Re: Airport insanity

[Tyler Durden]

Let us not forget the more tangible 'value' in bombing the WTC and messing 
up things downtown. First of all, the companies in the WTC were, to say the 
least, impacted (actually, the company I work for lost 11 people and 
relocated to NJ for about a year)....hitting them (and their workers) was 
probably not considered "collateral damage" by Al Qaeda, any more than 
bombing German or japanese urban production centers was considered that for 
the allies in WWII. Next comes the financial district and Wall Street as a 
whole. The third (and as it turned out by far the most impactful) was the 
destruction of the Telecom Central Office in #4 World Trade Center, along 
with bringing off-line the big Verizon CO across the street. These actually 
caused Wall Street to be knocked off line for several days, an impact that 
is hard to underestimate. And while I suspect that Al-Qaeda were probably 
unaware in advance of the impact on Telecom, the rest was certainly a 
conscious decision.

-TD
From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Airport insanity
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:14:22 -0500 (CDT)
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
> "James A. Donald"
> > > All of the terrorists came from countries that were
> > > beneficiaries of an immense amount of US help.  Saudi
> > > Arabia was certainly not under attack.  If they were
> > > Palestinians, and they hit the Pentagon but not the two
> > > towers, then they would be defending themselves.
>
> John Kelsey
> > I'm still trying to understand the moral theory on which you
> > differentiate hitting the two towers from the Oklaholma City
> > bombing.
>
> The pentagon did not have a branch office in the two towers.
> BATF had an office in the Murrah building.
Bzzzt!  Try again.
There were a number of federales in the towers, INCLUDING atf, all the
various branches of the armed services, and a large number of spook proxy
points.
> > So they killed a whole bunch of people, most of whom had
> > nothing to do with what they opposed, but surely including
> > people who were doing business with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
>
> Was McViegh targeting people who do business with BATF?
>
> Besides which the terrorists did not target them for doing
> business with Israel, but for "World Trade" - globalization and
> all that.
Personal knowledge?
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J.A. Terranson
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