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To: Enigma who wrote (76382)9/13/2001 10:28:22 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 116752
 
In a hijacking there are several things hostage. Safety of people on the ground we see is the largest of these. If the hijackers threaten to kill all the passengers, then they have to deliver. It's 4 to 5 against 60 to 200. I doubt if they would succeed. They only succeed by cowing the people through terror. If as in flight 93 they decide to something about it, the attackers do not succeed in their primary goal. Possible the pilots had been killed by that time and the aircraft lost control and spun, but it was worth the try and the passengers saw it. The passengers and pilots were working on the assumption that the terrorists were hijacking by previously non suicidal patterns of negotation and redirection. But redirection is out as no country today will accept a redirected landing. Terrorists cannot succeed in bringing so much dynamite on a plane that it is an overwhelming threat in itself. It is dicey but it is worth the standoff. It is a matter of balancing the numbers of lives possible lost otherwise and that too with other future hijackings over time. The same exact situation faces all militaries in the field. Hostages are therefore expendable to reduce the success of these strategies. If the pilots just would not come out, what would the hijackers do, bomb or no bomb? Whatever they would do, the chances, however grim, are better than to let them have control. If someone asks you for something, why did he ask? Because he needs your co-operation. If you remove it, he has to deal with that.

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