[plug] (OT) U.S. ATTACK!! Nostradamus?

[Leo Pascua]

Are you guys familiar with Nostradamus?

This is a quake from one of his predictions:
"In the year of the new century and nine months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city..."
2001 is the first year of the new century and this is the 9th month. New
York is located at the 41st degree Latitude.
He also said that this will be the third World War and it would be bigger
than the last two wars. I hope he is wrong, but judging from his
predictions of Hitler, Napoleon, and Pearl Harbor....

"In the city of YORK, there will be a great collapse, two twin brothers,
torn apart by chaos, while the fortress fall, the great leader will succumb,
the third big war will begin when the big city is burning. "
- Nostradamus

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- As Americans hold their collective breath waiting to hear
how many people died in terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon in
Washington, missiles were seen and explosions were heard in the capital city
of Afghanistan. Huge flames shot into the air and could be seen in the
night sky up to five to eight miles away in Kabul early Wednesday morning.
Afghanistan is believed to be the home of Osama bin Laden, the suspected
mastermind behind Tuesday's attacks that toppled the landmark twin towers of
the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. "In no way is the United
States government connected to those explosions," said Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld late Tuesday afternoon. Asked if bin Laden was a suspect,
he said, "It's not the time for discussions like that."
Other officials suggested the missile attacks were probably a continuation
of the civil war in Afghanistan and perhaps were a response to the fatal
attack on opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood. There is little doubt in
Washington about who was behind the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. U.S.
intelligence officials told CNN, "There are good indications that persons
linked to Osama bin Laden may be responsible for these attacks." U.S.
officials said that while the focus is on bin Laden, they had not ruled out
other suspects. They also said they believe more threats exist. Pentagon
sources told CNN that all U.S. military sites around the world have gone to
ThreatCon Delta, which means that a terrorist attack has occurred or an
attack at a specific location is likely. "We will expend every effort and
devote all the necesary resources to bring the people responsible for these
acts -- these crimes -- to justice," Attorney General John Ashcroft said
Tuesday evening.

President Bush spoke the nation from the White House Tuesday night about the
attacks he called "a national tragedy." "Make no mistake: The United States
will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts," Bush
said after during a stop earlier in the day at Barksdale AFB near
Shreveport, Louisiana.
American Airlines Flight 11, carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members en
route from Boston to Los Angeles, slammed into the north tower of the World
Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m. The hijackers were armed
with knives, Ashcroft said.
About 15 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, also en route from
Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers and nine crew members aboard,
crashed into the south tower. It is not yet known how many of the estimated
40,000 to 50,000 people who may have been in the World Trade Twin Towers
were killed when the two planes exploded and eventually turned both
110-story structures into piles of rubble. ked how many people he believed
were killed, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "I don't think we want to
speculate about that -- more than any of us can bear."
Hours later, fire caused another building, 7 World Trade Center, to
collapse. It had been burning since shortly after the planes stuck the Twin
Towers. Other nearby buildings are ablaze in the area. There is no word on
fatalities at the Pentagon, where part of the complex collapsed after a
Boeing 757 jet plowed into it at 9:45 a.m. Witnesses said the plane hit what
is known as the "Army Corridor."
FBI sources said the aircraft was an American Airlines flight that had been
hijacked after taking off from Washington Dulles International Airport bound
for Los Angeles. At least 53 people were injured, some severely, in the
attack on the Pentagon, where about 24,000 people work. All secretaries and
military chiefs of the service branches are alive and have been accounted
for, authorities said.
A fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey, headed
for San Francisco, crashed in a wooded area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Police said there were no survivors. There were 38 passengers, five flight
attendants and two pilots. "The plane is thoroughly disintegrated," Jim
Marker of Somerset County's 911 Emergency Management Center told CNN. "There
are no remains, no survivors.
Senior FBI sources said, "There is no doubt the planes [all four] were
hijacked." Intelligence sources told CNN there were indications of attempts
to divert the United flight from Newark to crash at Camp David, Maryland,
the presidential retreat. It is unclear how that plan may have been
thwarted. U.S. military officials said none of the planes were shot down by
U.S. aircraft.
Federal Aviation officials said they were aware at the time the first plane
crashed into the World Trade Center that a plane had been hijacked. They
did not know that specific plane was involved. Callers from two of the other
hijack planes called on cell phones to say their planes had been hijacked.
James Kallstrom, the retired FBI agent who led the investigation into the
explosive crash of TWA 800 in July 1996 that killed 230 people, said he
believed the hijackers must have flown the planes into the buildings
themselves.
"I can't imagine any American pilot crashing an airplane into one of these
buildings, even with a gun to the head. They wouldn't do that," said
Kallstrom. "You've got people that not only are willing to give up their
lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are
sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane." The U.S. military went on
full alert. Two aircraft carriers left the Naval base in Norfolk, Virginia,
in response to the attacks to provide upgraded air defense for New York and
Washington.
Officials in Washington said a "Continuation of Government" plan had been
activated. The activation involves a fortified facility at Mount Weather,
Virginia. There was no word whether any of the U.S. leadership or ranking
military officers had been taken to the facility. The city of Washington
declared a state of emergency.
"The Pentagon is functioning. It will be in business tomorrow," Rumsfeld
said. Members of Congress were quick to blame bin Laden, the Saudi
millionaire blamed for bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa. He is
believed to be based in Afghanistan.
"This looks like the signature of Osama bin Laden," said Sen. Orrin Hatch,
R-Utah, who said he had been briefed by officials at the highest levels of
government.
Hatch added. "We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the
bastards."
"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United
States," said Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona. In Kabul, Afghanistan Foreign
Minister Wakeel Ahmed Mutawakkel said, "We in Afghanistan do not allow Osama
bin Laden to use Afghan territory to launch any attack on any government
around the world." He said the Afghan government had taken away bin Laden's
communication devices, "and he has not been in touch with anyone outside
Afghanistan."
Mutawakkel said the Taliban will conduct its own investigation. "We will
determine what really happened. We denounce this terrorist attack, whoever
is behind it."
The attacks set off security alarms across the nation. Federal government
buildings in Washington, including the White House, were evacuated.
Airports in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the destinations of the planes
involved in the incidents, were evacuated. The city of San Francisco
declared a state of emergency. California government offices also closed.
The U.S. House of Representatives planned to convene Wednesday in a symbolic
gesture to show the government is not shutting down. For the first time in
U.S. history, the Federal Aviation Administration closed airports
nationwide, halting the 36,000 to 40,000 takeoffs that occur daily. It
diverted a number of trans-Atlantic flights to Canada.
By midafternoon all domestic flights that had been in the air when the
closings were order had landed, said FAA spokesman Less Dorr. "The earliest
the national groundstop will be lifted is noon tomorrow [Wednesday]. And
that's at the very earliest," said Dorr. The Immigration and Naturalization
Service went on highest alert along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico.
-- CNN National Security Correspondent David Ensor contributed to this
report.


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