Destruction of The World Trade Center
Sept. 11, 2001
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Original Posts Ñ 2001
Some personal aftermath pictures
"Telling Nicholas" - a moving film by James Ronald Whitney
1964 Architectural Record on WTC design (PDF file)
"The difference between a thing that can go wrong
and a thing that can never, ever go wrong,
is that the thing that can
never, ever go wrong is always in a place
where it's completely impossible
to get at when it goes wrong."
- Paraphrase of Douglas Adams
Engineering Aspects of the Collapse
BBC News - WTC collapse forces skyscraper rethink
What's Lurking in That Smoke? - Business Week
The Disaster from the Airlines' POV
Tales told by people who narrowly escaped death during the destruction of the WTC
convey a sense of what thousands endured on that terrible morning.
"I'm
OK, I'm with the firemen" - In Memory of photographer Bill Baggart
Marriot Hotel WTC Survivors' Site
F Space (Ethan) escaped from the Marriott Hotel
Laen Reeves - WTC 2, 104th Floor
Adam Mayblum - WTC 1, 87th Floor
Richard - Wife Yukiko was on WTC 1, 90th Floor
Trinity Church Worship Service
Account of NYC Fireman in the Aftermath
Opinions and reactions have been circulating since this dreadful event.
Below are a few for your consideration.
Attack On America - Rumor summary from TruthOrFiction.com
"The Binch and Uville" - a poem à la Dr. Suess
Words of a High-ranking Military
Historian
(Encouraging and Frightening)
The Scope of the Problem - Middle Eastern Traveler
Letter from The Dalai Lama (hoax)
Round Up the Usual Suspects - A-INFOS NEWS SERVICE
Jerry Falwell's Horrifying Remarks to Pat Robertson
An Afghan-American Speaks - by Tamim Ansary
"Who Is Osama bin Laden?" - Michel Chossudovsky, Univ. of Ottawa
THE GW BUSH - OSAMA BIN LADIN
CONNECTION
Plentiful information of the two-way flow of cash
Some perspective on the notion of "evil"
Bush's Faustian Deal with the Taliban
Sobering column by Robert Scheer from May 2001
The Leonardo DiCaprio Connection
Reflections on the people of Afghanistan by a 1998
American visitor
FBI Detains 5 Israelis for "puzzling behavior" after WTC Tragedy
Response to Pacifists - Washington Post
Viewpoint - Radio Havana Cuba, 09/13/01
Collectivism - Editorial, Ideas on Liberty,
Sept. 2001
(pre-dates disaster, but relevant)
Travel Safety - "Aboard Flight 564", Wash. Times
A Call for Tolerance - MacEvangelist
Statement of Bruce Sterling, Viridian Movement
"Urban Legends: Rumors of War" page
Addresses a number of rumors currently circulating
Numerological Musings (circulated via e-mail)
Sesame Street's Bert with Osama bin Laden
"Tourist of Death" - more on the sick hoax picture atop the WTC