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Talk:September 11, 2001 attacks (view source)
Revision as of 01:52, April 18, 2007
, 01:52, April 18, 2007no edit summary
::It's rather interesting to watch the first clips from each of the networks; just another news day, then they're not sure what's going on with the first tower explosion, then the reactions as the second tower gets hit. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 14:13, 17 April 2007 (EDT)
::It's rather interesting to watch the first clips from each of the networks; just another news day, then they're not sure what's going on with the first tower explosion, then the reactions as the second tower gets hit. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 14:13, 17 April 2007 (EDT)
==Rewrite, et al==
I'm not going to do a re-write of Myk's re-write, but (this is constructive criticism, mind you) I feel it is rather week. So, my suggestion is to arrange in new subheadings, and fill them with the detail required. The subheadings are in this order:
*Introductory paragraph
*'''Prelude'''
**This subheading describes the events and situations which led to 9/11, up to the arrival at the airport of the terrorists.
*'''The first plane'''
*'''the second plane'''
*'''the third plane'''
*'''the fourth plane'''
::I'm sure these subheadings will be changed in favor of, say "United Flight 73", etc, but you want where the flight originated from, number of passengers onboard, and which target it hit. Special attention should be paid to the flight that hit the wheatfield in Pennsylvania, as there was an attempted take-over by the passengers.
*'''The Targets'''
**'''World Trade Center One'''
**'''World Trade Center Two'''
**'''The Pentagon'''
**'''The White House?'''
:This can go into detail on each one, as to when they were hit, number of people killed, in the case of WTC when each tower collapsed. I put a question mark by the White House, as it may have been a target, but the plane involved went down near Shankville, PA.
*'''Immediate reaction'''
:What the country was doing within hours of the attacks: the military on alert; all flights canceled, with those in the air ordered to land; the scrambling of fighters, the evacuation of the White House and Capitol, etc.
**'''President Bush's reaction'''
:Bush was in a school in Florida, engaged in a reading assignment for kids when he was told the news of WTC. Then he was on a flight not to Washington, but to a base in Louisiana.
*'''Identity of the terrorists'''
:Mohammed Atta should be the only one mentioned, plus a brief history of where he was in the Mid East in connection with his training; plus the indentity of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
*'''Afghanistan'''
:Bush ordered Mullah Omar to turn over bin Laden and dismantle his training camps or face armed attack, which of course happened.
*'''Aftermath'''
:This can be further divided in conquest of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban; alleged connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq; heath issues relative to WTC; the plans for rebuilding the WTC; repairs to the Pentagon; memorials, etc.
What do you think? [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 21:52, 17 April 2007 (EDT)