On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:52:54 -0600, Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> wrote: > That's what is most widely discussed, yes. But you don't hijack > airplanes with what you smuggle on board. You hijack airplanes > with *fear* and *hope*. Fear that you will kill the pilot and > the passengers if they resist; hope that if they do not resist, > the plane will land safely and everyone will go home. Well, the terrorists have won the fear battle. > So long as we remember 9/11/2001, no one can repeat it. > After the first time, the terrorists can offer only fear... > never hope. That particular attack was solved halfway through the attack. Only two of the airplanes were allowed to reach their targets, passengers certainly solved the PA airplane and possibly the DC plane (which appears to have been forced into its secondary target). The solution for that attack is to never let terrorists fly the plane. Period. If they kill everybody in the plane, they still can't use it as a weapon. Trouble is - the enemy will move to the next target while we are worried about fingernail clippers. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/