Suprised they didn't hit the Statue of Liberty

[Vermillion]

After all we've seen today, I have to say I'm quite suprised they didn't hit the Statue of Liberty.

They obviously chose to hit the WTC and the Pentagon as symbols of America's economic and military power.

So why not hit the ultimate symbol of America itself? The Statue of Liberty?

For those of you not familiar with New York City, Ellis Island and the Statue itself are very close to the World Trade Center and if you can hit one, you could easily have hit the other.

Plus strategically thinking, you had already expended one of your limited number of "weapons" on the WTC (its obvious that the hijackers could have seen from the cockpit of the second plane that the one tower had already been hit), why not divert to another target?

Today we have collectively taken a sucker punch in the guts. Thank god, we weren't kicked in the balls as well.

Terrorism will not Stand. Justice will be served.  

[Wlfgng]

in their eyes... not enough civillian targets.

[Skuzzy]

The Statue of Liberty would have only hurt a few tourists and angered us.  The World Trade Center gave them the chance to murder over 50,000 people.
They probably beleived it to be more newsworthy, not living in this country.  They may not have wanted to piss off France either, as it was a gift from them.

I am surprised they did not take out the Sears Towers as well.

[Nomde]

The targets chosin today were strategic, the statue of liberty has no value other than emotional.
IMHO, this is not over yet. A lot of planning has gone into this and i'm sure there are targets yet to be destroyed.

[Wlfgng]

agreed.  I doubt this is over  

[funkedup]

Speculation:
Bin Laden's target in 1993 was the WTC.  He took a shot at it and failed to bring it down.  I've read that the idea was to make one tower fall into the other one and knock it down.  But it didn't work.  So he just got a bigger hammer and went after it again.  Plus a little revenge shot at the Pentagon who killed some of his people.

[mrfish]

i hd an erie moment on the bus this morning. it loops past the golden gate bridge on it's route and as we passed it was all but deserted.

cops and news crews lined up thinking it would be the next big icon the get hit. near the tourist center i looked out the window and saw a caltrans worker lowering the flag and then raising it to 1/2 staff. a few international flights were still circling their way to land at sfo. it seemed like the whole u.s.s got knocked down and the whole world was vunerable. i'll never forget that feeling!

[SFRT - Frenchy]

The twins are not only symbologic and peoples. I may get wrong, correct me otherwise but :
The Twins have some offices and HQs on major companies. Imagine if your companie HQ gets blown up... all your archives, projects, orders ... your employees...

Those companies will be shut down for several days, economical damage is priceless I think.

[Greg 'wmutt' Cook]

It is my belief that the plane that went down near Pitsburg was ment to hit a symbolic target in the Washington D.C. area Most proabably the Capital Building.  That would make the Symbolism complete.  Remember, the true symbol of capitalism is not the president, but the elected representives.

[Octavius]

I believe the targets in this attack were deliberately picked to hit EVERYONE.  The goal of terrorism isn't to scare people like the boogie man, it's goal is to send a message.  They don't have conventional ways (ie, waging a war) of making their thoughts clear, so they take a baseball bat and swing at your knees to make themselves clear.  

The US has become more of a financial power than an all-round world power.  Most of the conflicts we choose to take part in are certainly for financial interests.  Just like the Gulf War.  We decided to help to stop tyranical takeover.. no, we decided to act because we needed to protect our oil assets.  

funked nailed it.  They hit our financial center as well as our pride.  Sure they could have hit the Statue of Liberty, but it wouldn't have affected the maximum amount of Americans.  The terrorists knew how to let us know they are there and they sure did.  Now it is time we, as a nation, come together and strenghten our unity and our Pride.  What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.  We can only grow from this tragedy.

oct out.

God bless America and those who have passed on.

[ 09-11-2001: Message edited by: Octavius ]

[Zigrat]

thank god that 4th plane went down, i bet it was headed for the capitol. which would have been much worse than the pentagon.

[Eagler]

WTC = financial nerve center for the materialistic "great satan". I am sure that is why it was targeted. They doubt the stock markets will be open tomorrow ...

[Dune]

also remember that the WTC are much easier targets to hit.  same with the pentagon.

[highflyer]

The man whom is the chief suspect as being the man behind today's terrorist attacks is Osama bin Laden. Here are a few of his threats against America. I would have to say that this man is definitely a prime candidate for the world's worst villains list. Here's a few quotes from him:

"We predict a black day for America."

"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God."

"We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They are all targets in this fatwa (a religious decree) ... we must use such punishment to keep your evil away from Moslems, Moslem women and children."

You know, the Bible said that there will always be an enmity between the the descendents of Ishmael (Moslem & Islamic) and Isaac (Jewish & Christian). It also says that this will one day lead to a huge war and the eventual end of the current reign of man's control of the governments of the Earth. My advice is to pray for guidance and wisdom, as we see what might become of this tragic series of events. Pray for our nations leaders and ask that they be open to guidance from above. As hard as it is to understand, we must remember the words of Jesus and try to forgive and turn the other cheek. It is mans nature to get even that will eventually lead to his demise. But it's all been laid down, eventually there will be a huge war in the Mid-East and after that the Lord will return. Already, people are screaming "This is war!". I say that violence met by violence is not a solution. We may be heading into the the end times folks.

[moose]

I heard something somewhere that the pilot of the 4th plane which crashed in PA brought it down on purpose to keep them from ramming another building.

If it's true, he's one of many heros that will emerge from such a blackened mess.