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9/11 anniversary

cusm

00:28 / 06.09.02

So who else thinks some shit is going to be blown up this year on the anniversary of the 9/11 attack? Any bets? I put my money on the invasion of Iraq beginning early that morning.

Hieronymus

02:16 / 06.09.02

Doubtful. The timing would be obnoxiously over-the-top and even Republican insiders like Jim Baker are telling Dubya it would be foolish to go it alone. Won't happen without support and that support is not very likely. Guess he'll have to take a defibrilator to the War on Drugs or something.

sleazenation

07:29 / 06.09.02

as it was pointed out on the BBC news website amateurs talk tattic professionals talk logistics. America doesn't currently have the infrastructure for an invasion of iraq - the earliest they can get it is November - during the mid term elections - then there is the holy month of ramadan which i think ebven the bush administration would be at pains to avoid - then christmas (how about that as a present for the families of service men - the lose o f a family member, cos make no mistake about it a land invasion will be necessar to oust hussain and that means American casualties.) - The eariest and likliest time i see for an invasion happening is January.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

07:43 / 06.09.02

I think you might want to look in the other direction for trouble that day. Be a big coup to score another hit on the US or the UK on the anniversary of the Twin Towers. I was seriously thinking that I'd rather not be in London, but I've got a lunch...

I think it would be a grave error on the part of Bin Laden et al to come after a target in Europe - that would close the book on European objections to the War On Terror instantly, I fear: no amount of reason would stand up to public opinion if London got hit next week. We'd be in for the duration.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:14 / 06.09.02

I don't think someone who is willing (if you believe the US and UK Governments) to direct planes to be flown in to skyscrapers is going to worry much about whether it's a sound trategy to attempt something similar. I mean, it's not like it's going to be "We were prepared to let things lie after the WTC fell, but now he's blown up the British Houses of Parliament that's just one step too far!"

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:21 / 06.09.02

Destitute... (if I may call yout that)...Won't happen without support and that support is not very likely"...

big airstrike today. Us democratic countries seem to have forgotten how the principle we try to uphold actually works...

I'm gonna be in London. I have to be... I think there will be stuff in the papers that night, even if nothing happens, and I get paid to read 'em...

Have to admit to at least a background level of paranoia that day, though.

Hieronymus

20:24 / 06.09.02

Grrrr. Does anybody have a link to info on the airstrikes? He's dallying with it I know. But Clinton did too at one time without waving his saber and scream for a full-on 'regime topping' conflict.

The stupid bastard. He has no idea the political vacuum he'll create if he wages a full-scale war on Iraq, not the mention the upheaval in Islamic states if America goes on its crusade without Emerate, much less EU support. Muslim extremists will go apeshit.

I swear, this John Wayne arrogance is going to get us all killed.

Tom Coates

09:19 / 11.09.02

As ever with anniversaries and the days following difficult events, I am utterly unworried about something unpleasant happening today in London. Utterly. The sheer level of attention that is lavished on dates like this in terms of people being alert, nervous and the security forces being active mean to me that there is NO day that's probably safer than this one. And still, in a city of several million people, even a tragedy like September 11 only would directly kill a tiny tiny proportion of the people in the country. It's almost arrogant or superstitious to think that you'd be one of them... And I'm working here almost directly under the shadow of Centrepoint and Oxford Street. Short of a massive nerve gas release or a nuclear strike, I think we're basically ok...

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