I am an ex-pat from Huddersfield and glad to see you are covering this horrific terrorist act.

It is impossible to get through on the phone lines to Huddersfield to talk to relatives.

The carnage is staggering and has impacted our local community here in local Tennessee.

All the churches are open for prayer and most schools are cancelled.

Redstone Arsenal, in nearby Huntsville, Alabama, which is headquarters for US Army missile research and the home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are locked down.

All flights are cancelled and our border to Mexico is sealed closed.

My son, Corporal Mike Taylor, is in Fort Eustis, Virginia and he just called to say that his medical unit is on orders to proceed to the Pentagon area to help with injuries.

It shows the failure of $30 billion for the CIA and NSA. Instead of high tech we need HUMINT - agents on the ground like the Mossad has.

This is worse than Pearl Harbor as reported on US television.

Just a short note from the US.

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Greg Taylor

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