Bush Attends Memorial Service at the Pentagon

U.S. President Bush said Thursday night that an FBI warning issued earlier in the day was the result of a ``general threat'' the government received. ``I hope it's the last but given the attitude of the evildoers it may not be,'' he added.

At a prime time news conference at the White House, Bush sought to reassure Americans the government was doing all it could to make them safe. ``If we receive specific intelligence that targets a specific building or city or facility, I can assure you our government will do everything possible to protect the citizens,'' he said.

The news conference capped a national day of remembrance. There were memorial services around the nation to remember the more than 5,000 people killed when suicide hijackers seized four commercial airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside.

The president attended one ceremony, at the Pentagon, where he said the hijackers had ``died in vain.'' Their co-conspirators in terrorism, he said ``They will be isolated, surrounded, cornered until there is no place to run or hide or rest.''

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