From: Joe Dees (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 09:39:37 MDT
Simul, the 1993 (8 years earlier) attack on the WTC was masterminded by the blind Egyptian cleric Omar Abdul Rahman; he and his cohorts had been apprehended, tried and jailed for years when the WTC attack came. Also, it is strongly suspected that, unlike with 9/11, which was masterminded by Al Qaeda, that Saddam was behind th 1993 attack. Also notice that the modus of the two attacks was quite different; the 1993 attack was perpetrated via a truckbomb driven into the basement parking garage, while 9/11 involved terrorists flying commandeered airliners into the towers. Quite dissimilar, and hard to draw any lessons from the first that would be of use in preventing the second.
It is surpassingly difficult for a president to give an order to shoot down an airliner full of innocent passangers before any catastrophe connected to commandeered airliners has occurred. I'm quite sure that such an order would, considering the disastrous precedent that has now been set, be quickly forthcoming should the sequence of events repeat themselves (which, given both a heightened security awareness and an increased willingness to act to prevent or stop such occurrences on the part of both airliners and their passengers, seems highly unlikely).
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