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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
We think alike. When my driver told me a plane went into tower one I thought a small plane made some serious miscalculations. When he said another plane hit the second tower it got my attention that this was more than minor incident.
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Did they really say in detail the type of plane?Like I said in my post the local AFN radio DJ actually did say "a small private aircraft"(this probably just before the second plane hit when we where hearing this on AFN) only which resulted in my friend and I commenting on poor or confused piloting skills.When we saw the Tsgt with the THREATCON DELTA placards the idea that it was related to WTC was pretty far from our minds we at first thought it was another attack on a military target some where like the USS Cole (which it also turned out to be) so we weren't even thinking of the World Trade Center at first thanks to the incorrect first report.I guess it depended the media outlet.
From Penguin "Later during the night, rocket attacks on Afghan camps were shown - does anybody remember this? We felt as if some retaliation already started."
I am almost certain that you must have been seeing some old news footage of the cruise missile strikes that where done in the late 90' early 2000 after USS Cole and the embassy bombings.A very "special" unit that does "special" things had a building near my old shop on base if something would have happened we would have known.I can say that some "special" guys started showing up at the "special" place on the 12th and they had long hair and wore civilian clothes and one had been in Somalia back in 1993 with Delta.