Here are two of my favorite 9/11 memorial videos. One thing thats enraged me about the media after 9/11 is the decision to ignore the footage of that day that reminds us all why, who, and what we are fighting for in the WOT. This isn't politics or sensationalism. This is real. Memorial Blood of Heroes
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09/11/2004 11:38:07 AM ||
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I had returned from a semiconductor tool installation in Taiwan only a week before and my television was still in storage due to ongoing remodeling of my home, not that I watch it on workday mornings anyway. I also do not listen to commercial radio while driving my car, or at any other time. So it was only after I had arrived at my job that people came running into the process engineering area exclaiming that a passenger jet had collided with one of the World Trade Center towers.
In a daze of disbelief, I went to the company's cafeteria just in time to see footage of the second jet's impact. As news began to trickle in about flight 93 and how this was an intentional plot and terrorist attack, a feeling of stunned anger began to overcome me. I'll freely confess that not a lot of work got done that day. I doubt many others in my department accomplished much either. Upon arriving home I briefly considered hauling out my television and then then thought better of it. Quite simply, I refused to have more of the same horrific images etched into my mind. The subsequent newspaper stills of people jumping to certain death were quite enough to further fuel an already burning fury in my soul. It is a rage that has never dimmed since then and I wonder if it ever will.
Three years later and I've yet to turn my television back on.
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09/11/2004 1:47:48 AM ||
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I was working a day shift in the Automation unit at the Ft. Worth ARTCC. I'm in the FAA in Texas. I happened to pass the Control room floor as word of the first airliner hit got to the floor managers. Deciding to see if there was anything on TV about it, I went to the coffee room. I got there just in time to see the second tower hit and to hear Bryant (I'm a liberal self involved weanie) Gumbal say "Let's not not jump to conclusions. This could be just a coincidence."
The rest of the day is just a blur. I remember most the blank display screens for the next three days and the lack of any aircraft sounds or AC lights at night.
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I was in a taxi heading first to my workplace to pick up my laptop and then to the airport for a flight to Atlanta. I had been watching the news (as I do every morning; nothing out of the ordinary was on the tube). I went outside to wait for the taxi and shortly after I got in it, I heard talk on the radio that sounded alarming, but I couldn't make out what was happening. The first sentence I deciphered from the radio program was that the sides of the WTC looked like nylons with runs going down them. I asked the driver what in the heck was on the radio and he said, "don't you know that a plane hit the World Trade Center Tower"? I got to work and detoured into our conference room, where a video monitor and our computer system somehow was broadcasting TV news reports of the assault on our country. Needless to say, I didn't fly out that day. I counted myself lucky that, by mere dint of the city of departure and the flight numbers of the terrorists not being the same as mine that day, I had lived.
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Driving to work; east side of Cincinnati to Dayton. About 2/3rds of the way there, I turned off the radio. I turned it on, for some reason, when I pulled into the parking lot. They were talking about a plane -- a small plane, from the sound of it -- hitting someplace. It wasn't too clear what happened.
Then, while they were talking to someone watching from his place in NYC, the second plane hit.
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09/11/2004 12:20 Comments ||
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11th floor of a San Diego highrise. We were sent home
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09/11/2004 12:22 Comments ||
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I was asleep. I was working the night shift and my boss called me to tell me to turn on the TV. I saw the first tower burning and listened to the confusion of the reporters/anchor guys, then the second plane hit. My boss asked me what I thought was going on. I told him I thought we had just gone to war. I went into work (I work at a Nuke plant) and found the governor had called out the National Guard. There were armed young soldiers all over the place and our own security guys were armed to the teeth. Usually they just wore their uniforms with a pistol but that day (and every day since) they wore flak jackets and carried rifles. The local cops had set up roadblocks and you had to show ID just to get on the access road. It was an eye-opener.
Someone told me that some OSHA representatives had been visiting and our security folks tossed them off the site. We were also worried about one of our guys who was vacationing in NY with his wife. But we got a hold of him the next day on his cell phone. He had been in the towers a couple of days earlier. He watched the whole thing from the street. Took him a week to get back home.
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im was in bed (san jose time) and was woke up radio alrm saying tower is falling. im thought itn joke (lamont n toneli) till im turn on tv and see day im never forget.
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At an Aging Aircraft Symposium in Orlando. The NAVAIR guys had a large plasma display that they hooked to CNN. People just clustered around and stared. Because there were so many military in attendance, access to the Hilton was restricted with uniformed conference attendees from all four services guarding the entrances until we could sort out what to do next. (Only purple suit operation I've ever seen that actually worked)
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At work. It was about 3 Pm and the radio mentionned an accidental crash on the WTC; as soon as it became evident it was a terrorist attack, we pumped up the volume, and followed what happened for about 2 hours. Our comments were something like "it's the beginning of WWIII!" (a 40 000 deathtoll was mentionned). As soon as I got home, I hooked on tv, and watched the towers collapse again and again. I'll never forget how I felt. The next few days, I became really mad at what you call the MSM, and turned my back on them for good.
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...I had just gotten home from work and hadn't even turned on the TV yet, and there was an e-mail waiting for me: "There are airplanes crashing all over the country." After I did turn it on and found out what had happened, I remember going out my back door, which looks directly towards the Shaw AFB ramp - 54 F-16s, all just sitting there - and wondering where the hell my Air Force was...
Mike
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I had been at work about an hour when the first report came through of a plane hitting the WTC, my first thought was a small plane that got lost, like the B-25 hitting the Empire State bldg. in 1948 (I think) and I pulled up cnn.com and I knew it was something a lot bigger. We have a lounge in the cafeteria and I got up to where the TV was in time to see the second tower get hit. I remember counting to myself after the second plane disappeared behind the tower, "one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, four" and the the explosion. I don't know why I counted, within an hour we got word the Pentagon was hit, and then Flt. 93 in Somerset. I watched both towers fall on TV, I still see those two towers fall in my minds eye, I will never forget.
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I was on a plane taxiing away from the gate in Philadelphia. We came to a long unexplained stop. A cell phone rang somewhere behind me and after a few seconds the guy on the phone said very loudly that the World Trade Center had been hit and other planes were being hijacked. At that point I think we all would have rebelled if the plane had started moving. Instead, the pilot came on and said we were going back to the gate for unknown reasons, as was every other plane at the airport. Whew!
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09/11/2004 15:00 Comments ||
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like Frank G we were sent home as well
As was most of downtown Toronto, Canada, believe it or not (especially the towers). No music on any of the radio stations. Not a plane in the sky, though oddly enough I did see one military transport over the city that night with only its recog lights flashing. Hospitals were prepared for casualties. It was hard to get on the web that morning. Telephone lines to Europe were busy, couldn't get through, but calls originating from Europe got through rather quickly.
But the thing I remember the most is how quiet it was on the streets. People were stunned. In fact that morning I hardly said anything at all. Just stood there watching the tv.
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09/11/2004 15:07 Comments ||
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The other thing I remember vividly was the Taliban press conference on CNN: "wudn't us! And if you try to hurt us...we're gonna seethe some more". At that moment I knew they'll get their asses handed to them.
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I was emerging from an underground subway platform onto one of the pedestrian tunnels under the World Trade Center complex. A number of men and slightly hysterical women were half-walking and half-running towards the stairs leading back down onto the subway tunnel. I heard something about a bomb - I thought there was some kind of bomb scare, but continued walking towards where they had come from, figuring it was just a case of the hysterics. Then an NYPD police officer stopped me and my fellow passengers from proceeding further, saying that the World Trade Center subway tunnels were closed and that we should return to where we had come from. I took a subway train back up to Mid-Town. As I emerged from a Mid-Town station back to street level, I stopped to listen to a radio station that some motorist had left blasting for the edification of pedestrians hungry for news. I then discovered that the Towers had not only been hit, but that both buildings had come down.
I was enraged, thinking that tens of thousands lay dead, and believed that the president would order the use of strategic assets to retaliate. But it never happened. Was he right to hold back? The final chapter in this story has yet to be told.
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The CSM came out of his office. He said, "the World Trade Center is on fire." The command group gathered around his tv. We watched the second plane hit. I thought, we're going to Afghanistan.
The boss went back to his office. He didn't have his tv on. Later, I told him "cnn is reporting the pentagon is on fire." Turn on the tv.
We watched the buildings fall.
I felt so damned impotent.
Here in Europe. When the towers fell. And they died.
I've cried every year since. I cry now.
I'm sorry.
Never forget. Never again.
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My alarm went off to this announcement "A plane has hit the World Trade Center!" I knew immediately that it was an act of terror by Muslims fanatics. I leaped up and turned the TV on and called for my wife, and we just prayed and cried. Then, the dawn of grief barley began when I started hearing words like "tragedy." Not only did the "War on Terror" begin, but the war of information as well. We must never forget, and we must never lose our resolve to win. SMITE THEM.
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On an elevator up to offices on the 25th floor. Later, since it was obvious that nobody was really getting anything done, we had a discussion about closing early. To which one of my colleagues replied; "Fuck them. That's what they want us to do." So we stayed open.
And when I got home I prowled around, repeatedly asking my wife, "Can you tell me why our missiles are still in their silos? If Ike were president, this thing would have been over by noon."
I got up to New York about three weeks later. The cabbies and hotel people looked like they had expected never to see another visitor again. The smell was something I will never forget. On the planes back and forth, everyone was looking at each other like: Just let them try it on this airplane.
A detail that sticks in my memory is the photos of the cars parked in suburban train stations. Their owners weren't coming back.
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I was at home, a year after we had moved to a strange place, a book project on hold and doing a little programming work for a client (something I hadn't done for a while).
Our daughter was working near the Twin Towers. I spent hours trying to get a phone connection to our daughter.
Finally my mother-in-law called from California -- our daughter was okay, couldn't get through to us, was going to try to walk uptown, across the bridge and down to Brooklyn. We finally talked with each other the next day.
6 weeks later I was at West Point as a new instructor.
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I was in a SCIF on a base starting my workday, not much more to say about that.
Believe it or not, the public news channels had some of the best up-to-the-minute coverage available during the initial attack.
Never thought I'd ever see an "attack response" go real-world instead of a drill, and still be drawing un-radiated air the next day. The world changed that minute - definitely broke the old Cold-War mentality that we had subconciously still retained until that time.
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I was heading up the expressway crawling in traffic. Beautiful morning, you could see all the way across Dorchester Bay to Logan. I watched the sun glint off the planes when they started to make their turns over the ocean after takeoff. Since traffic sucked, I decided to park the car and take the train in. Came off the elevator into the kitchenette, which had a big crowd from the office watching the tube. Looked to see what was happening, and, at first, I thought a smokestack was on fire. Then, holy shit, that's the World Trade Center. Somebody said a small commuter plane hit it and I thought that's the dumbest pilot that ever lived since there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Right that second, Tower 2 blew up. The second plane came in so fast we didn't even see it. But whoever was on the tube was screaming "Another plane! Another plane!" We only saw it when they slowed it down on the replay , and it looked to be at least a 737. I think I was the first one to say that this was war. A lot of emotion in the room fear, shock, confusion, anger. "Somebody's gonna get their ass nuked for this" was one I remembered from a friend of mine. Then the cellphones started going off and we started collecting rumors. They had 11 planes, the capitol had been carbombed, the Pentagon had been hit. Went downstairs for a smoke with a few people to collect ourselves a little bit and my wife called. She was a travel agent then and told me that the planes were out of Boston and she had 20 people on flights out that day and was starting to get calls from relatives and didn't know what to tell them. Went back up to 15 where my office was and were told by management to clear out. The TVs were still on and, just as we were leaving, the first tower came down, straight down, in that horrific cloud of dust. Took the train back to my car and what I remember most was, not a sound but the train. Nobody said a word. By the time I got to the car and turned the radio on, the second tower had come down. I watched that for what seemed a million times when I got home. My wife called back. She'd lost all 20.
I always wonder if two of those planes I watched take off that beautiful morning were the ones.
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I was at work (I work for a major health insurance company in CT) when the first plane hit. I work listening to CD player with headphones on, when I noticed co-workers clustering around each other saying a plane had hit the World Trade Center. When I heard that I thought it was some tragic plane accident. Shortly after that the second plane hit the second tower. I tried going to the various news websites and could not get onto to any of the websites. My co-workers and I ended up listening to the radios that some of the people had at their desks. We listened as the towers collapsed. We were never actually sent home, people just started leaving. I went home and spent the rest of the day watching the news.
The thing that sticks in my mind the most about the days right after 9/11 was the total absence of planes in the sky. Now every time I hear a plane I look up.
One of my co-workers lost 2 cousins at the World Trade Center
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September 11, 2001 dawned for me like many had that summer, sunny and warm. I was out of work for nearly a year, working a 4 hour per day temp job at the time. About 9 or so my boss came in and asked if I had a news station on my radio in the bookkeeping office. His daughter had called and said that a plane had hit a skyscraper in Manhattan. I turned the radio to WHAM, the local 50,000 watt Clear Channel talk station and sat in horror for the next three hours. I suppose I did something that morning, but I have no recollection. I called my wife at work and told her, and told her that I would be going straight to the ambulance base after work. If anything came up, I'd call her.
Arrived at the base to find a couple of guys already there and the TV on. Basically we sat, made lists of supplies we could spare to send, and called people to find crews for ambulances if we had to send them. We had no calls; in fact the county was eerily quiet that day.
As the President's movements were reported, I nodded, seeing the justification and the appropriateness of the bases he went to.
Mostly I was numb.
Lots of channel surfing, but mostly we stayed on CNN and Fox News. Not a lot of talking amongst us.
The guys who were fire guys also were visibly upset, and raring to go. The paid ambulance guy who also volunteered with us got beeped, and took off for his HQ. Funny, no women came in, though we are 2/3 female volunteers. It was fire guys, and former fire guys like me. I guess it's a fire thing. In an emergency, go to the base.
Went home at about 5 pm, when it was becoming obvious that we wouldn't be called just yet to do anything. The lovely wife and I talked some, but I was still numb.
I cried for the first time months and months later. I taped the CBS documentary (by the two French brothers) but we couldn't bear to watch it for about eight weeks. Then we did, and we cried, the wife and I.
I was so proud to be an EMT, and a former firefighter that day, and every day since. My wife hugged me once and said "I'm glad you weren't there because I wouldn't have you now." She knows. There was only one direction to run that day. If I could have, I would have. A part of me still mourns that I could not have done anything, that I was not able to do something, anything.
My PTSD level is pretty high, anyway, from the years of fire and EMS. This added to it, both in a good way, and in a bad way. It made it easier to be an EMT, but gave me, gave us all, some pretty big footsteps to follow in.
Yes, I recognize that the emotions that I have felt are nothing in comparison to those felt by the people who lost loved ones in these acts of murder. I have no intention of saying that they have any equivalence. I'm just talking about me.
It was no ordinary day, that September 11, 2001. It was a day that changed my life and my point of view. I'm still an EMT and will proably be until I get too old to lift or until the PTSD finally takes its toll and I start to gibber.
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My wife and I were sleeping. It was 5AM Alaska Daylight time and we had left the radio on. At 5Am I started hearing something about a plane hitting a building. I woke up and a few minutes later they were interviewing someone on the radio when the second plane hit the WTC. I exclamed, "holy shit, we are under attack." then my wife woke up. At work that morning it was deathly quiet, as we heard no jets on approach to Anchorage International, then we heard fighters going overhead on an intercept. A foreign carrier out in the pacific had no radio contact, and the transponder code wasn't right, so Norad was worried that foreign jets might also be hijacked. There were quite a few hunters and field work crews stuck out in the mountains, as there was no bush air traffic for a number of days without special clearance. IIRC it was probably limited to Medivacs. Took awhile for traffic to fly again. We were all wondering what the leadership was going to do. I also remember my blood boiling when some dems made some desparaging remarks about President Bush. I could not believe that people would shoot off their mouths without knowing the facts. The more the day progressed the more we realized that this was a coordinated attack designed to decapitate the government. I told my wife, "We are at war. This is bigger than Pearl Harbor." Then, a week or two later, I discovered Rantburg. I will never forget the horror for those people who died in many horrible ways that day.
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Two cars blew up outside banks in Jeddah today, raising concern about a fresh wave of unrest in Saudi Arabia as the world marked the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the USA. A car blew up outside the Saudi British Bank hours after a vehicle exploded in front of the headquarters of the group formerly known as the Saudi American Bank in the Red Sea city, witnesses said. The second blast, whose cause could not immediately be determined, occurred about 3pm (10pm AEST) in the trunk of the car and did not cause any casualties, the witnesses said. The explosion was in the same area as the earlier blast in the Saudi commercial capital. Police said the two cars, both taxis, had been reported stolen. At least one person, reportedly one of the bombers, was wounded in the first blast in front of the headquarters of the SAMBA group in the north of the city.
A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday. The Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified source in Beijing, said the explosion happened Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China. The explosion in Kim Hyong Jik county blasted a crater big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said. "We understand that a mushroom-shaped cloud about 3.5 to 4 kilometers (about 2-2 1/2 miles) in diameter was monitored during the explosion," Yonhap quoted an unidentified diplomatic source in Seoul as saying. North Korea was founded Sept. 9, 1948. Leader Kim Jong Il uses the occasion to stage performances and other events to bolster loyalty among the impoverished North Korean population. Experts have speculated that North Korea might use a major anniversary to conduct a nuclear-related test, though there was no immediate indication that Thursday's reported explosion was linked to Pyongyang's efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
My first question would be whether it was an intentional explosion. My second question would be where Kimmie was at the time. Only then do I get to the point of wondering if it's a nuclear demonstration and what the consequences are going to be...
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Kim Hyong Jik is reported to hold a major missile base. North Korea, which has a large missile arsenal and more than 1 million soldiers, is dotted with military installations.
I'd laugh like hell if their missile base went up in their face. I'd laugh even harder if it was one of their nukes.
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I couldn't agree more tu, I couldn't agree more. ;)
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It's been a long, long time since I knew anything about this sort of thing, but the reported size of the mushroom cloud sounds too wide for a fission explosion. This sounds more like an "industrial" accident involving explosives or fuel. With the NORKs, I would be more inclined to believe an accident than sabotage.
Indonesia's police chief has revealed the same group that bombed the Australian embassy planned to assassinate Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri, three days before the presidential election. General Da'i Bachtiar revealed that the group also planned to kill Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison, the Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Mick Keelty, and a host of other foreign guests. The contingent were all attending the official opening of an Australian Indonesian Terrorism Investigation Centre in Semarang in Central Java on July 3. The Australian Government issued a special travel warning at the time of the opening but never revealed the intelligence behind the warning.
General Bachtiar said police mounted extra security ahead of the Semarang opening when they learnt of the planned attack and he believes it was that which stopped the bombing. "The Semarang attack was avoided because we really did increase the level of security," General Bachtiar said. "Because of the level of security, they changed their minds," he said. Asked if the attack was intended to assassinate Ms Megawati, he replied: "Yes ... there's no doubt because they intended to target the actual ceremony and yet it is a target and our President and not just her, we invited many foreign dignitaries." General Bachtiar also revealed that police raided a house near the airport in Jakarta a month ago but narrowly missed finding Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohamad Top, the Malaysian terrorists accused of carrying out the attack on Thursday.
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Perhaps Megawati will take the threat that abu Bakar Bashir and JI represent just a little more seriously now. Let's see if she really can connect all the dots and stop giving the Bali butchers so much air time and exposure. That would indicate some real progress.
Indonesian investigators said Friday that they believed Thursday morning's bombing of the Australian Embassy, which killed nine people, was carried out by three suicide attackers who had eluded a police manhunt after their fellow Muslim militants were captured during raids in July and August. As police carried out interrogations in recent weeks, authorities grew increasingly worried that Jemaah Islamiah, an underground Muslim organization linked to al Qaeda, was planning a major terrorist bombing, investigators said. Within the last week, Indonesian police circulated an internal memo warning of a possible attack, according to three officers involved in the investigation of the Thursday bombing. The memo focused on potential targets such as embassies, foreign-owned company offices and hotels and the national police headquarters and counterterrorism training center, the investigators said.
The Jordanian authorities launched a campaign of arrest in the lines of the Muslim Brothers groups including leaderships in the first line and members of parliament. Among the main detainees are the two members in the executive office of the group Ahmad al-Zarqan and the former parliamentarian Ahmad al-Kafawin. Each of the two former parliamentarians Ibrahim Zeid al-Keilani and Ahmad al-Koufahi were admitted to hospital following a row with the security men. This came, within a campaign of summoning of members and leadership of the Muslim Brothers, not employed in the Ministry of al-Awqaf ( Scholars and Imams), who teach and preach in the mosques unofficially. The security forces summoned several Muslim Brothers members to investigate them, and many of them were released after signing a commitment not to teach nor preach in mosques. In a press statement, the secretary general of the Muslim Brothers group in Jordan, Abdul Miguid al-Zuneibat, condemned this campaign and described it as brutal. He said it falls in the campaign of targeting the group locally and internationally, considering that this is directed against the nation and its educational curricula. He added that the group met with the prime minister Faisal al-Fayez in the presence of several ministry officials who promised to bring back the preachers to their forums who were deprived of them in earlier decisions. The promises were not fulfilled, he said.
U.S. forces and their allies held a somber ceremony Saturday, in Afghanistan to remember those killed three years ago in the September 11 attacks on the United States. Soldiers at the main U.S. base at Bagram watched video footage of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A U.S. military spokesman, Major Scott Nelson, told reporters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that Taleban militants linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network are losing support across Afghanistan. However, the Operation Commander for U.S. forces in Afghanistan told the Associated Press that Osama bin Laden and his deputies still seem to be directing attacks in the country. Major General Eric Olson said he did not think the insurgents were close to being defeated, but insisted that a successful presidential election in October could convince many to give up the fight.
From The Los Angeles Times
The Iraqi military force formed by the Marines in a last-ditch effort to pacify the restive city of Fallouja has been disbanded in the face of continuing violence, assaults on government security forces and evidence that some members have been working openly with insurgents. The dissolution of the Fallouja Brigade, created during the spring to avoid an all-out assault on the insurgent hotbed, marked a significant setback for the U.S. military. The Americans had hoped that the brigade, composed of former members of the Iraqi army and Saddam Hussein's special security forces, would work alongside the new Iraqi government and help restore order.
"The Fallouja Brigade is done, over," said Marine Col. Jerry L. Durrant, who oversees the 1st Marine Expeditionary Unit's involvement with Iraqi security forces. "The whole Fallouja Brigade thing was a fiasco. Initially it worked out OK, but it wasn't a good idea for very long." ....
With the demise of the Fallouja Brigade — agreed to by the interim Iraqi government and the Marines — the Marines are left with no attractive options for rooting out Fallouja's entrenched insurgency. The rebel movement has spread to surrounding villages and left the interim Iraqi government without control of one of the nation's largest cities west of Baghdad. Marines remain based as close as two miles from Fallouja, but the insurgents — local and foreign fighters backed by firebrand Sunni Muslim clerics — have had several months to dig in and make it more difficult for American troops or Iraqi government forces to launch a ground attack. ...
Gen. Abdullah Hamid Wael, the brigade's latest leader, announced the dissolution Thursday night on instructions from the Defense Ministry. Speaking at an Iraqi military base west of Fallouja, Wael read from a ministry statement that said "any member of the brigade can, as an individual, join the Iraqi national guard or the Iraqi police."
Discontent rippled through the group, many of whose members had hoped that it would remain intact and eventually become a unit of the new army. Judging by members' comments, it seemed likely that some would openly rejoin the insurgency, in which many had been involved before joining the brigade. In doing so, they would be able to fight with weapons provided to them by the Marines, who also paid them monthly salaries. ....
In the end, most brigade members' prior allegiance to the insurgency proved impossible to sever. The brigade made no effort to restrict insurgent activities, members and the Marines said. Fallouja became even safer for insurgents, who could take refuge, plot attacks and run manufacturing centers for car bombs and other explosives. Made up of 1,600 former members of the Iraqi army and Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, the brigade was formally created April 30.
Four months later, as the brigade is dissolved, its members are better armed, better equipped and better off. Monthly wages ranged from $260 for low-level soldiers to $700 for generals, one of the brigade's staff officers said. The Marines also gave brigade members new semiautomatic rifles and vehicles and furnished a base for them. For much of the time, the brigade was technically under Marine command and its staff officers were in touch almost daily with Marine officers at Camp Fallouja on the outskirts of town. ...
On a recent trip to Fallouja, it appeared that brigade members were mixing easily with insurgents. At several checkpoints, one or two Iraqi police officers lounged under small palapa huts with a brigade soldier as a couple of masked men with AK-47s leaned into each car looking for Westerners. Last week, several Fallouja Brigade members in uniform shot at Marines near the city limits and the Marines returned fire, Durrant said.
From the brigade's inception, many members never fully disentangled themselves from the insurgent movement. Some expressed pride at the role they had played in fighting the Marines and boasted of their prowess in firing weapons. Although the Marines provided them with uniforms, most brigade members eschewed them in favor of the brown or olive green uniforms worn by the Iraqi armed forces under Hussein. ...
Several members said they were angered by the dissolution. "This was a great violation to the members of the brigade by the American forces and the Iraqi interim government," said Maj. Ahmed Abed Abaas. "Dissolving the Fallouja Brigade, they broke the truce agreed upon last April when the Americans besieged Fallouja."
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Article: Several members said they were angered by the dissolution. "This was a great violation to the members of the brigade by the American forces and the Iraqi interim government," said Maj. Ahmed Abed Abaas. "Dissolving the Fallouja Brigade, they broke the truce agreed upon last April when the Americans besieged Fallouja."
So much for the folks who said we shouldn't have disbanded the Iraqi army. But you're never going to hear the liberal media talk about it. Instead, the focus is going to be on how the Fallujah truce was a mistake, forgetting that it was a test to see whether some of these hardcases were salvageable. Now that we know that they're not willing to work with the new government, they're going to have to be cleared out, one at a time. Fallujah's Baathists have had their chance. They are about to face the fate of Sadr's men.
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typical for the LA Dog Trainer (via Patterico): With the demise of the Fallouja Brigade â agreed to by the interim Iraqi government and the Marines â the Marines are left with no attractive options for rooting out Falloujaâs entrenched insurgency
The "unattractiveness" of the options are as seen only by the Zarqawi terrorists, their enablers (including the LLL Times et al), ex-Saddamites, and miscellaneous riff-raff who've got a taste of tank and artillery coming. Level the place. Make it a lesson.
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With the demise of the Fallouja Brigade â agreed to by the interim Iraqi government and the Marines â the Marines are left with no attractive options for rooting out Falloujaâs entrenched insurgency.
On the contrary, they DO have an option.
"When ya want a job done right, ya gotta do it yourself."
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That brigade was a typical Zionist plot to turn brother against brother, but apparently the Iraqis have more loyalty toward their own than my people, the Serbs, who are more loyal to outsiders than their own.
This is an article which requires putting aside any animosity (at least temporarily) towards Iraqi insurgents while reading it. Wednesday, 8 September, 2004, 19:30 GMT 20:30 UK
A US army captain charged with the murder of an Iraqi militant said the man was killed out of mercy, a US military hearing has been told. A colleague told the hearing in Germany that Capt Rogelio Maynulet, 29, shot the man in the head as "there was nothing more that could be done". Capt Maynulet faces life in prison if guilty of murdering Karim Hassan, 36. The hearing viewed footage of the killing caught by a US military drone aircraft, the AP news agency said. Reporters were asked to leave the room while the video was shown to an expert witness in neurosurgery, lest it should give away secrets of US technology in Iraq.
Sadr supporters
The death occurred on 21 May near the central Iraqi town of Kufa. US troops fired at a vehicle they thought was carrying militants linked to the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr. The hearing was told that the car's passenger was killed immediately, while the driver was badly injured. Lt Colin Cremin testified that Capt Maynulet and others in his unit had described the incident to him, saying the driver "had half his brain hanging out, there was nothing more that could be done for him." Capt Maynulet had confirmed he had shot the man in the base of the neck or the back of the head, he said. "It was something he didn't want to do but it was the compassionate response, it was definitely the humane response," he said. Various witnesses praised Capt Maynulet. The prosecution alleges he broke US rules of engagement and used illegal weapons.
Denies charges
His lawyer, Capt William Helixon, said later: "The individual was neither a prisoner nor a civilian but an Iraqi insurgent characterised by the [US] government as an enemy paramilitary member." Mr Hassan's family does not deny that he was working for Mr Sadr. Capt Maynulet has denied charges of murder and dereliction of duty. The hearing has been held to decide whether the case should go to a full court martial. This is an extremely difficult case. If Capt. Maynulet acted in the presence of witnesses, this should go in his favor. From all outward appearances, this does not seem to be a case of summary execution, and instead, more resembles a mercy killing. While correct military procedure probably would have called for summoning medical personnel, only those at the scene truly know what chances there were for any successful patient outcome. Although a courts martial may be required to resolve this case, there certainly seems to be mitigating circumstances. I'll freely venture that Capt. Maynulet made a choice that I would rather never face. As a senior officer who fully well knew such an act could compromise his remaining career, one is obliged to think that the Captain felt compelled to do what was humane. I can only hope that all of his witnesses are entirely credible.
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I agree, I would never want to face the question. However from an objective perspective, it seems to be a two-way -- I'm pretty sure that the RoE didn't allow him to make even that "humane" gesture, but there is no evidence that he in any way used illegal weapons. I would clear him of the latter charge, but might or might not convict on the former.
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give him a ride, right, Lt JG Kerry?
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This problem has long been resolved with the question: "Are you a qualified doctor?" The irony is that some of the most astoundingly gruesome injuries can be mended, and that head wounds are among the worst of them. There *is* no longer any authorized "mercy killing" permitted, because it is a lose-lose scenario.
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This one does not look too tough to me (former US Army Infantry Officer). Convict him, and then sentence him to time already served in pre-trail confinement. Extenuating and mitigating circumstances. That's what those provisions are for. Having sat on both special and general courts martial boards, there does not appear to be any doubt or issues about the facts (assuming that there was no well-equipped hosptial 50 yards away).
Sadly, this Captian is likely wshed up as a career officer, if that was his chosen path. Too bad 'probably a good man.
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Lone Ranger, since you are someone who has sat on a military bench, thank you for your assessment herein. I predict mitigating circumstances in this case, as you have too. Sadly, I also anticipate an end to Maynulet's career. One can only hope that Captain Maynulet is satisfied with his decision to save someone from the suffering he seems to have so directly witnessed. In no respect do I envy the decisions he's had to make.
PS: Anonymoose, your one question about medical ability reflects a majority of the common sense issues surrounding this case. Thank you.
Turkey has warned the United States over an ongoing operation in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, almost exclusively populated by Turkmens, after civilian casualties in the clashes have surged in the latest stages of what U.S. officials said was a crackdown on a militant cell in the town. News reports said that as many as 120 people have died in the U.S. onslaught in the town that started last weekend.
That doesn't make it genocide. Look at Darfur. That's genocide.
Turkey has undertaken high-level initiatives at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara and the White House as well as at the state and defense departments, upon instructions from Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, who is on a tour of three Baltic countries, a statement from the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
In that case, why doesn't Turkey get the Bad Guys out? They seem to know how to do it better than we do...
Turkey has told the United States that "news coming from Tal Afar was worrying" and said "the operation targeting Tal Afar should be stopped immediately," the statement said, adding that civilians should be spared, genocide excessive and indiscriminate use of force should be avoided and food and medical aid should be delivered to civilians. The Turkish military also expressed concern: "Developments taking place in Tal Afar are being carefully ????? and with concern," a statement from the General Staff said, calling on the parties concerned to exercise caution.
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A mere 120 people and suddenly it's "genocide," but Turkey still denies ever laying a finger on all those untold thousands of Armenians. Is anyone else's hypocrisy meter detonating?
Prepare for Murat trolling in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...
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JFM, I had hoped that "untold thousands" covered that, but thank you anyway. Trust me, I've lit a candle and laid flowers at the Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan. Not that I mind you making the point again ...
For those unclear on the subject, please read "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" by Franz Werfel.
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The town is a den of smuggling. Any action that disrupts smuggling will always result in protest - that's what protection money buys. "Genocide" is a convenient word in this case being used by opportunist scum who are bought and paid for. The use of the term to describe an American operation was guaranteed when Powell used the term to describe Darfur.
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This bastard over armed scum american bastard teenager "soldiers" are the reflection of a bunch of idiots in power and in the culture of this ineducated mass of immigrants call America Because of the Bush administration's arrogant ideological incompetence and its bizarre 'mission accomplished' mentality, our troops and our intelligence officers and our diplomats had neither the resources nor the guidance needed to deal with the worsening conditions that steadily began to overwhelm them and continue to do so,
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This bastard over armed scum Muslim bastard teenager "jihadis" are the reflection of a bunch of idiots in Islam and in the culture of this ineducated mass of jihadis called House of Islam Because of Islam's arrogant ideological incompetence and its bizarre irredentist mentality, Islam's troops and their intelligence officers and their diplomats had neither the resources nor the guidance needed to deal with the worsening conditions that steadily began to overwhelm them and continue to do so.
From CompassDirect
Five Afghan men who had converted to Christianity have been killed in separate incidents since late June near the borders of eastern Afghanistan.
Not much 'debate' there.
The first death was reported on July 1 by Reuters news agency, which received a telephone call from a Taliban spokesman announcing the murder of Mullah Assad Ullah the previous day in Ghazni province. "A group of Taliban dragged out Mullah Assad Ullah and slit his throat with a knife because he was propagating Christianity," the man told Reuters. The murder of another Christian convert who had gone to visit Assad Ullah's family was confirmed on August 7. The body of Naveed ul-Rehman was discovered in early August near his abandoned car in Awdand. Three more Afghan Christians were stabbed or beaten to death in separate incidents on July 15, July 23 and July 28. Each left behind a wife and several children.
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Here's Hamid Karzai's big chance to take responsibility for dragging Afghanistan out of the stone age. The state should request that local Islamic charities provide compensation to all survivors of these murdered converts. Barring that, Karzai should still provide state funding to achieve this. Only a firm top-down demonstration of responsibility for maintaining a secular government is going to show any sort of sincere effort towards overcoming the Taleban's barbaric legacy.
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If Islam did not have the built in once a Muslim always a Muslim provision would it of lasted this long. Religion to me is about hope and Islam seems awfully short of hope
Islamic militants in Iraq are strengthening their grip on the insurgent stronghold of Falluja, four months after American commanders struck a ceasefire deal that was supposed to pacify the city and return it to government control, residents said on Friday. Militants have imposed religious law on communities, issuing edicts and executing those accused of spying and even stealing. United States patrols no longer enter the city, 64km west of Baghdad, and the Falluja Brigade, a government force established in May to maintain security, was disbanded this week.
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Lt Col Dave has some insight in his letter home on the 8th. I like the part about the Iraqi Special Forces wanting to go into Fallujah after teh bad guys. I think that they are going to be a really effective force in the future.
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Here is a good quote from his letter:
"We just spoke to them today about having faith that we will win and to believe that things will get better. In fact, I am much less tolerant of Americans who are losing their stomach to see this through. These Iraqis have never known freedom and have no idea what life could be life if they see it through, yet they put their lives on the lines based on nothing but faith."
I think many South Vietnamese did as well. Will we do these brave people the same dirty deed?
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If the "militants" lose, 'tis but Allah's will, and the pious will submit to his will in this as in everything.
At least 13 people have been killed in clashes and several others injured in a remote desert region of northern Mali after a resurgence of violence between two rival ethnic groups, police sources said on Friday. Mali's huge swathes of thinly populated savannah and desert have long been seen as a hotbed of banditry and rebellion. The United States fears that Islamic militants could be recruiting new supporters in the thinly policed region. Members of the Kounta ethnic group clashed with Arab militants in the settlement of Imelacht in the Sahara desert on Monday, after 16 members of both groups escaped from prison in the nearby town of Gao, the police sources told Reuters.
The region around Gao was the scene of frequent clashes between members of the pro-government Kounta and pro-opposition Arab militants in the late 1990s as they fought for control of desert trading routes. Ethnic rivalry has simmered in the impoverished region ever since, but the latest clashes are the most violent between the two groups to have been reported since then. The men who escaped from prison had been detained for their involvement in sporadic fighting that started during local elections in June 1998 and led to the intervention of the military, the sources said. They had been widely expected to be pardoned.
Mali's fair-skinned Tuareg nomads staged a revolt in 1990, saying they were persecuted by a black elite. Mali's army has clashed this year with members of Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), a group linked to al Qaeda and classified as a terrorist organisation by the United States. Mali withdrew soldiers from many northern outposts in the late 1990s under the peace deal ending the Tuareg rebellion, but President Amadou Toumani Toure said in June he would send some soldiers back to ward off Islamic militants and combat banditry.
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Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev directed the deadly hostage-taking at a Russian school that cost nearly 340 lives, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claims. "I know for a fact that Shamil Basayev personally directed this operation," Mr Lavrov said. Basayev has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in the past. Russia has blamed him for others that he has not claimed, however, he has so far stayed silent on the Beslan carnage.
Mr Lavrov also blames Chechnya's separatist president Aslan Maskhadov, who along with Basayev had a $US10 million bounty placed on his head by the Russian authorities in the wake of the school attack. Mr Lavrov says Maskhadov "openly stated that as long as Russia's policy in the North Caucasus remains unchanged, there is no avoiding terrorist acts." "This is instigation of terrorism, if not confirmation of the fact he directed it all," he said. "So calls for political dialogue with him, as well as urgings from some Western capitals that we should seek a political settlement together with Maskhadov as our partner, cannot be considered by us as part of the partnership against terrorism that Russia has with Britain, the United States or others." Russia has designated 52-year-old Maskhadov a terrorist since the outbreak of the second Chechen war in October 1999. He acknowledged two years ago that the war had radicalised him. Nevertheless he has regularly condemned attacks against civilians in Russia and called for talks with Moscow, as he did again after last week's Beslan hostage crisis.
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That Guy may be in charge but his days are numbered.....The "state of Israel" will always exsist. people with a conscience will never forget, and i know very few jewish people
A U.S. jet fired missiles Friday in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, the fourth day of attacks targeting the city where U.S. and Iraqi troops have no control, officials said. One man was killed in the attack, Dr. Ahmed Thaer of the Fallujah General Hospital said. The attack followed airstrikes Thursday that reportedly killed nine people in Fallujah and dozens more in the northern town of Tal Afar, also one of the cities that has fallen under insurgent control and become a "no-go" zone for U.S. troops.
A leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, criticized the use of heavy U.S. force in Tal Afar, saying the Americans caused "catastrophes" that could have been avoided if Iraqis had been in charge of security. The Americans have said they were fighting "a large terrorist organization."
"Since the first day after (Saddam Hussein's) regime collapsed, Tal Afar had terrorist groups, and this is not new," al-Hakim told The Associated Press on Friday. "The new thing is that the military operations are huge."
Two doctors have been indicted for treating al-Qaeda suspects and members of a Pakistani extremist group accused of launching an assassination attempt against a top general in June that left 10 people dead, a government lawyer said today. Police initially arrested the doctors - brothers Akmal Waheed and Arshad Waheed - on July 2 in connection with the failed attempt to kill Lt. Gen. Ahsan Saleem Hayat, the city's top army general. Those charges were later dropped, but prosecutors say they now have information that the doctors had treated "terrorists."
On Thursday, a judge in Karachi indicted the physicians, saying they had treated al-Qaeda suspects Hassam Al-Saim and Abu Musab at a hospital last year. Musab escaped a police raid on a house in Karachi on Jan. 9, 2003, despite being wounded in a shootout. It was not clear who Al-Saim was, although prosecution lawyer Maula Bakhsh Bhatti said both men were al-Qaeda members. He said the Waheeds also treated members of extremist group Allah's Brigade, whose chief was recently arrested with eight other members for their alleged role in the June attack.
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Situation remained fluid in the troubled South Waziristan agency on Friday as 13 more people, including seven personnel of the armed forces and six suspected militants were killed in clashes between the tribal militants and security forces in Kanigoram and Karwan Manza areas of the tribal region.
There were also reports that the death toll on the security forces side was 11, including two officers while seven others have been injured in the ambush on a military convoy by tribal militants in Karawan Manza the previous night. No independent confirmation of the claims was immediately available, however, Director General ISPR Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan told journalists during a news briefing in Peshawar on Friday that six militants have been killed. Sultan also admitted that there were some casualties among the forces, but declined to reveal the details.
Police in Karachi arrested a man affiliated with Harkatul Mujahideen al-Aalami (HMA), the group involved in the attack on President Pervez Musharraf in April 2002. "We arrested Irfan Khalid when he reached Karachi from Lahore on Thursday evening," Raja Umer Khitab, a senior investigator of the police Crime Investigation Department (CID), told Daily Times. Khalid, 28, was a close aide of Kamran Atif, an HMA militant who masterminded the attack on President Musharraf and is in police custody, said Khitab. The group tried to blow up Musharraf"s car as his convoy travelled along a busy highway from Karachi airport on April 26, 2002. But the attempt failed because a remote-control device intended to detonate an explosive-laden van malfunctioned. Atif is also charged with attacking the United States consulate general in Karachi two years ago, he said. He said Khalid would take care of arranging logistics for the terror group and worked as a contact in the absence of Atif.
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The Sindh High Court on Friday granted bail to two alleged activists of the outlawed Harkatul Mujahideen Al Alam who were found last year by police in possession of a huge quantity of explosives. Justice Azizullah M Memon of the Sindh High Court granted the bail to Rozi Khan, alias Wasif, and Ghulam Mohammad, alias Gul Rahim. They were arrested by police in May this year from a house in Saeedullah Goth, Saeedabad. One hundred and seventy-eight kilograms of explosive substances and some other illegal material were recovered from the house. When the matter was taken up for hearing, assistant advocate general Kumail Sheerazi told the court there was not mention in the police papers as to whether an investigation agency made any effort to seek a sanction to prosecute the accused for the offence under Section 7 of the Explosive Substances Act. Without touching the merits of the case, the granted the bail to the accused and ordered their release. However, the release was subject to each of them furnishing surety in the sum of Rs 100,000.
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Please take a few moments today to remember those who died on 9/11.
Please remember the jumpers.
Please remember the ones who helped others down the stairs.
Please remember the fire-fighters and police officers who charged up the stairs.
Please remember the heroes of Flight 93.
Please remember the countless people on the streets who helped everyone around them.
Please remember the men and women in the Pentagon that morning.
It was not their fault. It was not our fault. But I know who is at fault.
I have no fancy, moving words for the ones who died. I will simply remember and pray for them, and try to make right the evil that took them from us.
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Amen to that!! It disgusts me to know Bin Laden is still out there in his cave, eating beans and playing dominoes, while concocting his next diabolical scheme against America. The day they bring his head forth as presentation on "W's" 'platter' would be as in the words of Darth Vader..."A day long remembered!"
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I don't like to remember. I don't like the status quo. But there has been a calm here abouts. I'm still very pissed off. And after the last six months of the WoJ, I'm still wondering about what victory looks like.
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Victory comes the day I drive down the Eisenhower expressway on my way to work and don't have to look at the Sears Tower to reassure myself that it's still there.
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I think I'll go give a pint of blood. They wouldn't (couldn't) take it on 9/12/01. And I'll listen to Toby Keith's "Have You Forgotten?" while I'm hooked up to the blood thingy, and Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" while I'm recovering. And I'll cry, because I keep thinking the tears are over, but they're not. Then I'll dry my eyes, go have a beer with some lizardoid minions from LGF and we shall roundly denounce idiotarians worldwide.
And find some grace from this terrible tragedy, in that I've learned so much, and made new friends, through the blogs. It seems too high a price to pay, but paid it is, and I won't allow that sacrifice to go for naught.
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Yes seafar. Yes, It's a thing. The folks who paid the price can't hangout anymore. That was taken away. But it's okay. Lets be okay with it. But still I'm not okay with it. When it all makes sence maybe then. But whenever I try to be an understanding, 20th century guy, I know it's the 21st century and shit happens. "rise up early the day wont let you sleep"
Sefarious, permit me to commend you on your decision. The first time I gave blood was in direct response to the 9-11 atrocity. I may have to follow your lead and go donate again as well. There are few more fitting ways to show respect for those who perished that tragic day than to give the gift of life. You have my admiration.
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It is a beautiful, sunny day, just like three years ago.
In my garden an American flag is up.
And I am reading the 8th Pythian Ode of Pindar:
"Epameroi:
ti de tis; ti d'ou tis;
skias onar anthrôpos
all' hotan aigla diosdotos elthêi,
lampron phengos epestin andrôn
kai meilikhos aiôn.
"Manâs life is a day.
What is he? What is he not?
A shadow in a dream is man:
but when the gods shed a brightness,
Shining life is on earth
And life is sweet as honey."
#10
I am as deeply angry and vengeful this moment as I was utterly stunned and saddened that day 3 years ago when I watched the horrors unfold live on satellite TV, in Saudi Arabia, deep in the heart of darkness.
I vow to give my remaining life energy to vengeance until the evil that perpetrated this act, and the grotesque parade that has followed and continues to this day, is wiped from the face of the Earth forever.
Machiavelli on revenge: "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
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I will not forget. The 9/11 attacks will be remembered as the turning point for the nation as a whole. I firmly believe that the day of the the LLLs, the MSM, and the barking moonbats ended on that day. This nation will be stronger as a result, although we may not see the full effect for a generation.
I salute those who died, and I will continue to honor their memories through honest debate, and, should the time come, I will take up arms in defense of their memory.
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Who can imagine the horror of what was seen, heard, felt, final in the crumbling of steel? Who can bear to stay in that infernal memory, to see it as it was for hundreds of victims-a burning steel trap? That is the memory that buckles the knees and chokes the throats of survivors. It is not unlike what many of us experienced when we heard the sounds from Paul Johnson's mouth as he was severed from life.
This is what fells us-those frightening last moments of loved ones as they saw hell descend from the hands of murderous terrorists. If we could only have spared our fallen the pain and terror of those last moments-we entreat God to give our lost ones comfort.
How can each of us find the courage that came from our firefighters, policemen, rescue workers, family members and friends who, in awe of the evil around them, still found the strength to turn towards certain danger in order to fight suffering and unjust death?
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Darrell Worleys' "Have you forgotten". Toby Keith didn't, and wanted to put a boot in their ass- it's the American Wayâ¢
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yes we all should remember..but it amazes me just how many people do not know of the jumpers, the msm did thier job well, i pass these picts to all of my friends
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I was flying back in my plane from a job this morning at Eagle, Alaska on the Yukon river to Anchorage. It was so peaceful, but I kept thinking about that day 3 years ago, when we all were grounded. I thought about those people who were hostages to the storm of 9-11 and had to take that terrifying ride, or be trapped in those buildings, or having to jump or burn. I thought to myself, that having been spared myself and my family are truly blessed. But being lucky means that we have the responsibility to work toward the betterment of our country and its peoples. We also have a responsibiliy to help the war effort in any way that we can, based upon our resources and abilities. It is the best way we can honor those that fell that day of infamy--- 9-11-01
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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