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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Was anyone in China during 9/11?
china government did not put 911 in the papers for 2 weeks in beijing, life went on as normal, they eventually had to make some comments, china has no friends and had no reason to care at all. the ostrich in the hole. china people put thousands of flowers and cards around the fence of the US embassy.<
an interesting read sometimes http://www.comw.org/rma/fulltext/0210malik.pdf /p>
No, that was before my time but I had some friends who were.
Why? Very pointless question for something that happened 15 years ago. You might as well ask if anyone was here at the time of the Oklahoma bombing!
Englteachted:
Come on man, I'm just asking some trolling questions to try and increase traffic then I'll post a question asking why the old timers are getting sick of this place?
@Hotwater because I was watching a documentary on 9/11 and I was flooded with memories of where I was when the planes hit. I was in 2nd period art class, 7th grade, nowhere near New York. We had the TV on because the 1st tower was on fire after the first plane hit. We thought it was just some idiot that didn't know how to fly mistakingly flew into the building. We watched live was the second plane hit, and all knew it was not a mistake. The kid sitting next to me said "Awesome!" because he was probably shocked and didn't understand the situtation, and my teacher really went into him, saying "People are dying in those towers. This is not awesome. This is going to change your life and you will never forget were you were this morning." He was right.
I was just curious what the response was here in China.
Also, the Oklahoma bombing did not have anywhere near the same global impact as 9/11.
Hotwater:
Fair enough. Interesting reading the later replies. Seems it was ignored or downplayed here in China.
I was in work that day, in the UK. One of the guys had the BBC rolling news widget on his PC. So told us all about the first plane. Myself and a lot of colleagues saw the 2nd one hit live. Wasn't much work down that day as we were shocked that something like that could happen.
china government did not put 911 in the papers for 2 weeks in beijing, life went on as normal, they eventually had to make some comments, china has no friends and had no reason to care at all. the ostrich in the hole. china people put thousands of flowers and cards around the fence of the US embassy.<
an interesting read sometimes http://www.comw.org/rma/fulltext/0210malik.pdf /p>
I was on the boat to Nantucket with my newly assembled bike.
There was couple sitting on the opposite side of the boat's bench. She answered the phone, telling to her hubby about the conversation:
'It's your mum..She said, plane crashed .....'
Early morning hours and I was half asleep, thinking about 'horrible accident....' and 'how many people could be in the building so early....'.
When she answered the phone second time 20' later, I walked away and deemed couple as mentally unstable....
Boat landed on Nantucket and I was ridding around and adjusting my new machine whole day. Some swimming with late afternoon return to the Port.
There was park in circle in Port with benches and some 8 or 10 telis outside on the high stalls.
There, I watched the first report from Manhattan....
icnif77:
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/may/29/rogue-justice-review-george-bush-september-11
Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University in New York. She begins her book with the astonishing intelligence failure that may have made 9/11 possible.
An FBI field agent in Minneapolis had filed a report about Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent who had paid $8,300 in cash to get time on a flight academy’s 747 simulator. As part of a request for a search warrant to examine Moussaoui’s computer – after agents had jailed him when they discovered he had overstayed his visa – the agent wrote: “This is a guy who could fly an airplane into the World Trade Center.”
It turned out that the computer contained what Greenberg calls a “trove of information” about the hijackers and their plans. The FBI, however, only found that out after the 9/11 attacks.
Washington never acted on the agent’s request for a warrant, which required the approval of the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court. But the court never even received a request for the warrant, because a Fisa judge had accused the FBI of “routinely lying in the affidavits used to obtain court orders, and agents had become unwilling to stick out their necks by approaching the court for the warrants it could issue”.
I was here when 9/11 happened
I fell asleep with the tv on,I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was on tv.
RobRocks:
I was living in Nanshan (Shenzhen) there was a dorm where all the teachers lived,this was my 1st kindergarten job.
How ironic, i was just talking to my wife about 9/11 yesterday and if she knew about the event, she said she knew nothing about it, OH CHINA HAHAHA .The most mind - boggling thing of all was when her grandma phoned her later that night, like she does most nights. I asked her if she knew about 9/11 that happened in America (mei guo) over a decade again, not only did she not know about 9/11, she had never even heard of America. WTF!!!!!!
Nope, I was in the States. But like any adult I remember that day and I remember like everyone else I was like 'what's happening'? I was so naive back then that I really couldn't conceive that people (Demons) were doing that intentionally with the objective of brutally murdering thousands of other Human Beings.
I have stood on the top floor outside observation deck of the South Tower.
Nope - I believe I was at home, and only heard about it when I went to work...
As for the vengence factor of what happened afterwards for "brutally murdering thousands of other human beings"...http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
Due to 9/11, it's estimated that over 210,000 civilians had been killed directly due to US military operations. The number who have died because of the on-going effects of malnutrition, exposure, etc vastly outweighs this number.
And, unfortunately, MANY of us knew exactly that this was going to be the result! I even recall talking to a friend of mine in Ohio shortly after, saying just those things - that the US was going to go on a warpath and the rest of the world would suffer.
And, after almost 15 years... we still don't know who actually did it! (cos, you know, the US government won't allow a REAL official inquiry, and most of the evidence was destroyed).
Oh, and to actually answer your question - I'd think around 1.2-1.3 billion were.