Terrorist Action 11/9/2001 - Thread 5

Key to all this may be: wreckage of 4th jet in Somerset County. Around 3:30pm BST (10:30am EST), I'm sure I saw a brief shot of USAF fighters scrambled to 'intercept' 4th hijacked jet on CNN coverage. Sometime later this was reported as down. Tiny snippet on Ceefax this morning (and may just be poorly-phrased and inadvertently ambiguous) about man on 4th jet (Newark-SF) making cellphone call and being cut off *after* an explosion. Shot down?

As it's the only jet to crash on open terrain, I guess there's a fair chance of recovery of black-box recorder/bodies of hijackers/etc.

BTW, Kabul explosions confirmed as rocket attack by opposition forces. No (direct) US involvement.

I was away from the 'net for once and watched the whole thing on telly after scariest text message ever "Get to a TV. New York is on fire." We heard reports that the Internet was down so stayed in and watched rather than try and get here to EasyEverything. I just want to say how glad I am that everyone I know in NYC is safe: I am still enormously frightened and worried by the geopolitical situation, and the fact that even if people I know are OK, they will surely know people who weren't.

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