Mikhail Kasyanov, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Gerashchenko at a meeting in the Kremlin on September 12. Photo Reuters/ITAR-TASS About the beginning of the 90s in Russia, an unspoken law has been in force: if in the country that is unstable - and there were plenty of reasons to think so at that time, - go to the exchange point to purchase currency. She is somehow calmer and more reliable with her.

Photo AP On September 11, humanity shuddered from the hellish picture in which the Boeing’s skyscrapers of the World Commercial Center hung up and the shadow of the crisis crawled to the world financial landscape. The New York Stock Exchange chose to cancel trading. The dollar staggered. In Moscow in the night "Chanks" he fell as much as 15 rubles. However, the sun rose, and everything fell into place.

Rocket 9M39 Portable air defense system '' needle ''. Photo from the site www.zid.ru The American tragedy may be repeated according to the same scenario in Moscow. The flight of passenger airliners over the capital is prohibited. However, a considerable number of flights lands and takes off over the outskirts of the metropolis. And the hijackers of the aircraft will not be difficult to change his course, say, towards the Kremlin.

The destroyed wall of the pentagon. Photo AP A pillar of thick black smoke rising above the Pentagon, the surrounding residents saw at half past six in the morning. "Boeing-757", which had just taken off from the Dulles International Airport and went to Los Angeles, crashed into the western line of the pentagonal building and brought it down. Subsequently, it turned out that one passenger on board managed to call on a cell phone and report the capture.

Donor Center in Chicago. Photo AP Yesterday morning I saw the Pentagon in the first minutes after the attack . He looked like a crater of the volcano that began to erupt: clubs of black smoke rose vertically into cloudless heaven, and at first glance it was clear that something terrible and irreparable had happened. Today, without a quarter of four in the morning, returning home, I saw him again.

Photo AP The consequences of a monstrous action against America may be even worse than these explosions in New York and Washington. The most powerful in the world and the civilized state is involved in the anti -terrorist massacre. The enemy is unknown. The world is on the verge of a new era. Let's call it the era of the global counter -terrorism operation. With terrorists, no matter how they call them and no matter what goals are pursued, everything is more or less clear.

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