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 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.
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 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.
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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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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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 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 Pentagon deferred on a decision to provide the Afghans with five used C-130 military transport planes and light attack aircraft.
Citing the serious need for effective communication among first responders in case of a terrorist attack, Buckman also urged the committee to direct the Federal Communications Commission, as well as the Pentagon, to free up radio frequencies in order for all the agencies to better communicate.
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