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How the World Responded to the Savagery in U.S.
Thursday, January 24, 2002
(13:06)
The Indonesian Observer

"It is the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor," EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten said, adding, "This is one of those few days in life that one can actually say will change everything."

JAKARTA -- IO
Many world leaders expressed their revulsion at the news of the aircraft attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, sombre, visibly angry and shaken, said the world’s democracies must "fight this evil" perpetrated by suspected terrorists in the U.S.

Blair added with feeling that these sort of attacks were "perpetrated by fanatics, utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life."

"This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of life," he said.

In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to U.S. President George W. Bush. "Dear George," he wrote, "such an inhuman act must not go unpunished."

EU foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting today to consider their response to the attacks.

In France, armed troops have been deployed at airports and metro stations. Border controls have increased. French President Jacques Chirac called the attacks "monstrous."

The U.S. Embassy in Paris is closed and will be shut again on Wednesday. The embassy is warning Americans in France to be careful about speaking English on the streets.
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