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To: H. Bradley Toland, Jr. who wrote (4707)	5/24/2002 7:06:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12247

There isn't going to be another hijacking. Generals always fight the last war. Even if two men get on board with pistols, which would be a good trick, or maybe a can or two of tear gas and stuff, they will have a cabin full of passengers going berserk, attacking them with bottles, blankets [smothering makes movement difficult], belts, trays, other loose objects and pilots will come out swinging with an axe. Sure, several passengers will be wounded or killed, but the return on risk would be acceptable to most people when they consider the alternative of crashing into a building. As soon as the terrorists, who everyone will already be watching like a hawk, because the general public is not shy about racial or other profiling, make a move, they'll be inundated with opposition. I don't think there's going to be another hijacking. I'd worry more about the apartment building bomb or office bomb. People could daily bring a carton of books and explosive into their rented office over a period of 6 months and that would make a very big bang. They would not be noticed, unless others in the area do some profiling and notice peculiar numbers of boxes being delivered [though it could be a television repair business so boxes going in and out, full and empty, would not be noticeable]. Mqurice