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To: daryll40 who wrote (52097)	9/14/2001 12:11:00 PM
From: Fred Levine	Respond to of 70976

I hate to sound mysterious, but I can't reveal my source. Someone with 1st hand knowledge describes the carnage as unbelievable and sickening. I don't want to go into details. As a psychologist, I volunteered to do grief-trauma counseling. However, when it was described to me, I have to get over my own trauma, which I will. In addition, it aint over. There have been more targets intercepted and more anticipated. Reluctantly, I report this 3rd hand. One school in Brooklyn with a large Arab population had many of the kids rejoiceing. One Arab mother told my the mother of my source that she was glad that it happened. I know this is inciting and I was angry. I now look at it as knowing the nature and ubiquity of the threat and what we have to deal with-- in a civilized manner. We have to convert their hatred, but the primary and immediate issue is to assure our security. We also have to protect those Arabs who have not done anything against us. It is perfectly legal to hate, We are at war, and the usual morality of war -- to reduce the loss of innocent lives -- was suspended by them. I don't want us to suspend morality. fred PS-- Brian, you did the right thing. We have an apartment on 30th St. and we just decided not to go. The decision was not only for practical reasons, but also that my wife and I dreaded looking at the skyline without the twin towers and knowing the carnage that was left behind. We'll have to get used to it.