AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: GUEST,Mikey Joe
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 12:04 PM

This seems to confirm Palestinian Involvement FROM SKY NEWs

Palestinians Celebrate Attacks Palestinians gave away sweets in the West Bank city of Nablus to celebrate a series of aircraft attacks on two major US cities.

Several dozen Palestinian youths also gathered in Arab East Jerusalem to celebrate, honking out wedding tunes on their car horns after the attacks levelled the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and struck the Pentagon in Washington. In Nablus, motorists honked their horns and gunmen fired into the air from assault rifles to cheer on the attacks, which unfolded in the space of a few hours and stunned people around the world.

'So happy'

Despite Palestinian President Yasser Arafat condemning the attacks, Palestinians, who have often burned US flags in protests during their 11-month-of uprising against Israeli occupation, celebrated in the streets of Arab East Jerusalem.

"I feel I am in a dream. I never believed that one day the United States would come to pay a price for its support to Israel," said a 24-year-old Palestinian gunman named Mustafa.

Another demonstrator said: "We are so happy that America was hit. America is against us in supporting Israel".

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: bill\sables
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 12:03 PM

Has anyone heard anything from Dan & Bonnie Milner, and Joy Bennett yet?

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 12:03 PM

Still waiting to hear from Larry, thosp, Joy Bennett, Suffet and others..........

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 12:02 PM

Jon Freemans new forum is available for anyone wishing to add their prayers/thoughts, maybe we could keep this thread for news of loved ones etc.(this is only a sugestion)

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 12:02 PM

I just saw footage of the celebration in the streets of the Palestinian areas.......children smiling, car horns tooting, candy being handed out..........they should enjoy this day, because I fear they will not have much to celebrate very soon..........much misery will be visited very soon..........watching these people celebrate the deaths of so many civilians makes it hard to keep the rudder centered...........but we must. We have such a formidable weapons cache, that if our leadership doesn't maintain a deliberate, and surgical, view of this we could very well enter into a tragic circumstance.......

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: SharonA
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 12:00 PM

New Jersey Turnpike is closed. (The north end of this highway leads into New York City.)

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:59 AM

Sinsull is okay! She was on jury duty in Queens, and just got home.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: Hollowfox
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:59 AM

As a quick, surreal note, both the university and the library system are shutting down from noon todat until tomorrow. Now to go home, try to get better nres off the TV, and pray.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: sophocleese
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:57 AM

All flights in Canada have been cancelled. Canadian Airports are scrambling trying to deal with an increase in international flights.

Osama Bin Laden seems to be the leading contender for responsibilty for this. But as we have just been reminded on the radio, after Oklahoma it was thought to be international terrorism and that wasn't. At this moment a lot of what we hear is rumour and unconfirmed, educated and intelligent rumour, but rumour nonetheless.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:56 AM

United announced that a second of their flights, 175, which they were "gravely concerned" about, has also gone down....no details yet. That's FOUR airliners involved at least.

Highly organized and yes Amos, another day of infamy.....and I echo your thoughts and concerns....

Spaw

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: wildlone
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:56 AM

Just home from work and saw the news.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Heavy Military air traffic in area at moment.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: Amos
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:55 AM

• Israel has evacuated all its missions around the world.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta was evacuated. CDC was preparing bioterrorism teams in case they become necessary.

• Philadelphia landmarks were also evacuated.

• In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated; United Nations in New York evacuated.

• The New York Port Authority said it had closed all bridges and tunnels into the city.

• U.S. stock markets were closed after the New York attacks.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: Amos
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:50 AM

Osama Bin Laden announced three weeks ago that his people would launch an unprecedented attack against the United States. The rationale was retribution for the US' support of Israel.

This certainly qualifies.

It also answers Mick's question about what could drive people to so desperate a measure.

Our whole team has been told they may go home from the research base where i work if they are uncomfortable there; although I wasn't particularly uncomfortable, my BBW's concerns prevailed.

I am sorry to say that I believe an act of war, and a second day of infamy, is with us this morning. The body count may well match Pearl Harbor's, I have heard.

I cannot imagine what the scenario Bin laden's plannersa could have had in mind would be in terms of benefit to their people or their concerns. If this analysis of the source of these attacks is concerned, Bin laden himself will be buried in a bunker before a year is out. His people will not benefit and may in fact support grievous harm because of his psychotic and juvenile actions.

I am clearly making assumptions here, with very skimpy real data. It is a possible interpretation only.

Stay well, friends, stay brave, and for god's sake stay awake and rational. Striking blindly will be worse than not striking at all. This may be war, or it may not be; it is not chaos.

Amos (Reposted from Part I)

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:48 AM

The number for any UK residents concerned about friends/relatives 0207 008 0000

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:46 AM

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_395838.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

Ananova : Some planes 'still unaccounted for' say US authorities

US aviation authorities are reporting several planes are unaccounted for.

They are said to be in addition to the ones which have already crashed.

A plane which hit the ground 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is believed to have been a Boeing 747 on route from Chicago to New York.

There are still reports that one aircraft is heading towards Washington.

ITN reports Canada is shutting down all airports.

World travel has been thrown into chaos. Many US-bound flights had already left the UK when American officials decided to close all US airports.

Officials at other America-serving UK airports, including Heathrow and Gatwick, are trying to cope with the travel backlog.

These airports, too, would have had passengers already in the air and heading for America, with hundreds of others due to travel later today.

Story filed: 16:19 Tuesday 11th September 2001

Subject: AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 11:44 AM

Time for another thread as we continue to worry and pray for all involved.......Many NYC Catters to hear from including Sinsull and Larry (InOTB).........

Nothing approaching this magnitude of coordinated terrorism has ever happened.......As Mick said, there will be some dirty work first, but I can only hope that all the nations will get together on this and put an end to this most horrendous type of cowardly warfare.......So many thousands of innocents here........

Latest report stated that United Airlines is "gravely concerned" about yet another missing flight......

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Spaw