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After-action Report

World Trade Center Destroyed
Pentagon damaged

US President calls on the Taliban dictatorship of Afghanistan to hand over all members of Al Qaeda or face War
The World assails America as being unilateralist
Taliban refuses and threatens destruction for US if invasion occurs
US Military forms itself around Afghanistan
The World assails America as being unilateralist
Airstrikes begin
US initially invades with Special Forces and is then followed on by specialized Marine Corps and Army ground Units
Taliban and Al Qaeda forces are summarily routed/tens of thousands of foreign Arabs and native Afghans die fighting
The World assails America as being unilateralist
New Western Friendly Afhgan government installed
New Plans for The WTC are formulated....several designs call for a structure taller than the original WTC
American Special Forces Units begin operations inside of Pakistan
US President calls for the removal of Saddam Hussein and the Baathist regime in Iraq
The World assails America as being unilateralist
Iraq refuses and threatens destruction for US if invasion occurs
US Military forms itself around Iraq

...the clock is ticking.

911 EMERGENCY AT WTC

Never Forget

(re: the photo of the second plane incoming...)
Sept. 10, 2001; 11:30 PM, Pac Time: I turn off the television, vowing to watch less TV.

Sept. 11, 2002; a few minutes after 6AM, Pac Time:
I turn on my radio; radio host Hugh Hewitt says there are TV images of a tower at the
WTC smoking from a plane strike.
My iron will crumples; I want to see this, recollecting about the B-25 bomber that hit the
Empire State Building...
I flick on the tube in time to see a second plane flying, then disappearing behind
the towers, with a fireball expelled from the flight path...
I'm in such shock, I initially think, "that was a damned amazing special effect".