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To: epsteinbd who wrote (5233)10/15/2001 12:20:24 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Respond to of 281500
 
I don't doubt it. I find it difficult to believe they could find 19 people all willing to commit suicide.

Now I'm sure they all were told they might not make it out alive, but deliberate suicide would have created too many possibilities of "second thoughts" that might have interfered with the mission..

If I were organizing such a mission, I wouldn't have told my people what I was planning on doing. They would have no "need to know" since their job was merely to restrain passengers.

Even if the passengers were to tell the hijackers what was going on with other hijacked aircraft, these guys would have probably blown it off as some BS attempt to force them into a doubting mindset.

As a terrorist cell leader, I would not be comfortable compromising the overall mission, by letting so many people within my cell know the overall objective.

Hawk



To: epsteinbd who wrote (5233)10/15/2001 12:22:52 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
The letter has only been found in the personal effects of the men who were trained as pilots - who are also the only ones who prepared for death by writing wills. The others appear to have planned on being incarcerated. That's the primary reason for the hypothesis that only some of them knew it was a suicide mission.


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