Comments on: 10 Headlines from 9/11/01

By: Lola

Lola — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:33:29 +0000

One thing I always remember..
The Sunday before 9/11, there was a brief, paragraph-long statement in Parade Magazine about how they were using matchbooks dropped from plans to notify people of the reward for Osama bin Laden, but that too many people were reluctant to turn him in for various reasons.

And then two days later…

By: Sandy Wood

Sandy Wood — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:56:36 +0000

Wow, Dave, I remember that injury on MNF… it was ugly. You knew his career was probably over after breaking his ankle at that spot. I clearly remember seeing it, but had no idea it was the night before 9/11 occurred.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:42:27 +0000

I work at a high school that had televisions in the classrooms and our lockerroom area. I tuned in one to sportscenter to see the replay of McCaffrey’s injury when the head coach came in and said put it on CNN a plane had hit tower one. Just as I did I saw tower 2 get hit. That tv stayed on all day. Not much teaching or coaching got done that day.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:54:16 +0000

I remember listening to the first story on NPR on my way to work. It caught my ear because I know a Massoud, probably a common name in that area, but not too common in Ohio.

By: MyKinKStar

MyKinKStar — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:48:56 +0000

An interesting collection of news we suddenly forgot all about at that moment. Thanks!

Thanks to BB as well, for the info on Chandra. I grew up in NoVA, but had moved away during that time. Though I seem to recall her body was found, I didn’t know who had ultimately been charged with her murder. The conspiracy theory connecting her to 9/11 is ALMOST as crazy as most of the others!

Thanks again everyone.

By: Alanna

Alanna — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:28:05 +0000

Weren’t there a lot of shark attacks that summer?

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:02:26 +0000

I was in charge of the events calendar for my floor in the dorm where I lived, so I was always up on little-known holidays and whether it was National Cheese Month and that sort of thing.

I didn’t read the paper that day, because I’d read on-line that September 11th was “No News is Good News” day.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:53:01 +0000

Alot of people in NY stayed up late to watch that Giants monday night football game. Some WTC workers were running late to work that morning, or slept in.

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:04:53 +0000

My bad; I should have deleted (in the first paragraph) that Ms. Levy had been stabbed, as the ME was unable to determine cause of death by the time Ms. Levy’s remains were discovered. I was going on the reported confession to the jailhouse informant.

Too bad there isn’t an edit (or at least a preview) feature on these comments……

-”BB”-

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:01:33 +0000

re: Chandra Levy. Ms. Levy’s body had been found in Rock Creek Park in DC. An El Salvadoran national, Ingmar Guandique, was arrested and indicted last year (2009) for her murder. Mr. Guandique had been convicted for the assault in May and July 2001 of two other females in Rock Creek Park after confessing to these incidents in July 2008. In both instances a knife was displayed/brandished; Ms. Levy was found stabbed to death.

It might also be noted that while serving time for these assaults, Guandique allegedly told a prison informant that he had stabbed and killed Levy, leaving the knife at the scene, and had done so after receiving $25K from a man he later identified, after seeing him on TV, as Condit. However, by the time Ms. Levy’s skeletal remains were found they were in such a condition that they medical examiner was unable to determine how she died, and no knife was ever found.

There is also at least one site out there — and you can take it for whatever it’s worth; I won’t waste time linking to it — that claims the 9/11 attacks were premeditated and orchestrated by factions within the US Government. The site goes on to claim that Ms. Levy had connections to Israel’s Mossad and had ferreted out details giving her knowledge of the plan, so she was killed to ensure her silence.

-”BB”-