On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:44:51PM -0400, H. Curtiss Leung wrote:
> Ian wrote:
> > I would also note, in passing, that Citigroup took a big hit and their
> > Saudi-American bank may have been the tastiest target if one of the
> > goals of the attack was to weaken Saudi Arabia's kakistocracy. The
> > return of US troops to that country could be escalatory despite
> > whatever the US gov. intentions.
>
> Huh? Last I heard, Citigroup--my exploiter, uh, employer, BTW--lost less
> than five employees, although the firm is screaming about $700 million in
> possible losses (through insurance claims from Travellers, I guess).
> Salomon
> Smith Barney had a data center in 7 WTC, and the Citi assets management
> group was there too.
>
> I usually work at 111 Wall, but I've been up at 34th Street with a few
> others
> for the past few days reconfiguring a machine to replace one my group had
> lost
> when 7 WTC went down (irony alert: the machine we lost was a standby backup
> server. The production servers are safe in the middle of nowhere in the
> Meadowlands). There's a TV in the cafeteria playing some godforsaken
> internal Citibank network, and I got to see Sandy Weill's fat fucking face
> spew
> inaudible platitudes while I ate my lunch. And then the imbecile who put
> this
> telecast together had the sensitivity to show the towers collapsing.
>
> Too bad a wing or some other piece of debris didn't clip the floor of 388
> Greenwich where Weill has his office.
> --
> Curtiss, who is not bitter
>
>
>
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