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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (104720)9/14/2001 1:48:55 PM
From: marginnayan  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Someone bought a lot of seats on these planes in order to minimize the possibility that the passengers might overpower the hijackers, as happened on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. Buying a lot of seats is not all that expensive, and in fact, the whole operation could have been bankrolled by someone with bin Ladin's wealth.

If the terrorist would have done that, it would have made the airlines suspicious. Plus they would have to use different credit cards and also provide names that would even cause some suspicion if the credit card transaction for whole sale purchase of airline tickets is monitored by U.S intelligence.
It is possible that they studied these routes for a long time and figured the time when passenger load was not that heavy. Since they knew that they will be using box cutters as so called weapons to over power crew, they made sure that passenger load was light enough for 4-5 terrrorists.
This was a well-planned, master-minded operation with superb intelligence comparable to the level of the most sophisticated intelligence agency in the world. Also I think only a limited number of people knew about the entire operation.
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