Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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I saw "The Siege". I didn't expect it to be like this.
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Actually, Rob, I think that was quite rational. You've never made more sense.
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United Airlines is confirming 2 planes are missing.
All schools in Maryland have been closed.
All theme parks in Florida, including Disney and Universal, are evacuated and closed.
Military bases in the Carolinas are preparing for a change in status.
New York National Guard is on full activation.
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Well, most of my friends in DC are alive and well. I've got a few who wqere heading to class, and are apparently stuck in the city when the Metro shut down, but so far at least someone has heard from all of them so ... phew!
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Can anyone confirm exactly where the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania hit? I've heard east, west, and south of Pittsburgh, and I've got family south of Pittsburgh.
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I heard 80 miles west of Pittsburgh. Of course, that was the TV news station being broadcast on 106.5 as I was taking York Road at 70 miles an hour.
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The crash in Somerset, Pennsylvania was United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 90 people onboard. Somerset is 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The report from the site is a large crater with nothing larger then 5ft of the plane surviving.
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Registered: Mar 1999
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50,000 people worked in the trade towers, and a good number of them couldn't get out. 24,000 in the Pentagon. Probably over a thousand on all the planes that have crashed. General Haig says to expect tens of thousands of casualties. CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. We've had entire WARS that let to less loss of life than this may result in.
Break out the nukes.
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Let's just hope that any such call to retaliate with nuclear missiles will occur when the people charged with such decisions aren't as high on anger and rage and sadness as I suspect most people posting on this board -- American or not -- are.
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I've flown out of every major airport on the east coast before i was 18..
has camp david been confirmed .. nothing on TV yet that i saw
is the AF really going to shoot down civilian planes that arent grounded yet
I heard it first because i was wondering why no one was posting up in starships & technology, so i scrolled down.. ive been to the campus commons and they have TVs.. all 10 AM classes were full but no one is going to noon class
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There is still no confirmation of a plane crashing at Camp David or of the supposed plane heading to Washington being shot down. In fact, no one has said anything about the Washington plane for a while, of course, that means it hasn't hit anything either apparently.
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or they dont want to tell us...
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The Secret Service confirmed that a plane crashed near Camp David, and the general assumption is that it was going to attempt to crash into Camp David. I spent a summer at a camp over the rise from Camp David. This has really struck home for me.
I don't know what happened with the Air Force and the jet, but what I think probably happened is that the jet in question refused to land at a designated airport, or something happened which led the government to believe it was in the control of hijackers, at which point some poor F-15 pilot or whatnot recieved orders to kill everyone on the jet to prevent greater damage.
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