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It really doesn't seem that long ago. I remember them better than the 9/11 terror attacks. It's probably because I was in Oban in Scotland when it happened, so it felt very close to me, even though I had never been anywhere near London (and I still haven't).

Yeah, i remember it very clearly. The 9/11 attacks, however, I don't remember as in "I know exactly what I was doing when I heard about it".

Il n'y a qu'un devoir, c'est d'être heureux; il ny'a qu'une vertu, c'est la justice -Denis Diderot

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9/11 i was blindfolded in the middle of an assault course in kent at kingswood on a school trip and we all had to stop have 2 mins silence even though nobody knew what was happening then ran over to hotel to watch the news on tv.

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i remember me & john on here on the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in 2006, watching & discussing the cnn pipeline stream of the day. i think big events like this set a marker of how frighteningly fast time goes by.

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on the day i recorded the first two newsbeat bullitens of the attacks breaking through, at 9.45am and 10am during scotts show (covering for moyles):-

http://www.unofficialmills.co.uk/communities/local_links.php?action=play&catid=12&linkid=945&page=1

here is the 5.45pm newsbeat bulliten from 2006, 1 year on:-

http://www.archive.org/download/2006-07-07-BbcRadio1-5.45pmNewsbeat/2006-07-07-545_newsbeat_bbcradio1.mp3

i really do think that the threat of terrorism from al queda is still as real as it was in 2001 & 2005. i can't imagine how many threats the british, american & european security services foil and expose. but i always imagine that there will sadly be one that they will miss. i still can't figure out how you can fight an enemy who isn't scared of killing themselves.

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Listening to them clips really brings it all back, with a remarkable shiver. It was just a crazy day. I think one of the big worries of people that day was 'where next?' One of my cousins lives in London and gets on one of the tubes effected every morning. Thankfully, she left late that morning and missed the tube. The only time ever her boss was happy she slept in.

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This video

really brings home what happened on 9/11. Similar happened here on 7/7 but on a smaller scale. Never before had something so major unfolded on live tv in the way that it did then. And it hasn't since. The only thing that I remember that comes close was UK troops entering Kosovo on live tv.

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I've always thought that if you commit crimes, surely you lose some of those 'human rights'...

I mean somewhere in Europe recently says it considers Broadband internet, which is more a LUXURY, as a 'basic human right', yeah.. forget food, water, no, they NEED Broadband and Playstations in prisons... The Tories could save a LOT of money if they cut out the provide for prisoners, surely?

But yeah, ridiculous that anyone, particularly a terrorist, is treated so well when there's people living on the street because they've got no money and that's thanks to idiot bankers... oy. I genuinely don't believe there is much justice in this world.

Professional eater of puppy dogs, baby heads and killer of grannies...

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really brings home what happened on 9/11. Similar happened here on 7/7 but on a smaller scale. Never before had something so major unfolded on live tv in the way that it did then. And it hasn't since. The only thing that I remember that comes close was UK troops entering Kosovo on live tv.

the thing what pisses me off about 9/11, is those "tribute" videos people seem to make. with some piano version of "dj sammy" over the top. 9/11 should be seen in the raw light it was, because i seriously think with the passing of time that it's slipped peoples minds how dangerous these extremists really are. and the lengths they will go to kill people.

i've saw those 'as it happened' videos a few years back, the shock of experienced newscasters barley coping with the situation says it all.

I genuinely don't believe there is much justice in this world.

there isn't. i don't think the people in these european courts have ever been outside. don't all the people who were blown apart on that bus and the trains deserve some 'human rights'? they should round up every al queda member they find, put them on an unoccupied desert island and blow it out of the water. the only way to deal with these type of people is to treat them as they treat their victims.

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