AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:01 PM

Sorcha, Amos is in SD.

My mother and brother are in LA if anyone is stranded there...

My sister is in Chicago...

~S~

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:03 PM

Yea, Suze, I thought so, but SD should not be too overloaded, and she is on company time, so they should spring for a hotel for her. I will e mail her again to make sure, if not I will ask for A's phone, OK?

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:06 PM

Yes, or PM him if I ain't roundabouts.

~S~

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: SharonA
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:06 PM

Kabul, Afghanistan – Explosions indicative of missile strikes and anti-aircraft fire are being reported and shown on TV. No report of who is doing the bombing.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:09 PM

Part Four

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: GUEST, Guest
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:10 PM

Sorcha: I can't e-mail you because I'm a guest. But if your cousin is stuck for a room, I can probably have him or her set up in the guest suite of our condomnium near the airport, if the room's not booked.

I can give you contact details, if you'd like, by contacting me at [e-mail]

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: MAV
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:10 PM

To all Euro-catters,

Thanks for all for your thoughts, prayers and compassion.

This action is believed to potentially have more casualties than the total Americans lost in Viet Nam.

Over 150,000 visitors tyically visited the WTC every day. The buildings have a capacity of around 50,000.

This is not just a strike on "America", it's a cowardly attack on innocent American citizens. Many attitudes world wide will have been changed today on a myriad of issues. This day will be significant for the next 100 years.

The terrorists cared not whether the victims white or black, conservative or liberal. They have shown the American people the reality of a dangerous world and need to become a unified nation.

Afganistan being bombed?

Though not real religious....God help us.

mav out

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:10 PM

Let's move it again.....

AMERICAN ATTACKS-PART FOUR

..NEW THREAD LINK

Spaw

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: Jock Morris
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:19 PM

I'm sitting here with tears welling in my eyes with the shock of the news from the US. My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or whose loved ones are still unaccounted for.

Scott

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:21 PM

God, this is fucked up!! We watched a lot of it at work. A friend of mine has a tv in his office. I still can't fathom it. And to think of what's to come. The continued loss of life, the fear, the hatred....If we follow suit to go along with th Pearl Harbor analogy that keeps being repeated, it's going to horribly dangerous for people of Arab descent in this country. A couple of weeks ago, I was eating at restaurants in Middle Eastern neighborhoods on Chicago's North Side and treated quite nicely. Now these people might very well be treated like Asian-Americans during WWII. As I type, they are announcing explosions in Kabul, Afghanistan, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Part of me isn't too upset about us (if it is us) attacking a likely responsible party, and part of me feels guilty about that part.

The 4th plane that landed in Western PA could have been intended to hit a few blocks from where I work. Bell-Telephone/Verizon here in Pittsburgh is a major hub of both phone and internet communications in this country.

I'm getting more upset as I write.
Will write more later.

Rich

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: blt
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:28 PM

In Oregon, I didn't understand what had happened until 10:00am PST (3 hours earlier than the East Coast)--then, trying to get information was a bit difficult, NPR was available but I didn't see any video until I went into the treatment center where I work and saw a replay of the collapse of the 2nd tower.

Without trying to be catastrophic, I can only think that this event draws a line in the historical sand. At first, when I read the headlines on the NY Times website, I thought (in denial) that it was some sort of movie trailer, I couldn't comprehend it. I had to go pick up my car at the repair shop, in Portland, it's a gorgeous day, I felt as if I was memorizing every color of every leaf on every tree.

My fears are, of course, of US retailiation. I agree with Amos' description of the possible scenarios. The US was poised, it seems, for this to happen. I don't mean to minimize the destruction, death, and pain to all involved, I just think of the targets, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon--what they might symbolize to someone raised to hate the "West." Without knowing who the perpetrators are, I also fear that jingoism and the panic of misinformation, combined with a sense of blind outrage, will cause more pain, more death.

With profound sadness for all the losses we collectively are experiencing at this point in time, and with a deep belief and trust in the divinity of all life,

blt

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:33 PM

As I write, missles are falling in the capitol of Afghanistan. No mention of who's missles.

My first reaction to the news this morning, which I read on Mudcat, was the same reaction I had to the Challenger explosion: "Stop it - that's not funny." Then came the realisation that it's not some sick joke.

Forgive me for being disgusted by what I see as opportunistic political flames. I'd think the personal agendas of hate could wait until the bodies of the victims were cold. Then again, the missles sure didn't wait.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: Lanfranc
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:33 PM

Today the world changed irrevokably.

More than Pearl Harbour, more than Hiroshima or Nagasaki or Dresden or Hamburg or Beirut, todays unconscionable atrocity will live in the annals of infamy for as long as our civilisation survives.

As a PR exercise for terrorists everywhere it was without equal. The images that were seared on the retinas of every viewer will have encouraged every tinpot retard with a "cause" to consider how he (or she) can make a similar impact. How can they ever be denied "the oxygen of publicity" when deeds such as these are perpetrated?

Any retaliation will only act as a catalyst to further terrorism, our world is too fragmented, and too many hold real or imagined grievances; too many believe that their cause is just and "God is on my side".

I was close to both the Baltic Exchange and Bishopsgate bombs in London. I know how scared and confused I was, and those were mere cap bombs by comparison to this.

I have worked in the City of London all my adult life, and I have friends and colleagues who work in New York's financial district. I have stood on the top of the WTC, and a painting of the Manhattan skyline hangs in my hallway.

This is beyond belief, and my heartfelt thoughts are with every victim, and every victim's family and friends.

May the final outcome be less dreadful than we all fear.

I can't see how it can be, though.

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: CamiSu
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 06:36 PM

'Seed, I understand. Today is my husband's (and Wavestar's fater's) 50th birthday. I had no time to plan anything and now I am grateful for that. A party now would just be all wrong.

Also my son was down there just this weekend and thought to go to the towers, as he'd not been in a while...

I just pray for all those involved and hope we do not react wrongly. All these innocents hurt and killed, let us not hurt and kill more innocents. If only this would cause us to forswear all war, but it won't.

I am numb, and I'm afraid. God in whatever name you call him, help us all.

CamiSu

Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
From: GUEST,Bouzouki Bob
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 09:58 PM

It would have been far better for our world, if the attack had been from outer space. At least then all people of the world would be united, we would share a common enemy. It,s hard to beleive that there is anyone in our world, that would have enough hate, to commit such an unspeakable horror, on so many innocent people. God help us all to resolve our differences. B.B.

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• World Trade Center-Unreal Disaster
• AMERICAN ATTACKS--PART TWO
• AMERICAN ATTACKS---PART THREE
• AMERICAN ATTACKS- - -PART FOUR
• AMERICAN ATTACKS- - - PART FIVE
• AMERICAN ATTACKS**SIX -about enough huh?
• AMERICAN ATTACKS**PART SEVEN..thoughts
• AMERICAN ATTACKS=PART EIGHT.more still
• AMERICAN ATTACKS**Part 9,one week later
• AMERICAN ATTACKS*PART TEN-&the future is
• AMERICAN ATTACKS**PART ELEVEN: Long Haul
• American Attacks**Part Fifty - Got him!
• American Attacks**Part Twelve: Steady On
• American Attacks:Thirteen and Lucky?

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