An F-14A «Tomcat» taxis to catapult one for launch from the USS Enterprise 17 September, 2001. The US readied for war 19 September, 2001, deploying military forces as US President George W. Bush rallied a multinational coalition and told Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden or face the consequences. «There are movements and we will see more movements,» US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said 19 September, as the Pentagon refused to give details on the deployment.
