UNCONFIRMED: Reported on channel 32 (Fox)... A truck was stopped in Washington. It contained explosives. It was also reported on CNN.

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Some of you guys sicken me. I didn't know you people were so racist (althought I should have assumed with the rice comments). There are some comments that are disguting Punish the whole country, not just the terrorists? I HOPE that bush isn't as stupid to jump to conclusions as some of you. It is the worst act of terrorism to ever happen, and I feel bad for the 10000 (or so estimated?) deaths, but killing 10000 other innocent people in afghanistan isn't any better. I hope those responsible are punished. Not the innocent people around them.

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quote Originally posted by Haze_Performance: UNCONFIRMED: Reported on channel 32 (Fox)... A truck was stopped in Washington. It contained explosives. It was also reported on CNN.

Ya, well now they are denying there were any explosives on board but have the men from the van held for questioning, but won't say why. Figure that one out...

quote Originally posted by JohnnyK: You can't get into wars that have nothing to do with you (ahem, palestine and israel) and not expect retaliation. America has done the same to other countries (though not in an independent terrorist fashion). I hope those responsible are punished. Not the innocent people around them.

When has America hijacked another gov'ts planes and flown them into buildings? Hmm cant seem to figure that one out, I figured though I would ask the superior Canadian....

So I guess you propose we should just leave a million or so jews to defend themselves against several million arabs? What if you had a relative in Jerusalem like I do?

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Johnny, lay off. There's a lot of negative feelings already without having to stir things up. Give it a rest, let people deal with it in their own way for now, huh? I can't condone racism, but I'm not going to jump in and act all self-righteous. You DO realize that 10,000 americans just died today, right? Give these people a break. Please.

Alright. I didn't mean to stir things up, i'd just like to point out that being a racist ignorant idiot is not the way to go about things. I realize 10000 americans lost their lives today. i was shocked and saddened and was glued to my TV set the whole day. I'll explain myself later.

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i just heard that they know of 5 suspects out of Logan. all were arabs. they also found a car near the airport with arabic books on how to fly a plane.

they think the plane that went down in PA was headed for Camp David, or the White House, or the Capitol, or someplace big like that.

Cool. Let it lie for now, discuss later when things have calmed down a bit. People are going through shitty times. Remember that.
Peace.

JohnnyK:

So how do you suggest we find the person(s) responsible for this? The #1 suspect is a ruthless coward!! He hides within his (so called) innocent people. (They would give there lives to hide him) We tried this before. THIS IS WAR!!! Did the responsible party call ahead & warn the poor people in the WTC? How about the pentagon? Did you even see the people dancing in the streets because of this? What's this about you being smarter that people in the U.S. There is racism EVERYWHERE!!! There are MANY ignorant individuals of all races in the World. Not just in the U.S. Do you want to know why people become racist? Today I picked up my wife for the southside of Chicago... My parents have lived there for over 30 years. The neighborhood is now about 50% Arabian MANY, MANY of them were celebrating at what happened!!!!!! Flags were flying from there house. They were driving around with flags out there car windows. THAT PISSED ME OFF!!! I think its time to CLOSE our borders & reflect how vulnerable we are. Do I think we should bomb overseas????? F.U.C.K. YES!!!! Its over...... The U.S. is tired of being kicked in the ****. I say we wipe out the party responsible.. When the smoke clears we stick a American Flag in the ground and call it our (Very large) 51st state!!!

quote Originally posted by Tonker: Rather than going into it at length, I'm just going to say here that I believe many of your points are ill-founded and inflammatory. To use Japan as an example you would first need to go into a discussion of the causes of that conflict. I don't believe that this is the time or the place, but I will gladly take it to e-mail if you like. Racial discrimination is [b]never a valid platform. It makes you no better than Bin-Laden or the Nazis. Occupation of the arabs would probably be counter-productive. Notice how well it has worked for Israel? I agree there are arab states that would benefit from a new government. Bush blew it in '91. But I don't know how well it would work. They're a very different culture. The arab countries are much less secular. In some cases, "The rag-head royalty" as you so succinctly put it, may indeed have some idea of what's going on. In many cases they don't. They're no more likely to know what's going on than your intelligence community. In fact they're probably much less likely to know. Anyways, rather than debate this at length here, I'll let you take it to e-mail if you like. If not we'll just let it rest for now, shall we?[/B]

"Rather than going into it at length, I'm just going to say here that I believe many of your points are ill-founded and inflammatory."

Inflammatory to whom? I hope not you. Or are you a sand....I mean a rag head? If you are a rag head I hope you take great offense to my slander, if not, why does it bother you? If you are a rag head, I would gladly give you my address to face me and relate your sentiments. The problem is rag heads (which I don't think you are) would tend to fire bomb my house and avoid facing me. Ill-founded? Which point(s) do you assert are ill-founded?

"To use Japan as an example you would first need to go into a discussion of the causes of that conflict. I don't believe that this is the time or the place, but I will gladly take it to e-mail if you like."

No, let's keep it public. I've taken several classes on this subject, done extensive reading on that subject, and have written comprehensive reports on this. In other words, I would love to engage you. Be sure to include discussion about armistice.

"Racial discrimination is never a valid platform. It makes you no better than Bin-Laden or the Nazis."

I'm not being racially discriminate. Bin Laden isn't necessarily a racist either; he kills for religious beliefs amongst other reasons.

"Occupation of the Arabs would probably be counter-productive. Notice how well it has worked for Israel?"

We don't occupy Israel for the purpose of policing them. Apples and oranges.

"They're a very different culture. The Arab countries are much less secular."

They would conform or go bye-bye. They've shown they won't act responsibly on their own, so we need to help them see the way.

"In some cases, "The rag-head royalty" as you so succinctly put it, may indeed have some idea of what's going on. In many cases they don't."

You just made a contradiction. Either you think they generally do or you think they generally don't. It's highly naive to think the rag-head royalty is unaware.

"They're no more likely to know what's going on than your intelligence community. In fact they're probably much less likely to know."

Based on what, your intuition?

You, my friend, aren't qualified to be pissed. You live in Canada, which is a beautiful, generally neutral country. I live in the US where we stick our noses into every world matter, whether warranted or not. I don't want to banter whether the rag heads were justified in what they did by virtue of our interference. I don't want to banter whether an Iraqi, Iranian, or Palestinian are made of a different fiber from each other. I want A) payback, and B) resolution, so this will never happen again. I honestly don't care if we do kill all of the Arab nations to preserve peace over here, I don't think it's the answer, but I just want resolution.

News Update

Numerous rag heads are arrested. A guy who had a confrontation with them yesterday about parking space?? called the cops today and told them about his incidence. The cops/fbi found the car and in it was afgan piloting books.

Couple cellular phone calls have been recorded from the flights. Thank you ease dropping government. The name of the terrorist was mentioned several times.

The Pennsivania flight, was brought down probably by the passengers. There was a cellular call to a passengers mother who said, they were going to take over the plane.

Too bad this wasn't done with the other planes. It pisses me off, there were 3-4 of them with small ass knifes compared to 40-70 passengers. Some were threatend with a bomb. If im going to die, im going to kill one of them before i go.

Its Afgams responsibility to control their terrorists. A resolution is to destroy the government. We use our satellite's and pin point all of his camps, and use satellite targeted missles/bombs.

I agree with Haze. Pisses me off too seeing these jag offs celebrating. Why the hell did they come here anyway????????????? I guess the have the right too. I'll turn my head away if theres hate groups in that neighbor hood doing their spray painting.

Another thing is, we have that underground tech center in colorado? With the radar that detects everything. Supprisingly they didn't see 3 dots dissapear, and make 3 hard turns.

I might get ripped for this one but I don't really care. First off there is not a problem with putting religion above all other things. That is what Christains are supposed to do. The problem comes when you have people exploit the religon and the general mass doesn't know how to think for themselves. Secondly, If we back away from Israel then we just showed the world that the United States of America can be pushed around by terrorist activity. Bad message. Israel is also our ally. It is our duty to stick up for them we have that right. Those Arab sure stick together. And also I think Israel has the right to the land. A lot of the world has been under attacks like this. I was just waiting for it to happen to us. I wish that it would not have happened but I knew it was inevitable. I also have no problem with people calling Arabs "Ragheads". They do wear rags on thier heads. So what is the big deal? That does not make a person racist. I also belive the United States should take swift and severe action against the country that has sheltered these terrorist. There was no excuse for this. And no offense but Canadians can not know what it is like to have your country shut down and thousands dead while people dance on the street. I belive we should back Israel all the way and wipe out all who would threaten the United States and Israel.

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quote Originally posted by Brandon86SE: Brandon

Another Canuck in dissent, what a surprise. YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO BE PISSED. I hope I don't need to tell that to another Canadian! Why is it all the Canadians want to be touchy-feely about this? Could it be they didn't loose so much today? Could it be they want the whole matter to blow over? Could it be that they are never the targets of terrorism? Or could it be all of these?

"Frankly, EDS your posts disgust me."

Good, I was going to go to sleep tonight, but instead I'll stay awake to keep your appetite filled.

"Your racial bantering is no different, albeit polar, from what Bin Laden tells his people."

How is no different? At the same time, how is it polar? How do you know what Bin Laden tells his people? Intuition? Your Lilly-ass is sitting up there in a primarily monoculture, mono-race throwing your peace and love message down to a country in mourning. It's not well received by me. BTW, I haven't engaged in racial bantering. I haven't called for the lynching of any Arab-Americans. I've read volumes about the Japanese internment camps, I'm well aware of what happened in WWII in the US in regard to Japanese-Americans.

"I'm sure that whoever planned this attack is laughing at you, as you turn on your fellow Americans just because of their heritage."

Which fellow Americans have I turned on?

"There is little that can piss me off as much as stereotyping of any type."

Well could you tell me what else it is that pisses you off? I would hate to run out of things. How about this for stereotyping; the rate of recidivism for convicts is about 70%. Is it rational to think once a criminal, always a criminal? It's a valid stereotype. How do you like stereotypes now? How many countries have engaged in terrorism other than Arabic nations? Don't trip on your fingers.

"For your information, I am in University: 2nd year Electrical Engineering, top of my class. If I didn't decide on engineering, I would have poli sci, leading into law."

Ya, and if I didn't go into Justice/Law, I would have been a lottery winner. Who are you trying to impress and why? BTW, second year of college is nothing to brag about.

"Personal attacks on my intelligence, because of the fact that I have a cool head and am able to look at a situation rationally are incredibly unfounded."

Without reviewing previous posts, wasn't it you whining about an unfounded argument? If so, representing your credentials and cool head doesn't address my question.

"I do hope that whoever is responsible for these horrendous attacks is brought down. However killing every non-american would be a very ineffective approach. "

Now you're talking; process of elimination.

"This is a war, yes I believe a war!, against terrorism. This means they have no country, no territory."

Horsesh!t. As previously established by me and agreed upon by many members, rag head royalty is well aware of what their radical faction is up to. I believe they even fund much of it.

"Conventional ideas like "bomb them all" just don't apply."

Find where I've written that. I don't subscribe to that ideal. I say we establish which troops are adverse to the US, send 50,000 troops over per sh!thole country, go through and establish which individuals are sh!theads within each country, execute them, throw out the government, establish a democratic election, and help the countries establish some form of commerce and trade (manufacturing) with the US. Do you think the good citizens of those countries would care about having autonomy and freedom? That's your opinion.

"What worries me mostly now is how the US will react. If they go ahead hot-headedly and start bombing the hell out of Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Afghanastan, etc. without discretion there will be many countries that will not stand for it! China, India, maybe even Russia would not allow it! We do not want to polarize such world powers again, it's been done, we should learn from our past. However, some retaliatory action must take place. If there were none, it would be like painting a big target on democracies (particularily the US) everywhere! Not doing anything would be telling whoever is responsible that they can get away with whatever they want!
It is a dilemma, and one that I pray Bush and his advisors can find a reasonable course of action for."

Thank you, you've just proven my point. You're worried about your country and wish we would act carefully and apathetically so you don't get your country blown up.
China doesn't give a crap about the Arabs.
India...what the F can or will they do???
Russia might have a problem with Afghanistan, but we can get around them.
Just keep praying for ass and the ass of your country and I'll do the same.

BTW, I certainly don't want to stereotype all Canadians into the generalization of being apathetic to our suffering, just the three I've already addressed.

This is gonna be long, but just read it anyway.

..."90% certain" that it's Osama bin Laden behind this. ..."based on new information, not speculation." "Afganistan-based..."

Those are quotes from senior White House officials whom, I'm guessing, know a hell of a lot more about the details of this than most of us will ever know.

Here's my suggestion. Give the Afganistan gov't 48 hours to produce bin Laden. In the meantime, close all Afgan borders so he can't escape. If he isn't in US custody in 48 hours, make Afganistan a parking lot.

It would be nice to spare all innocent lives, but that's impossible. Since bin Laden is obviously too chicken to show his face in public, we have to make sure that he (and all of his co-conspirators) are greasy spots on the pavement. If it takes the elimination of innocent lives, so be it. I would expect the same treatment if we were harboring bin Laden. If we knew for sure exactly where bin Laden is hiding (guess he wouldn't be "hiding" then?), destroy that area only, but who knows exactly where he is? Obviously we don't or we would have put him in a bag a long time ago. What about the use of Navy SEALs or Army Rangers in a nice, stealth, nighttime, one-on-one attack of bin Laden himself and spare innocent lives? Fine. If you can find him.

Once again, I don't advocate the loss of innocent lives, but this madman must be stopped at all costs. Would it have been worth the deaths of innocent Germans if it had meant killing Adolf Hitler at the beginning of the war? Yes. (My apologies to the German PFF members. Nothing personal.) (Sidebar--I loath and even hate Hitler, but at least he was man enough to show his face in public.)

Don't condem the Afganistans who are cheering in public. It may be that they are just caught up in the moment. Will they be disappointed if bin Laden is eliminated? Probably not. Same with those of Mid East ancestry here in the US. I may not agree with their way of thinking, but as far as I know, they weren't behind any of this.

I'm about through rambling for now. I would gladly risk my life if it meant the end of bin Ladens power, but I don't think it would do any good. Teach the world a lesson. You wanna **** with America (or its allies)? Be prepared to pay the price.

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quote Originally posted by JohnnyK: Some of you guys sicken me. I didn't know you people were so racist (althought I should have assumed with the rice comments). There are some comments that are disguting Punish the whole country, not just the terrorists? I HOPE that bush isn't as stupid to jump to conclusions as some of you. It is the worst act of terrorism to ever happen, and I feel bad for the 10000 (or so estimated?) deaths, but killing 10000 other innocent people in afghanistan isn't any better. I hope those responsible are punished. Not the innocent people around them. [This message has been edited by JohnnyK (edited 09-12-2001).]

Hey Johnny, you know I like you but I must strongly disagree. This is another case of a Canadian in dissent with US military action. The reason is obvious; you don't want to get Canada sucked into it. I don't blame you, but allow us to deliver our remedy with EXTREME PREJUDICE. I don't mean racial prejudice either.

You distinguish between innocent and guilty. You didn't happen to catch that little clip where the rag heads, from washcloth (children) heads to beach towel (adults) heads were celebrating in the streets while the police pretended to come out and break it up, did you? Define innocent from guilty. How can you shoot women and children? (rhetorical)

My .02 destroy the taliban, unleash isreal and let them smoke whoever they feel like.

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quote Originally posted by JohnnyK: Alright. I didn't mean to stir things up, i'd just like to point out that being a racist ignorant idiot is not the way to go about things. I realize 10000 americans lost their lives today. i was shocked and saddened and was glued to my TV set the whole day. I'll explain myself later. [This message has been edited by JohnnyK (edited 09-12-2001).]

So much for cooling it down (racist ignorant idiot). The sick irony is that you're condemning me and others for being supposed racists (while living in a primarily mono-raced country), while not allowing us to retaliate against a region full of anialists. Which is worse or more extreme? Who is more entitled?

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quote Originally posted by JohnnyK: Some of you guys sicken me. I didn't know you people were so racist (althought I should have assumed with the rice comments). There are some comments that are disguting Punish the whole country, not just the terrorists? I HOPE that bush isn't as stupid to jump to conclusions as some of you. It is the worst act of terrorism to ever happen, and I feel bad for the 10000 (or so estimated?) deaths, but killing 10000 other innocent people in afghanistan isn't any better. I hope those responsible are punished. Not the innocent people around them. [This message has been edited by JohnnyK (edited 09-12-2001).]

If the country is supporting him (financing him) They will continue to create and support other terrorist activities.
As for innocent people, Why don't you explain that to the 10,000 lost or the families that have lost releatives! In many Middle-East nations they believe in the "eye for an eye". Fine give us 10,000 terrorists so we can drop a 110 story building on them.

Two statements come to mind.
All's fair in love and WAR.
Payback is a B!TCH.

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Hell yes the whole country should pay! We already warned them that if anything happens we will hold the country responsable that is harboring these idiotic towel heads! This is exactly why I think it wrong that we try to police the world! These people have no morals!! Their god tells them that this is completly fine to kill innocent people in the name of ahla (sorry probobly spelled wrong) If they want to kill each other i say let them. It's none of our damn business.

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Two things to keep in mind during all this:

1) It can and probably will happen again. America (you and me) has just discovered in horrible shock how easy it is to turn an everyday commercial airline into a highly destructive missile.
As soon as the nations flights are again continued, how long before another terrorist hijacks a plane and tries or succedes in crashing it into another high profile area?

2) Don't forget that one successful terrorist attack can instigate others. We have learned in the past that copycat killers/terrorists love to try and jump on the bandwagon. The "let's out do the other" could turn many large cities in the United States into a wasteland.

Our skies will soon be filled again with thousands of large aircraft. In one day, 09-11-01, any and all of these aircraft have now become potential highly destructive weapons.

A small groupe of terrorists, led by whoever, has just opened a very terrible door. Now that it's open, how many "others" may now decide to try and walk thru it too?

I can't even begin to decide what would be the right way to proceed and what may be the wrong way, nor would I be so arrogant to even try.
Many people find it very easy to be an "arm chair" quarterback. It isn't that simple.
Our government will make the big choices, and whether we agree with them or not they are in the drivers seat all the way.

Let's hope that the end decision that is made is one that accomplishes the goal wanted with the least amount of innocent lives lost.

May God help us all.

Steve

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i see alot of people are talking about innocent people(rag heads). Osama Bin Laden is hiding behind innocent people and they are letting him, they are telling us they don't know where he is. they are not really innocent, there are NO innocent people in WAR.

Does anyone find it curious that the planes hijacked were trans-continental flights with very few passengers aboard ?

I believe what we'll find is that the parties responsible purchased most of the tickets for these flights, realizing that their limited ability to get weapons aboard required that few passengers be present.

And we know that the passengers on the plane that crashed near Pittsburgh were successful in retaking the plane.

Most likely scenario is that the armed forces now station personnel on flights for at least the foreseeable future.

There was a breakdown in intelligence...that can't be disputed. But it appears security did prevent weapons such as guns or explosives from being brought on board. Had that been the case, I have no doubt the terrorists would have claimed the White House in addition to the other targets.

We will necessarily strike and strike hard against even perceived enemies in the coming days or weeks. It is a sad fact of war that we necessarily "shoot first and ask questions later".

Let those who perpetrated this act remember that the last parties who inflicted this kind of damage on America faced our full wrath which included the use of nuclear weapons. And I would hope that our actions are clear and precise, and that this time around we are not so quick to come in and rebuild what we destroy.

We must set an example of what horror we can produce when threatened. God be with us all.

quote Originally posted by deceler8: Most likely scenario is that the armed forces now station personnel on flights for at least the foreseeable future.

I hope so... I'd also suggest diverting all aircraft away from cities when possible, have them circle around as to spend the least amount of time over the buildings as possible. In cases where the airport is within the city limits, this isn't possible.. but in all other cases, maybe have fighter escorts for planes deviating from correct flight paths..

and why the heck didn't the air traffic controllers signal the military that multiple planes had changed course and weren't responding?

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My thoughts as to how to deal with whomever did this. Declare war on the terrorists. That will open up the avenue of covert operations. Once the responsible are definitely identified, go in take them out without much fanfare. Maybe not all Americans will know what happened to them, but all other terrorist organizations will.

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a pic no one will ever be able to take again...

Statue of liberty, from the top of the WTC.

The first plane was flying westbound when it hit the north tower. After leaving Boston it was near Springfield MA when it abruptly turned to the south then approached NYC from the northeast near the Connecticut/New York border.

The other plane out of Boston crossed the border from Massachusetts into New York, abruptly turned south, then when it was over central New Jersey it turned northeast and headed for NYC. That was the 2nd plane to hit the WTC, and it was flying eastbound when it struck.

Last night they were able to reconstruct the paths of the planes using recorded radar data.

quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: A friend of mine who's an airline pilot, just told me the following interesting tidbit: All planes were westbound flights and all turned to hit their targets eastbound - facing Mekka.

the thing about this that pisses me off the most - america is the first county in the world to base its existance on democracy, freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility.

we accept people from all countries, races, religions and backgrounds - we take in students from all around the world and give them access to our technology and medical education system

we take in the sick and injured from all around the world, and treat them with compassion and kindness

we send our sons, and our food and our very blood to nations in time of disaster, regardless of who they are.

and these bastards wrap a towel around their heads, proclaim themselves holy men, proclaim a holy war, proclaim any of their people who die for the cause will go straight to paradise (no matter what they have done in the past)

they take the money from the oil fields and businesses WE have constructed in their deserts - they take the riches from their land that WE COULD have confiscated a 100 times over

they treat their own women like dogs

they murder anyone within their own country that follows religions other than theirs or who oppose their political system

and hide behind a few verses of the Koran to give themselves license to murder and mame

and they have the nerve to call us the Great Satan!

what they are doing is nothing but lusting after power for powers sake - it has nothing to do with religon or truth

Isreal was nothing but a wasteland, a worthless desert region, before the Jewish people were allowed to return there in numbers and control it.

If it werent for US dollars and our generous willingness to allow the arab nations to KEEP their oil fields, then the rest of the middle east would be the same - worthless desert with their people wandering on camels in absolute poverty.

Its time for America to step in. Its time for the world to step in. If these people wont recognize basic human rights - womens rights to be human - each mans rights to freedom of religion - each persons rights to life and liberty - Israels right to exist - then its time to step in and

take their oil fields away

take their weapons away

take their wealth away

if they wont act like humans

we are under no obligation to treat them like humans.

terrorist threat?! America is not a few aircraft or a few buildings. We can arm ourselves if we need to.

They have played their ace - its over for them - they will never be able to pull anything like this again - every flight in america will have armed guards on board - starting tomorrow - you watch.

The free world will go to any length, we will pay any price, to maintain liberty.

We will not bend

We will not flinch

We will not blink!

We will not hide!

What was the first thing the fireman did when they got to the base of the world trade center last night?

You saw it live!

Red White and Blue

tied to a pole hanging sideways over the rubble

our flag IS STILL THERE!

Amen to that, Ken.

Some of you are calling others racist because they have assumed that Arabs are the people responsible for this (and using a variety of 'choice' words to describe Arabs).
Well, think about this: probably 90% of all world's terrorism has been carried out by Arabs. They have terrorism in their blood.

We let them do whatever they please in our countries, while they execute people even for having a bible in their possession.

Bin Laden and Afghanistan is just one of the culprits but there is talk that Saudi Arabia is involved too.

While only SOME of the people there may be friendly, the majority of them (and that includes the 'opressed' women) are hateful towards anyone non-muslim.

Bomb the sh*t out of them and take the oil away.

P.S. Someone mentioned the potential of Israel's involvement. There may be something to it. G.W. took a more 'hands-off' approach in the Middle East. Now he has a good reason to get involved and show more support for Israel again. They also said that whoever planned the attacks, was VERY well funded. Think about it.

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Saudi Arabia has been our ally since the Gulf War. Remember we bailed them out. Saddam would have invaded them next.

Also, Bin Laden is the son of a rich businessman. He has millions at his disposal. While it wouldn't surprise me if countries like Afghanistan give him a place to live for free and such, he has the resources alone to pull this off. When you think about it, how much money did they really need to do this? Plane tickets and maybe if they paid the suicide bombers families?

It's official. An arrest has been made at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. One person was injured, but we're not sure if it was the suspect or an officer.

quote Originally posted by JohnnyK: but killing 10000 other innocent people in afghanistan isn't any better. I hope those responsible are punished. Not the innocent people around them. ][/B]

Thats the price you pay for hiding criminals. If yesterday wasnt his idea, hes still wanted anyway for lots more. Its their choice, give him up or pay the price. The only thing arabs (at least ones Ive seen) only believe in an eye for an eye, so I say let them make their own choice and be prepared to accept the consequences. Its not just about the ones who died, also the many thousands more affected. And if hes got so much money and support let them pay the cash to the ones he caused it too.

Some of you people don't realize that you can't just take over a country. See, other countries don't like that, and then it turns into a war (like say, every world war). Anyways, Eds, the problem is already here (usually, an American problem is a Canadian problem). There are hundreds of your planes basically down the street from me.