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by mahranch 3569 days ago
That's nice and all, but I vividly remember people dancing in the streets of Iran celebrating the attack. I will never have that image removed from my mind.

While I'm sure there are people who were upset at the attacks, there was a sizeable chunk of people who weren't. They were in fact happy. Enough to form crowds dancing in the streets holding signs and chanting. I'm old enough to remember that stuff pretty vividly (I was 22 years old on 9/11) so historical revisionism isn't going to work on me...
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Spooky23 3569 days ago
You have no idea what you saw -- clips like that are often propaganda or just crap. Big news sites like Drudge would post fringe nonsense for cheap hits.

When Iraq invaded Kuwait, the NY Times was running stories about babies being tossed from incubators directly lifted from WWI accounts of the Hun.

I was working in a network operations center at the time, listening to radio and seeing CNN 18 hours a day for weeks post 9/11. There were all sorts of bullshit stories, from foiled plots against facilities to whatever else that made it broadcast. People were jumpy and craving information.

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mahranch 3564 days ago
Listen up kid, (I'm calling you kid because you're acting like one; telling me "I don't know what I saw". Who the hell do you think you are?) I'm not some naive nobody who was being swayed by paranoia, the media or anything else. I'm also not going to fall for any 9/11 conspiracy nuttery.

I looked up what I saw and you can see the videos yourself, right now, with a quick google search.

> I was working in a network operations center at the time

I simply don't believe you. I don't believe you are over the age of 25 in fact. More importantly, everyone was glued to their TV back then. And yes, there was this thing called "the internet" back then too, where people could validate and check information. They could also get their news from sources outside the U.S. Many of us were doing just that.

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blackoil 3569 days ago
Were you in Iran and saw it in person, or through so source?
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mahranch 3564 days ago
Does it matter? It happened, you can google it. It's literally a 30 second google search away.
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