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To: carranza2 who wrote (3458)	9/14/2001 9:53:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12239

<the El-Al style doors are a cheap deterrent, but only if the pilots are trained not to open them even if the hijackers start killing cabin stewards or passengers.> The training should be simple. "Excuse me, but we are stabbing and slicing your cabin crew and would like to do you now. Please open the door." After some persuasion, untrained pilots would open the door. However, after extensive training programmes, they will know that if they can't see the smiling happy faces of the cabin crew and passengers through the little digital camera they would be better to leave the door locked. EVEN IF THEY WANT WEE WEE!! <On the other hand, using the planes as guided missiles was probably unforeseen. > I am a highly paid terrorist interception planner. I have heard that the middle east is full of suicide bombers. I know that steering a heavy jet is easy enough, especially if the hijacker has had a few hours practise. I know that swarms of islamic jihad people want to do as much damage as possible to anything USA. I know that the USA is full of islamic people and they don't wear a jihad badge if they are in the jihad clan so they are not easy to spot. I know that airport security is a joke. I know that passengers are easily cowed having been trained to do as they are told. I know that cockpits are easily accessible. How hard can it be to figure out that a suicide hijacker will take a plane, lock the cockpit door and fly it into the huge buildings? The surprise is that it took so long to do it. Doing several at once was important because aircraft will be locked up like Fort Knox. The jihad people will need to come up with another trick now. On my motorcycle in the 1960s, I installed a hidden switch so I could immobilize it [they didn't have keys in those days - just kick start and away]. Maybe aircraft could have remote control 'immobilization' switches [or better still, remote control by air traffic controllers]. The pleasant thing which comes out of the fact that nothing has happened until now, is that there must be few people who really want to do stuff like that. It is also self-limiting in that even though in this most successful attack, which succeeded far beyond what they could reasonably have expected [the New Zealander foiling the last attack - they should have checked the passenger list to make sure there were no Kiwis on board], the suicide people are on a one way trip. There are hundreds of millions of people who oppose them, so even if they killed 10,000 to 1 on a regular basis, they'd still eventually run out of suicide candidates [and targets - the next time a few jihad wackoes put red headbands and tell everyone to get to the back of the plane, they will not get compliance; they will get suicide attacks from 40 people, and that's quite a crowd to overcome.] Mq