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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
On the more narrow point, do you think it's fair to differentiate between warnings of hijackings and warnings of hijackers who use planes as missiles? Is one so qualitatively different than the other?
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Hijackings, in the traditional sense, we've long been aware of. The best you can say is that airport security got really lazy and didn't detect the weapons used when brought through security. But that's not an intelligence failure.
And there's a critical difference in response. At best, the difference saves one of the two towers and the pentagon, because even if the fighters reach the planes, until one was crashed into a building, it was assumed they were the "usual" hijackings of the "take me to cuba" type.
But I guess that all future hijackers are screwed now, because basically you'll get shot down if you get anywhere near anything. So much for freeing Mumia.
