Robert Higgins Quotes
This is what we do!
As thousands were trying to escape the burning and collapsing buildings the New York City fire fighters rushed into the buildings to help get people out. Of all the firefighters who entered the buildings to help others, 311 never came out.
Robert Higgins, Lieutenant, New York City Fore Department, Commenting on the fire fighters’ role in the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center
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Many New Yorkers—police, firefighters and others—risked their lives to try and assist others even though many of them died. However the goodness of their act was dramatic when compared with the evil of the terrorist attackers.
The Security Counsel was meeting it the Situation room at the White House
Faced with the possibility of war with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, Armitage began to negotiate with Pakistan on the possibility of using their country as a staging point for an attack on the Taliban.
36 days later, September 11, he did strike. See {617467} for some of the specific contents. The memo was kept secret by the Bush administration until public pressure as a result of the 9-11 Commission hearings forced the declassification and release. At that point it became clear that there was no reason that the memo could not have been released much earlier except that it was embarrassing. See {637530} and {637533} for two other Bin Laden Warnings that Bush and his team ignored.
