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9/11

Kamangir | September 10, 2006 | Category Iran

September 11 was an impact. Nobody seems to reject that, except for those who compare the death toll to other “bigger” incidents. It was indeed huge and shocking, both for the public and for individuals. While the first one makes people get engaged in hot debates, I am more interested in the small personal effects. On September 10 we went to my dad’s office to arrange everything for his important visitor. A top engineer from a German company was in Iran and my dad had asked him to visit his company. He was positive that it can lead to a type of contract between him and the huge manufacturer. On September 12, we were waiting for the VIP to come, all in our best suits. And he didn’t. Calling his hotel and then his office in Germany we found out that he had fled the country for safety.

I am sure many people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and even Israel have their own stories of how the agitation of the world affairs affected their daily lives. Attacking a country at its heart, while it’s proud of its success; that’s not something happening everyday.

I’m not sure if this picture is fake or not. Even if no one captured it, there sure were people jumping out windows. I think many people very far from the twins ablaze had to jump out of safety and head for an unknown territories.

The pictures are from here (see).

Reader's Comments

Rebecca | September 10th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
No, unfortunately, the photos of people falling from the WTC are not faked, although they were generally not printed in the U.S. newspapers. Shortly after the attacks, I watched a documentary on television - it was footage of a couple of filmmakers who had been following a firefighter crew around in order to make a film of them. They were filming on September 11. One of the things that’s shown on the film is that you see the firefighters fleeing underneath a walkway that has a roof on it - and you hear the impact of bodies hitting the roof. Very eerie and sad.
Mika | September 11th, 2006 at 2:30 am
“Attacking a country when it’s proud of its success”, true. But you have to have a longer memory than 5 years. While terrorist attacks in any forms are cowardish acts and should be stopped, nobody seems to be thinking about the origins of such acts. The American government (and people) should stop hiding their heads in the snow and think a bit. As far as I can see, all the terrorist mess in this world is the direct consequence of the short-sighted American foreign policy around the world. They make money or achieve success quickly, on the expense of other peoples’ bloods, and then expect everyone to forget about them.
kamangir | September 11th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Rebecca,
Thanks for the update.
kamangir | September 11th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Mika,
That’s when we look at the problem form the perspective of giant powers. I agree with a part of your argument. However, can you show me a powerful government which has not tried to earn more power through attacking others?
Any way, I was thinking about individuals caught in between what you may find a war. I doubt many of them did see the connection there.
moif | September 11th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
…nobody seems to be thinking about the origins of such acts. The American government (and people) should stop hiding their heads in the snow and think a bit. As far as I can see, all the terrorist mess in this world is the direct consequence of the short-sighted American foreign policy around the world.

Odd. It seems to me that this is ALL people are thinking about these days.

…further more, I find it a curious perspective that believes so much violence and hatred emanates solely from the actions and policies of the United States without ever once stopping to also consider that the Islamic world has been in direct conflict with European civilisation since the day it was founded.

…that ‘holy war’ is not a new concept, but in fact is far older than the nation known as the USA …and even far older than the religion known as Islam!

Its a shame that so much attention and blame is put upon the United States for no other nation in the history of the human race has done more to liberate and protect people from tyranny.
kamangir | September 11th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
I do not like your last sentence very much.
moif | September 12th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Why not?
kamangir | September 15th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
I suggest that we do not remember many US attampts in the world which are not very well explainable, like the US-led coup against the Iranian prime minister Mosadeq.
moif | September 16th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
I see your point, and I suppose the fact that I’ve hardly even heard of Mosadeq further serves to illustrate the validity of what you are saying… but

There is always a but isn’t there…

I have to balance the good against the bad when I consider other countries (I mean other than my own) and draw my conclusions on what I understand. I know that the USA is guilty of many crimes, but which country is not? If I look at the bad aspects of the USA and compare them to the good, then I feel the good that the USA has brought about in the world, considerably out weighs the bad.

That isn’t to say I completely forgive the USA for all it has done, but it does mean I am sensible of what benefits it has brought, especially to its allies. Maybe I am too biased to see it any other way, but the imsple truth is, I would not even have been born if the USA had not liberated my nation and protected it from the Soviet Union.

…and now I am going got look up Mosadeq on Wikipedia.

Take care dude!
kamangir | September 18th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
I see your point. His name is also spelled as “Mosadegh”. Please see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosadegh