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To: unclewest who wrote (340634)12/30/2009 6:09:42 AM
From: Nadine Carroll1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 793957
 
If the intent was to blow up the fuel tank or to create a large hole in the fuselage, the charge was too small and poorly placed. If the intent was to use a minimal charge to create a real bloody and messy suicide with a possible few murders, the charge was very well placed.

Small messy suicides have never been al Qaeda's style. However, there are plenty of examples of intended mass casualty attacks where the splodeydope flubbed the detonation, either because he got stopped and exploded prematurely, or got nervous, or because he changed his mind and decided to survive the attack. In the latter set of cases he has usually been available for questioning.

It's hard to assume that placement was executed just as intended when the detonation failed - unless you also assume that too was intentional.
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