The Sheila Variations

So is there a threat or not?

US intelligence says NYC is threatened, at the moment, by an upcoming terrorist attack - perhaps a female suicide bomber.

But "New York police officials say they knew of no credible threat to the city, site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center by hijacked airliners."

Guys, are you communicating with one another? Why such divergent versions?

Also - the feel of that sentence I posted above struck me. It sounds passive to me. "...attack on the World Trade Center by hijacked airliners" is very different from saying "airliners hijacked by terrorists."

The sentence construction makes it sound like the airliners did the attacking all on their own.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid. After all, I am living with an imminent and credible threat on my life. It does something to the brain.

I don't mean to make light. But God. Every time we New Yorkers get news that we are in danger, we just have to throw our hands up. What can we do? We can move - but you know what? WE DON'T WANT TO. This is our home. Dangerous or no.

Posted by sheila