A DAY TO REMEMBER SEPT. 11th


By Harvey Tobkes [originally posted September 12, 2001]

Today, let us try to remember the horror of September 11th, 2001, which was an awakening for our country. We all have such short memories, and somehow with each passing year, disasters seem to dim and slowly fade away.

We have become complacent; the liberals object to new surveillance techniques as an invasion of privacy. We need to use every means possible to monitor terrorist communication; even if it may occasionally involve an unrelated conversation.

Let’s face it, we need to toughen our stance, not relax. Terrorism will not abate or disappear and there is always a potential for even greater evil than we sustained on 9-11.

When the Japanese bombed Peal Harbor, a Japanese naval officer said, “We may have awakened a sleeping giant.”

Once again, it’s time for the ‘sleeping giant’ to awaken.

P.S. Below are the purported words of Osama bin Laden on tape, after the event of 9-11: –

We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower.

We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. (…Inaudible…) Due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for…

Twin towers, 9/11


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