0 . o My poor eyes . meron bang graphic warning flair coz I was not expecting that . Kulang yata ang NSFW na flair . <| sep |> You can do it in that same round . <| sep |> Hahaha that ' s the first thing I noticed <| sep |> As is tradition . <| sep |> a good question in these trying times <| sep |> How do you figure ? Physical separation from potential conflicts of interest is just for show ? <| sep |> A Shock , Not a SurpriseThe 911 attacks were a shock , but they should not have come as a surprise . Islamist extremists had given plenty of warning that they meant to kill Americans indiscriminately and in large numbers . Although Usama Bin Ladin himself would not emerge as a signal threat until the late 1990 s , the threat of Islamist terrorism grew over the decade . In February 1993 , a group led by Ramzi Yousef tried to bring down the World Trade Center with a truck bomb . They killed six and wounded a thousand . Plans by Omar Abdel Rahman and others to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and other New York City landmarks were frustrated when the plotters were arrested . In October 1993 , Somali tribesmen shot down U . S . helicopters , killing 18 and wounding 73 in an incident that came to be known as Black Hawk down . Years later it would be learned that those Somali tribesmen had received help from al Qaeda . In early 1995 , police in Manila uncovered a plot by Ramzi Yousef to blow up a dozen U . S . airliners while they were flying over the Pacific . In November 1995 , a car bomb exploded outside the office of the U . S . program manager for the Saudi National Guard in Riyadh , killing five Americans and two others . In June 1996 , a truck bomb demolished the Khobar Towers apartment complex in Dhahran , Saudi Arabia , killing 19 U . S . servicemen and wounding hundreds . The attack was carried out primarily by Saudi Hezbollah , an organization that had received help from the government of Iran . Until 1997 , the U . S . intelligence community viewed Bin Ladin as a financier of terrorism , not as a terrorist leader . In February 1998 , Usama Bin Ladin and four others issued a selfstyled fatwa , publicly declaring that it was God ' s decree that every Muslim should try his utmost to kill any American , military or civilian , anywhere in the world , because of American occupation of Islam ' s holy places and aggression against Muslims . In August 1998 , Bin Ladin ' s group , al Qaeda , carried out nearsimultaneous truck bomb attacks on the U . S . embassies in Nairobi , Kenya , and Dar es Salaam , Tanzania . The attacks killed 224 people , including 12 Americans , and wounded thousands more . In December 1999 , Jordanian police foiled a plot to bomb hotels and other sites frequented by American tourists , and a U . S . Customs agent arrested Ahmed Ressam at the U . S . Canadian border as he was smuggling in explosives intended for an attack on Los Angeles International Airport . In October 2000 , an al Qaeda team in Aden , Yemen , used a motorboat filled with explosives to blow a hole in the side of a destroyer , the USS Cole , almost sinking the vessel and killing 17 American sailors . The 911 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were far more elaborate , precise , and destructive than any of these earlier assaults . But by September 2001 , the executive branch of the U . S . government , the Congress , the news media , and the American public had received clear warning that Islamist terrorists meant to kill Americans in high numbers . Now , apologize for your stupidity .