I just ask everyone one right now no matter what your religion to pray for those people and thier families who lost thier lives or someone close to them in todays events. If you live in the New York area please go and donate blood or your services at local hospitals it is very badly needed right now, no matter if your afraid of needles or what not please just go do it. May God help our leaders in this our time of need to do what is right and necessary to rectify this problem.

God bless you all,
Ointmennt, california

Watching TV this afternoon in France seems like a nightmare. I hardly believe what I see. All western countries are stunned by this tragedy. No one will forget the 11th of Septmember 2001.
Arafat & Palestine can say anything now, I think they will never be heard again.

My thoughts go to all those who lost or will loose someone on this infamous day.

Feywarden Cormanthyr (Tunare Server)
Amiens, France

Hi,

First - My sympathies to families who have lost loves in this, a truly insidious attack.

It is amazing that this could happen. The radio is alive with talk of intelligence fopas, enraged senators calling for war, blame being placed. I just want to give my thoughts on a bit of this:

Intelligence - I really respect these guys. During our hottest times they have kept america safe.. and where there is a lead or a threat they have strived to stop it. But in this case, you are dealing with fanatics. pre planned. prepaid (most likely) and who are all loyal to the last. No under cover agent can crack these guys, get "in" with the plan. No bribery will work. Those things are keys to intelligence movement. These guys also probably took thier time. perhaps a couple of years to work up to this day. Maintinece crew of the planes could have been replaces by terrorist agents, placing weapons and key elements for a successful hijacking. I dont blame our intelligence on this, there are some people you cant predict. Cant know about.

The planes - Why didnt they radio for help.. and why would a pilot fly his plane into the WTC? I think the reason this worked so well is the pilots were killed. One pilot can fly the plane. One man in the cabin with a gun to keep passengers at bay. No calls for negotaiations. Most terrorists say "hey, we have the plane! give us money or else.." that gives us, the plane, the location and we can try to contain and control the situation. In this case the planes just flew off. Mostly likely a radio blackout to the tower. The tower can only guess at why the plane is off course and not responding.

The act of war - Do I want the terrorist to face judement.. yes. Would I be bothered if they were killed outright. No. But after listening to the radio, all these old politcal mucky mucks saying we "need to bomb it".. "whoever it was".. I truly hope, that we americans dont fall into a viscious vengefull mindset, turning our military might to the nearest target who has waved a terrorist flag. We must not discriminate, or assume. The correct people must be brought to justice, this is the 21st century. We are the example for the world.. I hope we handle this justly and precisely.

Good luck to all you emergency workers. Your courage and sacrafice will be remembered. From everyone here at work, our thoughts to those who are lost and thier families.

T

Please everyone who is able to should visit their local blood bank and donate. The blood is needed and it is something that all of us can do to help in some small way.

This may seem like it is not that big of a deal, but it WILL help.

Thank you all in advance.

To answer Liberation's question, never. At least not on this planet. There are far too many people who foolishly believe they have a "sacred" right to one thing or another.

Most wars and terrorists acts are due to one thing -- fights over Jerusalem or some other religious relic. Jerusalem is just a city, there is nothing noble in a jyhad, and no good comes of religious wars.

To the person who claimed that America is responsible for wars in the Middle East, that's just wrong. Countries in the Middle East have been fighting each other for over 2000 years. Not because Americans wanted their oil, but because they think a little patch of desert where a mythical figure may have been born is important enough to commit genocide over.

If Jesus Christ is real, I doubt this is what he wanted...

I just want to express my thanks and congratulate Allakhazam for providing a place for people to obtain information about a situation that far and away exceeds the bounds of a mere game.

American airlines are clearly unprepared to deal with real security. At the very least, SOMEONE should have noticed that two aircraft had entered New York airspace with no right to be there. In my opinion, any deviation from scheduled flight paths must be corrected by any means necessary.

Likewise, security at our airline terminals is a joke. I've passed through Heathrow and Laguardia customs with a backpack full of gaming miniatures, yet their metal detectors didn't pick them up. My god, I was carrying 30 lbs of steel and pewter! Just think how easy it must be to pass a gun with a much smaller amount of metal in it.

This situation must be improved, but how can you sufficiently protect people without infringing too heavily on their freedom?

My heart goes out to the familys that have lost a love one. My prayers will be with you all.

I am saddened by the attacks on the WTC. And in no way do I think it was right. I just wonder what pushes people to do something like this. What would it take for any of you to kill, or attempt to kill 50,000+ people?

In some parts of the world, this is not a time of peace. In fact the US contributes to wars in many other countries via weapons, money, and other means. There are countries where the people hate Americans. And it's not just leaders using propaganda. It's because our country supports some acts of terrorism that favor our economy and disregards human casualties that aren't our own. The battles over oil in the Middle East are just one example.

What are people fighting for, and what are we not opening our eyes to? Our government does terrible things to people we don't see or hear about on the news. We'd rather have cheap gas prices than think about the people who get killed so that we can have cheap gas prices. We'd rather have good looking clothes instead of thinking or doing anything about the people in the sweat shops - in our own country - that make them and live in terrible conditions. We'd rather eat tons of candy and not think about the child slave labor that's involved in the Ivory Coast to harvest the cocoa beans.

And instead we'll be focusing on retribution instead of trying to fix a problem that really started here at home - a home of people who are happy with their eyes closed as their tax money supports atrocities at home and in other countries.


-not to offend, just to ask people to please think

jesus....how could anybody do this? do they think that hurting us so will awaken us and listen to their problems? Do they think that thy are better people for murdering innocent people?


Did they have family in those buildings? Did they lose anybody?

My prayers go out to all that have been affected by this tragedy. The lose of life will be beyond belief, both towers were judged to have approximately 20, 000 people, that's 10, 000 people in each building folks.

Terrorists are the most cowardly people on the face of the earth and need to dealt with once and for all.

Being a native of Texas there is one thing I can say and that is that these cowards have commited these terrible acts of violence on the wrong mans watch. George W. Bush will not rest until all involved are brought to justice.

I would like to also say that the pleas by others to go by your local blood bank and donate are completely true. This will do more to help than you think and I urge each of you to do so.

This is the largest act of violence commited against America since Pearl Harbor and we all know what happened after that horrible act. It is my belief that the evil powers of this world have once again awoke the sleeping giant that is the U.S.A. and have no idea what they have brought down upon themselves.

I'm sorry if I may sound a bit militant right now, but my stomach is turning right now from what I have witnessed on the television this morning and I am sick sick sick of these cowards.

Signed,
Fed-up.

Words definitely cannot describe what has happened and what the nation is going through. I feel weird just thinking about it...

We can only try to compare this to Perl Harbor or any other attack on our nation... Could this start a war? Against who?

It just feels like I'm living through a nightmare and I can't wake up. Even in movies I hadn't seen anything like this.

Quonix