Had to say something here even after not speaking all year long.
Lucky 13. It has been 13 years since the September 11 attacks and it is not luck that we have not been heavily attacked by Muslim extremist. Despite the fact that Islamic attackers are increasing their evil ways America has been safer on our own soil than anywhere else on this planet.
Before people barely talked about the twin towers, unofficially they were an eyesore. No talked about a field in Pennsylvania. A few people talked about the Pentagon but with little sadness.
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It is still a fresh wound and the threat is still out there.
Once again on September 11, 2001 nineteen Muslims under the banner of Al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and crash most of them in American buildings. The loss of life was large. Right-wing-Islamic religious hate is what sparked the attack as none of the hijackers were poor or oppressed.
Never forget.
By now so much new construction has all but blotted out the New York City skyline still the Empire State Building is shining bright. What is missing was what most considered the ugliest towers in NYC. Yet the love and hate relationship for these 7 buildings know as the World Trade Center only rose to minor snobbish whisper. Until...
19 Muslim attackers in a pro-religious anti-American stance decided Washington D.C. and New York must pay. These attackers were not poor or oppressed they simply were doing evil. Knowing like most do that this is the true American heartland they struck a blow that hurt. Inspired by the events of September 11, 2001 still now more Muslims, extreme right-wingers, online conspirators, and others plot to bring more terror to Americans.Only two mentions of 9/11 on shows that air, not counting news.
On All My Children they had a group in a bar watching the names being read on 9/11 then a moment of silence.
Of course on Rescue Me it was the season finale and they mentioned and showed flashes of that day.
Also MSNBC did a recast of that days live coverage. Great for them at least one network cared.
I don't include other news show( or Oprah) because their angles have been tainted with time.
Okay enough of the depressing here is a laugh....
6 Years ago today 19 Muslims conspired to terrorize America and the world since then they have succeeded in bringing terror hundreds of times over to Spain, England and the rest of the world.
Being so close to the World Trade Centers and seeing what happened that day still fuels my desire to stay in my engineering school since we have access to the sites and we help can rebuild. In rebuilding we hope to honor the office workers who died on this day.
Special attention to Robert Pattison and Isaias Rivera two CBS engineers who were trapped at the top of the World Trade Center on that tragic day.
This came from a Dominican Times...
DTM Honors the 911 Victims and The Victims Families
For DTM, today is a day of anniversaries, the sixth anniversary of both the 911 tragedy and the launching of our publication. With this in mind, we honor and ask our loyal readers and supporters to take time today to honor the victims and the families of the victims of that fateful day. At DTM, we seek to connect people and bridge cultures by defining trends and emerging leaders. This is the vision that has led to our continued growth over the last six years. Likewise, fueled by the unity, perseverance and spirit of the citizens of New York and the United States, the World Trade Center site has risen like the phoenix, with new construction and plans for new projects to both honor the victims and to celebrate the best that America has to offer. Let us never forget and DTM will continue on a mission dedicated to the principals that our strength as a nation derives from unity and celebrating the diversity that makes America great. With these principals in mind we will continue to grow and heal from the wounds left by the 911 tragedy. May God continue to bless America and us all.
On this the 5th year after the attack on America by Muslim terrorist there is more videos of these modern day monsters planning the attacks.
Television captured the horror of the day and I hope the justice against these enemies of freedom will also be televised.
Children did die that day but many more lost there center, fathers, mothers and loved ones.
It's anger that fills me today sadness comes later when looking outside the window with a skyline forever changed.
AMERICA ATTACKED
Death and destruction came from the sky on what was a beautiful cloudless day as four hijacked jetliners were used as missiles. Over 3,000 people were killed when nineteen Islamic terrorists struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
The World Trade Center towers were mortally wounded when two airliners struck. Horrified onlookers watched as people began leaping to their deaths as the fire and smoke raged in the towers. An hour later the tragedy worsened as both towers collapsed.
The fourth flight that was hijacked was taken down in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers revolted.
The first signs of trouble happened when some of the hijackers were flagged by a routine security check at boarding time. Some of these terrorist also carried box cutters although this was not against the airlines regulations.
The four flights were headed to California and carried fully loaded fuel tanks for the cross country journey.
As the flights were being hijacked air traffic controllers received messages from the cockpits. “We have some planes” said one terrorist over the radio. These devilishly clever hijackers also turned off the transponders, this way they would be harder to track.
Flight attendants bravely called their airlines main offices to alert them of the situation. Passengers called home desperate to speak with loved ones, some of the passengers told of bomb threats and stabbings aboard the airliners.
“Don’t worry dad, it will be quick” said a son to his father as the Pennsylvania flight went down.
President George W. Bush was in Florida at the time and did not initially return to the White House.
Fighter jets scrambled as orders to shoot down the airlines came from President Bush.
Mace was used during the terrorist takeover causing people to choke and vomit. During these agonizing moments President Bush remained seated in a Florida classroom.
Federal Aviation Administration officials were unprepared for this type of unprecedented attack. “This is a new type of war” said a commander at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
Signs of Trouble
The calm before the storm of September 11th was not as quiet as it seemed. A flood of reports came into various government agencies warning officials of threats coming over the horizon.
Soon all of the World Trade Center Towers will be laying in burning heap, as well as a side of the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
The first attack on the World Trade Center years earlier and the subsequent arrest of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahmem led to an increasing number of reports that Muslim extremists planned to attack American interests.
The threats targeted areas that were close, Canada and the United States, as well as places as far as Yemen, Italy and Israel.
By May 29, 2001 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was brought in to prevent these overseas attacks. No formal meetings were planned to deal with the domestic threat.
Two days before the 4th of July, a massive operation involving 20 countries was launched to disrupt any attacks planned for the holiday. Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) headed by Richard Clarke alleges that several U.S. embassy bombings were prevented.
On July 5th, the CSG and the CIA told Clarke that al Qaeda members spoke of “spectacular” attack that would be far different than any one expected or has seen before.
Throughout the rest of the summer more information kept coming in, some tracing back to Usama Bin Ladin, and other threats lead back to the Sheikh being held in New York.
Specific mentions of using aircrafts in hijackings were passed on to the Federal Aviation Administration but little was done to follow the threat.
At the time a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) witness stated that all that could be done was a simple surveillance of some of the hijackers. This contradicts the FBI’s role, along with Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), in the capture of Zacarias Moussaoui who took 747 flying lessons and was a witness in the USS Cole bombing case.
Mistakes that were made by al Qaeda were noted by each individual agency yet “no one looked at the big picture”, said a CIA supervisor. It was inter-agency cooperation that caught Moussaoui.
Still, when it came down to sharing information, unless ordered by top level officials, the agencies did not even volunteer it when the saw the opportunity to help on-going inquiries.
At least this gives ABC time to change Brat Camp to show the little racist criminal Isaiah in a different light.
I saw Entertainment Tonight because they had bloopers from the Lost Season 1 DVD
House on FOX yesterday was great.
I may just start my TV Guide review early.
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