The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: txradioguy on September 11, 2020, 05:39:05 am
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Timeline of Events September 11, 2001
7:58 am - United Airlines Flight 175 departs Boston for Los Angeles,
7:58 am - United Airlines Flight 175 departs Boston for Los Angeles carrying 56 passengers, two pilots, and seven flight attendants. The Boeing 767 is hijacked after takeoff and diverted to New York.
7:59 am - American Airlines Flight 11 departs Boston for Los Angeles, carrying 81passengers, two pilots, and nine flight attendants. This Boeing 767 is also hijacked and diverted to New York.
8:01 am - United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 carrying 38 passengers, two pilots, and five flight attendants, leaves Newark, N.J., for San Francisco.
8:10 am - American Airlines Flight 77 departs Washington's Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles,
carrying 58 passengers, two pilots, and four flight attendants. The Boeing 757 is hijacked after takeoff.
8:46 am - American Flight 11 from Boston crashes into the North Tower at the World Trade Center.
9 am - President Bush arrives at Sarasota, Fla., school for speech. White House chief of staff Andrew Card tells him
a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
9:03 am - United Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the South Tower at the World Trade Center.
- U.S. Federal Aviation Administration shuts down all New York area airports.
9:05 am - President Bush is visiting a second-grade class when Card whispers to him that a second plane
has struck the towers. President delays plans to address the tragedy, deciding to get more information first.
9:21 am - Bridges and tunnels leading into New York City are closed.
9:25 am - All domestic flights are grounded by U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
9:30 am - President Bush meets privately with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who briefs him.
He delivers first remarks on the tragedy and asks for a moment of silence for the victims and their families.
9:45 am - American Flight 77 crashes into The Pentagon.
10 am - Aboard Air Force One en route to Louisiana, President Bush calls Vice President Dick Cheney
and puts America's military on a high alert status. Sifts through reports
from staff, including an erroneous report that a car bomb had struck the State Department.
Gets news that a plane has crashed near Pittsburgh.
10:05 am - The South Tower at the World Trade Center collapses.
10:05 am - The White House is evacuated.
10:10 am - A large section of one side of The Pentagon collapses.
10:10 am - United Flight 93 crashes in a wooded area in Pennsylvania, after passengers confront hijackers.
One passenger, Todd Beamer, calls his wife on a cell phone and tells her of the plan to overpower the hijackers.
The connection remains open after Beamer puts the phone down.
Lisa Beamer hears her husband tell the other passengers “Let’s roll†signaling the start of the attack.
10:28 am - The North Tower at the World Trade Center collapses.
11:40 am - President Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., where he makes a series
of telephone calls from a general's conference room. Tells Cheney in telephone call, "It's the faceless coward that attacks."
He also talks to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and New York Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
1 pm - President Bush speaks to the country from a briefing room at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. (text below)
“I want to reassure the American people that the full resources of the federal government are working to assist
local authorities to save lives and to help the victims of these attacks. Make no mistake: The United States
will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts.
I've been in regular contact with the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, the national security team
and my Cabinet. We have taken all appropriate security precautions to protect the American people.
Our military at home and around the world is on high alert status, and we have taken
the necessary security precautions to continue the functions of your government.
We have been in touch with the leaders of Congress and with world leaders to assure them
that we will do whatever is necessary to protect America and Americans.
I ask the American people to join me in saying a thanks for all the folks who have been fighting hard to rescue our fellow citizens
and to join me in saying a prayer for the victims and their families.
The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake: We will show the world that we will pass this test. God Bless.â€
1:15 pm - President Bush departs conference room for Air Force One in a camouflaged Humvee.
Talks to Cheney again en route to Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska and
schedules a 4 p.m. meeting of his national security staff. Also talks to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani
and Gov. George Pataki. "I know your heart is broken and your city is strained
and anything we can do, let me know," Bush says.
3:07 pm - President Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
4:36 pm - President Bush departs for Washington. En route, he calls first lady Laura Bush and
says, "I'm coming home, see you at the White House." Works with aides on his prime-time speech.
6 pm (approx) - Leaders and members from both sides of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate make a joint statement
on the attacks and end the press conference with the singing of “God Bless Americaâ€.
7 pm - President Bush arrives at White House to prepare for address.
8:30 pm - President Bush speaks to nation from The Oval Office (text below).
“Good evening. Today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate
and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices:
secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors.
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing
have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed.
Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation.
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and
opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.
Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature, and we responded with the best of America,
with the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors
who came to give blood and help in any way they could.
Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans.
Our military is powerful, and it's prepared. Our emergency teams are working in
New York City and Washington, D.C., to help with local rescue efforts.
Our first priority is to get help to those who have been injured and to take every
precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the world from further attacks.
The functions of our government continue without interruption. Federal agencies in Washington
which had to be evacuated today are reopening for essential personnel tonight
and will be open for business tomorrow.
Our financial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will be open for business as well.
The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts.
I've directed the full resources for our intelligence and law enforcement communities
to find those responsible and bring them to justice.
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.
I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks.
And on behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences and assistance.
America and our friends and allies join with all those who want peace
and security in the world and we stand together to win the war against terrorism.
Tonight I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered,
for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a
power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in
Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me."
This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice
and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time.
None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.
Thank you. Good night and God Bless America.â€
8:35 pm - Bush attends national security meeting.
10:21 pm - Meeting has ended. Secret Service radio squawks with news
that Bush has gone home to bed: "Trailblazer…Second floor of the residence."
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This year we also remember Ambassador Chris Stevens, former Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean Smith, former PO1 Navy SEAL Glen Doherty and SCPO (ret) former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, killed in the 9/11/2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
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FOX News 9-11-2001 Live Coverage 8:46 A.M E.T - 5:00 P.M E.T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ByJjeJ3mM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ByJjeJ3mM)
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This years graduating seniors are the group that were all born after 9/11. Their touchstones are the Boston Marathon bombing, the war on terror, and now the Covid -19.
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Where is the time hack for the federal agencies refusing to share information that would have been used to prevent 911?
Where is the time hack that showed the hundreds of times the department of state ignored border security and passport fraud?
Nothing in the time hack that shows how 300 million of americans are treated like criminals so we don't offend the muzzies.... groping at the airports, government building closed to civilians, metal detection at public facilities...
Time to stop ringing bells and reading names....
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The man jumping out of the Towers will forever give me nightmares. I believe he landed on a pedestrian too.
Poor guy had to choose between burning to death or jumping. That truly is the stuff of nightmares.
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Facebook & it's rodent-like CEO recently blocked a friend of mine from posting images of the attack.
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Facebook & it's rodent-like CEO recently blocked a friend of mine from posting images of the attack.
What could they object too?
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What could they object too?
I believe the message from FB mentioned 'misleading info'.
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‘Let’s roll’: The heroic final moments of United Flight 93 on 9/11
By Michael Kaplan
September 11, 2020 | 7:13amFour commercial jets were hijacked on September 11. Only one did not meet its target. As chronicled in “History 9/11: The Final Minutes of Flight 93,†airing Friday at 8 p.m. on History, the bravery of passengers and crew aboard the United Airlines flight from Newark to San Francisco, prevented death, heartache, destruction. Heroic Americans, they stopped terrorists from flying into the Capitol building. Instead, as they fought for control, the plane crashed into a field near rural Shanksville, Pa., at 10:03 a.m.
Duncan Bulling, director of the documentary, worked with audio forensics specialist Ed Primeau to analyze cockpit recordings that give a fuller picture of what happened.
“What those people did was such an amazing act of courage,†Bulling told The Post. “They fought against the odds to stop an airplane from crashing into the Capitol building.†...
Beamer and other passengers attacked the cockpit door with a food and drinks trolley.
They eventually broke through. Loved ones who heard the audio recall the melee in the cockpit, with pitched combat for the controls. “Jarrah,†says the doc’s narrator, “turns the plane upside down.â€
Flight 93 nosedived toward ground at more than 500 miles per hour. It crashed at 10:03 and 10 seconds. ...
New York Post (https://nypost.com/2020/09/11/documentary-tells-new-details-of-9-11-flight-93-heroics/)
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Where is the time hack for the federal agencies refusing to share information that would have been used to prevent 911?
Where is the time hack that showed the hundreds of times the department of state ignored border security and passport fraud?
Nothing in the time hack that shows how 300 million of americans are treated like criminals so we don't offend the muzzies.... groping at the airports, government building closed to civilians, metal detection at public facilities...
Time to stop ringing bells and reading names....
Time to stop bringing this into the memorial thread I created. You want to ask those questions...start your own thread. This isn’t the day...this isn’t the thread.
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What could they object too?
The photos I posted that were blurred out were because of “graphic violenceâ€
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(https://i.imgur.com/BQebZ7l.jpg)
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Facebook & it's rodent-like CEO recently blocked a friend of mine from posting images of the attack.
The photos I posted that were blurred out were because of “graphic violenceâ€
That is exactly what FB is doing. Saw it last night on a friends 'Never Forget" post. The tower being hit was blacked out and under it FB wrote; "This photo was automatically covered so you can decide if you want to see it".
Well you know what, there is no excuse for that BS. You can't have a safe place from pure evil. Make me sick.
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Time to stop bringing this into the memorial thread I created. You want to ask those questions...start your own thread. This isn’t the day...this isn’t the thread.
So, if your base security folks had info that would prevent an attack on the base but did not share it and resulted in the death of half your base, you think it is ok to sit around once a year and ring the bell, read the names and not toss in prison those "employees" that with held the information for selfish purposes?
You don't want to ask those questions to make sure it never happened again?
No wonder we are where we are... we never learn because PC keeps us silent..
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So, if your base security folks had info that would prevent an attack on the base but did not share it and resulted in the death of half your base, you think it is ok to sit around once a year and ring the bell, read the names and not toss in prison those "employees" that with held the information for selfish purposes?
You don't want to ask those questions to make sure it never happened again?
No wonder we are where we are... we never learn because PC keeps us silent..
Not the day Ed. Last warning.
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Not the day Ed. Last warning.
@EdinVA @txradioguy
For what little it is worth,I am with Ed on this one. Your thread and you have every right to manage it as you wish,but I honestly don't understand why you are objecting to his comments.
Seems like "peanut butter and jelly" to me.
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@EdinVA @txradioguy
For what little it is worth,I am with Ed on this one. Your thread and you have every right to manage it as you wish,but I honestly don't understand why you are objecting to his comments.
Seems like "peanut butter and jelly" to me.
I have a thread over here...post what you want.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,413329.msg2280522.html#msg2280522 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,413329.msg2280522.html#msg2280522)
I agree with @txradioguy on this. Innocent people were slaughtered. We should give them that respect.
@EdinVA @sneakypete
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@EdinVA @txradioguy
For what little it is worth,I am with Ed on this one. Your thread and you have every right to manage it as you wish,but I honestly don't understand why you are objecting to his comments.
Seems like "peanut butter and jelly" to me.
And yet what he was saying was totally inappropriate for this thread.
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And yet what he was saying was totally inappropriate for this thread.
Ya wanna see a pic of graphic violence check out the Member's Lounge.
I am pissed.
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Not the day Ed. Last warning.
This isn't how to respond to a post he said nothing to warrant a *warning*....PM from Ed..he has left the forum
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This isn't how to respond to a post he said nothing to warrant a *warning*....PM from Ed..he has left the forum
There will be more. People telling other members to take a hike doesn't sit with me. I don't want an echo chamber.
Whether you agree, disagree, are out to just be an a-hole, like me, let freedom post.
There is a tremendous amount of censorship going on, imo, on all platforms. Don't, please, do that here.
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Not the day Ed. Last warning.
Agree @txradioguy not the day to lay blame or fault but rather a day to pay respect to those lives that were lost on the anniversary of one of the most tragic days in the history of our country.
GOD BLESS THE U.S.A. :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
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There will be more. People telling other members to take a hike doesn't sit with me. I don't want an echo chamber.
Whether you agree, disagree, are out to just be an a-hole, like me, let freedom post.
There is a tremendous amount of censorship going on, imo, on all platforms. Don't, please, do that here.
I ignore a lot of things here but I don't like members giving other members a *warning* that is my job..lol
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And yet what he was saying was totally inappropriate for this thread.
@txradioguy
Like I wrote earlier,your thread,do what you want with it. I have already written all I have to say on this subject.
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PM from Ed..he has left the forum
@mystery-ak
Damn shame! I,for one,am going to miss his posts. If you would be so kind as to ask him to reconsider and come back,please feel free to mention me as asking you to do this. Don't know if that would help or hurt,but feel free to try it.
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This isn't how to respond to a post he said nothing to warrant a *warning*....PM from Ed..he has left the forum
Please stay @EdinVA Please.
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There will be more. People telling other members to take a hike doesn't sit with me. I don't want an echo chamber.
Whether you agree, disagree, are out to just be an a-hole, like me, let freedom post.
There is a tremendous amount of censorship going on, imo, on all platforms. Don't, please, do that here.
@bigheadfred
Let freedom ring! PREACH IT,FRED!
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I ignore a lot of things here but I don't like members giving other members a *warning* that is my job..lol
@mystery-ak
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/Smileys/default/thumbs-up01b.png (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/Smileys/default/thumbs-up01b.png)
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....hmmm..... anyone want to head on over to the lounger for pie?
Apple Pie today!!
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....hmmm..... anyone want to head on over to the lounger for pie?
Apple Pie today!!
@libertybele
Thanks for the reminder! I have a coconut creme pie in my refrigerator that I bought a week or so ago,and had forgotten all about it.
You know you are getting old when you start forgetting about pies.
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@libertybele
Thanks for the reminder! I have a coconut creme pie in my refrigerator that I bought a week or so ago,and had forgotten all about it.
You know you are getting old when you start forgetting about pies.
:rolling: Indeed -- hopefully it's still good.
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:rolling: Indeed -- hopefully it's still good.
I don't think I've ever met a piece of pie I didn't like.
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Hey don't get off message. Remember, some people did something that day. -Jihad Spice
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Good and Evil in a Dublin Pub
Remembering 9/11 by C. C. Pecknold
9 . 12 . 16
Fifteen years ago yesterday, my friend Karl and I caught a Ryan Air flight from London Stansted to Dublin.
We arrived around noon, and made our way to Cobblestones Pub on the Northside of Dublin in Smithfield, just over the River Liffey. ...
As the only Americans in the pub, it must have seemed strange that we weren't watching TV. At some point before 2pm, someone came over to us with a kind intervention. There had just been a plane crash in New York we should see.
Like everyone else we were horrified. ...
I recall being overwhelmed with grief. We were not alone. Minutes before we were strangers, but the Irish pub-goers made us the focus of their own yearning for the Good. We didn't pay for another pint of Guinness. I don't think we paid for our lunch. This was not a day for economic exchange. On this horrific day, there would be charity, maybe not for the whole human family, but right there, in that pub, with a couple dozen people, there would be charity as we witnessed a horrific evil. ...
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/09/good-and-evil-in-a-dublin-pub (https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/09/good-and-evil-in-a-dublin-pub)
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@mystery-ak
Damn shame! I,for one,am going to miss his posts. If you would be so kind as to ask him to reconsider and come back,please feel free to mention me as asking you to do this. Don't know if that would help or hurt,but feel free to try it.
I asked him, but he hasn't responded yet. I hope he comes back, he made really good points and added a lot to the Forum.
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I asked him, but he hasn't responded yet. I hope he comes back, he made really good points and added a lot to the Forum.
He needs to learn to have a tougher skin on forums like this. And to also know when to back off.
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He needs to learn to have a tougher skin on forums like this. And to also know when to back off.
He intends to learn that somewhere else. I will miss him.
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He intends to learn that somewhere else. I will miss him.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself a question... is the F'n you get is worth the F'n you get? This place ain't like a relationship with a women... but it still applies. I have been served with divorce papers from this place several times in the past and a few other "No Contact Orders". (after the judge said I said something about @Cyberliberty Blah Blah Blah.)
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He needs to learn to have a tougher skin on forums like this. And to also know when to back off.
Still at it.
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Still at it.
Let it go.
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He intends to learn that somewhere else. I will miss him.
I will also! It's a damned shame he decided to leave.
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Let it go.
Looks like you forgot a "cc" on your virtue signal @Wingnut Very disappointing. **nononono*