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MSNBC reported these planes unaccounted for: American Airlines 11, American Airlines 77, United Airlines 175, United Airlines 93. AA11 was confirmed, but what plane was involved in what attack I don't know.
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A plane did hit near Camp David MD, but there's no damage to the Camp. Another plane crashed west of Pittsburgh.
I just found out about this a little bit ago -- a kid in my Intro Theater class was talking about some planes crashing into the World Trade Center, but I thought they were little Cessnas or something. Then I go to the lounge at the Union, and some techs are setting up TVs ... one of 'em happened to be turned to CNN. There was a crowd of us clustered around the TV.
I left school immediately. I've got friends and family in DC, and friends in downtown New York who I am really worried for and about. So far, I haven't been able to get in touch with any of them.
(If I was the first one to begin this thread, I would've titled it "Fuck 'em")
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Newark is considered to be New York's third international airport due to the proximity to New York.
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There hasn't been anything new about the supposed plane heading into D.C.
Right now there is no report as to where Air Force One is currently at. Air Force One was airbone soon after the first attack, and since it took off, no one knows where it is heading, or if it is even going to land. Air Force One is capable of staying airborne "indefinatly". Congress has also been moved to their secure classified location.
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The plane that crashed in PA was going from Newark to San Fransisco, I THINK. No telling what the target would have been, assuming it was even a terrorist attack. It could have just been a coincidence.
General Clark apparently says that Bin Laden is the only one with the resources to do this. Anyone want to start a betting pool on how much longer he has to live?
I fully expect Airforce 1 to land only long enough to move the president to NEACP. He'd be far better equiped to deal with anything from there.
Is there any way we can find out the status of other flights? Are all commercial flights down yet?
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Well, all the airports are closed, so no more are getting up. I would imagine we've got Air Force/Navy/National Guard/Marine fighters in the air making sure nothing funny happens with any planes which might still be in the air.
As for Bin Laden, he also made a comment a few weeks ago about an upcoming terrorist attack of an unprecedented scale against the U.S. infastructure.
Speaking of whom, we couldn't find him after the Cole. We bombed the wrong targets in our hurry to get him (thanks, CIA). All this will do is harden our resolve to get him, but I don't know that it means we will get him.
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All planes in America and Canada are currently grounded, and as far as I know there are no more "missing" planes, but that isn't confirmed yet. All flights right now are cancelled. All American Airlines flights worldwide are also grounded.
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I thought I'd calmed down enough to post rationally, but I was wrong.
And I don't CARE.
September 11th is the new "Day which will live in infamy." We are at WAR, people, whether we've declared it or not, THEY have. And this war will be harder to fight... at least Pearl Harbor's attackers had an obvious home base to attack. These little mobile cowards will be harder to flush out.
But we have to do it. Such a craven, hideous act cannot go unpunished. We must find the mastermind (I'm betting on BinLaden), and pull out his entrails on global satellite TV. Send in the SEALS, or the Rangers, or whoever we have trained to GET these people, and wipe them off the face of the Earth once and for all. SCREW Afghanistan's sovreignty. This wasn't JUST an attack against the US. It's not only US companies that used the World Trade Center. This was an attack on the WHOLE WORLD.
Make them PAY.
Oh, Gods, I think I'm having a psychotic episode.
What's really frightening is that people aren't going to be able to differentiate... they're going to start taking out their anger on anybody who seems arabic in origin, soon. That won't be pretty. Anybody seen the movie "The Siege?"
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Yeah, but let's make sure that Bin Laden and Afghanistan was responsible first. Then send in the Marines. The Afghanis thought the Soviets were tough to fight? Give me a knife and a Marine's unfirom.
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