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Giuliani to de Blasio: Put Cops Back in Mosques After Charlie Hebdo Massacre |
2015-01-11 |
[OBSERVER] Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called on current Mayor Bill de Blasio to place NYPD personnel in the citys mosques yesterday, after Islamic Lions of Islam slaughtered the staff of the Gay Pareeian magazine Charlie Hebdo ... ![]() Speaking on Fox News, Mr. Giuliani criticized his successor for ending a two decade-old policy of planting police informants in Moslem houses of worship, and urged him to again assign cops to keep tabs on the religious institutions. The former mayor argued such action was justified because the conspirators behind the 1993 World Trade Center attack met in mosques, and subsequent investigations led to arrest and the conviction of bully boy Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, who hoped to launch attacks in the transit system. The mayor of New York, one of the first things he did was he pulled all of the police out of the mosques. Well, you know who put the police in the mosques? I did. You know who increased the number of police in the mosques? Kelly and Bloomberg, Mr. Giuliani told host Greta Van Susteren. And why did I do it? Because the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 was organized in a mosque. The blind sheikh, who went to jail for a hundred years, was planning to blow up our subways in a mosque. Mr. Giuliani argued that the threat of terrorism today is greater than ever, as exemplified by the massacre in La Belle France. I think it is becoming more difficult for us, he said. I think we have to expect this is going to happen in the United States, I hate to say that. |
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
Israel Arresting Killers, But Letting Instigators Be |
2014-06-29 |
[Ynet] It's time to deal with Nazi-like propaganda and education systems maintained by Paleostinian Authority. The arrest of hard boyz released in the Shalit deal somewhat helped Israel regain its place in the family of sane nations, but getting out of the isolation ward entirely requires us to deal with the Nazi-like propaganda and education systems maintained by the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... in Ramallah, which bear as much responsibility for the kidnapping and murder of Jews as what sent Der Stürmer editor Julius Streicher to the gallows. After the fall of Nazism, those who sought to restore Germany's humanity began in the kindergarten. They replaced the textbooks, closed the partisan press and outlawed any Nazi book, song, symbol and slogan. To this very day, any expression of solidarity with that regime is considered a criminal offense. No one had a doubt as to the casual relation between systematic education to murder and the murder itself. The education and propaganda which go together with the Paleostinian terror are a spitting image of the Goebbels doctrine which laid the foundations for the Holocaust, and they are blooming and thriving under Israel's rule. This suicidal policy was led by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who targeted the murderers and pampered the inciters. In Berlin, one couldn't get hold of "Mein Kampf"; in Jerusalem unrestrictedly. In Nuremberg today, one cannot write that the Jews are an inferior race, while in Ramallah it is obligatory literature to call them "the sons of apes and pigs." In Germany, an Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... Boulevard, a high school named after Heinrich Himmler or a sports competition in memory of Herman Göring are unimaginable. In the Paleostinian Authority, according to the Paleostinian Media Watch, a child can walk on Abu Jihad Street (named after the criminal mastermind of the bus hijacking which left 37 Israelis killed) on his way to Ahmad Yassin School (named after the founder of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,), play soccer as part of a competition in memory of Abdel Basset Uda (who murdered 31) and end his day at a youth club named after Abu Iyad (who was responsible for the murder of Israeli athletes in Munich). At some point, the left re-linked the casual relation between the inciting word and the criminal act, but only in regards to Jews when after the Goldstein massacre and the Rabin murder, they began asking what kind of flowerbeds produced these flowers of evil. However, ars longa, vita brevis... until this very day, they won't ask the same question about the thousands of Jewish victims of Arab terrorism. Had the settlers' radio broadcast something like "the hero prisoner Yigal Amir, who in his patience and strong resistance performed the most respectable acts of heroism," how many minutes would have passed before the police shut down the station and conducted arrests? But these words were broadcast by the Paleostinian television to glorify Nasser Awis, who murdered 14 people, and Israel didn't bat an eyelid. These nights, the IDF is pulling some of the killers out of their beds, but letting those whose words kill be. Why won't those who educate to murder and preach kidnapping be put on trial in Israel too? We learned from former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani that the war on heavy crimes begins in being strict about the smallest sins, and in a place where people are punished for littering, the homicide rate drops too. In nationalistic crimes too, there is one sequence leading from worshipping the martyr to a stone, a knife, kidnapping and murder. Israel is abandoning itself on the diplomatic level too. It is ignoring, for example, the PLO's commitment in the Oslo Accords to act "efficiently and effectively against acts or threats of terrorism, violence or incitement." Do you think, for example, that the government will refuse to hold negotiation as long as Ramallah fails to remove the names of Jews' killers from its streets and institutions and fails to eliminate the incitement in its education and media? |
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Jihad attacks on US not the fault of Islam says CAIR-Michigan Dude |
2010-05-17 |
I've changed his disingenuous title to make it more obvious Recent attempted extremist attacks with international connections should prompt us to take a deeper look at root motives instead of simplistically faulting religion. The tired cries of the un-nuanced, such as former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...Many of these criminal acts are direct blowback in response to our foreign policy missteps. The admitted Times Square attacker, Faisal Shahzad, who is of Pakistani origin and ethnically Pashtun, did not have a history of radicalism up until close to one year ago. Like the overwhelmingly majority of Pakistanis, Shahzad held a sharply negative view of the expansion of drone attacks in the Wazirstan province of Pakistan, which have resulted in a large percentage of civilian causalities. |
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Schwarzenegger stops short of endorsing Giuliani |
2007-03-06 |
![]() Schwarzenegger praised Giuliani's past success battling crime as mayor of New York City and said he wants all of the 2008 presidential candidates to put issues pertinent to California high on their agendas. "You're going to see me with a lot of candidates," said Schwarzenegger, who appeared last month with Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), another presidential hopeful, to call for a nationwide roll-out of California's new low carbon fuel standard. |
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Fifth Column |
Jimmy Carter's Li'l Ol' Stink Tank |
2007-01-04 |
The ex-president's irritating opinions on Mideast matters are one thing. But the funding of his Atlanta think tank by big-money, state-linked Arab sources is quite another and points to a conflict of interest. According to the Carter Center Web site's 2004-05 annual report the most recent available the center has received "in excess of $1 million" from characters like Prince Al-Walid bin Talal. Bin Talal, you might recall, is the Saudi prince who insultingly offered $20 million to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. The cash was held out not because the prince cared about terrorism but to rub in that the attack was really a byproduct of the Palestine conflict. The streetwise Giuliani, who once threw Yasser Arafat out of a New York theater, wasn't fooled by bin Talal's power play and told him to keep his dirty money to himself. Giuliani smelled the quid pro quo and wasn't a man who could be bought. Carter looks a little different. His new book, "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid" lays all the blame on Israel for the Palestinian conflict in an interpretation worthy of a Cairo coffee shop. It is so extreme and so seemingly out of character that a top staffer at the Carter Center resigned in disgust. It may be easy to dismiss Carter's nutty statements about Israel as the ranting of a bitter man in his twilight years. But it's not so easy to look the other way as Arab cash flows into the Carter Center from people known to demand something in return. It is worth noting that the center's anticipated contributions receivable and Carter's anti-Israeli diatribes have both increased dramatically. Carter's foundation has a $200 million endowment, according to Rachel Ehrenfeld, an expert on terrorism, writing in the Washington Times, and the center's own 2004-05 statement says it took in $172 million in donations, with some as high as $25 million. Fat cats who've given $1 million since the center's founding in 1982 (and in the hazy disclosures we don't know how much more) include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, the Saudi Fund for Development and the Government of the United Arab Emirates. Among individuals who donated more than $100,000 in 2004-05, there is His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman, in addition to bin Talal. Among listed "founders" of the center are the king of Saudi Arabia, BCCI scandal banker Agha Hasan Abedi and Arafat pal Hasib J. Sabbagh. All of these contributors have virulently anti-Israel elements, and most have medieval records of opposing and obstructing democracy in their own countries. Maybe someday, in one of those softball interviews he gives, Carter will be asked to reconcile what he supposedly stands for with those from whom he gets his money. |
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Giuliani to Hillary: 'Stop This Blame Thing' |
2006-09-28 |
![]() "I think the comparison is the mistake," Giuliani told NewsMax and other media during a luncheon Wednesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., while on a campaign stop for Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., who is seeking re-election. "I don't think the Clinton people should be saying somehow it's more President Bush's responsibility," Giuliani said when asked about Hillary's recent statements about Sept. 11. On Monday, Sen. Clinton said she defended her husband's outburst on Fox News over criticism he has received for his handling of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. "I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,'" Sen. Clinton said, "he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team." The remark was a direct swipe at President Bush, because in August of 2001 he was given such a report prepared by the CIA. The CIA report, however, never indicated how al-Qaida might strike U.S. targets. "I know President Bush doesn't say that about President Clinton," said Giuliani. "I think the reality is that any American president, if they had known about an attack, would have done everything they could to stop it." The real fault for 9/11, Giuliani says, lies squarely with the Islamic terrorists. He added, "I think we should stop trying to blame our presidents for 9/11." Frequently mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for president in 2008, Giuliani characterized the latest war of words over who is responsible for 9/11 as a distraction. "We should stop this blame thing," he said. "There's no blame to be cast on President Bush or President Clinton." Giuliani added that he thinks we should stop getting distracted by trying to figure out what American is responsible for the terrorist attacks, saying "Americans didn't do Sept. 11, the Islamic terrorists did." In his remarks during the campaign stop, Giuliani credited President Bush's aggressive anti-terror policy for the fact the U.S. has not been attacked since 9/11. "The reality is, thank God, we haven't been attacked in five years," Giuliani said. "None of us thought that was possible. We all thought that after 9/11 we would be attacked. I personally thought that many times." |
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Book: Sept. 11 Panel Doubted Officials |
2006-08-05 |
The condensed version: You go to press with the version you want to sign your name to. The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel's chairmen say in a new book. Republican Thomas Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton also say in "Without Precedent" that their panel was too soft in questioning former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - and that the 20-month investigation may have suffered for it. The book, a behind-the-scenes look at the investigation, recounts obstacles the authors say were thrown up by the Bush administration, internal disputes over President Bush's use of the attacks as a reason for invading Iraq, and the way the final report avoided questioning whether U.S. policy in the Middle East may have contributed to the attacks. In their book, which goes on sale Aug. 15, Kean and Hamilton recap obstacles they say the panel faced in putting out a credible report in a presidential election year, including fights for access to government documents and an effort to reach unanimity. Nice little poison pen to stick into the Administration's back in an off-year election cycle, guys. Also a nice chunk of red meat to toss to the conspiracy loons while our enemies continue to plot against us. We all knew early on that this Commission was a side show designed to appease the rubes, and that no real Truth would be revealed, since the only Truth is that the Allenists have grown in strength and power, desire only the deaths of us all, and used our own foolishnesses against us. |
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Moussaoui Sings and Acts Stoopid in Court |
2006-04-09 |
When the second phase of his sentencing trial opened Thursday, the bearded 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent seemed almost cocky particularly for a man facing a jury that will decide whether he is executed or imprisoned for life. He smiled when prosecutor Rob Spencer reminded jurors that he has displayed no remorse and testified that he was "grateful" to be included in al-Qaida's 9/11 conspiracy. When prosecutors began showing videos of the hijacked jets hitting the gleaming towers of the World Trade Center, Moussaoui smiled. As more angles were shown, he stopped watching and took a few notes. When prosecutors showed video of people who were trapped on the upper floors and jumped more than 80 stories to their deaths, Moussaoui affected an air of boredom, swaying his head from side to side and rolling his eyes. Garbed in a green prison jumpsuit and white knit cap, Moussaoui sits alone at a small table by the wall opposite the jury apart from the court-appointed defense lawyers he despises. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has made clear that outbursts like those for which he became famous during four years of pretrial maneuvering will get him banished to a jail cell with a closed-circuit TV view of the trial. So he has behaved when the court is in session. But when there is a recess, the marshals keep him in place until the judge and jury have left. Invariably during his three strides to the door on leaving, Moussaoui has offered a clipped commentary on events. At first they were muttered, then spoken aloud, later shouted. Midday Thursday after the crash videos, he left singing "Burn in the U.S.A." to the tune of "Born in the U.S.A.," by Bruce Springsteen, one of his favorite singers as a teenager growing up in France. But the emotion-laden testimony about victims changed even Moussaoui's mood. Near the end of two hours of testimony, Giuliani's voice began to quake and break as he discussed his longtime aide, Beth Petrone Hatton, and her firefighter husband, Terence Hatton, a genuine hero of the New York Fire Department who led one of its elite rescue units and had earned 19 medals in 21 years. Giuliani described the "great joy and sadness" he felt when Beth Hatton telephoned him five to 10 days after Terence was killed rescuing people from the trade center with word that she was pregnant. A photo of Giuliani with the Hattons' daughter, Terry, born May 15, 2002, was shown as he testified: "Terry's going to grow up without a father ... without a very special father." Like everyone else in the courtroom, Moussaoui couldn't take his eyes off Giuliani. He was equally attentive the rest of the afternoon as witnesses described other children who lost parents on 9/ll. His expression conveyed interest, but hid any other emotions he might have felt. Leaving court at day's end, he said, "No pain, no gain, America." |
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Giuliani Testifies at Mussaoui Penalty Phase |
2006-04-06 |
Giuliani testifies in Moussaoui trial Thu Apr 6, 2006 12:36 PM ET ![]() ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani described watching desperate people jump from the burning World Trade Center in emotional testimony to a jury that will determine if September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui should die. Jurors and spectators, including relatives of the September 11 victims, also watched a video of two planes hitting the trade center and then about five minutes of footage of people jumping from it. Many spectators gasped and dabbed at tears while watching the video. "I saw several people, I can't remember how many, jumping," Giuliani said as he described his actions that day. "There were two people right near each other. It appeared to me they were holding hands. "Of the many memories, that's one that comes to me every day." Last year, Moussaoui, an admitted al Qaeda member and the only person charged in the United States with the September 11 attacks, pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy. Three of the charges carry the death penalty. On Monday, the 12-person jury found Moussaoui was eligible for the death penalty. The jurors agreed with the government argument that Moussaoui's lies when he was arrested three weeks before the attacks led to the deaths of nearly 3,000 people on September 11. In this final phase of the sentencing trial, jurors will decide if Moussaoui should be sentenced to death or life in prison. This phase will focus more on emotions than the legal arguments of the initial stage of the proceedings. The government is expected to produce dozens of witnesses, including family members of people who died in the hijackings and people who were injured in the attacks, to talk about how they were affected by the hijackings. Giuliani, who won high praise for his handling of the September 11 crisis, was the first major witness to do so. He described where he was that day, what he saw and what he felt. "By the time the second plane hit, we knew for sure it was a terrorist attack," he said. Calling September 11, 2001, "the darkest day in American history," federal prosecutor Robert Spencer told the jurors they needed to sentence Moussaoui to death for his part in the disaster. "Now it's time for you to hear the voices," he said. "In this part of the trial you will hear the voices of the victims." But Gerald Zerkin, one of Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyers, urged jurors to keep an open mind and listen to evidence that the defendant had a mental illness that caused him to be involved in the conspiracy. He called Moussaoui a "wannabe al Qaeda suicide pilot who could not fly and did not have a crew." The government is expected to bring scale models of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center into the courtroom as part of the dramatic effect when they present evidence from victims and witnesses of the attacks. © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. Go fry that bastard! Get 'em Rudi, get 'em! |
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Let the Hurricane Blame Shifting Begin: Landrieu Presses Bush for Aide Coordinator |
2005-09-03 |
Sen. Mary Landrieu called Friday for President Bush to appoint a cabinet-level official to direct the federal response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast caused by Hurricane Katrina. Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, said she asked Bush during his tour of New Orleans on Friday to act within 24 hours to put a single official in charge of the overall relief effort who would report directly to him. ''The suffering has gone on long enough,'' she said. ''Now is the time for action.'' You tell 'em Landrieu. Why this had nothing to do with the ineptitude of the democratic governor, the mayor and police chief. Right? There also were calls from Republicans for Bush to name a prominent official to oversee the recovery effort. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., suggested Giuliani, former Secretary of State Colin Powell or retired Gen. Tommy Franks to take charge. President Bush acknowledged Friday before leaving Washington that ''the results are not acceptable'' and promised that the government would restore order in lawless New Orleans. He has faced increasing criticism from state and local officials for the government's slow response to the disaster. Landrieu joined the chorus Friday. ''The people of Southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast have suffered in a desperate and unprecedented way, waiting for the administration to employ the full resources of the United States government, resources which, for whatever reason, have yet to arrive,'' she said. ''Hopefully, after today's visit, President Bush understands the enormity of our situation here on the ground and will put the full weight of his office behind our recovery efforts,'' she said. Wasn't it President Bush that convinced the lame governor to proclaim a mandatory evaculation? Well, ya Before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported directly to the president. FEMA was folded into the new department and its head now reports to Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, rather than to Bush. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., said Friday he intends to introduce legislation next week to separate FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security and to call for a complete review of FEMA operations. |
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Decontamination Started at Florida Anthrax Building |
2004-07-12 |
Workers began the cleanup on Sunday of a Florida building contaminated by anthrax in a series of incidents that rattled the United States shortly after the Sept 11, 2001 airliner attacks on New York and Washington. Gas pumped into the Boca Raton building that once served as headquarters for supermarket tabloid publisher American Media Inc. was expected to rid it of deadly anthrax spores, which killed a photo editor there and prompted a biological warfare scare nearly three years ago. "It's started," a Boca Raton police dispatcher said of the cleanup. Robert Stevens, a photo editor at the AMI building, was the first of five people to die as a result of anthrax attacks in Florida, New York and the Washington area. Tainted letters were sent to media outlets and to government officials. The three-story AMI building, which housed the National Enquirer and other tabloids, was quarantined in Oct. 2001 and was sold to developer David Rustine for $40,000 in April 2003. In January, Rustine picked Bio-ONE, a partnership between Giuliani Partners, a consulting company headed by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and Sabre Technical Services, to cleanse the building using chlorine dioxide gas. Bio-ONE was expected to use the building as its headquarters when the quarantine is lifted. |
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9/11 Panel Scolds Ex-Police, Fire Chiefs |
2004-05-18 |
The former police and fire chiefs who were lionized after the World Trade Center attack came under harsh criticism Tuesday from the Sept. 11 commission, with one member saying the departmentsâ lack of cooperation was scandalous and "not worthy of the Boy Scouts." Commission members, in New York for an emotional two-day hearing, focused on how leaders of the two departments failed to share information effectively in the early frantic moments after two hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center. Former fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen and former police chief Bernard Kerik shot back with infuriated responses to commissioner John Lehmanâs questions, the strongest of a series of pointed statements from the panel. "I couldnât disagree with you more strongly," Von Essen replied. "I think itâs outrageous that you make a statement like that." Outside the hearing, he called the questioning "despicable." Families of Sept. 11 victims applauded the tough questioning and shook their heads sadly as the panel enumerated a litany of communication breakdowns between the departments. Family members sporadically mocked and booed Von Essen, Kerik and Richard Sheirer, former Office of Emergency Management commissioner, and they wept earlier in the day as they watched videotape of the buildings collapsing. As Von Essen testified, Sally Regenhard â who lost her firefighter son â held up a piece of paper reading: "LIES." Sorry for your loss Sally but get a grip - the intent of the hearing was supposed to be lessons learned not blame game. Congrats you just got suckered by some politico trying to make a name for himself. The 10-member bipartisan panel has been holding hearings over the last year, including high-profile meetings in Washington last month about intelligence failures, to examine what led to the attacks and determine ways to avoid future attacks. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was scheduled to testify at the second day of hearings Wednesday. wonder if billary will be there for that. While the New York hearings â held 1 1/2 miles from ground zero â were meant to examine problems in the cityâs emergency response system, officials also were asked about what they knew about terrorism threats in the months before Sept. 11. The former director of the World Trade Center told the commission that he knew nothing of Osama bin Ladenâs terror network until the summer before the attacks, and was never privy to FBI intelligence that Islamic terrorists might hijack U.S. planes. Alan Reiss said he first heard about bin Ladenâs al-Qaida network when ex-FBI agent John OâNeill was hired in the summer of 2001 as head of security at the trade center. OâNeill, who had hunted bin Laden for years, was one of the 2,749 people killed in the attack. "I was aware of the plot against some of the other Port Authority tunnels and the U.N.," Reiss testified. "But we were never briefed" by the FBI. Reiss also said he was more focused on fending off possible bioterrorism attacks such as anthrax, spending more than $100,000 to protect the building from such an assault. "We felt this (anthrax) was the next coming wave," he said. "We had developed plans on how to isolate the air conditioning system and shut it down but never did we have a thought of what happened on 9-11." Reiss bristled under questioning from commission member Bob Kerrey, who asked him if he is angry that "things might have been different had they (FBI) trusted you enough" to deliver important intelligence. Reiss said he was not angry at the FBI, but rather at "19 people in an airplane," referring to the hijackers. Bingo - quote of the day. Let that sink in Kerrey, yes, I respect your MOH to the max but your still an asshole Kerrey said he shared Reissâ anger. "These 19 people ... defeated the INS, they defeated the Customs (Department), they defeated the FBI, they defeated the CIA, But Kerrey said he was more concerned that "we may not be delivering the key intelligence, the facts, the information" to the first responders. Later, the miscommunication was termed "a scandal" by Lehman, who then complained it was "not worthy of the Boy Scouts, let alone this great city." Hindsight is always 20/20. I am pissed that this seems to be turning into a witchhunt. No one could of saw this scenario on 10 Sept 2001 - time for everyone to take a deep breath and remember weâre all on the same damn team. |
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