National Guard gets call to work airports [AP photo] President Bush announces the deployment starting next week to bolster security. Fortifying cockpits not an easy task With 7,000 commercial jets and more than 40 cockpit door systems, strengthening them will be complicated and expensive.

U.S. courts Jordan, Turkey for help
The White House views the recruitment of moderate Muslim states as crucial to the success of the coalition.

Official number missing in New York drops
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says duplications found on lists drop the number to 5,960.

Ashcroft had tense trip on Sept. 11
WASHINGTON -- The morning sky on Sept. 11 was so crystalline that John Ashcroft and his staff, peering out the windows of the Cessna Citation V jet, could easily pick out other aircraft gliding in the distance. The attorney general, jovial and talkative on his way to Milwaukee, had just finished pointing out Detroit and some of the Great Lakes when the emergency call came through.

Jackson might attempt mediation with Taliban
Secretary of State Powell says he doubts Jackson would accomplish anything by meeting with Afghan leaders.

'I'm going to die here,' she thought in the dark
Gennelle Guzman was trapped 27 hours before she became the last survivor pulled from the rubble.

Pakistan sends team to meet with Taliban
A top general and several clerics will attempt to persuade the Afghan leadership to hand over terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Lawmakers press to open Reagan National
WASHINGTON -- As pressure builds to re-open Ronald Reagan National Airport, the only airport still out of service, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said Thursday he would back a plan to place federal marshals on every flight from the airport as a requirement to reopen.

Rebels put on training display
A Northern Alliance tank hits a target on a hill. But other equipment and training seems poor.

U.S. said to have prevented two other attacks
WASHINGTON -- The government's global manhunt has thwarted two terrorist attacks since Sept. 11 and gathered evidence suggesting collaborators were in various stages of planning on several other plots to harm U.S. interests here and abroad, officials said Thursday.

Saudis permit U.S. strikes from their soil
CAIRO -- Torn between the conservative religious leanings of its people and a desire to help in the war on terrorism, Saudi Arabia has signaled that it will permit U.S. troops and planes stationed on its soil to participate in military action against Osama bin Laden and his protectors in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Thursday, citing senior U.S. officials it did not name.

Pakistanis cool on backing U.S.
QUETTA, Pakistan -- A government-organized Pakistan Solidarity Day rally here Thursday meant to show a groundswell of backing for President Pervez Musharraf and his pro-U.S. policies became a display of anything but unity.

Terror bill gets close scrutiny
Concerns over civil liberties prompt Congress to delay action on antiterrorism bill.

Indonesians burn flags outside U.S. Embassy
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- With hundreds of protesters burning U.S. flags outside the gates of the U.S. Embassy and with extremist groups threatening to kill Americans, the State Department said Thursday that most of the embassy staff could leave the country if they chose.

What's at issue in the antiterrorism bill
WASHINGTON -- Congressional members are raising doubts about roughly half of the 53 provisions in an antiterrorism package Attorney General John Ashcroft delivered last week.