At the time of the Black Tuesday outrages, Adnil Hasnan Habib was in a hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. The dramatic pictures—the fire in the World Trade Center, New York, followed by the destruction of the twin skyscrapers together with the rubble of one side of the Pentagon—caused the retired three-star general of the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to have mixed feelings. He was confused, horrified, and could not take it in. "In Germany,