9/11 seventeen years on

Happy Birthday nellie, have a nice day with your daughters.

Happy Birthday Nellie!

RIP to the victims

I remember having the financial pages on teletext ( how old fashioned does that sound!).

The FTSE was up quite a bit first thing - I looked around and it was suddenly showing a huge loss. I thought it was just a glitch but then saw the headlines about a plane hitting one of the towers.

The whole thing seemed a bit surreal and it felt more like watching a film than reality.

You were Jack but not for the better of course

Trying to make money on Betfair listening to the radio switched the tv on and watched it all unfold.

Surreal, like a Hollywood film, one of those rare days when you know the world has changed.

It did change society as my dad says, it was very relaxed before that event, banks didn't have a 12inch thick window between the customer and staff according my dad

Had been in Manhattan that weekend and flew home to London on September 10th on a night flight. Went to bed as soon as I got home and woke up mid-afternoon - couldn't believe what I was seeing. Was on the Staten Island ferry only a couple of nights previously, which used to stop right beneath the twin towers, and was an unbelievably great spectacle.

A friend phoned me up around about 1.15 and said you had better turn the tv on as you aint gonna believe it. and for years I did believe it was some masterplan of a old man living in a cave,the terrible truth was something far worse

Yeah you are right,so must of been 2.15 or so,but im right in saying it was a Tuesday because in those days I did a split shift only on a Tuesday so cant get that wrong

What would happen if a similar attack happened today under this administration?

Like Johnny, above, I was also in New York a few weeks before 911. On arrival we were held up in the skies above JFK, circling around for about half an hour. The talk in the airport afterwards claimed threats had been made to hijack multiple aircraft and fly them into the city's skyscrapers. The story was even mentioned on the nightly news, somehow linking it to a cell connected to the Columbine school shootings.

To the best of my knowledge this incident was never mentioned again. It has therefore always disturbed me whenever reports state that American intelligence had no prior warning that such an atrocity might be planned.

The anthrax attacks a week after 911 is probably the best example of that particular kind of artifice, SS. Very quickly the intelligence agencies and news media laid the blame at Iraq's door, much of the whole 'weapons of mass destruction' fallacy was predicated on this event in fact. When the truth emerged that the poison could only have originated from a CIA laboratory in Maryland, a single mad scientist was held to be culpable. A quite remarkable conlusion in itself given the obvious levels of security present at such establishments. As so often seems to be the case in suspicious events of this nature, the fellow killed himself prior to trial.

Such was the terrible repercussions of these murders one would imagine the fact that the FBI and CIA (aided and abetted by mainstream media) got it so wrong would never be forgotten. And yet, as you say, somehow it quietly gets filed away never to be mentioned again. By any measure the Washington DC anthrax attacks of 2001 should have massive ramifications over how much trust we place in our intelligence agencies but most folks I speak to today barely remember them, if at all. Time will tell if the recent events in Salisbury take a similar turn.

What would happen if a similar attack happened today under this administration?


The most astonishing thing of all is that 17 years later, America's Snowflake Generation (and their political/media cheerleaders) would surely be cheering the attackers to the rafters if a second 9/11 took place today, purely because it would be seen as a strike against Trump's America.

Remains of the towers, that is.  Weren't they all hipped off by barge somewhere?

Conspiracy theories, two words created by the C.I.A after JFKs assignation,because it makes thinkers look foolish,(they know sheep will abide)and mob life rules

Just like th

Thalidomide ( wow the tuck some getting through bf) and I wonder why ?

I was too young to realize what was happening but remember the day quite clearly, with the repeated mention of the word 'Islamic terrorism'. I was disappointed to find out that they killed the mastermind and then dumped his body into the sea. Would have loved some insight into how he managed so much sitting in Afghanistan.

Ony two things found in tons of rubble before it was carted off before any tests, two passports in perfect condition belonging to highjackers