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SoCalHoops Commentary

Welcome Back...Now Hunker Down
& Get Ready...--(Sept. 15, 2001)

Like the rest of you, this past week, we were jolted into a different reality, and one that's not entirely pleasant.  A bad dream, that we're still trying to collectively escape.  But the bad dream has become our new reality.

We don't have any words of wisdom, and haven't been annointed with any special knowledge, so we're just like you, stumbling around and trying to make sense of the senseless. And besides, many will say, this is a sports web site so it's not like this is the first place people should turn to for information about domestic and world events.  But like the rest of you who are web-oriented,  we're interconnected, and there's plenty of information on the world wide web about the people that our U.S. intelligence agencies believe are responsible for committing the heinous acts which have been seared into our minds this past week.

Like most of you we've spent the last week in front of the television and the computer, trying to find out as much as we can about the new (and in some cases, not so new) terrorist threats to the Western World.  We haven't had any great epiphanies, nor do we pretend to have any startling insights, but we can simply pass along some links to sites were you can educate yourselves about recent events .  And if you plan on living in the new world,  you really owe it to yourself, your family and your country, to learn as much as you can about the threats to our freedom and our way of life. 

So here are some links we've found useful.

PBS Frontline: Who is Osama Bin Laden

        This documentary first aired in 1999, and then was updated and shown on PBS this past Wednesday following the events on Tuesday. Fascinating, and plenty of deep background info which will shed a lot of perspective on the latest terrorists events and where we may go from here. 

Other Bin Laden information from other sites (some links may not work)

Google collection of links.

News Media Support Resources

Relief Funds

Contact Information
(Airlines & WTC Businesses)

  • American Airlines: 1-800-245-0999
  • United Airlines: 1-800-932-8555
  • AON Risk Mgmt Corp: 1-866-256-4154
  • Marsh & McLennan: 1-212-345-6000
  • Keefe Bruyette and Woods: 1-800-726-0006
  • Cantor Fitzgerald: 1-866-326-3188
  • Morgan Stanley: 1-888-883-4391
  • Fuji Bank: 1-888-537-3845
  • Carr Futures: 1-800-755-7620
  • Lee Hecht Harrison: 1-201-782-3704
  • Thacher, Proffitt, & Wood: 1-800-698-4567
  • Fiduciary Trust Co: 1-800-632-2350 ext. 22578

New York Hospital Information

  • Mayor's Hotline Center: (212) 560-2730
    (For families seeking to know if their loved
    ones were seen by a hospital in the NYC area)

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