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Worldwide offers of rescue teams, aid and blood donations followed the initial reaction of shock, sadness and disbelief at the disastrous attacks in New York and Washington. The European Commission has announced that it has more than 600 experts with a wide variety of skills ready to leave for New York to help with rescue efforts, once the US reopens its airspace.

"The European network of catastrophe experts is mobilised and ready to furnish its assistance to the United States and to victims on the ground if they need it," Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom said in a statement.

Commissioner Wallstrom opened a crisis centre late Tuesday to co-ordinate aid from various European countries to the United States.

Experts

Ten Belgian specialists in burn treatment and victim identification are waiting in Iceland for US airports to open, the European statement said.

About 500 French search and rescue experts were also prepared to leave, as were specialists from Sweden, Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands.

The Czech Republic plans to send a six-member team that participated in various earthquake rescue missions, Czech radio reported.

Israel, too, said it was poised to send to New York rescue teams who had helped sift through the devastation after Turkey's massive 1999 earthquake.

Blood drive

And Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, has been collecting blood donations for victims of the attacks, as have similar services in Russia and Kuwait.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat launched a blood drive in the Gaza Strip by donating blood himself.

"As you know, I said in my letter to President Bush yesterday that we put our modest capabilities at the disposal of the US president and people in light of this horrible incident," Mr Arafat told journalists.

The Canadian Red Cross said it was mobilising its disaster response teams to help people find their families.

And Japanese Prime Minister Junichi Koizumi said his government would "consider dispatching emergency international relief teams, and it will get ready to swiftly respond to requests for their dispatch."

Germany's Defence Minister, Rudolf Scharping, said Germany would send the US an Airbus A-310 to carry the injured, and offered Washington several other aircraft.

And the German media giant Bertelsmann said it was donating $2m (1.82m euros) to the families of the police and firefighters who were killed in the rescue operations.

NATO today declared, "that Tuesday's attack on the United States can be considered an attack on the entire 19-nation alliance.

Nato Secretary General George Robertson said this meant that the United States had the support from its Nato partners for military action if it is determined that the attacks were directed from abroad."

Which now means that if Afghanistan wants a war, they have one. If Iraq wants a war, they have one. If the Palestinians want a war, they have one big fucking war. I wonder if the terrorists ever thought that their attack would back fire so horribly, that they would unite the world against Bin Laden, and that they just signed their death will. Our course of action at this point should be a declaration of war against Terrorist Factions and the Governments that support them. Then, we should destroy all the terrorist training camps and send their "students" to the Hauge. Meanwhile, New York should get a piece of Bin Laden. String him up, and allow us to do what Italy did to Mussolini's corpse. Maybe terrorists will then be too scared to attack again. Afghanistan is already considering extraditing Bin Laden, because they're so scared of an all out attack.

And that my friends is why America is called the Sleeping Giant.

Arafat apperently has started a blood drive in the Gaza Strip. I wonder if they ahd to give him the form without the "have you ever had sex with a goat?" question. You wouldn't believe the kinds of diseases goats have.