World trade center attacked
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From: San Jose
Originally posted by wdavis
Looks like were going to see how accurate all of those missile systems we've paid for are gonna be. Buy your McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed stock now, I hope we need to replace every missile we have.
Looks like were going to see how accurate all of those missile systems we've paid for are gonna be. Buy your McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed stock now, I hope we need to replace every missile we have.
One things for certain, we will go to war over this. According to Fox news, the count could surpass Pearl Harbor; the event that brought us into WWII.
I went to the Trade Center last Xmas. Those buildings are enormous. Each tower is the size of strip mall times 110 stories.
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I think that we have two choices:
1) Change the American way of life to protect ourselves from future attacks like this, or
2) Obliterate the individuals responsible, and obliterate the countries which sponsor those individuals.
Terrorism has been a successful tactic for too long. At some point, countries have to develop tactics to stop terrorism while not impacting personal freedoms.
1) Change the American way of life to protect ourselves from future attacks like this, or
2) Obliterate the individuals responsible, and obliterate the countries which sponsor those individuals.
Terrorism has been a successful tactic for too long. At some point, countries have to develop tactics to stop terrorism while not impacting personal freedoms.
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From: San Jose
Originally posted by Jiffy
How many people work in the WTC towers, combined?
How many people work in the WTC towers, combined?
World Trade Center,
building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse. It is the world's largest commercial complex, with many businesses, government agencies, and international trade organizations. Most prominent are the 110-story rectangular twin towers, one rising to 1,362 ft (415 m) and the other to 1,368 ft (417 m).
NY Port Authority:
Some 40,000 people work in the World Trade Center, and more than 100,000 business and leisure visitors come to the center each day.
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The suffering that is being felt today is spread throughout the world.
The loss of lives will be in the thousands.
This is a sense-less crime.
Even here, in Upstate New York (a 7-hour drive from NYC) we have closed our building and sent people home.
I will be going off-line soon.
My thought and prayers are with those who have lost a loved one, and I hate to type it, but I suspect our community has already been effected, we just don't have the facts yet.
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The loss of lives will be in the thousands.
This is a sense-less crime.
Even here, in Upstate New York (a 7-hour drive from NYC) we have closed our building and sent people home.
I will be going off-line soon.
My thought and prayers are with those who have lost a loved one, and I hate to type it, but I suspect our community has already been effected, we just don't have the facts yet.
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From: British Columbia
Get the fvck back to work. ALL OF YOU. The largest impact of this may be financial panic. Be heroes and keep working, be heroes and don't pull your stocks...
Time to turn a certain part of the world into one large glass bowl.
Time to turn a certain part of the world into one large glass bowl.
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Considering all the inbound US flights are being diverted to Canada. If anyone has a loved one who is stuck in the Toronto airport PM me if they are in a bind and I'll go and pick them up and give them a place to stay. It won't be a problem.
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I think the why of this is little different from the punk that keys your car, just on a larger scale. America is the envy of the World, and thus the focus of much of its wrath. This strike is very symbolic in my mind. It was concentrated on the financial center of not only the country, but the World. It was also aimed at the Wahington, D.C., seat of power of the free World.
This attack on America has been likened to Pearl Harbor. I only hope this attack has the same effect on the resolve of the country as did the one on Hawaii nearly 60 years ago.
This attack on America has been likened to Pearl Harbor. I only hope this attack has the same effect on the resolve of the country as did the one on Hawaii nearly 60 years ago.
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