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Omg Turn On The News

Hobbes · 2001-09-11 13:11:33

Two planes have crashed into the world trades towers. One after the other. They reckon a bomb was on one of them and it was intentional. OMG

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Two planes have crashed into the world trades towers. One after the other. They reckon a bomb was on one of them and it was intentional.

OMG

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#2 11-09-2001 2:17pm

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Holy shit!!!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0911/nyc.html

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#3 11-09-2001 2:31pm

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oh. ****. second crash was seen live around the world. ****sake. hope peeps r ok.

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#4 11-09-2001 2:34pm

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they reckon one of the planes was a 737 hijacked just before the crash. Over 100 passengers on board.

whatever organisation was behind this one is gonna get severely kicked in the head by the americans!

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#5 11-09-2001 2:37pm

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I hesitate to think what the backlash will be.

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#6 11-09-2001 2:38pm

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pictures from sky
:eek: OMG!!! :eek:

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#7 11-09-2001 2:43pm

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Bush was just on TV.

One of the planes was hijacked from Boston and was a 767. They don't know if it was the first or second plane but there were passengers on board.

The military have made NY a no fly zone to stop any more from coming in (if there are), also the NY stock exchange is closed.

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#8 11-09-2001 2:50pm

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Turn on Sky News - there's been a huge explosion at the Pentagon.

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#9 11-09-2001 2:50pm

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white house abandoned, pentigon on fire!!!:eek:

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#10 11-09-2001 2:51pm

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HOLY SH!T

The Pentagon has been hit now.

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#11 11-09-2001 2:57pm

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Apparently there is one more hijacked plane in the air. I wonder if they'll shot it out of the air rather than see it crash into something?

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#12 11-09-2001 2:58pm

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All airports in the US have now been shut down for at least 7 hours.

There is also a fire at a mall in washinton but they don't know if it's related.

It was a plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

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#13 11-09-2001 2:59pm

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The World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on fire. Reports of the fire in the Pentagon being caused by a 3RD hi-jacked plane crashing into it. The Pentagon, The White House and the US Treasury Building evacuated. Bush standing in front of a microphone surrounded by kids in a Florida school promising to "hunt down" the attackers. A Palestinian organisation being the first to claim responsibility.

Jesus! What a day!... I gotta ask- what NEXT?!

America must be going nuts right now...

I'm staying in front of that TV - just as well I don't have work! All major stations (not just the news stations) seem dedicated to this tragedy at the moment. RTÉ One, BBC One, SKY News and then some. It has already been called "the most highly organised and co-ordinated, militarily brilliant terrorist attack in human history" by one "expert".

It just doesn't seem real, does it?... You'd see it in a movie and say "that'd never happen"... but this is as real as it gets.

Reports say 6 are dead and 1,000 injured in New York. This figure is expected to rocket upwards.

The world is watching... shocked and horrified.

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#14 11-09-2001 3:06pm

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HOLY F U C K - one of the Twin Towers just collapsed.

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#15 11-09-2001 3:09pm

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OMG

It has just collapsed !!! I DONT FCUKING BELIEVE THIS

OMg

its war !!!!!!

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#16 11-09-2001 3:13pm

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Ummmm, according to Sky News there are around 40,000 people in each tower at this time of day.

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#17 11-09-2001 3:16pm

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I have and a few friends.
My family and cousins are going crazy trying to ring NY to see is our cousin is all right.
DemonBaby...:(

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#18 11-09-2001 3:17pm

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FOR **** SAKE, i hate to think of how many people are dead.

John

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#19 11-09-2001 3:18pm

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There are now reports that a total of 8 planes were hijacked.
F UCK

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#20 11-09-2001 3:19pm

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WTF!??!?!
This cannot be happening!
They were on the phone to some guy in one of the towers he was just saying "We're f*cking dying up here!"

OMG!

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#21 11-09-2001 3:21pm

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There's been an explosion on Capitol Hill now.

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#22 11-09-2001 3:22pm

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Capitol hill now, where else is it gonna get it?

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#23 11-09-2001 3:23pm

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OMG!

some country somewhere is gonna get some serious sh17 kicking in the next few weeks methinks....
poor bas7ards

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#24 11-09-2001 3:25pm

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the report on Sky News came in from FOX News in the States saying that a phone call was received from a trading floor high up in one of the towers, in a floor above the section of the tower where the plane hit. The call simply said "Help us! We're dying up here!" - The reporter tried calling them back, but got no answer.

That tower has since collapsed.

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8 planes hi-jacked??? ... this is FAR from over!

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#25 11-09-2001 3:27pm

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This is all a bit fkin surreal.

Hate to see what the response will be to this ...

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#26 11-09-2001 3:27pm

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If any of you folks are are at a TV can you give an update!

This is mad sh!t.

It that Sky news stuff about 40,000 in Towers true??

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#27 11-09-2001 3:27pm

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If one of the towers has collapsed, we are talking about 20,000 dead. Several hundred of those will have been Irish.

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#28 11-09-2001 3:30pm

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It happened before 9am so most of them would (hopefully) not have been in work, and it happened fairly high up in the towers, so it wouldn't have affected large proportions of the buildings, which one would expect would have rapidly been evacuated after the first crash.

It's a sad day for planet Earth.

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#29 11-09-2001 3:30pm

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Was the whole economy down about $40bn yesterday too?
This is bad, real bad, WWIII stuff.

20,000!!!!! Oh My God!

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#30 11-09-2001 3:31pm

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Originally posted by Wookie
If any of you folks are are at a TV can you give an update!

This is mad sh!t.

It that Sky news stuff about 40,000 in Towers true??

I'm watching Sky News - one of the towers has collapsed totally. there's an airplane still embedded in the side of the other one. Two planes have hit the Pentagon. There's been an explosion on Capitol Hill.

I just watched a video of Tower A collapsing.

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#31 11-09-2001 3:31pm

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****ing hell!

I'm sitting here in a lab waiting for my project demo and listening to it on the radio. At first I though it was a movie or something.

****ing hell!

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#32 11-09-2001 3:34pm

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The second tower has collapsed!!

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#33 11-09-2001 3:36pm

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Originally posted by Bard
It happened before 9am so most of them would (hopefully) not have been in work, and it happened fairly high up in the towers, so it wouldn't have affected large proportions of the buildings, which one would expect would have rapidly been evacuated after the first crash.

Er no. Apparently the offices at the top of the tower were pretty much full as they startalot earlier than anyone else in the building. The streets around were also very crowded and there have been reports of a lot of injures. The attack was timed to cause maximium damage.

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#34 11-09-2001 3:40pm

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car bomb after goin off, plane headed for washington...
sick evil b@stards! :mad:

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#35 11-09-2001 3:44pm

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Both towers have now collapsed , each tower held 50,000 people , the pentagon is on fire , a car bomb has gone off at the U.S state department (unconfirmed) , there are reports that capatil hill has been hit and reports that there is another plane hi jacked and flying towards washington.

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#36 11-09-2001 3:45pm

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Looks like my demo isn't gonig to happen - possibly world war three will instead. This is so ****ed up. The Internet has gone mad. I can't access any news site so I'm on the rumor mill.

Hear a lot of offices in America are telling people to go home. Can hear SKY news worried about attacks in England.

IMO they should ground all planes immediatly like they did in the states. It's too much but it's better than doing too little.

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#37 11-09-2001 3:46pm

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25k per tower.
Another plane 5minutes from washingtom, a bomb in the senate(capitol hill), 2 planes crashed into pentagon.

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#38 11-09-2001 3:46pm

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Another plane 20 minutes away from Washington. Missile defenses have been erected around the white house. I would assume that there's a few fighters in the air with order to shoot the plane down if it doesn't change course.

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#39 11-09-2001 3:48pm

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Originally posted by Blitzkrieger
Looks like my demo isn't gonig to happen - possibly world war three will instead. This is so ****ed up. The Internet has gone mad. I can't access any news site so I'm on the rumor mill.

Hear a lot of offices in America are telling people to go home. Can hear SKY news worried about attacks in England.

IMO they should ground all planes immediatly like they did in the states. It's too much but it's better than doing too little.

Sky News is the best tv channel, canary wharf being evacuated, all flights in UK being grounded, another plane crashed S.E. of pittsburgh.

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#40 11-09-2001 3:50pm

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most of london central seems to be going home.
girlfriends 2 brothers are on way home from city.
damn internet, cant get anything...

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#41 11-09-2001 3:59pm

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oh dear god i hope my sis wasn't there... she's on hol's over there at the mo n was planin on going to newyork this week

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#42 11-09-2001 3:59pm

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Debris from the WTC hit a primary school.

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#43 11-09-2001 3:59pm

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One plane was American Airlines flight 11, a 767 (or 737?) from Boston to LA, with 300+ passengers. NY police say the other plane was hijacked from Boston too, rumor is 90+ passengers.
There's footage of the second crash (see below).
The other may have been United Airlines.
A Palestinian group "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" was said to have claimed responsibility (according to Reuters, reporting Abu Dhabi TV) -- but the BBC contacts at the DFLP HQ deny it's their work. (The group is a small splinter group of the PLO, and hasn't been involved in hijacking in the past.)
Interview with the DFLP leader on BBC news, denying all responsibility.
(both towers collapsed)
Stock market has ceased trading.
All US airports now closed.
International flights into the US cancelled also.
All roads into NYC closed.
All Washington DC government buildings being evacuated.
People seen jumping from the windows of the World Trade Center.
Boston Hancock tower shut down.

A 757 is also said to have also crashed into the Pentagon. US officials now confirming a plane was hijacked from NY to DC, crashed into a Pentagon helicopter pad.

10:00: One tower has collapsed, the other is still standing.
10:30: Both towers have now collapsed.
10:30: And now a car bomb outside the State Department.
10:40: Another large plane crash of a 767 in Somerset County Pennsylvania at around 10:00. Eight miles east of Jennerstown (sp?), SE of Pittsburgh.
10:45: Another building next to the WTC has collapsed.
10:45: Pentagon partially collapsed.

Since I know a lot of people can't get to news sites...

Iseral has abandond all diplomatic relations around the world? (not confirmed

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#44 11-09-2001 4:01pm

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It is a mess

the reporters on the TV are even crying.

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#45 11-09-2001 4:03pm

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plane has crashed at pittsburg just now.

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#46 11-09-2001 4:03pm

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rumor mill says still 4 planes in the air. Hope to christ they're wrong............

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#47 11-09-2001 4:04pm

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There is defo at least one plane still in the air. Air force has been sent to intercept.

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#48 11-09-2001 4:04pm

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A person who answered the phone on the trading floor at interdealer-broker Cantor Fitzgerald, located near the top of the World Trade Center, said: "We're f***ing dying," then hung up. There was screaming and yelling in the background. A follow up call was not answered.

dear god my prayers go out to those ppl n their families

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#49 11-09-2001 4:06pm

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one wing of the pentagon has collapsed,firefighters are still battling to keep the fire under control.
Fighters in the air cant shoot down the plane because it is flying over populated land

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#50 11-09-2001 4:07pm

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I'm reading the same thing in another forum - but they say Fox news phoned and the quote was "we're dying up here".

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#51 11-09-2001 4:08pm

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Car bomb has just exploded outside the Pentagon now.

Some piccies on CS forum as well.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30986

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