A truly sad day - 11 September 2001

[Cecil Lee]

A truly sad day indeed!
God save our souls if this is true....
two bro = two towers of wtc ?
fortress = pentagon?

-This is really scary what Nostradamus predicted!
?In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn
apart
by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb? ,
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning? -
Nostradamus 654
THIS IS SPOOKY
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Bush vows to punish terrorists and their hosts September 11, 2001 Posted: 10:00 PM EDT (0200 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush issued a warning Tuesday night to any nation that may be giving refuge to those responsible for the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center and severely damaged the Pentagon. ?We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them,? the president said from the Oval Office of the White House as he promised retaliation. U.S. intelligence officials told CNN, ?There are good indications that persons linked to Osama bin Laden may be responsible for these attacks.?
Afghanistan, believed to be the home of bin Laden, denied he was connected to the attacks. Asked if bin Laden was a suspect, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, ?It?s not the time for discussions like that.? Other U.S. officials said that while the focus is on bin Laden, they have not ruled out other suspects. They also said they believe more threats exist. Pentagon sources told CNN that all U.S. military sites around the world have gone to ThreatCon Delta, which means that a terrorist attack has occurred or an attack at a specific location is likely. Secretary of State Colin Powell said there were ?no specific warnings? before the attacks.
Knives and box cutters Although officials said the attacks appeared to have been well planned and executed, a passenger on the plane that hit the Pentagon said in cell phone call to her husband that the terrorists were armed with knives and box cutters. The passenger was Barbara Olson, a CNN commentator and wife of Solicitor General Theodore Olson.
We will expend every effort and devote all the necessary resources to bring the people responsible for these acts?these crimes?to justice,? Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday evening. The president suggested how many people may have been killed in the attacks when he said ?thousands of lives were suddenly ended.?
American Airlines Flight 11, carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members en route from Boston to Los Angeles, slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m. About 15 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, also en route from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers and nine crew members aboard, crashed into the south tower. It is not yet known how many of the estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people who may have been in the World Trade Twin Towers were killed when the two planes exploded and eventually turned both 110-story structures into piles of rubble. Hours later, fire caused another building, 7 World Trade Center, to collapse. It had been burning since shortly after the planes stuck the Twin Towers. Other nearby buildings are ablaze in the area. Asked how many people he believed were killed, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, ?I don?t think we want to speculate about that?more than any of us can bear.? Almost 300 emergency personnel in New York -- 78 missing police officers and 200 firefighters - are presumed dead along with the 266 people on the four hijacked airplanes.
There is no word on fatalities at the Pentagon, where part of the complex collapsed after a Boeing 757 jet plowed into it at 9:45 a.m. Witnesses said the plane hit what is known as the ?Army Corridor.? FBI sources said the aircraft was an American Airlines flight that had been hijacked after taking off from Washington Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles. At least 53 people were injured, some severely, in the attack on the Pentagon, where about 24,000 people work. All secretaries and military chiefs of the service branches are alive and have been accounted for, authorities said.
A fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey, headed for San Francisco, crashed in a wooded area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Police said there were no survivors. There were 38 passengers, five flight attendants and two pilots. ?The plane is thoroughly disintegrated,? Jim Marker of Somerset County?s 911 Emergency Management Center told CNN. ?There are no remains, no survivors. Senior FBI sources said, ?There is no doubt the planes [all four] were hijacked.? Intelligence sources told CNN there were indications of attempts to divert the United flight from Newark to crash at Camp David, Maryland, the presidential retreat. It is unclear how that plan may have been thwarted. U.S. military officials said none of the planes were shot down by U.S. aircraft. Federal Aviation officials said they were aware at the time the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center that a plane had been hijacked. They did not know that specific plane was involved. Callers from two of the other hijack planes called on cell phones to say their planes had been hijacked.
Hijackers may have flown planes James Kallstrom, the retired FBI agent who led the investigation into the explosive crash of TWA 800 in July 1996 that killed 230 people, said he believed the hijackers must have flown the planes into the buildings themselves. ?I can?t imagine any American pilot crashing an airplane into one of these buildings, even with a gun to the head. They wouldn?t do that,? said Kallstrom. ?You?ve got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane.?
The U.S. military went on full alert. Two aircraft carriers left the Naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, in response to the attacks to provide upgraded air defense for New York and Washington. Officials in Washington said a ?Continuation of Government? plan had been activated. The activation involves a fortified facility at Mount Weather, Virginia. There was no word whether any of the U.S. leadership or ranking military officers had been taken to the facility. The city of Washington declared a state of emergency. ?The Pentagon is functioning. It will be in business tomorrow,? Rumsfeld said.
Members of Congress were quick to blame bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire blamed for bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa. He is believed to be based in Afghanistan. ?This looks like the signature of Osama bin Laden,? said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who said he had been briefed by officials at the highest levels of government. Hatch added: ?We?re going to find out who did this and we?re going after the bastards.? ?This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States,? said Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona.
In Kabul, Afghanistan Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmed Mutawakkel said,
We in Afghanistan do not allow Osama bin Laden to use Afghan territory to launch any attack on any government around the world.? He said the Afghan government had taken away bin Laden?s communication devices,? and he has not been in touch with anyone outside Afghanistan.? Mutawakkel said the Taliban will conduct its own investigation. ?We will determine what really happened. We denounce this terrorist attack, whoever is behind it.?
Hours later, explosions and flames lit up the night sky over Kabul, provoking speculation the city was under by the United States forces in retaliation. Rumsfeld denied any U.S. involvement and a senior Taliban ministry official said the attack on an ammunition dump came from two helicopters flown by a rebel group called the Northern Alliance.
Security tightens in U.S. The attacks in the United States set off security alarms across the nation. Federal government buildings in Washington, including the White House, were evacuated. Airports in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the destinations of the planes involved in the incidents, were evacuated. The city of San Francisco declared a state of emergency. California government offices also closed. The U.S. House of Representatives planned to convene Wednesday in a symbolic gesture to show the government is not shutting down.
For the first time in U.S. history, the Federal Aviation Administration closed airports nationwide, halting the 36,000 to 40,000 takeoffs that occur daily. It diverted a number of trans-Atlantic flights to Canada. By midafternoon all domestic flights that had been in the air when the closings were order had landed, said FAA spokesman Less Dorr. ?The earliest the national groundstop will be lifted is noon tomorrow [Wednesday]. And that?s at the very earliest,? said Dorr. The Immigration and Naturalization Service went on highest alert along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico.
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