What were you doing when 9/11 happened ?

[SrNair]

You are younger than me too?....wow.

Yup

 

[Viper0011.]

Yup

I am glad I know how old you are because a lot of your posts I've come across, now make sense.

 

[SrNair]

I am glad I know how old you are because a lot of your posts I've come across, now make sense.

But your posts not make sense at all.
And I am still wondering how is that possible.Because majority of other senior members can post valuable content.

 

[anant_s]

September 2001.
I had graduated in May that year and was supposed to join my first job on 20th of the month in Mumbai.
My mother and me had gone to do a bit of shopping for the same and when we returned (i recall it was 6/7 pm IST), news channels were showing what had happened.
Things were happening rapidly and the second tower fell in front of live telecast.
Most horror feeling of that event were the pictures of some men and women still trapped in tower which was still standing and it was only a matter of time. The thought that one's end is near is probably the most terrible situation a human can be subjected to. I was almost in depression for next 3-4 days.
However CNN telecasted a small report on bravest people of all who had to face the situation, The Fire Brigade Service of New York city. They lost many of their comrades but saved countless others. Their Chief said something about NYC Fire Department putting call of duty above everything else.
I lapped those sentences and thought them as God's way of advice to me, for in couple of days from there i started my professional career.

 

[Viper0011.]

But your posts not make sense at all.
And I am still wondering how is that possible.Because majority of other senior members can post valuable content.

There is a time and place to open your mouth and spread the stink. Take a look at the topic of the thread. You obviously had a troubled childhood where you didn't learn these basic things.

 

[Counterpunch]

I was at dinner with my school mates. A get together. It was in Army Stadium Peshawar and we saw it on TV 'America under attack' and we walked away and later started speculating what the details would be

Some said 'an alien hoax may be'..Others suggested a Russian spy plane spotted and downed'...only after 2-3 hours we came to know what had happened

 

[Grevion]

Well I have learned @Abingdonboy and @litefire are much younger than me

I was 9-10 back then.
But @Abingdonboy

 

[AshishDelhi]

Baader-Meinhof, IRA, Red Brigades, Oklahoma bomber, Gavrilo Princip?

Oh, pleeze...

He is right. He just told what was being discussed. Many in India discussed or thought so and this is what exactly happened. Understand our position as well. West supported Taliban/All Qaeda/ Yemenis/Pakistani post their victory in Afghanistan did not return to their homelands to live peacefully ever after. They went for new Jehad.
Pakistani ISI had a hold on them and used many for terror attacks in India. Thousands died in India. Hindus had to leave Kashmir, women were raped.
Did West condemn it? No. Taliban was still Rambo's friend. Jehad was good. Pakistan was strategic partner. This was early 90s.
This changed due to various acts of Taliban and a lot after 9/11.
Had it not been attacks on western countries, you would have preached Russia, India, China etc on chechenya, Kashmir, uighur etc.

 

[SrNair]

There is a time and place to open your mouth and spread the stink. Take a look at the topic of the thread. You obviously had a troubled childhood where you didn't learn these basic things.

Now I know why I dont have to wonder about it. Its genuine.

 

[baqai]

I clearly remember, i had ordered a new graphics card and i went to Clifton Computers Sassi Arcade (Aziz Bhai) to get it, i was at his shop and saw the news and second plane hitting the tower and my reaction was WTF ... i rushed back home and watched news the whole night while browsing different forums

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

He is right. He just told what was being discussed. Many in India discussed or thought so and this is what exactly happened. Understand our position as well. West supported Taliban/All Qaeda/ Yemenis/Pakistani post their victory in Afghanistan did not return to their homelands to live peacefully ever after. They went for new Jehad.
Pakistani ISI had a hold on them and used many for terror attacks in India. Thousands died in India. Hindus had to leave Kashmir, women were raped.
Did West condemn it? No. Taliban was still Rambo's friend. Jehad was good. Pakistan was strategic partner. This was early 90s.
This changed due to various acts of Taliban and a lot after 9/11.
Had it not been attacks on western countries, you would have preached Russia, India, China etc on chechenya, Kashmir, uighur etc.

Ridiculous, the West has NEVER supported Al-Qaeda nor ISIS nor Taliban.
The US supported Afghanistan Mujahedeen, and anyone else coming to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets.
That some later decided to form/join Al Qaeda etc. is their own decision.

 

[bsruzm]

Lot's of kid's huh?

 

[AshishDelhi]

Ridiculous, the West has NEVER supported Al-Qaeda nor ISIS nor Taliban.
The US supported Afghanistan Mujahedeen, and anyone else coming to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets.
That some later decided to form/join Al Qaeda etc. is their own decision.

Those mujahideens killed Afghans, killed raped Indians, killed school children in Chechenya. My point is that all this was not really condemned. It all came under broad term 'separatists' etc.
Post 9/11 they became Islamic terrorist. Had 9/11 not happened then leave aside fighting these scums in foreign land, even fighting them inside own country would have attracted western criticism.

 

[X-2.]

I left home early with my very young son to run errands.
We lived in the same timezone and a friend seated at a café
hailed me as we came out of the ATM since he had heard it
on the radio.
As I turned to rush home, I met my best buddy and he came
along as I had all the TV channels.
My telltale moment was when my son asked :

-Daddy, why did the big houses fall down?
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Good day all, Tay.

Do u told ur son it was inside job

It was evening on my side i guess and my father, cousins and uncle were all there watching TV.. my father said they will now target Muslims-----

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

Those mujahideens killed Afghans, killed raped Indians, killed school children in Chechenya. My point is that all this was not really condemned. It all came under broad term 'separatists' etc.
Post 9/11 they became Islamic terrorist. Had 9/11 not happened then leave aside fighting these scums in foreign land, even fighting them inside own country would have attracted western criticism.

You are wrong in about every sentence here...
Why make claims which are so easy to show as falsifications?
Are You going to deny the existence of UN resolutions?

The war in Afghanistan between the "government" - former Northern Alliance and Gulbuddin Hekmyatar,
was all over the news, and so was the Taliban offensive.

From the UN website:

http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/afghan/un-afghan-history.shtml#Taliban

The Taliban takes Kabul
Meanwhile, the Taliban rebellion was growing in strength. In late 1994 and early 1995, the rebels took control of much of southern and western Afghanistan, including Kandahar and Herat. In a presidential statement on 15 February 1996, the Security Council expressed concern about intensified hostilities around the capital city of Kabul, which prevented deliveries of humanitarian aid. It was also deeply concerned that the continuing conflict provided fertile ground for terrorism, arms transfers and drug trafficking, which destabilized the whole region and beyond.

In September, the Taliban took Kabul. Rabbani joined an opposition alliance, the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (the United Front or the Northern Alliance). The Taliban soon controlled much of Afghanistan, with the Alliance holding territory only in the north.

On 22 October, the Security Council adopted resolution 1076 (1996), calling on all Afghan parties to end hostilities and engage in a political dialogue aimed at achieving national reconciliation. It repeated its deep concern that the conflict provided fertile ground for terrorism and drug trafficking and called on the parties to halt such activities. The General Assembly, along with the Council, condemned the abduction from United Nations premises in Kabul of former President Najibullah and his brother on 26 September, and their subsequent brutal execution by the Taliban (Assembly resolution 51/108, Council statement S/PRST/1996/40). Najibullah had taken refuge there four years earlier, but repeated calls by the Secretary-General to allow his safe departure from the country had been ignored.

http://www.un.org/press/en/2004/sc8179.doc.htm

The Security Council this evening condemned in the strongest terms the heinous terrorist act involving the taking of hostages at a secondary school in the town of Beslan, Russian Federation, and demanded the hostages’ immediate and unconditional release.

https://www.un.org/press/en/2008/sc9364.doc.htm

SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS IMMEDIATE AND COMPLETE HALT TO ACTS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT ZONES, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1820 (2008)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach