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More News And Links On Yesterday's Terrorist Attack

Posted by timothy on from the count-blessings dept.

Everyone out there who set up content mirrors helped the spread of information survive as well as it did. After the tremendous crush yesterday, conventional news sources seem to have largely recovered. However, people are still cushioning the network burden with their own mirrors and original reporting. We'll be putting up occasional updates as necessary, but for now hit that link below and you can read a ton of stories on all aspects of the story.

Ian Peon writes: "SF Gate has a short article on how the Internet "proved its mettle as a communications facilitator in a time of crisis." Kudos to all those who kept things running!"

An anonymous reader writes: "The who, what, and how are detailed in this Boston Herald story. The weapons were smuggled in the razor cases. And in order to get to the cockpit, they terrorized the stewardesses, killing a few in order to lure the pilot out. Once the pilot was out, they took control of the plane. They have identified a car driven by 5 arabs had flying instruction in arabic. The men have been traced back to different arab countries."

This WorldTribune.com story claims that Israeli intelligence reports favor the idea that the attacks may have had the backing of Saddam Hussein's Bagdhad government. According to a submission from UberOogie ,Osama bin Ladin denies involvement in the attacks. The claims, speculation and disclaimers will no doubt continue.

Connord D writes: "View the Survivor's Register Please, PLEASE go to the survivor registers, register that your looking for your family, tell your friends, pass the word around and identify those that have survived and those that are missing. Help worried families either confirm the fates of their loved ones so that they can mourn, or help them find those people that are missing." And Brian Mears, LAN Systems Operations Manager for Computer Sciences Corporation, writes: "I have created a forum on my website to allow families and friends of survivors to post messages and communicate with each other concerning this most tragic period." Here's the link: http://www.ntadmin.net/forum/.

It would be a godsend if the various survivor registries would pool their data, or if someone sets up a google-like search engine to reach all of them at once.

oo7 writes: "CNN has a stream of the first plane crash. If you'd like to download it you can from the videos section of this site; it has news updated as fast as I can and streams as fast as I can capture. Please forward any unknown news and links that you may have."

pKa writes: "The last image from WTCs 77th floor webcam is available on a few sites around the net. The original WCTA.org cam-site is dead, but available in Googles cache, where you can see the dark screen (camera already dead, most likely) at 09:52:52, 09/11/01 - just before the buildings crashed. Article (in norwegian) with screenshots available here" The stream of concern that yesterday's events will lead to an illiberal attitude toward privacy is growing into a torrent: vena writes: "CNN reported on television broadcast earlier today that the NSA was now going through volumes of recorded cellular calls for calls made by passengers on the planes. Clear admission."

GothChip writes: "Ananova are reporting that just hours after the terrorist attack on New York, the FBI started approaching ISPs asking for help in installing Carnivore."

mkelley writes: "This is only the beginning folks...looks like the internet is going to be blamed for this...Wired has a story that is sure to cause panic. This is going to be the goverment's way to push wiretapping into your email and web surfing. In this time of crisis, people in high places are going to use this to get their agenda through. "Blame the Internet" is going to be the rallying cry for everything ..." If you're interested in the details of the planes the terrorists chose, a Semi-Anonymous Coward writes: "American Airlines flight 77 confirmed down, crashed into the Pentagon, Washington DC. Flight 77 (Dulles to Los Angeles) is scheduled as a Boeing 757-200:

Boeing 757-200 data and history:

American Airlines Boeing 757-200 photos:

United Airlines flight 175 confirmed down, crashed into World Trade Center New York. Flight 175 (Boston to Los Angeles) is scheduled as a Boeing 767-200: United Airlines flight 93 confirmed down near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Flight 93 (Newark to San Francisco) is scheduled as a Boeing 757-200:

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  1. WallStreetItalia webcam by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have some pictures I grabbed from the WallStreetItalia.com webcam.
    -russ

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  2. Donate money to the red cross by Libertius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Link available on amazons frontpage. So far, $481,726 has been collected. Please help, most of us can spare a dollar...

    1. Re:Donate money to the red cross by Accipiter · · Score: 4, Informative

      As I pointed out on Slashnet yesterday, PayPal has a similar service if you have a paypal account:

      http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/rel ief-outside

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  3. Pilot skills / Collapse by glowingspleen · · Score: 5, Informative

    Great articles on Slate right now:

    Why the Towers collapsed:

    http://slate.msn.com/code/explainer/explainer.as p? Show=9/11/2001&idMessage=8265

    How good were the Pilots?

    http://slate.msn.com/code/explainer/explainer.as p? Show=9/11/2001&idMessage=8270

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  4. IMAGE and VIDEO Mirror tarballs by Harper · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have set up a rather extensive set of image and video mirrors.
    http://www.watership.org/media/

    I have made tar balls of the images and the movies so everyone will be able to set up their own mirror.

    http://watership.org/media/images.tar.gz -(26985k)
    http://watership.org/media/movies.tar.gz -(200189k)

    i am not sure on the copyright issues. But anyone is welcome to dload and set up content mirrors.

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  5. Re:Destination of PA plane? by Villain · · Score: 4, Informative

    There were many in the media speculating that the destination of the 4th plane was camp david. I believe it went down about 85 miles from camp david. If I am not mistaken, didn't the camp david accord take place in september. (Terrorist usually pick the day of an attack to have a certain meaning).
    There were also rumors that the plane was headed for another D.C. area landmark such as the White House or the Capital building. But of course, all of this is speculation by me and the media so take it with a grain of salt.

  6. Lack Of Media Content On Real News Sites by ekrout · · Score: 5, Informative

    So, I have 142 average to high-res images on a page I threw together, as well as several videos. The site, http://www.students.bucknell.edu/ekrout/images/911 _In_America/images/gallery/index.html, should be able to take high-abuse in terms of bandwidth, etc. It's a resource, so feel free to use it. Thanks.

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  7. Re:speculation by kootch · · Score: 5, Informative

    Highly doubtful, and if so, it won't be for 15+ yrs atleast.

    It'll take over a year just to remove the rubble that's currently across the 10+ square blocks. Removing the parts of the building that are still there atleast another year. But then removing the foundation will take years. The entire foundation of the complex is almost definitely weakened beyond belief. For safety, they'll probably tear down all of the remaining buildings that share the foundation, but this will be complicated by the amount of underground networks (both cable, electric, gas, and transportation) that run under the buildings.

    Only when they're done that will they ever be able to build again.

    Approx. 10 years ago there was a fire in an office tower in the middle of Philly. The middle 3 floors were affected, but they twisted the floors above it by only a few degrees. That was enough to have the building perm. evacuated and necessitated ripping it down. They're still trying to take that building apart.

  8. Re:Iraq theory creditable by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 5, Informative
    Anybody who's been in the military can figure out how to time something like this. "Move at 0x00 hours". OK, synchronize your watches and there you go.

    The idea of dropping 4 planes at once and deciding that it was feasible is the hard part. Stuff like this has been tried before, but failed, because it wasn't planned well enough.

    I don't care if I am a 'flight-simulator captain' for saying this, but the hardest part of flying a plane is doing so safely. There's a reason why it was possible during WWII to give pilots 6 weeks of flight training then put them up against the enemy - it just isn't THAT HARD to fly an airplane (yes, even modern jets - prop planes are often more complex to keep up) once you learn the concepts behind it. If you're a lunatic that wants to crash into the WTC, then you don't have to follow FAA regs, get the plan safely on a runway, or follow military ROE/procedure. You don't have to do anything but point it at the building and make sure it hits it. The worst part of flight training is learning all the regulations. Pilots in the WWI (that's ONE, not two) would learn enough flight dynamics to take off, fly, and land safely within a WEEK.

    Ever been in an auto accident? Tell me how hard that was compared to getting to/from work safely.

  9. Boston Police raid!! Westin hotel! by Masker · · Score: 5, Informative

    AP is announcing that a police/FBI raid is occuring at the Westin hotel right now: Story HERE!

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  10. List of buisnesses at the WTC by kobaz · · Score: 4, Informative

    if anyone wants to know, here are lists of the buisnessness at the world trade center

    1 World Trade Center (North Tower): http://www.morrisville.edu/Library/wtc/tenants1.ht ml
    2 World Trade Center (South Tower): http://www.morrisville.edu/Library/wtc/tenants2.ht ml

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  11. Great Flash Graphics by dschuetz · · Score: 5, Informative

    So far the best graphics I've found, far surpassing any of the lousy diagrams I've seen on CNN, come from the Spanish paper El Pais. This page includes two interactive, animated flash documents (Grafico -- currently the first two pictures) which shows the paths of all four planes, the way they hit the buildings, and how the supports in the towers got severed, leading to the collapse.

    Helps if you know spanish (which I don't), but the pictures speak for themselves.

    The actual animations are at http://www.elpais.es/multimedia/internacional/plan tilla10.swf and http://www.elpais.es/multimedia/internacional/estr uc.swf .