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To: Saturn V who wrote (143382)9/13/2001 7:28:30 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Saturn,

This has been the most successful terrorist act ever, from the terrorist's perspective. With one event, they have created enough terror to shut down the worlds most active economy and markets. We have let them achieve their objective.

After 10 years without a hijacking, we have one event, that took at least a year to plan and execute. By beefing up existing security, we could have had the planes in the air at noon yesterday, with less risk than there was before the event.

It takes time to decide how we respond to a terrorism event, but we should react with more courage. By allowing one horrific event shut down the country we lose the battle to the terrorists. With their small resources, they depend on their victim's extrapolating the event to their entire system. The airlines, the markets, schools, malls, tourist attractions all closed. It makes the country look very fragile.

John



To: Saturn V who wrote (143382)9/13/2001 1:31:39 PM
From: willcousa  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
The air traffic system was shut down because there were other terrorist teams in operation at the time. The shut down prevented them from getting on those places and may have saved tens of thousands. There were many flights in the air at the time, some of which could have been under terrorist control. Those could be more effectively intercepted if the number of planes in the air was controlled.


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