I was in bed and my clock radio woke up to the news of the 9-11 atrocity. I saw the images on TV and then went to work. I told my Asia-origin research associate that life for people such as himself had now changed radically for the worse. 10 years on war-related deaths due to US state terrorism total 2.7 million in Occupied Iraq, 5.0 million in Occupied Afghanistan and 1.1 million in Occupied Somalia (see "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).

This post-9-11 carnage has been enabled by Mainstream media, politicians and academics in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies who uncritically parrot the "official conspiracy theory" of successive egregiously dishonest, murderous, racist and indeed genocidal US Administrations and ignore what has become a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .

All decent people must expose and oppose the genocidal evil of Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-backed US state terrorism. A good start is to Boycott Murdoch media (see: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/) that promoted anti-Arab anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and a War on Terror (9 million post-9-11 war-related deaths) that in horrible reality is a continuing cowardly and racist US Alliance War on Arab, Muslim, Asian and non-European Women and Children.

Science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts say that the US did 9-11 and reject the "official conspiracy theory" of the pathologically dishonest and violent Bush Administration that according to 2 US think tanks as reported by News Corp told 935 lies about Iraq alone in the 2 years after 9-11 (see "Experts: US did 9-11": https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ).

I wholly agree with Marcus Bessner - the next one will probably be an atom bomb lobbed on Israel. What form of arithmetical exercise does a star represent ?

Can't remember. Maybe the Mossad guys who filmed it from a Jersey shoreline can help. Word

10/9/01 was a truly horrible event, unparalleled in my lifetime due to it being played out almost in real time before a live audience around the world. Despite the horrific carnage the most shocking part was the predictability of the response from both sides of the ideological divide. It was as if Hollywood had already stolen reality's thunder and prepared a script to fit the expectations of an already polarised world. What is really frightening is how such depravity can strike a chord in any mind, not just the religeous zealot and the hero looking for a cause, but anyone that looks on the devastation of chaos and abandons hope, finding only hate left within themselves, they are too easily seduced by it.
So with every respect to that particular day, surprisingly little seemed changed here in my well immunised world, thank goodness. It was another day where some people died, like all others do, but not on television.

While tragic as it is, the hype around it is another propaganda tool to malign Muslims and make them feel guilty. As a Muslim, i do not feel guilty nor will i apologise for something i did not do! who remembers the millions of Native Americans killed, or Afghanis, or Iraqis, innocent people who had nothing to do with the Twin Towers. We are dictated to: "Fight those who fight you!" Not innocents.

I'd flown into Boston the night before and was amazed when I went out the next morning (the 9th) to find the streets empty. Amazingly, the centre of Boston had emptied itself because of what at first a coffee shop owner told me he thought was a bombing in New York. I don't think Birmingham would close down if there was a terrorist incident in London. It showed me what a strangely cowardly people the Americans are.