[Nettime-bold] Re: [TW] tragedy in the USA

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

If one wants to compare US actions against Iraq and Yugoslavia 
with this action of not-yet-known people against the US, it would be 
fair to take the following in the consideration:
- US military usually takes precautions to hit the objects with 
cruise missiles during the off-peak hours - like the TV bulilding in 
Serbia was not hit in the middle of the day when most of the 
employees would be inside - the unknown perpetrators chose to hit 
at 9 am at the onset of the workday
- using commercial airliner full of passengers as a weapon is an act 
of terrorism in itself, which can't be compared to using a cruise 
missile - because passengers in the airplane cannot be considered 
collateral damage, since they are not killed by chance
- two cruise missiles would never collapse two towers of WTC and 
cause tens of thousands of death and trillions of dollars of damage: 
in effect, wide fuselage airliner filled with fuel is a far more 
dangerous weapon than a cruise missile, and it could classify as a 
weapon of mass destruction: New York's financial district looks like 
it was hit by a small nuclear charge, the debris is still burning 48 
hours after the explosion and the stench of burned human flesh can 
be felt even in Harlem which is like 10 miles away from the 
epicenter.

ivo

Date sent:      	Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:12:19 EDT
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From:           	"Nalini Lasiewicz (twatch-l)" <LasiewiczN@AOL.COM>
Subject:        	Re: [TW] tragedy in the USA
To:             	TWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU

In a message dated 9/12/2001 12:24:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
mxm60@EMAIL.PSU.EDU writes:


> For years, the USA terrorizes
>

Let's look at the fact that all the above nations have held their citizens
captive by dictatorships for decades.  The USA stands for freedoms and a way
of life that  none of these regimes allow.  The US has responded time and
again to help the captive citizens of these strangled nations.  Our most
recent success was the liberation of Serbia.  Get the picture now?

Nalini


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