The morning of September 11, 2001 my family woke to a phone call from my Mom. She told me to turn on the t.v. After watching for a brief time I asked what I was seeing - she said a terrible accident, a plane had hit one of the World Trade Towers. Then in horrified disbelief we all watched a 2nd plane fly into the other tower. We realized very quickly this was no accident and in that moment my whole world changed. I looked at my 3 year old and realized that he may actually face a war on North American soil and it was the most frightening moment of my life. We stayed glued to the news broadcast, watching with tears in our eyes the terror and confusion of New Yorkers. My Mom and I, having visited New York in 1993 and not being able to see to the top of these massive buildings from the ground, did not expect the towers to collapse. We were stunned when they fell and wondered what was next.

That morning at work all you could hear was the radio broadcasting the aftermath, the plane hitting the Pentagon and Flight 93 being crashed into the ground in Pennsylvaina. I had a co-worker who�s sister was supposed to be on a flight leaving Boston, my Aunt and Uncle lived very close to the crash site in Pennsylvaina and then came the news that fighter jets were escorting a plane into Whitehorse. I started to pray as never before thinking this is it, they are attacking Canada and praying for all my friends in the Yukon.

By the end of the day I was drained but still hopeful, because out of the terror and confusion of September 11, 2001 came the stories of humanity. The brave heroes who went into the towers to rescue, the people on the ground helping each other, the people of the Maritimes opening their doors to stranded travelers and the overwhelming strength of New Yorkers who were already saying this was not going to be the end of a great city as they walked for miles trying to leave the city and get home to their loved ones. September 11, 2001 will forever live in my memory as the day North America changed and our safety was questioned.

I was at home downloading the photographs as they appeared on the internet. They were unbelievable.

At the time CBC had a website much the same as 250opinion called the forum. and the posting that I still remember today said, " This morning the United States got their American pie right in their face."

And the response from another poster was, " sick b..st.rd".

cheers

911 was one of those defining moments - where we can all remember exactly where we were when we first heard the news. I was in the kitchen canning produce from the garden. Our phone rang at 9:30am, when my aunt described what she had heard on the news. I told her that it must be some kind of a hoax. That what she was describing was very close to a plot in a Tom Clancy book.
My husband turned on CNN and we quickly realized it was no hoax. We wondered if it was the beginning of WWIII that we were watching.

I awoke to a phone call from my sister that day and had the day off so watched all the events live. I will never forget the pictures of the 5 Israeli mossad agents celebrating and dancing on the roof of their white van as they filmed the twin towers collapsing.

Why were mossad agents under cover of a moving company, and how did they know where to be in order to get the best footage of this event, and why were they released the next day on White House orders.

Why did Bush continue to listen to a story about goats with a kindergarten class in Florida for over an hour, while America was under attack, and Cheney had a stand down order in effect?

Why did the first steel buildings ever to collapse by fire not receive a proper investigation as to how the collapse happened? If for anything to prevent this in the future? Why did WTC#7 collapse when it was never hit with a plane and had limited fires on a single floor? Why did Bush's cousin take over security for the WTC complex only 6 months before 9/11, as wells as security for the airports and airlines that were involved?

I firmly believe AQ was a patsy for an operation by the military industrial complex led by the BinLaden-Bush Carlyl Group and enabled by Israeli mossad counter insurgency (false flag) agents.

To many coincidences to explain away as simply a bunch of terrorists that got lucky and to much politics that were enabled by this operation (Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Caspian Sea oil, Iraq, loss of critical SEC records IN WTC7, collapse of Mid-East peace process, democracy of fear campaigns). Most of which was pre-planned with Iraq being the most glaring example of manipulation of the public by powerful politically motivated forces.

Why has everyone forgot about the anthrax attacks that came at the same time and was found to come from a US WMD facility. AQ did not have access to that anthrax and it was used specifically to target politicians in Washington who had not yet came on board with the Patriot Act ( a document so large 95% of the politicians had no time to read it much less debate and draft it after 9/11).

9/11 was a terrorist attack against democracy carried out by patsy terrorists and enabled by those at the highest levels of American government. It was asymmetric warfare on a citizen based democracy.

For Canada's part we should have demanded why NATO failed on that day and how this implicates our security situation. Why did those planes fly unescorted for nearly 2 hours as they approached their targets?

Today�s America is a fascist state behind the curtain of democracy where war profits are good business and the middle class is under attack.

There is an Ice Cream shop called "Tickleberries" on the side of HWY 97 in Okanagan Falls. I was driving past on my way to work in Oliver and read the sign that said "America, we pray for you" I got to work and said to my boss "I saw the strangest sign..." and then she broke the news to me.

I was 6 months pregnant and scared to death that WWIII was starting. I started crying and couldn't stop. Customers whose names I never knew were coming around the counter to hold me while I was sobbing.

I was affected most by the images of the people covered in the dust so they were all the same colour.

To suggest that there was some sort of conspiracy in the 911 event is just not acceptable. Like Bush listening to goat stories at a kindergarten while the world trade center was being demolished. How would it sound to a kindergarten class if a Bush aid rushed in and said the Muslims have attacked and destroyed the world trade center.

The Americans did not need 911 to start their war on terrorism. The attack on Iraq had been on the drawing board for a couple year before hand. Some of the books written by Americans like Woodward in his book Plan of Attack states, � this is the excuse we need to move on Iraq or words to that effect�..

It is wrong to refer to the Muslims as terrorist. They have a faith that they have believed in for hundreds of years. We don�t have to go to the middle east to look for radical religious groups we have them in our own society. There were the suicide burnings in eastern Canada and Europe, Youngs Town. What about the weirdo that killed four Mounties and then committed suicide. We deceive our young men and women by recruiting them in to our armed forces and send them out into harms way to fortify our beliefs that we are correct in what we do. It is another form of suicide but our Generals do not tell the troop that they will b slaughtered

Should we have terrorist attacks in Canada we have only our politicians to thank for them. They have led us to the brink. When you look around our global community notice that the only countries that have been targeted are those involved with Iraq and Afghanistan. We have chosen to align ourselves with nations that believe in another form of terrorism..

Cheers

I still suppport the mission in Afghanistan, but I do not support the coincidence theories of 9/11 and Iraq sold by the Bush Administration.

That said I only support the Afghan mission if, and it is a big if, if it is coordinated with rooting out the problem in Pakistan otherwise it is a losing cause and we should get out. If our political leaders are to weak to challange the Pakistan General on this issue than they do not deserve the service of Canadian soldiors. To date all our political leaders have been 50 pound weaklings on this issue.

If we can stop the resource flow of terrorism enablers from Pakistan than we have a chance at a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, and if we can stabalize Afghanistan as a strong reliable ally in the region we can use them to bring stability to the entire region as well as connect the entire region in economic growth as a crossroads center of commerce. If not for Pakistan leadership we could have a win-win situation for the entire region and this would be good for global security.