, including allowing Israel access to classified Pentagon information during any military attack.
The number of red stripes represents the four terrorist attacks using hijacked airplanes and the single blue stripe represents the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Seven years after the September 11 attack on the Pentagon, the wall is designed to remind visitors of the youngest and oldest victims, wrapping the memorial in symbolic imagery.
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The anti-terrorism campaign begun after the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon "will not be quick, and it will not be easy, " he said.
And it's not so much that they're worried that a rogue state such as North Korea or Iraq or some other country is seriously considering an attack on the United States, but the argument that the Pentagon makes is that even the threat of that attack can change the way other people react, and change public opinion.
Gates did everything he could at the Pentagon to deny Israel the ability to attack Iran's nuclear installations.
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The Purple Heart is bestowed upon a service member or U.S. civilian serving under the military's authority who "has been wounded, killed, or who has died or may hereafter die of wounds received" while in action against an enemy or in a terrorist attack, according to the Pentagon's Manual of Military Awards.
Asked about an unnamed Pentagon official who hinted at an imminent Israeli attack in a television interview, a State Department spokesman said that if such talk were credible, the source should not remain unnamed.
At the Pentagon, General Ham provided few details of the attack.
In the aftermath of September 11, it struck me that the devastating attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon would buttress the case for a missile defense system.
Last year, the FBI arrested a man in Boston who planned to use remote-controlled robotic aircraft packed with explosives to attack both the U.S. Pentagon and Capitol building.
Ms. Burlingame said the independent report on the mishandling of remains is at sharp odds with the care with which employees at Dover and the Pentagon treated family members in the aftermath of the attack.
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Such a huge death toll from this one bomb attack on this amphibious vehicle, if the Pentagon's looking at that, does this raise machinery questions?
The same limited logic informs Israel's strenuous objection to the Pentagon's intention to sell Saudi Arabia Joint Direct Attack Munition satellite-guided "smart bombs, " or JDAMS. The government claims that while it has no quarrel with the Saudis, it fears for the stability of the regime.
Pentagon sources said there has been evidence ever since the truck bomb attack that linked Iranians to the blast, and former Defense Secretary William Perry once publicly identified Iran as a suspect.
Colonel JOE CURTIN (Spokesman, Pentagon): The division has almost 300 helicopters, cargo, attack and reconnaissance-type aircraft, so it is an extremely capable division that can provide the necessary speed and shock effect that you would need in a large-scale combat operation.
This is so serious that either the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department would respond, depending on the type of attack.
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The Pentagon has also not ruled out a physical military response to a cyber attack, although it concedes that there are legal questions that remain unanswered.
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But Pentagon officials say the number of Taliban crossing from Pakistan to Afghanistan to attack U.S. and allied forces has multiplied, and that Pakistan needs to do more than just negotiate peace deals with the militants.
That number included 18 who had been directly tied to an attack or attacks and 43 who were suspected of such action, Pentagon officials said at the time.
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The attack was then fed to all of them, the White House, the Pentagon, the State Dept.
The Wanat attack was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in three years, and prompted a Pentagon investigation.
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The Pentagon views the land mines deployed in Korea as the major deterrent to a North Korean attack on South Korea, where some 37, 000 American soldiers are stationed.
The handful of bases available to U.S. forces in the region are vulnerable to attack by China in the early stages of a future conflict, so the Pentagon needs weapons capable of operating effectively without local base access.
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