BUZZURRO

…OK, so we are screwed.

(Hat tip: StoptheACLU).

A few days ago Buzzurro and I were watching CNN News on television when an announcer announced that on September 11 of this year they will be showing original footage from 9/11/2001.
I turned and said to Buzzurro “That’s morbid! Who would want to watch THAT ?” and he replied “I do.” He then explained how he wasn’t in the US at the time and is interested in knowing about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center from an American point of view.
That made me think…”I wasn’t in the US at the time either. I was in Italy on a vacation.” “I don’t really know about thr news that day in America either.”
I remember flying back into the US on September 19, 2001 into LAX. What normally is a busy airport was like a ghost town. Cars were prohibited from driving around the airport, flights weren’t departing or landing (except for my four fifths empty Air France flight) I could even hear my footsteps on the floor. The United States I left on August 31, 2001 was definitely not the same one as the one I returned too.
In the following days and months after I returned to the US I watched hours of television devoted to the World Trade Center disaster, but of course a week after the disaster some answers were forming, namely who actually flew the planes, who masterminded the plan, how and why. Naturally the reporters were reporting this. The large majority of their viewers were Americans in the United States and had already seen the early footage of the disaster. They didn’t need to see it again. All these reporters were poised and a little distant in reporting the news, like they usually are. In the beginning, the early morning of September 11, there was confusion, raw horror and raw tears.
I heard the stories of relatives who worked in NY, or even northern New Jersey. The trains stopped working and cell phones didn’t work either and they couldn’t get home or even communicate with loved ones, but I wasn’t a part of it. I was in a bookstore in Rome, Italy when I found out about both towers being hit by planes and collapsing to the ground. I received words of sympathy from the taxi driver who returned me to the hotel and watched BBC coverage of the disaster which was not the same I’m certain, as an American news channel. The stories might be the same, but the emotions would have been different.
“Maybe I should watch it too.” I thought to myself.
As much as I don’t wan’t to face the sheer terror of that day, especially knowing one of the victims, as an American I probably should watch it.
One should never forget what happened. It needs to be kept fresh in one’s mind. The actual people who flew the plane might be dead, but there are millions of others who would gladly take part in another attack. The masterminds are also alive and free and most likely plotting other attacks. This is a war, not one little incident that will never happen again.
As a side note I will add that President Bush has declared September/11 as ‘Patriot Day’. While the name has not caught on much with the population, I hope some of the memorial activities will. This includes flying at half staff American flag (or another if you live in another nation and would like to show sympathy for the victims), and a moment of silence at 8:46 Eastern Standard Time.

Al Qaeda had a suicide bomber drive a car into a Iraqi muslim funeral today, killing 25 people.

Yesterday, Mr. Al Zarwaki said that Al Quada “did not target Muslim civilians.”
Who did he think was going to attend this funeral anyway ? Coalition forces ? Israelis ? Jooos ?
Obviously Muslims were there. What a liar. A Hypocrite.

Read about it here.

I am against suicide bombings against any people, Muslim, Jew, Christian, American or Spanish, military or civilian, but especially civilian.
Zarqawi is full of lies. He is saying one thing and doing another. I can see it, and it looks like several people are finally opening their eyes and seeing the truth too.

There was a rally in Jordan with approximately 200,000 participants, several calling Al Zarqawi a “coward” and saying that he should “burn in hell.”

Several radical Islamic websites that normally celebrate al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks are now replete with criticism of the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent Muslims.

This is a small, but welcome step. Perhaps if everyone, even the fanatic and non-fanatic supporters of Al Qaeda see that he is hypocritical, maybe, just maybe Al-Qaeda will lose it’s welcome in the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Another article of interest about the same topic as above.

Al Qaeda was behind the bombings at the 3 hotels in Amman where 57 people died.

27 of the victims were Palestinians. 1 of them was Israeli.

Read About It here.

Aren’t they supposed to be on the side of the Palestinians ? Is this how they show their support ?

We will never forget your sacrifice.
Your deaths were not in vain.
Rest in Peace.

There has been another terrorist attack in Jordan. 3 luxury hotels were targeted, presumbly because they are American. One of them isn’t. Al Qaeda goofed. It is joint Palestinian and Jordanian.
This would almost be comical in itself if the results weren’t so deadly.
A statement from a hotel representative.

57 people died. Businessmen. Tourists. Employees. All innocent. Several people were celebrating a wedding. The terrorist walked into the wedding ballroom, saw it was a wedding and detonated himself.
I don’t care what your position is on the Iraqi war, if you think coalition forces should be there or not.
I don’t care what your position is in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
There can be no justification for this. None at all.

Natasha Tynes said it best on her blog but I will repeat it:

To Whoever did this,
May you enjoy the hell that is awaiting you, where, to your dismay, you will be greeted by seven demons instead of your long-awaited virgins !
May you rot in hell over and over again along with Zarqawi, Bin Laden, Bin Shit and all those that support you.
Nothing in the world can justify this. Those that try to justify this can rot in hell as well !
May God protect my country and my people. May God bless the souls of those barbarically massacred today. We will never forget !

Read at this link:

Do the so-called ‘peaceniks’ who attended the anti-war rallies on September 24, know that ANSWER International, one of the events sponsors is also a supporter of Hamas who did this attrocity? Aren’t they also supposed to be against racism, or does racism against Jewish people just not qualify?

…thanks to the blog Freethoughts.

You can read about it on her blog, Freethoughts, or another article I found in the LA Times.

The perpetrators of the 1994 Jewish Center bombing that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires are not considered perpetrators any more.

They have not been questioned, determined innocent and released, NO, their arrest warrants have simply been cancelled. Cancelled by Interpol.

Those highly suspected bombers are all free, unwanted men.
How could Interpol cancel those arrest warrants? How would the people in London feel if the perpetrators of the 7/7 attacks in London, had they not all died, been set free ?

Are the lives of 85 people not worth anything, or is it the fact that most of the 85 victims were Jews and in the European quest to appease the Muslims in everything that happens in the world, their lives were just sacrificed ?