computer-go: Estimated 30,000 Dead in World Trade Center Attack

[Sam Sloan <sloan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Estimated 30,000 Dead in World Trade Center Attack

I just walked back from what used to be the World Trade Center. You can
forget about anybody being alive in there. Nobody could have survived that.
They are all dead.

I stood next to a WABC Newscaster as she gave a live report. Most of what
she said was nonsense. She claimed that rescue workers were pulling victims
from the rubble. Someone must have told her to say that, because there is
no way that rescue workers could even get close, much less pull victims
from the rubble.

I got real close. I evaded the police and made it to the corner of Fulton
Street and Broadway, next to the church and only one block from what used
to be the World Trade Center. Nobody, not even firemen, was closer than I
was. Thousands of firemen were standing around behind me doing nothing.
There was nothing that could be done. They are simply not equipped to deal
with a 47-story building that is ablaze.

I walked away and just a few minutes later Building Number 7 collapsed. I
did not see it fall, but I heard the explosion. All the street lights went
out at the same time.

Since about one and a half hours passed between the times that the
airplanes hit and the buildings fell, I was hoping that there was enough
time for at least some of the workers to get outside. However, walking
across the Brooklyn Bridge on the way home, a woman walking next to me said
that she lives at 176 Broadway, across the street and one block away from
the World Trade Center. She said that she was looking out the window when
she saw the second airplane crash into the South Tower. She stayed at her
window throughout the next few hours, because she was afraid to leave and
thought that she would be safer inside. She remained there until 4:00 PM,
when finally the gas and fumes forced her to leave her home.

She said that she saw only a small number of people leave the World Trade
Center after it was hit. Her estimate was that only about 1500 left the
building between the time the airplanes hit and the time the buildings
collapsed. Apparently, office workers felt that they were better off
staying inside the World Trade Center, to avoid being hit by falling
debris. Nobody thought that the entire buildings would collapse.

At the time that the World Trade Centers were hit, I was sitting safely in
my home in Brooklyn. When I heard the news, I decided to go to see what was
happening and possibly to join in the rescue effort. The A Train was still
running, so I took it to Manhattan. It could not stop at Broadway-Nassau or
Chambers Street, but it did stop at Canal Street. I got out there. I walked
as close as I could until stopped by the police. At first, I decided to
wait until they put the fires out and then go pick through the rubble.
There was an announcement that volunteers for search and rescue were to go
to the corner of Greenwich and North Moore Streets and sign up. I went there.

About a thousand people were assembled there. I signed up on one of the
sheets that were being handed out. I waited. They were asking especially
for doctors and trained medical personnel.

I finally realized that this was all nonsense. The buildings were on fire
and nobody but firemen were going to be able to approach for a long time.

So, I decided to try to get closer. I started walking east. I got to Foley
Square, where the court houses are located. A group of volunteers were
making make-shift stretchers. They were being given wood, hammers and
nails, and were hammering away to make stretchers.

I realized that this too was nonsense. Nobody was going to be carried alive
out of there. It will be days before the fire is put out.

I started walking south from Foley Square. This time, the police did not
stop me. Soon, there were no more police, only firemen. Somebody gave me a
face mask. I put it on.

By that point, nobody was telling me not to get any closer, so I got all
the way to Broadway and Fulton Streets. I could see that Building Number 7
was on fire. The Twin Towers were, of course, long gone.

I probably stood there for a half hour and then finally decided there was
nothing to do. None of the firemen present were doing anything either, nor
could they. Nobody was coming out from the buildings. There were no signs
of life there.

I turned around, walked up Fulton Street and turned left. There, I saw a
television newscaster in a bright red dress waiting to give her TV news
report. I decided to wait to see if she had any news. When she finally came
on, everything she said was nonsense. She spoke of rescue workers pulling
victims from the rubble. Total BS. There were no rescue workers anywhere
near the World Trade Center.

Several people with me who had been living near the World Trade Center
agreed with me. There is nobody left alive. Everybody inside is dead.

As to who did this, I feel that there are only two reasonable explanations.
It was either a group of Americans similar to Timothy McVeigh who blew up
the Oklahoma City Federal Building, or it was the Afghans. Other groups
being blamed or suspected of this, such as the Iraqis, the Iranians, the
Libyans, and the Palestinians are too cowardly and disorganized to have
pulled off something like this.

As to how they did it, it seems that the airplanes did not have many
passengers. Just three or four strong-armed men without weapons could have
taken over each airplane. The passengers and pilots might not have put up
resistance. They probably felt that this was just another hijacking that
would be over soon. Nobody could have imagined that the hijacker's plan was
to fly these airplanes into the World Trade Center.

As to how many died, 40,000 people work in the World Trade Center every
day. Also, the major PATH Train Station is located directly under the World
Trade Center and more than one hundred thousand people pass through that
station every day. Several subway lines run under or next to the World
Trade Center. Thousands of tourists visit the observation deck on top of
the South Tower every day.

Certainly nobody on the observation deck or on the floors above where the
airplanes hit could possibly have survived. Some office workers who were
inside have reported that they were told not to leave the building but to
remain inside. Those few who have lived to tell about this are those who
disobeyed orders and left anyway. Also, several hundred firemen, policemen
and rescue workers are known to have died when the buildings collapsed,
plus several television news crews and TV reporters are known to have been
killed.

The number of dead is probably easily 30,000 and may be considerably more.

Sam Sloan
http://www.samsloan.com/attack.htm