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More News And Links On Yesterday's Terrorist Attack
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:
- American Airlines flight 11 confirmed down, crashed into World Trade Center New York. Flight 11 (Boston to Los Angeles) is scheduled as a Boeing 767-200:
- Boeing 767-200 data and history
- American Airlines Boeing 767-200 photos
- United Airlines Boeing 757-200 photos: United Airlines Boeing 757-200 photos"
My wife and I were speculating last night: will they rebuild the towers? They will almost certainly fix the Pentagon because only about a fifth of the building was damaged, but what about our landmark center for capatailsm? Thoughts?
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You are a jackass. The FBI and the CIA have been reading your correspondence for years, and look where it got you.
And nobody has had any problems with terrorism on this scale, but in Britain we have had our own problems (not helped by the US who tended to fund the IRA. That's right. The states sponsor terrorism too.) and our democratic rights have been weakened in the name of counter terrorism and I don't like it one bit.
I've got my encryption ready. All they'll be doing is wasting cpu power. And once they get machines that can decrypt messages fast enough, just double the bits in the encryption key and wait another couple years for them to catch up.
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I'd rather be a "coward" and move deliberately, and ultimately punish those who caused this chaos WHEN WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE than "be a man" about it and throw bombs indiscriminantly, only to find that all those men, women, and children we killed had nothing to do with it.
What exactly do you hope to achieve by doing this? Don't you think that people are able to understand what has happened without having to see it for themselves? Do you have a morbid curiosity for death, or are you just a huge karma whore?
this post sucks, and you suck for upvoting it.
In the name of Allah I will pilot an airplane into VA Linux's headquarters.
Who exactly was advocating throwing bombs indiscriminantly?
After we're done nuking Afghanistan and Iraq, we're coming after you
(Terrorist usually pick the day of an attack to have a certain meaning).
Really, is that so? Hmmm. What else can you tell me about terrorists?
Stupid fucking dick.
I know this is off topic for this story, I posted this info on the story about gas prices but with the 700+ +2 comments I doubt many people saw it.
On the radio in to work today they were interviewing Michigan's Attorney General, Jennifer M. Granholm, about the sharp raise in gas prices. According to the major gas distributors, the price of gas at the retail level should NOT be affected. Any gas stations that have raised their prices significantly are doing so illegally.
She encouraged everyone that drives past gas stations, in Michigan, that have raised their prices greatly to report it to the attorney general website so that they can take action against said gas stations.
She also said to remember which gas stations are doing it and never by gas from them again.
I am also sure that the Attorney Generals of other states will also be looking in to similar cases in their states. The url for your state's attorney general is www.ag.state.$state.us and replace $state with your 2 letter abreviation.
Maybe /. could create a WTC thread so uninterested parties could choose not to see it.
Theres been about 6 stories posted, all with pretty much the same 5 or 6 comments posted thousands of times. Its not relevant to non-americans (no matter what Bushboy says), and its not hard to see who could have done it, why, and how to prevent future attacks.
Yes its sad, yes it will happen again, yes you`ll lose civil liberties over it, no its not the end of the world. it just happened nearer to home than usual. Get over it.
yeah, try to reason with stupid fatass gun toting americans, good luck
lol
stop spouting your shit. your just plugging in whatever words trying to make it look like you have somthing intelligent to say.
Well if its not Islamic Fundamentalic groups then who is it?
If America has some known targets then start getting some ordnance downrange! You never know what kind of other snakes get scared out of the bushes.
The longer America waits the thicker the bullshit gets.
This is flamebait... fine...
Bin Laden should be hunted simply because he showed pleasure at up to 10,000 people (of any nationality) being killed.
The celebration of massive death is not an act of any rational person. He is a terrorist and needs to go.
I thought that was funny
anyway, funnier than your holier-than-thou post
Yes but do the terrorists use Linux?
I know a lot of europeans and asians who like dead americans more than alive ones...
And maybe, yust maybe what when americans did this?
hope you get hit by shrapnel, soldier.
proud of what? america? what the fuck is that.
Soon we'll have laws for dealing with cyber-terrorists like you!
moron
FUCK YOU. We Sikhs want Khalistan, and your rashtra can go fuck itself. By the way.. your people are the same ones who consider dalits scum, aren't they?
except for they can't get the fucking missle shield anywhere close to working well!
That will open up whole new worlds to TROLL!
Stop crossposting. You already got flamed and modded down over there, so STFU.
Sure, i think we should treat all people equally, but they're CANADIANS, god damnit!
Did anybody sum up the date?
2+0+0+1 +9 +11 = 23
Oh.
Yeah, that's right, nuke any bastard who dares question America's supremacy, and fuck what little in the way of civilized norms are left. Then, act surprised when a suitcase nuclear bomb blows up in Washington. Yeah, I see it.
I'm sorry, but there's nothing to gain here. When you've had your revenge.. someone else will want theirs back. And so on.
The internet SUCKED yesterday. You couldn't access CRAP. To me and several others, hell, most users I bet, weren't able to access many sites because of the high demand. So because of that we had to resort to radio and TV. To me, this shows that the internet is still in its infancy and not yet ready to handle the demands of the people. We've got a LONG way to go for the internet to actually be worthy of anything.
"As for cities or countries that host these worms, bomb them into basketball
courts. "
There is a difference between justice, and insanity...even if we don't know what justice is, All I know at this point, is that it would be insane to kill in the way you sugest. What good is it to take on the same mentality as those who attacked us Tuesday?
There's an article about this on my site called Amateur Journalism Feeds a Confused World . Yes, I'm spamming my own site, but I think it's at least partially relevant here.
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