Two planes are involved in the incident.

Palestinian Group has claimed responsibility...

Major Fire at Pentagon, White House is being evacuated....

Fire at the Washington Mall....

I don't know whether to watch the TV or look out at the Renaissance center in Detroit.

Confirmed, there was a third plane, it crashed into the Pentagon.

CityTV showed to second airliner hitting the building. Christ... explosion on Capitol Hill.. the pentagon...

- At least one of the planes was a hijacked American Airlines liner, possibly an Airbus.

- All airplanes in US airspace has been ordered to land at the nearest airplane. ALL of the United States is now a no-fly zone.

- An obscure Palestinian group has claimed responsibility, but who knows if they're just trying to jump on the bandwagon. By the end of the day, dozens of groups will be claiming responsibility.

- According to one Today-In-History website I went to, today is the anniversary of the British mandate in Palestine.

- Think of the planning involved: The first plane crashes, they wait for camera crews to set up their live feeds, then they send a second plane in.

- Part of the Pentagon has collapsed.

Edited to say: That obscure Palestinian group has now denied their involvement.

I am stunned and shaken. This will destabilize the middle east if it is indeed a middle east planned terrorist attack. America will now take a direct role - too early to tell where this is going to lead.

... from the inside?

CBC radio now reporting second tower has collapsed.

Please, folks, Oaklahoma showed that jumping to conclusions before information is in can be really counter productive.

The Internet might be affected by these disasters. Most news sites are going to be flooded with hits.

- Unconfirmed: One plane was American Airlines out of Boston (60 passengers and crew). One plane is American Airlines out of Washington (90 passengers and crew).

- THE SECOND TOWER JUST COLLAPSED!

How do you get a pilot to fly into a building? Auto pilot?

Bush to address nation tonight at 7:00PM - will be addressing Congress tomorrow.

So there is a symbolic hit on capitalism and the military.

My gut tells me that this is something involving a coalition of groups because of the sheer scale of planning that would be involved.

Chicken Little - the sky is falling...

Halifax - sheerwater airbase...totally guarded.

Oslama bin Laden? Money from every anti-American regime in the world? (or Mideast?)

Oh God.

Folks, I have said it before though not on rabble: don't piss off the US.

FDR after Pearl Harbor said:

quote:

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No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

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Jennings: "Oh COME ON! How can you say that?!"

ABCNEWS: Intelligence agencies have been monitoring increased activity by Osama Bin Laden in recent months, in preparation for "something", but they didn't imagine anything of this magnitude. Take this one with a grain of salt, naturally.

I said that this COULD be ANYTHING FROM anti-globalization to religious nuts.

That is not to say that any one group is suspect. It is anything can happen day here folks and many people have died.

I have just seen the first tv pictures of this, oh my god, oh my god...

Has anyone heard anything remotely resembling sabre-rattling today?

What is happening??

CityTV (toronto station) reporter at computer says.

I'm with you there, Gayle. Who knows how they're going to react. That's also really scary.

Some time later you can see a second plane crashing into the second tower, lower down from the smoking area. By and by that tower collapses too.

This suggests that something more than two planes were involved, although at this point that hardly seems to matter.

I'm stunned, shaking.

Has the UN been targetted? What is the current state of International alliances? Does Bush seek world condemnation, and who should he condemn?

New President, new administration.

Events like this tend to have a unifying effect on a nation.

America is a giant and I believe this tragedy will invoke the "righteous might" of the US.

Our generation has been shielded a great deal from earth shattering, cataclysmic events. This is painful because of the indiscriminate death toll.

There are 11 and a half hours left in the day. What else is going to happen.

Real player says that air traffic is being grounded in Europe.

They also quote Arafat, talking to reporters in Gaza, saying this is "unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable." The Palestinian Authority, he said, was utterly taken by surprise on this and utterly repudiates it, and he sends his condolences to the people of the US.

It had to have been bank-rolled somehow. There has to be a money trail.