----- Original Message ----- From: "lazarus" <lazarus33pjf at cox.net> To: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:54 PM Subject: Re: fingernail clippers (wasRe: Defender always wins?) On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:47:52 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > >On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, lazarus wrote: > >> The only reason we're safer now is that the paradigm shifted. Before >> 9/11, everyone knew the best way to survive a hijacking was to sit >> still and wait it out. > >Not quite everyone, if I understand correctly that the govt received >dozens of warnings of hijacking threats to commercial airliners during >the summer of '01, and that the danger of "spectacular" suicidal crashes >was understood in that context. Steven King and Tom Clancy both did this well before 9/11. It's not as if the ideas weren't out there.