All our emotions amount to cliché. There is little that can be said after one sees the image of the World Trade Towers crumble. We don't know, and cannot fathom, the death toll. The chaos on the streets of Manhattan was matched, yesterday, by the anguish across the world. New York is a global city, and the grief was equally global.
Families from around the world tried to reach the small island, grasping for any news of relatives who work in the area - janitors, businessfolk, security guards, and so many others. From Trinidad, India, Egypt, England, Japan - there was not a country in the world which did have its circuits to 011- busy all day, and into the night, and into today as well. This is an attack on US soil, but it is also an attack on people of all kinds, from all corners of the world.
The media and some politicians have already indicted Osama bin Laden, and taken images from the Shatila camp outside Beirut to show us that the Islamists must be involved in this assault on the US. There is little hard evidence, but the jury seems to be out.