Today marks the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, a pivotal day in history and a day which brought about so much heartbreak and destruction not only in the US but around the world. Bloggers from the Middle East reflect on the disaster. Jordanian Hareega wishes it never happened: I wish it never happened. It could and should have been prevented. You may ask, how come I'm still remembering this event even though most Americans (82% on today's CNN poll) are not doing anything significant to mark it? I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I do believe that it was those 19 low-life men that flew those planes into the towers and into the Pentagon, and doubt that the US government had an active role in bombing the towers or shooting the planes. I am buying all of this. But what infuriates him the most is what happened on September 12: I'm just not buying anything from 9/12 afterwards. I can't buy how the CIA could not have prevented this attack, or why wasn't anyone fired from the administration for not preventing them. Why wasn't anyone from the government held responsible in a country where it's “rumored” that every adult is responsible for his or her own mistakes? How come all the warnings before the attacks were ignored, and different key figures in the government gave contradictory testimonies without being forced to say the truth? How does the US expect the world to take it as an example for democracy when the very democracy brought criminals like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice into office, and the same democracy failed miserably to make them pay for the lies that wasted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and shattered the whole country of Iraq. His anger continues: There are several reasons for me to wish 9/11 never happened. It's the 3000 victims, and those who were murdered in retaliation. None of them should have died, and those responsible for their deaths were not held accountable and will never be held accountable in a country that claims to be the leader of the democratic world. They just proved that all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets, and that the first victim when war comes is truth. Fellow Jordanian Qwaider, at Memories Documented, takes a trip back in time. The blogger, who lives in the US, was vacationing in Jordan at the time: I remember exactly what I was doing, who I was with, and how we all reacted, that warm September afternoon 7 years ago, as someone rushed into the room to say, you won't believe what's on CNN! Qwaider adds: Then followed the difficult times, the “random” screenings at the airports, the profiling, the visits by the FBI, the wiretapping, the no-liquids-or-gels on flights, the you-can't-argue-with-stewardess-or-you'll-end-up-in-Guantanamo-bay. Everything That day, was the day when many civil liberties died… Many people continue to suffer it's aftermath, and chances are, the world will never be the same way again. I will never forget that day … Still in Jordan, Kinziblogs also remembers the day clearly: I stood frozen with my dishtowel clutched to my chest as I understood that someone had actually planned to fly two planes into two office buildings, plotted to destroy the lives of whoever got in the way. Our guest immediately said: “This was Osama Bin Laden’s work”. I had no idea who he was. His almost-fiance said: “Please God, don’t let it be Arabs who did this, the world hates us enough already”. And MommaBean remembers Ramzi Doany, a Christian Palestinian who was killed on the day: I didn't know Ramzi personally. But, as I'm sure you all know, Amman is a VERY small town. It's so small that when the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001, one of our own was lost. Ramzi was not only from Jordan, he was not only Palestinian, he was not only Christian, he was a member of our family. Although we weren't related (even by marriage), we were related by faith, by worship, by practice. Ramzi was one of those American myths, the forgotten, the glossed over: the Palestinian Christian… And when those planes went down, I listened to little-thinking colleagues talk about “those Palestinians” who were rejoicing. I explained that “those Palestinians” were mourning one of their sons. You would be foolish to think that out of nearly 3000 people, a Palestinian wasn't killed. From Israel, Aussie Dave writes a few observations on the anniversary. Among them are: * Seven years on, and people still don’t get what this war is about. Heck, most people still don’t get that we are in a war at all.