More on the WTC Disaster (Updated) [Sep 11, 2001, 9:30 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Of course this is not game related (we do not expect to be doing any further
game coverage today), but with the legit news sites being almost impossible to
access at times today, we've been getting loads of requests for more information
about what's been going on. Here is the latest as of about 9:00 PM EDT:
- President Bush addressed the nation 8:30 PM EDT. Here's a wire report: WASHINGTON (AP) - A grim-faced President Bush condemned ghastly attacks in Washington and New York on Tuesday and vowed to "find those responsible and bring them to justice." In the second Oval Office address of his presidency, Bush said the United States would retaliate against ``those behind these evil acts,'' and any country that harbors them.
To recap:
- In two separate attacks, hijacked planes struck both main towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan this morning, and both of the "twin towers" subsequently collapsed.
- A hijacked plane struck the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and part of it has collapsed as well.
- A hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Reports indicate the hijackers planned to crash this plane into Camp David in Maryland.
- 47 Story WTC building seven, one of the five (relatively) smaller buildings in the World Trade Center also later collapsed from ancillary damage.
- The White House, the Pentagon, and the Capitol Building were all evacuated, all domestic flights in the US have been grounded through at least noon tomorrow.
- Other closings include most federal offices, the stock markets, the Disney theme parks, and the cancellation of today's Major League Baseball schedule. The President's speech announced that all federal agencies will be open for business tomorrow.
- Broadcasts out of Afghanistan showed evidence of missile attacks and antiaircraft fire, but what connection this has to today's apparent terrorist attacks in the US is not clear at this point. The US has denied involvement in these attacks.
- In the first hints of any sort at the scope of casualties, the New York City Fire Department has estimated that as many as half of the 400 firefighters dispatched to the scene are missing. CNN has said that 78 Police officers are missing. Also, the death toll from those on the four hijacked planes has been placed at 266. The number of dead and injured at the Pentagon has been widely reported as about 100. No estimates of the number of victims from the World Trade Center have been made.
- People throughout the United States have are being urged to donate blood to help offset significant shortages in New York and Washington. The American Red Cross in Greater New York or the American Red Cross are places to contact about donating blood or money, or both.
- Some news sites seem to be back online. Here are some links that have been more reliable: CNN.com; CNET.com; Yahoo; The New York Times; washingtonpost.com; usnews.com; ABCNEWS.com; FOXNews.com; MSNBC; and BBC News Online.
All of our thoughts go out to the victims of these attacks and their families and friends in what must be an incredibly difficult time.
You are an idiot. Let me reveal why:
>Last time some one did this much damage to the US we wound up flattening an entire city with a little thing called an A-Bomb.
Yeah... killing thousands of innocent people and leaving hundreds of thousands suffering from it up to today despite the fact that Japan was in no condition to continue the war. And because that was not enough there was a second A-Bomb, just to be sure that this damned thing works, I presume.
Wrong. Japan was offered a chance to surrender after Hiroshima was bombed. Not accepting surrender, the second bomb was dropped onto Nagasaki. It was NOT dropped just "to be sure the damned thing works".
And Japan was perfectly capable of continuing the war - it was decided in USA that the war effort versus Japan would still take a while and cost numerous American lives; thus the decision to bomb Hiroshima to coerce Japan to surrender.
Remember, asshole, that Japan attacked the United States FIRST without any provocation; we just happened to finish it, so your argument that the United States of America is "responsible" for the deaths of Japanese citizens is sheer bullshit - if Japan was so damn concerned for its own people then it shouldn't have stirred up any shit with the United States.
And, most Americans who are religious don't hold the same type of Islamic insanity spewed by terrorists such as these. We don't raise our children telling them that their greatest goal in life is to perform a cowardly sucide mission against their enemies' civilian population and thus be guaranteed a place in Heaven. That is just sickness.
>Last time some one did this much damage to the US we wound up flattening an entire city with a little thing called an A-Bomb.
Yeah... killing thousands of innocent people and leaving hundreds of thousands suffering from it up to today despite the fact that Japan was in no condition to continue the war. And because that was not enough there was a second A-Bomb, just to be sure that this damned thing works, I presume.
Wrong. Japan was offered a chance to surrender after Hiroshima was bombed. Not accepting surrender, the second bomb was dropped onto Nagasaki. It was NOT dropped just "to be sure the damned thing works".
And Japan was perfectly capable of continuing the war - it was decided in USA that the war effort versus Japan would still take a while and cost numerous American lives; thus the decision to bomb Hiroshima to coerce Japan to surrender.
Remember, asshole, that Japan attacked the United States FIRST without any provocation; we just happened to finish it, so your argument that the United States of America is "responsible" for the deaths of Japanese citizens is sheer bullshit - if Japan was so damn concerned for its own people then it shouldn't have stirred up any shit with the United States.
And, most Americans who are religious don't hold the same type of Islamic insanity spewed by terrorists such as these. We don't raise our children telling them that their greatest goal in life is to perform a cowardly sucide mission against their enemies' civilian population and thus be guaranteed a place in Heaven. That is just sickness.
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