9/11 Hostages Perished

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Bollywood movie Kurbaan, starring Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor have a disturbing resemblance to 9/11, because the terrorist plot was incubated on American soil.

What Donald Trump did on 6 January 2021, was 9/11 without the four planes.

1. On 11 September 2001, American citizens boarded American Airlines Flight #11 with terrorists on board. That plane deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. The 92 hostages - passengers and plane crew - all died. Donald Trump, remember hostages don’t live to tell the story.

2. American citizens boarded United Airlines Flight #175 with terrorists on board. That plane deliberately crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. The 65 hostages - passengers and plane crew - all died. Donald Trump, remember hostages don’t live to tell the story.

3. American citizens boarded American Airlines Flight #77 with terrorists on board. The terrorist suicide bombers drove the plane into the Pentagon, killing 64 passengers and crew members.  Donald Trump, remember hostages don’t live to tell the story.

4. American citizens boarded United Airlines Flight #93 with terrorists on board. They crashed the plane in Somerset County in  Pennsylvania, killing 44 passengers and crew on board.

Donald Trump is on the campaign trail, running for the highest office in the land. That is why he is worried about his disciples he calls ‘hostages’ that are in jail for storming the Capitol on 6 January 2021. What he should be thinking about are 9/11 hostages that sat on those four planes, terrified for their lives. How did they feel, staring at the hate of those suicide bombers who told them, they are willing to die for their religion? We shall never know. But they have relatives, who cannot believe that Donald Trump is using the word ‘hostages’ so loosely.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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