Hi all,
Well was up very late watching BBC News 24 so have just got to work (dead
tired).
Kathy, glad you're okay.
You wrote:
>A phone call from my brother
woke me to this horror. Is this the first strike or a stated
declaration?<
What's strange in this kind of situation is that the enemy is missing. If
these attacks had been carried out by a country then today we'd be in world
war 3, but we're not, in fact what we've really seen is mass destruction
with no clear aim or objective aside from to destroy people and places in
the US. There's all this speculation about who could be responsible but I
wonder what the motif is.....I mean a clear definition e.g. The attack on
the WTC is in direct response to event X.
Patricia wrote:
>Second, what has happened to the security on flights - the flight
marshalls -
the scans that should have picked up the knives and box openers carried by
the
terrorists (as known of the flight that crashed into the Pentagon)? This
was
preventable and should have been prevented and should be prevented in the
future.<
>From what I gather US internal flights have fairly lax security compared to
those in Europe.....of course we're perhaps more used to terrorist activity
but then again nowhere has seen what happened yesterday.
What's interesting is all it took was a few people with knives to do all
this. In fact knives were the only weapons involved...no bombs, guns etc.
Anyway, thanks to those of you who shared your thoughts about this. I'm off
to check the latest.
BTW - I wonder if this is going to be like Oklahoma and the culprit is an
enemy within as it were?
cheers,
Sol.
