A Sad
Posted on 09/11/2001 5:52:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CNBC reports a plane has hit the World Trade Center in NY. No details...
Thanks for the sharp, quick post on the worst attack ever to take place against Americans on American soil. You were the first on FR, and it was right here.
On this day one year ago there passed through the portals of our airports nineteen demonic souls intent on attacking me, may family, my neighbors, and my country.
While the blow they dealt was mortal, worse befell them as they entered hell that day, and worse shall befall their followers. Whether it happens today or in a thousand days, much worse will befall them.
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***Full circle bump***
BTW: Taller than the previous WTC.
Good job NYC/America.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Because of [his long-time friend] Hill's training in counterterrorism, in 1990 Rescorla asked him to come up and take a look at the security situation. "He knew I could be an evil-minded bastard," Hill recalls. At the World Trade Center, Rescorla asked him a simple question: "How would you take this out?" Hill looked around, and asked to see the basement. They walked down an entrance ramp into a parking garage; there was no visible security, and no one stopped them. "This is a soft touch," Hill said, pointing to a load-bearing column easily accessible in the middle of the space. "I'd drive a truck full of explosives in here, walk out, and light it off."As a result of Hill's observations and his own, Rescorla arranged a meeting with a security official for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which managed the building. "They told Rick to kiss off," Hill recalled. "They told him, 'You lease your stories, you worry about that. The rest of the building is not your concern.' " (A Port Authority spokesman says that security "took into account all known threats at that time," and "was better than in most office buildings in New York.")
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[On Sept. 11, 2001] Hill could hear Rescorla issuing orders through the bullhorn. He was calm and collected, never raising his voice. Then Hill heard him break into song:
Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming;
Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming?
See their warriors' pennants streaming
To this battlefield.
Men of Cornwall stand ye steady;
It cannot be ever said ye
for the battle were not ready;
Stand and never yield!Rescorla came back on the phone. "Pack a bag and get up here," he said. "You can be my consultant again." He added that the Port Authority was telling him not to evacuate and to order people to stay at their desks.
"What'd you say?" Hill asked.
"I said, 'Piss off, you son of a bitch,' " Rescorla replied. "Everything above where that plane hit is going to collapse, and it's going to take the whole building with it.
The letters "U.S." are stamped in one corner, but numbers on the object are obscured.Along with NASA investigators, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Middletown Police Department are looking into the incident.
"It is way too early to tell what it is or where it came from," said Bob Gillespie, an FAA aviation safety inspector. He speculated that the object might have fallen from an airplane.
More of that government management style, moderators . . .
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