OK I'm working at home today and I CANNOT BELIEVE what I am seeing! Yikes.

Hi, I'm at work as well, and listening to radio coverage. Checked out one of the first photos at CNN website - HORRIBLE!!!
Apples

I'm hearing reports of the fears of terrorist attacks on major cities in the U.S.
There has been a plane crash into the Pentagon, and there's report of a fire at the Washington Mall.

Airports all over the country have been shut down, and all travel into NYC (tunnels/bridges) has been shut off.

To be continued....

A

My husband just called on the inflight phone. His flight is turning around. All airports are closing down.

[ September 11, 2001: Message edited by: Vendetta ]

Washinton D.C was hit badly too. I saw the Trade Center one first, it was spectacular (in a bad way) - the plane actually entered the window of the building. No casualties mentioned but I fear there may be many when the smoke clears.

I'm glad my husband's not landing in DC this morning.

Joey I am afraid that there will be thousands of people dead.

One entire tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. 35,000 people work there, not counting all the people who work in Wall Street.

If you have ever been in the World Trade Center it is like a city to itself

They just showed the SECOND tower collapsed...110 stories. Can't imagine how many people just died.

They are now confirming one of the World Trade Center planes was an American Airlines flight a 767. That means about 200 people plus crew.

Supposedly LA is a target and there is a rumor that a plane in the air is hijacked and is being ordered to land or be shot down. Only rumors. All domestic flights canceled. Till at least 2pm

I heard LAX is suspected of being a bombing target soon. Then again, LA is hard to penetrate these days, they must be sick of all the bomb threats and shootouts by now.

Well I guess this is proof that the world is coming to an end.

On the bright side, it gets Gary Condit out of the headlines

LA is strongly rumored to be a target. Just heard a plane crashed in or near Seattle.

LAX (LA's airport) uses a lot of security, having gone through there numerous times. However if someone wants you bad enough they can get to you. 'History has taught us if someone wants to kill you they can'---Michael Corleone in GF II (not an exact quote. trying from memory)

I trust all my fellow Padrophiles in the New York area are safe.

I can't believe any of this.....

The (unofficial) reports from the NY Police Dept. expect the death toll to rise into the thousands .

All flights to America have been cancelled. The London Stock Exchange and Canary Wharf have been closed in case of more terrorist attacks.

I cannot believe that anybody could be this ruthless, and sacrifice hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent lives like this. Whoever is responsible will have hell to pay when their identity is discovered.

I am just in total shock - I saw it online first, and thought it was a joke until I turned on the TV. I just cannot believe this has happened.... I'll be back later....

JG

From all of us Canadians, our heartfelt sympathies to all americans near and far from this tragedy. I am at work and nobody is in the mood to work, we are just numb and at a lost for words. I just hope that President Bush will hunt those bastards down no matter what.!!
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¨And that I do not forgive !! : Vito Corleone

I can't get over this. I go to school in Delaware, and between NYC and DC, almost everyone here has family or friends who work or live in one of the two cities. People are standing on corners crying.... It's completely surreal.

I'm thinking the US is going to the mattresses over this, so to speak. As well we *ought* to.

I just want to use this message board to express my condolences to folks in the USA about todays tragic events.

I understand. Since i'm in Canada many things have been closed here. I knew it would happen, even since I read Tom Clancy's executive decisions and heard him on the phone this morning where he imagined a plane crashing into the congress as initiated by terrorists, thus decapitating the political strength and economy of the US. I didn't know it would happen in New York, after the trade center bombing of February 1993, that left 6 dead and scores wounded, I pretty much figured a major government building would get it on the nose the next time. McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma city in 1995, and now it's a small chunk of the Pentagon, and the twin towers of the trade center. Extremist groups might be responsible, Bin Laden's name has been thrown around by such people as Senator Hatch and John McCain, but no confirmation at all. It could well be one of us again, though I hope this is not the case. In any instance, there was bound to be a terrorist attack (not of this proportions though, who the hell can manage to hijack commercial planes and crash them into buildings in this day and age)?. I just didnt think it would kill that many people or take out the trade center. The best thing to do is remain calm and call the designated hotlines for information on relatives or friends who may have been in the general vicinity of the chaos.

[ September 11, 2001: Message edited by: Joey Montana ]

In reference to Vendetta`s comments: I find this funny that there are no media coverage from Pittsburgh, no TV nothing , now I hear that they have a plane in Cleveland filled with explosive, can someone confirm this to me! Thanks to all.

this is sooo crazy. THe principal came in to tell us, the high school, at 10:00, told us not to tell the little kids. Then he walks out, walks back in that a plane crashed in Somorset, 80 miles outside of Pittsubrgh. We spent a couple class periods talking about everything ,we stole some radios from the teachers and tuned into the CNN and KDKA. Parents started coming and picking up thier kids and school was canceled.

Everyone onthe street was talking about it. You couldn't walk into a store without hearding the radio playing in the background. at home, we turno nthe tv and watch brokaw and local news and see the pictures and it's terrible. CNN's website has gone crazy.

my older sister lives in New Yrok; she watched the towers go down.

I saw what Bush said. PLease tell me how this was "cowardly"?

Vendetta - I'm glad to hear your husband is OK. There are so many rumors running rampant now.....I heard something about a fighter jet downing the plane in Pennsylvania.

There is only one tv station here in New York broadcasting over the air (there are normally 7). The other six had their antennas on top of the World Trade Center.

On a normal business day, there are 50,000 people in the World Trade Center. I'm afraid to think of how high the death toll will be.

more details on somerset (they won't shut up about it here): the tower tried to contact the flight, which wouldn't answer. something happened and the flight crashed, maybe b/c of no direction from the tower? No survivors as of yet. I've heard that the flight was either directed to Camp David or the White House.

dink

I keep seeing the video of the second jet crashing into the Tower, and of the buildings collapsing.

I can't believe this. I am in total shock!

[ September 11, 2001: Message edited by: SC ]

From Liz Skywalker:
"I saw what Bush said. PLease tell me how this was "cowardly"?

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Because ALL terrorist attacks are cowardly and that's how leaders usually refer to them.
It is cowardly to attack and plan the devastation of thousands of lives, for whatever "cause" one might be representing.
Tim McVeigh was a coward, the bombers of the WTC in 1993 were cowards, and the people responsible for today's events are cowards.

Regardless of our political preferences, let's not pick on the President right now; at times like this he needs our support and faith.

Thank you,
Apples

What a fucking day to be at the pub, how horrific is this. This is fucked up.

What the hell is the cause? Who the hell is responsible for this?

I saw all the coverage down the pub and it was terrible. I never imagined such a day could happen. And i'm so sorry to all the people who directly suffer from this and thier families.

I hope I don't sound insensitive here but I would like to ask about the future problems this will cause. Is this a long term problem? If so, who are we fighting?

(Not in a good mood)

Off to the pub.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SC:
[QB]I heard something about a fighter jet downing the plane in Pennsylvania.


SC I heard the same thing. But I am hoping it is just a rumor. Then again if military planes went up what other choice would they have then to down a plane that was headed for a major metro area?

Can't remember who asked "why is it cowardly" but it's just like shooting someone in the back is cowardly.

Big Al, haven't heard the thing about Cleveland, Let's hope it is not true.

I just talked to my friends in England and they said they would like to help us take these guys OUT!

I say we go to the mattresses too!

Vendetta

p.s. Something else to think about... we have just had our generation's "Where were you when....happened" moment.

[ September 11, 2001: Message edited by: Vendetta ]

That's a good point (and a sad one to ponder). You have to weigh the possibilities of hundreds, or even thousands of people being killed if that plane had hit its target.

BTW - Vendetta - I'm sure your husband could confirm this, but there was some speculation about how the jets were highjacked, and if the pilots were forced to fly them into the targets. Its been suggested that the highjackers themselves took over the controls of the planes, because "no American pilot would ever do that, not even at gunpoint" (quote from some FAA official).

I just heard from a girlfriend that she got home OK (she works a few blocks away from the WTC, and said there is total chaos in the area).

How was it cowardly, Vendetta? Well, for one, it was an attack that caught the United States off its guard, unlike in a war, terrorists wait for when there is no suspicion or government "heat" on them. Secondly, it ended up killing people who did not have anything to do with them. This in itself lacks courage, at least in a war when you kill your enemy, it's a free-for-all, you're there to defend your country and the people you are hitting are in it because they know they want to be.
I dont like George W. Bush. His father was ok and I liked his administration, but I dont like his son. However, it is applaudable that he affirmed his digust for these individuals (or factions) and that he promised revenge. For all we know, these guys killed themselves in the planes and there was no one to arrest or to use as a witness. Therefore he may, like the tax refund that now may make him dip into social insurance, be blowing smoke. Yet, he is re-assuring the public, and that's what counts.
Looking at this objectively, one can understand that such an event his historically rare (worst act of terrorism ever in the united states) and it took years of planning and meeting and plotting and spying, and what have you. So, the chances of something like this happening again are in the realm of possibility, but, like Bush finding the people responsible, are thin. The best way to overcome the grief of losing a family member or friend in the damage is to put it behind and move forward. That's how I do it when something happens to someone who I know personally or have relations to.

I hate it when this happens....
It was NOT Vendetta who asked how this was cowardly; Vendetta simply contributed an answer to the question (and a very good one, if I must say).
Let's give credit where it is due....
Apples