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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10342)	12/24/2001 9:57:20 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

if the hijackers-turned-kamikazes wanted to crash jetliners into the WTC, Pentagon, etc. it would have been much easier for them to hijack airplanes en route to the US from, say, France or the UK... Why on earth should they attempt to sneak into the US first? Why should they take the risk of planting dozens of sleepers right inside the "belly of the beast"? They could have just as well hijacked a US plane flying from, say, Frankfurt to Chicago, and, after the pilot informed the passengers that they're approaching NY/the US, stormed the cockpit... I don't know why I'm bothering to reply (is there even one reader who takes your conspiracy theories seriously?) but: What made the 9/11 plane crashes so terribly destructive was that they were fully fueled for a cross-country flight - the burning fuel is what melted the structural supports at the WTC and caused the collapse, remember? An international flight coming into the US would have burned up much of it's fuel load, therefore wouldn't be as destructive when crashed. Next, it isn't at all hard to "sneak" into the US and live in the "belly of the beast". The US is a very open society. Millions of people enter and leave every year. Millions of illegal aliens live and work for years in the US with little problem. Then there is the attendance at flight schools - unnecessary for normal hijackers as they can use the airplane's pilots to fly wherever they want - hijackers only need flight training if they are planning on doing something a real pilot would NEVER do - like fly into a building. Then, of course, there is evidence like the instructions left behind by M. Atta dealing with composing oneself before one's death and the Osama video discussing the planning of the 9/11 attacks. None of this has been discredited. Then there is the logical problem - how one can explain how three groups of people who supposedly didn't plan to crash into buildings did in fact do that.