9/11.... 6 years on

[ELVIS68]

I`m still shocked at these images...Bin Laden`s still on the loose...could something like this happen again?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vLLDj9Y4wvbI

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[unrulyjulie]

maybe it could, lets hope not but im not ever hopeful ojn this one. Still very difficult to watch.

[Pippa68]

With each year that passes I always think that the images will somehow become 'easier' to take. Then this time of year comes, and the images are shown again.

It never fails to move me to tears. When I visited Ground Zero I was shocked at how it affected me.

As to whether it could happen again. Yes, I think it could. Probably London next time.

[speechless]

Yes these images are still disturbing to watch but in answer to your questions:

Bin Laden still on the loose? I doubt it, pretty sure the Yanks know exactly where he is and are happy to let him stay there.

Could it happen again? Yes, though perhaps not is such a dramatic or overt way, the Yanks prefer covert operations mostly. Lets not forget many Americans openly supported and funded the IRA for years, an organisation which indiscriminately killed innocent people, but hey, thats ok, it wasn't in their back yard! And thats just the tip of the iceberg.

It is reckoned that the USA has been involved in around 72 'wars' since the end of World War 2, mostly covertly, helping to supply terrorist with arms, overthrow governments, torturing suspects and holding suspects without trial or legal representation. Land of the free, I think not.

That is not to take away from the terrible loss of life in 9/11, merely to put a little perspective on it.

[Goodsoulette]

Watching the documentaries for last night, I just couldnt get my head round how brave the firemen and policemen were. As people are running out of a burning building they are trying to climb 90 flights of stairs. Real hero stuff in the worst conditions imaginable. Thats not to take away from the civilian loss of life but the loss of the servicemen really touches me.

[Goodsoulette]

Legend, the explosive theory can be easily debunked. Firefighters say the heard explosions above or around them before the part of the building that had collapsed got to them. Or even viewing things exploding on lower levels than the collapse, as the building came down. Imagine all the pressure that creates, things would literally have been blasted through the window. Possibly have even caused all the electrical equipment to explode creating the little flashes. Think of a great big syringe and imagine forcing air out of that, now imagine part of that syringe had been weakened. The air would force out of those weakened spots too.

As for the flight recorders, maybe thats considered top secret. For various reasons we are not exposed to lots of things, maybe for the better.

I am a highly suggestible person (is that the right term) and I easily believe conspiracy theories, especially ones presented as briliiantly as that. However, I like to take a step back and be properly armed with the facts and understand them and I just dont. A lot of statements from 9/11 have been cut in a way to make them seem more sensational than they actually are.

[Goodsoulette]

I watched the whole thing .....again.
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All Im saying leg, is that a huge amount of emphasis in this and other documentaries are put on the witness statements. My ex used run a betting shop which got help up, the differences in what people saw etc was phenomenal. Not one person got the right description of the person who commited the crime. I can only say that the firemans statements have been manipulates and cut to sound like doubt there should be doubt in the official version, as has there apparently indisputable explanation of the controlled explosion. When thermite cant cut

[Goodsoulette]

grrrr.... bloody answer cut!!!

cut sideways through steel columns. If they can change statements and present these "facts" in this way then surely they can do it with others.

As for the planes, I think the conspiracy is aliitle far fetched on the pentagon strike. The tine little hoe they show was deemed to be caused by the landing gear as the hole on the outer ring was 75ft wide originally before the building collapsed. The structural engineer that was called out to the site has given some pretty factual and traumatic statements.

I don't really know much about flight 93, being shot down seems possible. I'm not saying I know alot bout the others. I just see someone say something and someone else counteract it. Depending on where you look you will find evidence of fuselage and bodies,

[Goodsoulette]

I think one of the engines at Pennsylvania was found further afield wasn't it?

All 40 people aboard flight 11 had at least some of their remains identified.

179 out of 84 had their remains identified at the pentagon. Did you want to see pictures of the bodies?? One guy was talking on the news about how he was picking up bits of flight attendants uniforms and there were remains all over the place.