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To: MSI who wrote (263296)6/12/2002 12:00:37 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
So we are supposed to take you as an expert on the plentifulness of the time to respond once it was perceived that something was amiss? I decline......



To: MSI who wrote (263296)6/12/2002 2:18:50 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Respond to of 769670
 
capecodonline.com

y ANNE BRENNAN
STAFF WRITER
Two F-15 Eagle jets launched from Otis Air National Guard base Tuesday were
scrambled too late to intercept the hijacked aircraft. But had they arrived in time, it is
unlikely they would have fired on the rogue plane, said a military official familiar with
Tuesday's suicide attack.

"Nobody is going to shoot down an airliner without any authorization far beyond the
military," he said.