As most of you are probably aware, terrorist attacks on the US Pentagon,
Camp David, and both Towers of the World Trade Center occurred this morning.

As I understand American Express is located in the World Trade Center. This
is a terrible tragedy, which we still do not understand the full impact.

At this time, Internet communications seem to be more reliable than
telephone services, at least for communicating with persons in the affected
areas who do not require access to dial up services for their connectivity.
However, I expect that network traffic usage patterns will cause rather
large slowdowns due to bandwidth consumption by users everywhere trying
to access the various news sites on the net.

Some of you may also have family living in the areas affected today, as
my family does.  Please realize that the phone service is designed to
block most calls inbound to disaster areas, thereby allowing those living
in the affected areas more outbound lines for calling their families and
friends in these situations.  If and when you hear from your loved ones,
please take the time to ask them who else you may inform of their safety,
thereby freeing more resources for others trying to call out.  Please
pass this information along to others who might not realize this helpful
system of passing information in such a disaster.

There will be no Leasing News today in respect to today's events.
I hope we can all pull together. As Tom Brokaw said on television this
morning, this is a terrorist war declared on the United States.

My prayers, those of my family and staff are with those who have
lost someone in this dastardly sneak attack on innocent American lives.

Kit Menkin, Leasing News

Basically in chronological order:

Amex (my former employer) is located at 3 World Financial Center, directly
across the street (the West Side Highway) from 2 World Trade Center. 

As far as I can tell from TV, the World Financial Center buildings were not
affected.  However, no word from anyone who may have been attempting to
evacuate the area.

[PLEASE WITHHOLD MY NAME]

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Kit,  Our offices are located in North Jersey. I could see the smoke on the
NY skyline when I was driving this afternoon and the eerie absence of the
towers in the NY skyline.

FYI, my understanding is that the amex corporate offices are not located in
either of the towers, but rather are located in the world financial center
which is across the street in a cone shaped building very close by.

Nevertheless, this is way too close for comfort and our prayers should go
out to any and all people who were in the vicinity of this horrifying
attack.

Kevin Baltzer
Crown Credit Corporation
email: kbaltzer@crown-credit.com
Phone (201) 825-7500
Fax   (201) 825-8968

 ( A reader told me Amex had offices in the World Trade Center.
  There also may be people in the leasing industry who were located
  in the area and may have been killed. )


  SUGGESTIONS
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Urge everyone to give blood ASAP. At the blood center near our office, the
wait is 2-4 hours, but you can sign up and come back later. I only had a 10
minute wait when I went back and it makes you feel great that you may have
helped a little.

Charlie Lester <clester@lpifinancial.com>

~~~

You should remind your readership to donate blood.

Rob Yohe
 MLOST@aol.com

~~~

Mr. Menkin -

Perhaps suggest to your subscribers that they could donate blood.

Thank you.

 Emily Walsh
<ewalsh@eflcorp.com>

~~~

Send out an email that asks that members donate blood as soon as possible
especially if they are in the tri-state area or in the DC and Northern VA
area...and pray for the families and victims.

Thanks

Aaron Martin
Equidity
 <Aaron.Martin@Equidity.com>

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please have people call their red cross and donate blood.........

Deb
<Deb@genfundcorp.com>

~~~
 one thing we all can do is donate blood, goods or money to the Red Cross.
If there as as many casualties as expected, the Red Cross will need all the
help they can get.

Keith
Kduggan2@aol.com

~~~
Kit -

There is something we can do. We can pray... for the victims and their
families, for our country and our leaders. And yes, even for the
perpetrator's and their accomplices and supporters. A number of us from our
church are participating in a phone tree to get people to our church tonight
to pray and to discuss what we can do to help. They are going to need lots
of blood for transfusions. They are going to need medical supplies (and the
funds to replace what they use). I am sure a call to your local Red Cross
chapter will provide a litany of opportunities to support and help our
fallen countrymen.

God bless America !

John Bergwell
Fin-Con Capital, LLC
913-219-5169 Phone
913-498-0087 Fax


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Let's all say a prayer for those in need and take off our Republican hat and



Democratic hat and put on our I'm An American Hat....

 jimborland@mindspring.com

~~~

I'll add your son to the list of service men and women I will be saying
prayers for tonight as well as the victims of this heinous attack.

Russell Wilder
<RWilder@ATEL.com>

  ( Thank you very much. Kit Menkin )

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AMEN

Jim Coxe
Coastal Leasing and Finance, Inc.
jim@clfinc.com
334-666-0554
334-666-0573 fax

~~~

Thank you Kit for taking time on this earth shattering day in the lives of
so many Americans to keep us informed.

As with you, my prayers go out to all of the families of the victims of
today's terrorist attack.

Cindy
 Cynthia Spurdle
 <cynthia.w.spurdle@verizon.net>

~~~

 Well done. Great message.
                               Fred
"Anderson, Frederick G"
 <frederick.g.anderson@citi.com>

~~~

The plane that crashed, in Sommerset County, PA. was about 50-60 miles east
of our offices here in Warrendale, PA.  That was the plane from Newark to
SF. The flight number was United Airlines flight 93.  There were some local
reports that the plane contained explosives.  A courageous passenger on that
plane went to the bathroom and reportedly called 911 from a cell phone.
That was how the hi-jacking was allegedly reported. 

There is speculation locally that Flight 93, a 757 was a second plane headed
for the Pentagon.  (Camp David could have been a likely target as well).
Sommerset, PA is right on the PA Turnpike and is probably no more than 120
air miles from Washington DC.  Camp David in Maryland would be slightly
closer.  Based on the reports, the location where the plane went down, and
its likely targets there is speculation locally that it did not crash but
was downed by the military.  There were reports that Navy jets and Apache
helicopters were scrambled as the FBI had received a "credible" threat that
a second plane was headed for the Pentagon.

The other flight from this area that United Airlines was worried about was
Flight 175.  It is now reported, however, that all civilian aircraft are
accounted for although United Flight 175 was not specifically mentioned.

Our phones are up and we are at the office however we will probably leave
earlier than usual.  Service is spotty, the Internet is a little slow but
working.

Keep in touch

Bob Rodi

President
LeaseNOW, Inc.
drlease@leasenow.com
www.leasenow.com
1-800-321-LEAS (5327)x 101

~~~~

Do not say it was an Arab attack; you are using a brush that is too broad -
it includes all Arabs.  You mean, perhaps, an Arab terrorist attack, or an
Arab extremist attack.  The Saudi's are Arabs - were they part of the
attack?

Remember the last "Arab" attack - McVeigh and Nichols?

RonDemer@aol.com

  ( Sorry, you are correct. We don't know who did it.  We only know
  the Palestines are celebrating in the streets. The rest is heresay.
  So if I don't say Arab, may I say the Palestines as they certainly
  are joyous, even reports of dancing in the streets, giving out
  candy to kids to celebrate. Kit Menkin )

~~~~
I'm normally a silent observer of this newsletter but I can't let Jerry's
speculation that this is an Arab attack go by without comment. Whether the
attack was indeed carried out by an Arab remains to be seen but the
implication that "Arabs" not some fanatical political group, were
responsible for this attack is racist and irresponsible.  Let's not forget
that some of those "Arabs" are actually our allies.  I recall vividly the
persecution some of my schoolmates suffered during the Iranian hostage
crisis in the 70s simply because they were in the unfortunate position of
being Iranians living in the U.S. at the time of the incident. I'm sure many
of you have employees and friends at your companies who are of Arab decent.
I'm sure Jerry's not grouping these people with the maniacs who carried out
these attacks

Please withhold my name since I don't want to imply that my company is in
any way associated with my commentary.

Thanks.

 ( (I apologize.  It was a knee-jerk reaction. Your company
    should be very proud of you to speak your mind, and remind
    us to be true human beings and not over-react.  Kit Menkin )

~~~~

Thanks for all the updates.  I hope that report out of Haifa is not true.
Even warriors understand that death is not a joy.

David
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David A. E. Wall
Chairman & Chief Software Architect
Yozons, Inc.
724 17th Avenue
Kirkland, WA 98033 USA
Tel 425.822.4465    dwall@yozons.com
Fax 425.827.9415    www.yozons.com

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>From US News
"In June, a U.S. judge had set this Wednesday as the sentencing date for a
bin Laden associate for his role in the 1998 bombing of a U.S. embassy in
Tanzania that killed 213 people. The sentencing had been set for the federal
courthouse near the World Trade Center. No one from the U.S. attorney's
office could be reached Tuesday to comment on whether the sentencing was
still on.
Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s hard-line Taliban rulers condemned the
attacks and rejected suggestions that bin Laden was behind them, saying he
does not have the means to carry out such well-orchestrated attacks. Bin
Laden has been given asylum in Afghanistan.
Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, said he received
a warning from Islamic fundamentalists close to bin Laden, but did not take
the threat seriously. "They said it would be a huge and unprecedented
attack but they did not specify," Atwan said in a telephone interview in
London"

David Alvey
<accredit@mindspring.com>