# Ooctober 12 - Australia's Sept. 11

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooctober-12-australias-sept-11/206927>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 11, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooctober-12-australias-sept-11/206927 "2003-10-11T23:40:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooctober-12-australias-sept-11/206927/21 "2003-10-19T04:55:47Z")

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Actually, I want to apologise for my snarky post here of a few days ago.

I was in one of my Anti-American Moods [sup]TM[/sup] (:D) after reading some threads about the righteousness of gun-ownership when I decided to re-open this thread to check the posts…and my dander was up.

However, my comments _here_ were uncalled for and bitchy, and I humbly apologise for suggesting that American SDMB’ers lack empathy with tragedies in other parts of the world. I KNOW that is not true, but at the time when I wrote the post my reason and rationality was taking a walk in the garden.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooctober-12-australias-sept-11/206927/22 "2003-10-19T07:06:48Z")

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I just wanted to add that one of the big players in this atrocity has been detained. Hambali (AKA Riduan Ismuddin) was captured several weeks ago in Thailand. In other news, a major Jemaah Islamiyah figure, Fathur Roman Al-Ghozi, was killed in the Philippines earlier this week.

You can run, but you can’t hide.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooctober-12-australias-sept-11/206927/23 "2003-10-19T13:10:58Z")

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Thank you, **kambuckta**. That shows some real class.

🙂

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooctober-12-australias-sept-11/206927/24 "2003-10-19T19:42:07Z")

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Sorry, I didn’t see this until now…I tend to be oblivious of current events unless beaten over the head by them (as we were by 9/11, though I could not have been oblivious to that anyway). I do remember this event, though, even if I wouldn’t have remembered the date. My sympathies to everyone who lost someone in that tragic event.

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