Re: USA Disaster

Sorry guys, but there are many of us on this list which has been dedicated
to postgres type of Q/A.
I know that this is a frontpage news at many places, but as far as this list
is concerned, it's a spam.
Could you please find another forum to discuss these issues?

Thanx

>
> Most of New York is in shock and so is the rest of the world, I might add.
>
> Information is pretty confuse at this time. I had heard before that there
> were at least 40,000 people at the WTC at the moments of the crashes, not
> 20,000. It's been reported that there were at least 300 people on the
> planes. Ant it seems that at the moment of the collapse of the first tower
> there were hundres of firemen and paramedics inside the building. The
losses
> are almost countless.
>
> USA will certainly fire a retaliation act somewhere in the world againt
the
> terrorists, once it finds out who are them. That scares me because it
really
> can start a war. But I don't think any country will be brave enough to
claim
> responsability for the act. If the one to blame is really Osama Bin Laden
I
> don't know what USA can do, since it has been after Osama for years now
and
> never got even near him.
>
> I have also heard that maybe the army will take over the control of the
> country, putting Bush aside. Just don't know if that can really happen...
>
>
> Carlos Felipe Zirbes
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Mahoney [mailto:ryan(at)paymentalliance(dot)net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:04 PM
> To: Manuel Cabido
> Cc: Carlos Felipe Zirbes; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] USA Disaster
>
>
> I recommend checking out cnn.com, bbc, or even slashdot. I don't know
> anything more than you can read online.
>
> > Can you give us a brief of what really happened out there?
> Two hi-jacked (sp?) planes were crashed into each of the two 110 story
> World Trade Center buildings in downtown Manhattan. Both building have
> completely collapsed into themselves. About 20,000 people where in the
> buildings at the times of the two crashes.
>
> > How many people have died?
> I don't think anyone knows for certain just yet. It must have been very
> difficult to evacuate those buildings, and there was no warning before the
> first crash happened. The number of casualties will be very high.
>
> > What is now the prevailing condition of the place?
> They have been erased from the skyline. It is surreal to look towards
> Manhattan and not see them.
>
> > Had there been leads as to the motive of the attacks?
> I don't think there is any consensus here. There is some suspicion of
> Palestinian terrorists. I believe there was supposed to be a rally in
> downtown Manhattan near city hall (today? or next week?), which would have
> possibly been the largest group (150,000) of North American Jews gathered
> in the US.
>
> Personally I am not knowledgeable re: issues and tension that exists
> between these groups. Everything seems quiet now (there have been sirens
> and airplanes through most of the day) - I think most of New York is in
> complete shock.
>
> -r
>
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