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To: Brumar89 who wrote (10353)	12/26/2001 5:47:56 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 23908

Come to think of it.... Another discrepancy just struck me: today, more than three months after the terrible 911 events, I presume we all agree on the outrageous, extravagant nature of these unprecedented terrorist attacks. Indeed, no terrorist organization has ever carried out such operations --involving commercial airliners turned into flying bombs... Now, the problem is, could the brains of such a wild operation have done it otherwise? After all, it should have been possible for the 911 masterminds to devise a similar deadly operation against the US, yet relying on a more classic modus operandi --like a truck-bomb (OKC/McVeigh), for instance. How about the synchronized explosions of a dozen bombs located in crowded venues like Disneyworld, a major shopping mall, a football stadium, a cruise ship, etc.? The shock/trauma on the American public would have been pretty much the same. I maintain that these hijackers-turned-kamikaze were originally sent on a "regular" hijacking assignment and that the assassination of Masood by the Russian military compelled them to abort their mission. However, since they were highly motivated/fanaticized terrorists, instead of pulling the plug on the whole thing, they just raised the stakes.... They surely felt betrayed and enraged on learning that their "squadron leader" Masood got snuffed for they surely believed that the whole scheme was a purely Muslim/Arab/Afghan business, and then they had to face the grim eventuality that their "top-secret plot" was not so secret, after all. But, somehow, they'd still have the last word...