[ILUG] [OT] FYI: Newsflash

[Glen Gray]

I was up most of the night so followed alot of the footage. Seems that
it was a helicopter attack.

On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 00:20, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
> 
> > a total of four have collapsed if i've heard correctly.  wtc[127] and
> > another one.  not quite helpful info.
> 
> > astounding?  for dubya and company?  it wouldn't astound me.  
> > however there's a possibility that it's related to the civil war
> > in afganistan.
> 
> it's possible. however, from commentary, the front line of 
> Afghanistan's civil war is 50km away from Kabul.
> 
> neither side has airplanes, so why would there be ack-ack into the 
> sky over kabul if this was a product of the civil war?
> 
> > apparently the group opposing the taliban was attacked yesterday
> > so what's happening in kabul might be related to that.  the fact
> > that they directly nailed an ammunition dump right off (as
> > opposed to say, oh, a chinese embassy) seems to be an indication
> > of non us military involvement...
> 
> fingers crossed...
> 
> > wwiii at linux.ie?
> 
> eek.
> 
> let's hope not. and there's no reason for one. no build-up of 
> international tension. so i doubt there'll be a WWIII.
> 
> course, with that simpleton at the helm, eager to provide 'firm'
> leadership to the many americans who are baying for blood, who
> knows...
> 
> Gavrilo Princip, firing 2 shots, killed Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and
> his wife in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. Austria-Hungary (a mighty empire
> then)  decided that it needed to "get tough" with its sometimes
> troublesome neighbour and, based upon circumstantial evidence,
> declared war on Serbia that same day, and launched an attack the
> next.
> 
> In less than a week, Belgium was overrun and Austria-Hungary, Serbia,
> Germany, Russia, France and Britain were at war.
> 
> ah.. but who cares about history anyway - let's get tough with those
> bothersome arabs.
> 
> > kevin
> 
> regards,
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