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There is on any given day at least one battle group positioned in the Persian Gulf. So there is already someone out there.
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Maybe we should break the Prime Directive of not interfering with their silly religious squabble, invade the whole middle east and slap them silly until they start not being such assholes
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So now it's about 2pm in New York and 11am in DC?
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CNN has Henry Kissinger on the phone & Chris Dodd in the studio. When they pull in Chris & Henry....yeah.
My roommate is convinced this isn't Islamic terrorists. She thinks it's homegrown crazies....but I think she's wrong.
The towers...are GONE. That's hard for me to parse. If the towers hadn't been collapsed--by a 3rd explosion a la "Fight Club;" there's no way that the plane strikes up top would've structurally damaged the towers enough to collapse--then the shock wouldn't have been as much. Couple that with the coordinative efforts....
CNN is now showing flight plans of the flights. The Boston-LA one that struck first turned southward sharply just north of Troy & Albany.
Nimster: NYC & DC are in the same timezone.
There will be no more attacks today. The effect has been acheived, the giant has been woken up in pain.
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I personally believe the towers collapsed because when the top's starting coming down, the weight was just like a pile-driver, and it just shed away from the top down. The bottoms of the towers are in fact still intact, the first 10 - 15 floords actually.
And it's 2pm in both DC and NYC.
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Yeah, I started responding as well, but it really doesn't matter, since it's already confirmed to be premeditated.
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The top parts of the towers have collapsed due to structural failure. The force of the collapsing top portion would be enough to collapse the entire tower.
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OK, so we've got about 260 dead on the liners alone.
CNN reports that a passenger on the PA flight was locked in the john on a cellphone calling "airline 911" & shouted "We're being hijacked!" over & over & stayed on the line until a boom.
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