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US Terrorism Updates

by Steve Gibson, Sep 11, 2001 8:36am PDT

Jack here. I've realized this story's gotten pretty big, so I'm going to update it with the newest information to lower confusion. United Airlines Flight 175 hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York city at 8:40EST. At 9am, American Flight 11 hit the south tower. American Flight 77 then crashed into the Pentagon at 9:45am. Between 10:00 and 10:30, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Somerset County, PA. It was apparently hijacked and heading for Camp David, as a stewerdess was able to reach a phone. Also between 10 and 10:30, both of the World Trade Center towers collapsed. All airports and government buildings have been shut down. Most of Washington DC and Manhattan have been or are being evacuated. Major League baseball games have suspended play, and airports are all closed until noon tomorrow. All transcontinental flights have been diverted and the borders to the US from Mexico and Canada are shut or have heightened security. The Navy has been deployed along the east coast for extra air support. Casualty numbers are estimated at above 15,000, and President Bush is at an undisclosed bunker. Here is the text of President Bush's speech (not much here), ripped from Canada.com of all places:

Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of New York, to the director of the FBI, and I've ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act. Terrorism against our nation will not stand. And now if you join me in a moment of silence. May God bless the victims, their families and America. Thank you very much.
Interesting choice of words, as I remember his father's quote of "This aggression will not stand" when referring to Saddam Hussein. It is noteworthy that this is the anniversary of the Camp David peace summit that was supposed to be President Clinton's swan song and ended up in failure. Also, enough with the Notradamus quote please. It's been quoted dozens of times in the comments already. Commenters - Tasteless comments will be nuked and those making the comments will be banned. No fucking around here, a lot of people lost their lives today, and a lot of them friends and family to the thousands of people that read this page. Be mindful of that. Please chill out on reloading! The Shack server is taking quite a bit of load hosting these comments. Please refrain from reloading the comments page more than once every couple of minutes. That time will help everybody to say their piece and read other peoples' stories. And please don't just ignore this thinking that it's "only" you. Thank you!!


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    By: opfor x
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    The following are my opinion, please take it for what it may

    This is probably work of foreign terrorism.

    If it was domestic anti-government militia, it would probably not involve suicide bombing. Militia don't usually suicide bomb and the perpurtrators would want to stay alive to brag about it. Also WTC is a comerical center, not gov.

    Osama bin Laden several weeks ago mentioned that terrorism of unprecedented level will be conducted on America.

    This gives us the reason and support from international communities to attack these sons of bitches and send them back to their precious allah.

    In my opinion, this attack was failure, because the surprise attack needs to disable the opponent from counter attack. Well they killed at most 30000 of our 250000000 citizens and we're still combat ready.

    Spending on defense and intelligence are going to go up after this. More spending on planes, tanks, and personel. Also a change in direction of foreign policy and more active prevention of terrorisms.
    Sep 11, 2001 4:57pm PDT