| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Dave Weirs) |
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| Subject: | [OT]Where were you..... |
| Date: | Wed Sep 12 14:55:01 2001 |
they were interviewing an eyewitness on the telephone who saw the 1st plane
hit from his VERY nearby office window, so close that he ducked under his
desk when some debris started splattering his office window. As they were
interviewing him live on the air, the 2nd plane hit. Needless to say, he
FLIPPED. Screaming "OMIGOD, OMIGOD", and it was several seconds before he
was coherent.
At work, we set up a TV to see the news, and when I saw the footage of the
2nd jet hit, I was just numb. When my wife heard that Palestinians were
celebrating in the streets of the West Bank, she wanted to bomb them right
then. I've been bouncing back and forth between numbness, sorrow, and rage
since then, with a nice undercurrent of emotional exhaustion running under
it all.
Watching EVERY member of Congress, all 500+ or so, put aside all partisan
politics and making a statement of solidarity while standing on the Capitol
Building steps was impressive. Then seeing all of them, Left and Right,
breaking out into song with "God Bless America" almost brought me to tears.
An anti-terrorism expert said last night that a favorite tactic of
terrorists is to use 2 bombs, the 2nd one designed to go off a certain
amount of time after the 2nd, so as to catch rescue personnel and police in
it's detonation. He speculated that was the reason for the time delay
between the 2 planes hitting. It apparently worked, as almost 300 fireman
and 100 police were killed in the tower collapse. Also, the Fire Chief,
Asst Fire Chief, and Deputy Fire Commissioner (I think those were the
correct titles) were all killed in the collapse. Top 3 department
personnel, just like that.
The explosions in Kabul are probably rebels taking advantage of the
situation. Strangely enough, an assassination attempt was made against the
chief rebel leader there this past weekend. The Taliban claim he's dead,
the rebels claim he's still alive. That's a pretty strange coincidence, if
it is one at all.
This one's even wilder. This slipped under the news networks' radar a
couple of weeks ago, on Aug 30th. Russia was pissed at the Taliban because
they made Bin Laden ***the Commander In Chief*** of the Taliban armed
forces. So the Taliban isn't just harboring him, but made him a government
official. I think that might change how we deal with Afghanistan.
http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID!6037
UPI's server is getting hammered, so you'll probably have to hit reload on
that link a few times to get it to come up, but it will eventually.
