God Bless the families and innocent people today Seems to me God is not present in these types of wars over religions. Of course it was inevitable and being into history don't forget in 1945 an off course B 25 twin engine bomber crashed into the Empire State building killing several people, even in 1865 the John Wilkes Booth group did it in to Lincoln and his cabinet and Japanese did it in Dec 1941 launching simultaneous attacks on pearl Harbour, Philippines, Singapore etc.. Life will never be the same again for Americans and our Canadian prayers are with you. Lisa ``This is not an act of terrorism, it is an act of war,'' Yates said after two hijacked civil airliners scythed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Paul Wilkinson at the Center for Studies in Terrorism told Reuters that not since Japanese kamikaze suicide dive-bomb attacks on Allied warships in World War Two had aircraft been used in this manner. ``The use of aircraft in this way as a sort of flying bomb suicide weapon has not been seen since World War Two,'' he said. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) condemned the attacks, and a well-connected Arab journalist said he had been told three weeks ago the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) -- whose group has already attacked the World Trade Centre -- was planning a spectacular attack.