9/11 - A great human tragedy

9/11 was a human tragedy of the greatest proportion. There are no conspiracy theories here. People who orchestrated these attacks are either brought to justice or eliminated and those who are left are hiding for their lives. It is time for the sane world to unite against the likes of people who had planned the 9/11 tragedy. Do we not see them in the shape of IS in the Middle East, Buko Haram in Africa, TTP, Taliban and Al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan? These enemies of humanity have to be dealt with fast and furious force. Although some would think that President Obama’s message may vary year to year but the gist remains the same.

A day ahead of Thursday’s 9/11 anniversary at the Pentagon, The United States President, Barak Obama said, “We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today”. He said, “Let us renew the true spirit of that day-not the human capacity for evil, but the human capacity for good,”

Obama also said he would hunt down Islamic State militants “wherever they are” in a drive to degrade and ultimately destroy the group. “That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven,” he said, speaking on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The enemies of humanity should know that their atrocities will not go unnoticed; sooner than later they will be dealt with a heavy hand.

Abdul Quddus
DET – U.S. Central Command
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what happened to haroon? He got fired?

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BS..... unless species living outside North America are not counted as 'humans'.

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That was certainly a great tragedy!!

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An impressive note ..(copied)

Towers fall. Innocents Die. A City burns. A Nation mourns. Fear overwhelms. Anger rises. Reason disappears. Vengeance reacts. Madness reigns. Missiles rain. Civilians suffer. Communities divide. Ignorance spreads. Pain intesifies. Hope persists.

13 years on, the event is seared into our collective consciousness and serves as a fork in the global timeline. For some, the wound still bleeds; the scar tissue will never heal. For me, the day catapulted me into adulthood. A 20-year-old kid attending UC Berkeley, part of the Muslim Student Association Board, pretending to be a "student leader" with a few of his peers and molded into an "accidental activist."

We were young and naive and dumb and scared and unprepared and ignorant, or at the very least I was. But, we hoped - perhaps foolishly - that we could transform the tragedy - in some small way - into a moment of catharsis, introspection and healing. At the very least, change the narrative for future generations.

Now, I'm no longer a naive kid but an older, greyer, chubbier man with a kid of my own. The world still burns. We're still dropping missiles in Iraq. The world remains even more fragmented, polarized, wounded and broken. And maybe my kid will grow up, observe this chaos of the present, and ask why we failed in such a spectacular fashion? And perhaps he is right and I will not blame him for such a damning assertion.

Time affords the privilege and burden of reflection. I do hope that younger generation - those who were just kids when the towers fell and for whom the memory is just video footage and iconic photography - will know that a great many of us - despite all of our downfalls, warts, mistakes - did try and are still trying. We just need their help now more than ever.

Towers fall, but people and communities, no matter how flawed, always find a way to rise.

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every year they gotta rub it in eh.

time to forget this and MOVE ON.

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RIP people who jumped from the burning towers hand in hand!

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And Pakistanis have faced many 911s since that fateful day.

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Collective punishment and world scale injustice are a much greater tragedy. Absolutely what happened in 2001 is heinous. What transpired from 2001 and still is happening today has resulted in tens of thousands of lives lost. How about a day to remember them worldwide?

Human tragedy is that in the face of an injustice, a greater and more weighty injustice is unleashed on an unarmed people, and even decades later, not a single official source to acknowledge that injustice has been handed in a bullish manner.

Concerned World Citizen
Planet Earth