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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (15230)	12/31/2001 11:57:34 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But just wait until they do a forensic analysis of the HDD at the physical layer to find all of those files they thought had erased. yeah. can you imagine what would happen if wives ever got that technology?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (15230)	1/1/2002 3:32:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<Just another bunch of thugs who use "technology" but have no idea how it functions...> It still irks me when people talk about the 'brilliant' attack on the WTC. They had a very easy, soft target which anyone could see sitting there. I have sat for years in aircraft and been amazed to see the cockpit door open and that I could just wander in with a box-cutter and take control. It doesn't pay to mention such a security gap to the air hostesses because they tend to be not particularly bright, hypertense, authoritarian and might mistake such a suggestion as a threat. If they don't get it wrong, they just ignore one anyway as just another stupid passenger they have to put up with until they can get to their comfortable hotel. So it's best just to depend on avoiding the unlucky flight. It used to amuse me that people could carry a litre of brandy and smoke cigarettes [which requires lighting a little fire to achieve]. That could make quite a conflagration. The terrorists did NOT have a brilliant plan. We should not misoverestimate them. It was funny to see how people thought Afghanistan would be a quagmire for the USA. That was always absurd and has proven to be. People said that Afghanistan had defeated the British and USSR etc and others, but that ignored the support of the USA and Saudi Arabia etc versus USSR and that in the 19th century, the British soldiers didn't have Tomahawks and B52s with laser-guided explosives. A bunch of medieval, superstitious mullahs, even with a few Stingers [which they couldn't replace] and little popular support and opposition from surrounding political/warlord entities and no external support [other than some sneaky money from Saudi Arabia supporters, or Iraq perhaps], weren't going to amount to much. They are a cruel joke - barbarians from the past on the loose in a modern world of high-technology. They are the monkey-men from the opening scene of "2001 A Space Odyssey" on the loose in the space ship - they need to be caged [or shoved out into space]. Hmmm, Hal shoved the people out into space... okay, so maybe we aren't a LOT better than Osama's 'pilots' and 'crew'. Mqurice

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (15230)	1/1/2002 2:03:14 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

I wonder if we'll find any email addresses LOL. I wonder what's it like to be a member of a Al-Qaida terrorist cell at the moment. Now that so much material has been taken from the field, the security guys must be having a bonanza! 24 hrs a day waiting for some nasty Americans with big friggin guns to turn up -g- PS regarding wives...when are you guys in the USA ever going to admit you lost that war years ago. They are all over you and have been for a decade or so now <ggg>