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Bush to U.N.: 'Time for Action' Against Terror
Friday, November 9, 2001
(10:44 AM)
By Randall Mikkelsen
Reuters

"These obligations are urgent and they are binding on every nation with a place in this chamber," President Bush said.

UNITED NATIONS -- Reuters
President Bush, in his first appearance before the U.N. General Assembly Saturday, asked for action in the U.S.-led war on terrorism instead of sympathy for the Sept. 11 attacks.

"The time for sympathy has now passed. The time for action has now arrived," Bush told 48 presidents and prime ministers and 114 foreign ministers at the opening of the annual gathering in New York.

He said the threat of terrorism was global, and warned that those behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States would use weapons of mass destruction as soon as they were able. Bush has blamed the al Qaeda network of Islamic militant Osama bin Laden for the attacks.
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