Relatives of Sept. 11 victims bowed their heads in silence on Tuesday to mark the moments exactly six years earlier when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. A memorial honoring Flight 93’s 40 passengers and crew began at 9:45 a.m., shortly before the time the airliner nosedived into the empty field.
Construction equipment now fills the vast city block where the World Trade Center once stood, and work is under way for four new towers, forcing the ceremony to be moved away from the twin towers’ footprints for the first time. For the first time, the name of a victim who survived that dreadful day but died five months later of lung disease blamed on the dust she inhaled was added to the official roll.
The month of September is surely a month that brings in sad memories. While the people of U.S. are marking the anniversary of the terrorist attacks this morning with sadness, another group of people located thousands of miles away are still trembling from the after-shock of the riot that occurred at the homestate of Malaysia reigning Agong, Terengganu.
September 8th was the day when the riot occurred that saw the police shot and seriously injured two opposition supporters, aged 21 and 38. While the oppositions said they’ve been immuned with the water cannon and tear-gas that greeted them on numerous occasions, they are shocked as this was the first time “live bullets” were sprayed on them.
Earlier the Terengganu police chief claimed only one shot was fired, a statement which was doubted and questioned as two persons were shot, but then revert that two bullets were fired. However in a latest twist, the police chief contradicting himself when he admitted four shots were actually being sprayed – reported Malaysiakini.
Meanwhile an urgent motion was rejected by the Dewan Rakyat speaker Ramli Ngah Talib today who said while the matter (the bloody incident) was of public interest, it was not an urgent matter that needed to be debated and discussed in the House. Gosh Mr Speaker! You meant two civilians were shot by a police yet it’s not urgent enough? Maybe the speaker Ramli thought two innocent lives are not comparable to thousands of lives that perished in the Sept. 11 incident, hence there’s no urgency.
So can you see the similiarity? On 911 (Sept. 11) you witnessed hijacked planes crashed into “two” towers while on 908 (Sept. 8) you saw policeman pumped bullets into “two” innocent civilians. While certain people of the United States claimed that the 9/11 incident was engineered by President George Bush, can the same be said about the 9/08 incident? At least the opposition believes the riot was orchestrated and provoked by the government.
Guess September is not a really prosperous month after all!!
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September 11th, 2007 by financetwitter
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