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Another Plane Down in New York
Another plane has crashed, this time in Queens. You can read a blurb at Yahoo.
CNN.com isn't responding for me. LaGuardia, Newark and JFK are closed now. Update: 11/12 14:54 GMT by T : New reports indicate that the plane was departing from JFK, not arriving. Also, CNN has confirmed that this was American Airlines flight 587, an Airbus A 300. Update: 11/12 14:57 GMT by T : Further information is that the plane was en route to the Dominican Republic, and that the disaster actually involves two crash sites, not just one -- an engine fell from the plane some distance from the fuselage.
According to radio reports, witnesses on the ground reported that an engine exploded prior to the crash. The plane was on approach to one on the NY airports and therfore not fully fueled as in the last set of attacks. Repoets state that four building are on fire.
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
It's from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. You may have heard of him.
You must be new here. He did reply to another comment, you just don't see that other comment because it's below your threshold.
Mark Antony says it in "THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR". Might want to read up on stuff like that. It's the fabric of our civilization.
He was the picture postcard for onanism [look it up], and would deliberately annoy people in order to get attention. Positive attention, negative attention, outright hatred and abuse, he didn't care, as long as someone acknowledged his presence.
I think that's the kind of person we're dealing with here.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
That's the one thing I really dislike about this whole thing. Anyone who says something even vaguely against the war effort is accused of advocating pacifism and letting terrorists walk all over us. There are other ways, people!
Al Qaeda has ninjas!
Anyone who says something even vaguely against the war effort is accused of advocating pacifism and letting terrorists walk all over us.
Talk about putting words in mouth... The post said that bombing Afghanistan didn't make us safe. Well, duh.. I don't think anyone thought that bombing afghanistan made us safe. That's comparing apples to oranges. Looking at airport security might make us safer... bombing Afghanistan might produce the number one suspect.
To paraphrase... Anyone who says something even vaguely for getting bin Laden is accused of advocating war mongering.
And how did I get an offtopic out of this? Offtopic? WTF is offtopic about what I wrote? I stated what I knew.
Insightful, not really but it was a positive vote. Thanks.
Overrated? Well, I suppose so. That's an opinion and you're entitled to it. Offtopic and redundant is just wrong.
I'd mod you up if there was a (+1, tasteless) option!
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
"flying saucer according to Fox News"
any URL?
you are not your sig
Even if your all for Slashdot poster's rights of free speech, copy-pasting an article from a great publication desperate to financially support itself is at the least, in very poor taste.
Information wants to be free.... but online magazines would like it if they could stay in bussiness, and I'd like it too.
That shouldn't take all that much time. Seems like we are just not putting enough effort into it, instead letting the Northern Alliance fight most of the battles for us.
We just need to get him, and get him alive, to get all the information he has in his head. Drag him over here alive, start pumping him full of truth serum, and that will be more information on the terrorist networks in a day than we'll get in a year of normal covert "investigating".
Pick the four most likely areas we think he is in, drop sleep gas or something in mass quantities on those areas, drop in a monstrous amount of troops, grab every person that looks vaguely like him, lock them up somewhere, and then figure out which one is the real Bin Laden. Sort of a macabre "Where's Waldo" game.
Is is just me, or is Step One of the "War on Terrorism" taking way too long?