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To: Carolyn who wrote (8530)	11/12/2001 4:20:49 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

<< I can't imagine terrorists would target a plane headed for Santo Domingo >> Israel couldn't imagine that Palestinian terrorists would target a disco with teenage girls, but it happened. A terrorist doesn't have to make sense. This probably was a terrorist crime of opportunity, and not of creative planning. << And anthrax - how many have died? Doubtful there, too. >> The terrorists were looking for spray planes, so that they could spray "something" down upon us. They were also getting licenses to carry dangerous chemicals. Terrorist Islamic nations have been experimenting with Anthrax for decades. To handle Anthrax without being effected shows quite a bit of knowledge in the handling of the bacteria. Being a terrorist doesn't mean that they are always going to be 100% successful, thank God! It also doesn't mean that their behaviour is going to be predictable. It is obvious that they wanted to attack the US with chemicals or biological weapons. Would they be "above" putting anthrax in our mail and sending it to our government and news organizations? Hardly.

To: Carolyn who wrote (8530)	11/13/2001 4:17:56 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: I can't imagine terrorists would target a plane headed for Santo Domingo, with many D.R. citizens on board. And anthrax - how many have died? Doubtful there, too. Right on the money! That AA aircraft was filled with Negroes, that is, the kind of people whose tragic death would have Mr Robert Barry blurting "Good riddance!" Of course, just for the sake of Arab-bashing, Barry plays the empathetic Joe Blow, shedding crocodile tears on hundreds of victims he's just never given a shit about.... Again, the flight-587 catastrophe has the Judeofascist handwriting all over it: the day before, President Bush uttered the "cursed" P-word --Palestine (with the implicit clause that East Jerusalem will be the Palestinian capital). Message 16642649 Well, Israel's riposte was not long in coming... Oh, you think it might be just an accident, eh? Sure, but that AA Airbus 300-600 was brand new and its last checkup was done... on October 3rd, 2001!! () Anyway, suppose it's an accident: New York is such a jinx then... of all the airports the world over, of all the aircrafts buzzing around the planet, heck! it had to be yet another jetliner departing NY --tough luck! As expected, US authorities are in no hurry to admit the terrorist option because that would amount for them to recognize their utter failure to secure US airports TWO MONTHS after the 911 disaster. Moreover, the terrorist tack would rise other disturbing questions as well: if indeed the airplane was sabotaged by terrorists, then how come Arab/Middle-Eastern looking guys were not prevented from messing about in JFK airport?? Isn't the FBI keeping track of all Arab-Americans living in the US?? OOooops... but hey, who told you the terrorists were "ugly Arabs"?? How many Jews and Russians live in New York? How many Jews and Russians work in JFK airport? Time for FBI sleuths to switch tacks... Gus. () American Airline officials say the Airbus300 passed all recent maintaince checks. The plane, one of 35 similiar aircraft owned by American Airlines, was built in Toulouse, France, by Airbus Industrie Ltd. The two-engine plane, which weighs about 380,000 pounds, was bought new and began flying on July 12, 1988, the airline said. In addition to this month's check the plane got a major check on Oct. 3, 2001, and a main-base overhaul on Dec. 9, 1999. It was sheduled for another main-base visit in July 2002. From: newsday.com