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Echoes Of 9/11 In Week Of Dark Anniversaries

Friday, April 19, 2013 7:20
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‘Everybody is very edgy – hyper-vigilant’

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Art Moore

This week began with a one-two punch to the American psyche that prompted memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent delivery of poison-laced letters to leaders in Washington.

If the Boston Marathon bombing and the ricin-infected letters to President Obama and member of Congress weren’t enough déjà vu, a deadly explosion Wednesday night at a fertilizer factory near Waco, Texas, revived memories of the horrific 5,000-pound fertilizer-bomb that killed 168 people at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City exactly 13 years ago Friday. 

One of the convicted perpetrators of the OKC bombing, Timothy McVeigh, declared that he acted in retribution for the infamous deadly raid by federal authorities in 1993 on the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, which also took place April 19.

The massacre of 32 at Virginia Tech by a senior student took place April 16, 2007, while April 20, 1999 – which also is Adolf Hitler’s birthday – was the day two Columbine High School students chose to carry out an attack in which they murdered 12 students and one teacher.

Meanwhile, this week, a Saudi national who was questioned in the aftermath of the Boston bombing and, according to sources, was set to be jetted back to his homeland, hearkened back to the high-ranking Saudis, including members of Osama bin Laden’s family, who were precipitously airlifted back to Saudi Arabia after 9/11, even as the U.S. airways were shut down.

Many Americans have been unusually uncomfortable this week, to say the least.

“Everybody is very edgy – hyper-vigilant,” Stacey Hader Epstein, 52, a freelance public relations consultant in Atlanta, said in a Bloomberg feature. “It reminds me of what happened after 9/11. It’s good and bad – good in that it brings everybody’s focus back to looking after one another. The negative is it makes everybody paranoid and suspicious.”

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