Don't forget, the World Trade Center management was on the Intercom trying to tell everyone to "Remain inside the Building...It's safest Inside the Building".
Fuck. Here on Wall Street I'm a dead man.
-TD
From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf... Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:35:38 -0400
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 18:55, Tyler Durden wrote:
> Holy shit. So it really boiled down to mere spelling?
>
> So if there's a single "Mohammed Ali" who is a terrorist in the whole world,
> then no single Mohammed Ali will be able to fly into and out of the US? How
> many Mohammed Ali's are there in the world? How many Yousef Islam's?
Or Yusef Islam? Or Yousuf Islam? It's not just spelling, its Anglo-English interpretation of the phonetic names. Remember a few years back when the Associated Press made a (not big, but noticable) deal out of changing the sanctioned spelling of Qadaffi's name?
Now we have an entire bureaucracy working on the assumption that "names" are both is-a-person credentials and immutably tranliterable to the Anglo-English alphabet.
The mind just *boggles*! -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not "Progress, like reality, is not optional." - R. A. Hettinga SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com
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