Terrorist Action 11/9/2001 - Thread 9

CNN has been showing what appears to be samidzat footage from somebody filming on a top floor of a building within the World Financial Center, peering into what used to be the Plaza. It's given me the best sense of scale of the damage of anything yet. Yahoo! is also publishing pictures from a John Labriola of people being evacuating from the towers, which also gives me a sense of what my co- workers must've gone through going down those fire stairs.

I just found out from NBC my dad's firm had some offices in Five WTC. I had no idea, none. It looks like there might be some losses.

It seems hard for me to try to mourn for people, so I mourn for things. There was a small park in front of 140 Broadway and to the side of One Liberty Plaza, and had one of these eerie super-realistic sculptures of a circa 1979 businessman sitting on a park bench with his suitcase. If you've ever been there, you'll know what I'm referring to. It magnetized the tourists, who poked at his features in dazed admiration. CNN (I think) showed the sculpture sitting on rubble, apparently wrenched from his seat. At first I thought it was a corpse, though I was still jolted when I realized what exactly what it was.

Fox News is now on some kind of deathwatch for the Millenium Hotel.

let's not discuss the hotels.

I am glad to say that altercations here in my part of the city are almost nonexistant - there are armed police guarding mosques and synagogs but that's it.

Out of curiosity I checked out a Website giving the names of World Trade Center survivors, and someone had hacked it, frequently inserting the words "All Arabs must die" into the space where a survivor's name should have been listed.

This all really sucks. I would hope most Americans would be smarter than this. I know one mosque in the area has been attacked but I have seen nothing first hand.

My fave corner store is run by a family of middle easteren descent. I stopped by there today and chalked their eager gabbiness to my being in a rush. Only afterwards did I think maybe they were looking for friendly faces.

I doubt this though. Since my neighborhood is primarily illegal Mexicans I don't think there is a strong feeling in the air other than sadness. No patroitism or jingoism

A news story I read had a passing reference to Bush today making a "plea to stop the mistreatment Arab Americans." Can anyone provide further info?

"French intelligence agents warned America a month ago that an Arab at a flying school in Boston had travelled to Afghanistan and was suspected of connections with bin Laden. Although the man was detained for having false papers, it appears that France’s warning was lost by the American police. " This from The Times I guess our boys were a bit slow on this one.

I made a new thread as we have passed 100 posts and I don;t know how to link it. Some one help me :(

I probably shouldn't be arguing with Ally here, but I'm in a fit of pique now.
"No-one weeps for the Palestinians, the Iraqi civilians killed by the US (and the UK, let's not forget that)', This is bullshit. With the amount of Arabs and Israelis in NYC? This is bullshit. Perhaps true in Europe..." Oh yes, that's why no-one can get anything done in the US, what with those enormous protests every day of the week clogging up the streets of every major city demanding a halt to the US's support of Israel, sanctions against Iraq etc. I'm not 'pleased' or 'happy' about Tuesday's events, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression and am totally sorry for any loss you may have had. But IT HAS TO BE SAID, people die every day out in the east as a result of US action, the horror and distress felt by many a NYC, and indeed world citizen is something that the citizens of Iraq (for example) have had to go through for the PAST 10 YEARS as a result of sanctions, bombing raids etc. Do we have official days of mourning for them? The children denied proper healthcare, all those classified as 'collateral damage'? No. The sooner people get away from this absurd attitude of "What did we do to deserve this?" the better.
"WE REBUILT YOUR FUCKING UNIVERSE"
Perhaps if you were talking to a German, this would be true. But you're not, and it's not. This kind of attitude is the thin end of the wedge, as the cliche goes.

Terrorist Action 11/9/2001 -- Thread 10.

Y'all gonna stop spamming these threads without comment or do you actually have something to say?